The primary challenge for an urban bus system is to maintain constant headways between successive buses. Most bus systems try to achieve this by adherence to a schedule; but this is undermined by the tendency of headways to collapse, so that buses travel in bunches. To counter this, we propose a new method of coördinating buses. Our method abandons the idea of a schedule and even any a priori t...

Single vehicle data obtained from magnetic loops on an expressway allowed us to measure velocity correlations and velocity differences between non-neighbor vehicles on the same lane, showing some strong correlations even for platoons of 7 or 8 vehicles. The corresponding time headway distribution for non-neighbor vehicles is also presented. We were also able to get some informations about inter...

When the right-turn vehicles share the same phase with pedestrians on divided lanes at intersection, the stopped buses or mediumsize vehicles that closed to the right-turn vehicleswould block the viewof drivers and pedestrians from the far-side of crosswalk.This paper aims at analyzing the changes of lag/gap acceptance behavior with/without considering sight obstruction and the headway of follo...

Concurrent mental workload degrades some aspects of driving performance, but drivers might be able to modify their behaviour adaptively to accommodate cognitive impairments. For example, they might maintain longer vehicle headway in dual-task conditions to compensate for slowed response times. Studies documenting such adaptive behaviours typically use steady-state driving scenarios such as car ...

In the Nagel-Schreckenberg model of vehicular traffic on single-lane highways vehicles are modelled as particles which hop forward from one site to another on a one dimensional lattice and the inter-particle interactions mimic the manner in which the real vehicles influence each other’s motion. In this model the number of empty lattice sites in front of a particle is taken to be a measure of th...

We present adaptive nonlinear schemes for longitudinal control of automated heavy duty vehicles. An important control objective is string stability, which ensures that errors decrease as they propagate downstream through the platoon. It is well known that string stability requires intervehicle communication if a constant spacing policy is adopted. When vehicles operate autonomously, string stab...

The Transit Capacity and Quality of Service Manual (TCQSM) provides transit agencies with tools for measuring system performance at different levels of operation. Bus service reliability, one of the key performance measures, has become a major concern of both transit operators and users because it significantly affects user experience and service quality perceptions. The objective of this paper...

In this paper, we consider a time-headway model, introduced in Ref. [Physica A 296 (2001) 320], for buses on a bus route. By including a simple no-passing rule, we are able to enumerate and study the unstable modes of a homogeneous system. We then discuss the application of the model to realistic scenarios, showing that the range of reasonable parameter values is more restricted than one might ...

Over the past decade, a number of manuals have been developed for rural road roundabouts in Russian Federation. However, two- and three-lane are designed operated cities Federation do not yet that take into account specific features this urban intersections. The development such involves defining all multi-lane roundabout characteristics which used consistent calculations capacity, traffic dela...