Title: Assessing the value of bus priority in Hamilton’s city centre
Abstract: Use of bus services in the Hamilton City network has increased significantly over recent years. However a growing barrier to further growth is the increasing delays bus services experience due to traffic congestion, particularly in the central business district. This prompted Hamilton City Council to examine the need for bus priority measures. The introduction of bus priority measures is consistent with Access Hamilton, a high-level integrated transport strategy which sought to encourage greater use of bus services. This paper outlines how the cause of delays currently experienced by buses egressing Hamilton’s Transport Centre and using some or all of the ‘precinct’ around it formed by Bryce Street between Tristram Street and Victoria Street was established and quantified. It explains the range of bus priority and traffic management measures that were identified to address the problems, and outlines how the impacts of the initial proposals were assessed.
Publication Year: 2011
Publication Date: 2011-03-01
Language: en
Type: article
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