Optimization of Transit Priority in a Transportation Network

Abstract:: Urban traffic congestion is a challenge facing transport networks in many large cities. Transit vehicles are efficient at carrying large numbers of passengers in congested road space. This is the major justification for provision of transit priority. Transit priority can be classified to transit lanes and transit signal priority. There has been no study to combine these two types of priority at the network level. This proposal develops an optimization method to introduce a combination of priority measures over the road network. Further to the problem formulation, two innovative solution approaches will be developed for this optimization problem.
Grant type:: ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
Funded by:: Australian Research Council

The University of Queensland