A new report from the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission (NVTC) looks at options to improve traffic flow of the region’s public bus networks.
“There are different methods of prioritizing bused and reducing time a bus rider is spent stuck in traffic,” the report notes. “Bus-priority treatments, like dedicated bus lanes, transit-signal priority or queue jumps, are improvements made to the roadway to increase reliability, reduce delays and even increase safety.”
This study analyzed six of the seven Northern Virginia bus agencies: Arlington Transit (ART), Alexandria’s DASH, Fairfax Connector, Loudoun County Transit, Prince George’s County’s OmniRide and the regional Metrobus system. The city of Fairfax’s CUE network was not part of the study owing to data-availability issues.
“Some of the highest-impacted corridors cross multiple jurisdictions or operate in popular travel corridors,” the report notes. “This is an opportunity for collaboration across jurisdictions and agencies, as well as a chance to use capital investments to save operating dollars.”
To view the interactive report, go to bit.ly/45NJvfX.
