Product No.: 10033
Date Published: 07/2011
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The purpose of this project was first to develop a set of best practices to improve transit service in the West Chester Pike corridor as well as its integration with corridor development; and second to use VISSIM microsimulation to test the impacts of various operational improvement strategies on the speed and running times of SEPTA Route 104 buses. The results of this analysis suggest that these improvements would result in travel time savings, with the most meaningful benefits naturally being observed under the RapidBus BRT-lite proposal (which was simulated to cut the time competitiveness gap between auto and transit by about 32-percent in the westbound direction, and 66 percent eastbound). The time savings estimated for the TSP-only and TSP plus far-side stop scenarios are much more modest, with only a negligible additional benefit being observed for the addition of far-side stops to TSP.Geographic Area Covered: Chester County, Delaware County, Upper Darby Township, Haverford Township, Marple Township, Newtown Township (Delaware County), Edgmont Township, Willistown Township, Westtown Township, East Goshen Township, West Goshen Township, West Chester Borough
Key Words: SEPTA, transit, bus, BRT, RapidBus, pedestrian, bus shelter
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- Gregory R. Krykewycz, PP, AICP (gkrykewycz@dvrpc.org)
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