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40 4.1 Overview This guidebook identifies 34 different strategies that can directly improve bus speeds or reliability or that can help support other strategies in reaching their full effect. As there are many possible causes for speed and reliability problems, and most strategies focus on a particular issue, it is important to understand the cause of the problem (see Section 3.3)
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Selecting an Appropriate Strategy 41 warrants can often work against a jurisdiction's desire to improve transit service because the warrants may suggest that bus volumes are insufficient to justify the strategy, even though other factors may well suggest that the strategy will provide a net benefit to the community. Transportation engineering practice has been evolving in recent years toward a more flexible approach to evaluating potential roadway design strategies, as evidenced by the Context Sensitive Solutions (FHWA 2014)
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42 A Guidebook on Transit-Supportive Roadway Strategies • Street widths, and • Street functional class and adjacent land use environment (Danaher 2010)
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Selecting an Appropriate Strategy 43 (Section 6.11)
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44 A Guidebook on Transit-Supportive Roadway Strategies advantage of potential time savings or because the time saved at one intersection was lost at the next intersection (e.g., because although the bus arrived earlier at the next intersection, it was not able to pass through the intersection any sooner)
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Selecting an Appropriate Strategy 45 Packages of Strategies Many strategies lend themselves to being implemented in conjunction with other strategies, thereby increasing the overall benefit to transit vehicles. The Companion Strategies sections in the toolbox chapters (Chapters 5 through 8)
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46 A Guidebook on Transit-Supportive Roadway Strategies Strategy and Secon Number Typical Applicaon Traffic Volumes Bus Volumes Bus Speed Bus Reliability Auto Speed Planning Costs Capital Costs Other Issues BUS OPERATIONS STRATEGIES Relocate stop (5.1) Near-side stop L to H Any + to ++ + + L L to M 1,2 Consolidate stops (5.2)
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Selecting an Appropriate Strategy 47 of 0.8 to 1.0, and very high = v/c ratios > 1.0, considering the potential magnitude of bus delay savings and the strategy's flexibility to accommodate high-volume situations. • Bus volumes.
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