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Line 22 BRT: Summary

Line 22 BRT: Summary. Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority. May 2003. Generally Accepted Features for BRT (Minimum of Four Required). Exclusive Rights-of-Way Signal Priority Queue Jumpers Improved Station Areas TOD and Transit Sensitive LU Planning Limited Stops

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Line 22 BRT: Summary

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  1. Line 22 BRT:Summary • Santa Clara Valley • Transportation Authority May 2003

  2. Generally Accepted Features for BRT (Minimum of Four Required) • Exclusive Rights-of-Way • Signal Priority • Queue Jumpers • Improved Station Areas • TOD and Transit Sensitive LU Planning • Limited Stops • Low Floor Boarding • Real Time Passenger Information • Uniquely Designed Vehicles

  3. Line 22 BRT: Key ITS Elements • Advanced communications system (ACS) • Selective transit signal priority (TSP) • Dynamic passenger information • CCTV and emergency communications • Traffic management center coordination

  4. Overview of Original Objectives • Increase operating speed and time point adherence using bus signal priority and queue jump lanes • Provide dynamic bus arrival and system bulletins on-board and at stops • Improve overall passenger comfort with enhanced stations and low floor, low emission vehicles

  5. Operating Targets • Station spacing ± every mile • Schedule time at ± 85% general traffic speed • Tight time point adherence • Minimized dwell time at stops • Headway no less than every 10 minutes peak, 20 minutes off-peak • Conventional service retained at reduced level

  6. BRT Project Estimate Total = $32,422,250

  7. Computer enhanced station at Julian St. and El Camino Real

  8. Status • Queue jump lanes at Page Mill and Arastradero completed • AVL/AVI and articulated coaches in service • Beta test completed on bus priority software • Signal hardware upgrade procurement Phases I & II in process • Preliminary station sites identified

  9. Bus Signal Priority • Caltrans has developed signal controller software modifications to provide bus priority functionality • Articulated coaches are equipped with priority request transponders • Funding provided for bus signal priority along El Camino Real from Race Street to the Palo Alto TC by BAAQMD (70% of the corridor)

  10. Bus Priority Operating Principles • Pedestrian calls as well as railroad and public safety preemption protected • Maximum frequency of priority grant every second signal cycle • No priority during transition to coordination • Phase skipping not permitted

  11. Priority Requests • No manual intervention by driver • Only late buses place requests • Priority requests granted on a first-come first-served basis • Priority granted as early green and/or extended green • Truncation on check out or time out

  12. Schedule • Procurement of hardware in process • Phase I implementation in Spring ’04 • Phase II implementation in Summer ‘04 • Before/after study conducted longitudinally by Cal-Berkeley PATH on both phases

  13. James T. Jarzab BRT Program Manager VTA 3331 N. First Street San Jose CA 95134-1906 (p) 408-321-5747 (f) 408-955-9765 (m) 925-895-5559 jim.jarzab@vta.org

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