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The purpose of this study is to survey the field data of
operating characteristics of the bus-stop on arterial in
Taipei. Based on the field data, Urban Traffic Systems
Simulation (UTSS) models are calibrated and applied for the
simulation on bus behaviors of arrival, stoppage, and departing
at near-side bus-stop. Pre-timed signalized intersection
capacity reduced by bus operation are then estimated. Factors
which affect capacity, including number of lanes, the location
of the bus-stop, bus arriving rate, the length of signal cycle
and the ratio of motorcycles to that of the total traffic, are
tested. The simulation outputs show that the impact of
affected capacity of pre-timed signalized intersection
decreases, when the number of lanes increases, or when the
distance between bus-stop and intersection increases. By
contrast, the impact increases when the rates of bus flow
increase. When there is a near-side bus operation, it is better
that the length of signal cycles is 90 seconds. When the factor
of motorcycles on the road where there is only one lane for
them is considered, the impact caused by pure car flow is less
than that by total traffic.
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