[sustran] FW: [Transit-Prof] Bus Lane Capacities - CORRECTED

[Alan Patrick Howes]

Sorry! That should be "9m. wide trackbed for rail" in para 2


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-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Patrick Howes 
Sent: Mon, 31 March, 2003 11:41
To: sustran-discuss at jca.ax.apc.org; Transit-Prof (E-mail)
Subject: [Transit-Prof] Bus Lane Capacities (was: Article in Guardian Newspaper)


Yes, I'd thought of Lincoln Tunnel too. Anyone like to take a guess at, or even better have the data for, bus occupancies -
- Peak Hour, Peak Direction (does it only operate one way?)
- Average across the day

I am sure no-one will deny that if you want to get the most people along a limited RoW, bus is better than car and rail is better than bus. UITP quotes that to carry 50,000 pax per hour each way you need a 175m. wide road for autos, 35m. wide road for buses, and pm. wide trackbed for rail. But I would like to see their assumptions too!

But when implementing a specific scheme, you obviously need to look at what occupancies can reasonably be expected. There is no point in building bus lanes for empty buses (not much chance of that in Mumbai - or even Dubai, in the right locations).

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Alan P Howes, Special Transport Advisor, 
     Dubai Municipality Public Transport Department
aphowes at dm.gov.ae
http://www.dubaipublictransport.ae/
Tel:    +971 4 286 1616 ext 214
Mobile: +971 50 5989661


> -----Original Message-----
> From: J.H. Crawford [mailto:mailbox at carfree.com]
> Sent: Mon, 31 March, 2003 01:53
> To: sustran-discuss at jca.ax.apc.org
> Subject: [sustran] Re: Article in Guardian Newspaper
> 
> 
> >   Still, for the case of US average conditions, 231 buses 
> per PEAK hour
> >along a given route is hard to imagine, although I've seen, 
> and counted
> >more than that ( in each of two bus lanes in each direction 
> !) in Santiago,
> >Chile.  
> 
> The Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan should see figures
> a good deal higher than that at peak hour, I think. Basically,
> one lane of the Lincoln Tunnel feeds a continuous stream of
> buses into the terminal.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
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> 
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