Bus Priority System for Heterogeneous Traffic Conditions

Traffic congestion is becoming a huge problem for many major cities. Additional infrastructure such as roads and flyovers shall be constructed to avoid traffic congestion. But additional infrastructure is an expensive choice and not a permanent solution. A holistic and intelligent solution should be developed to tackle the city traffic problems. If public transportation systems like buses are more comfortable and faster means of transport then people shall eventually switch their mode of travel and start using buses instead of private vehicles. This will reduce the number of vehicles on the road thus reducing congestion. Technologies like Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) greatly help in giving priority to public buses and promoting public transportation. However, the BRT system uses dedicated lanes to reduce travel time. In this paper, we propose a Bus Priority System for Heterogeneous traffic conditions (BPSH) without having a dedicated lane for buses. The proposed technique was experimented at Indore Madyapradesh India and the results show that the average travel time and delay of BRT buses drastically reduced to 70% after implementing the BPSH system.