Start Date:
-Summary:
Transit managers look at transit signal priority (TSP) as a potential tool to improve schedule adherence and service reliability, and increase transit vehicle efficiency with minimal negative impacts to the full traffic network operations.
Module 20 builds on previously developed two-part Arterial Management and Transit Signal Priority Transit Standards training modules (Module 8 and 9). This module provides additional details on the standards that support signal control priority and how to use those standards to develop, specify and test a TSP implementation. In addition, the module will present several case studies on how different agencies implemented their TSP projects. These case studies discuss some of the constraints that those implementations faced, the architecture that was selected to implement TSP, how the appropriate standards were used in those implementations and how testing was performed. This module will provide a use case on how transit signal priority was implemented in a connected vehicle environment.
Learning Objectives:
1. Specify and test a transit signal priority implementation
2. Describe how transit signal priority may be provided in a connected vehicle environment
3. Explain the role of transit signal priority in Integrated Corridors
4. Review case studies where standards were used to provide transit signal priority
Cost:
Course Credit:
Instructors:
Patrick Chan
Mr. Patrick Chan has been involved with the development of ITS standards since the year 2000. He was the consultant that developed the current version, Version 2, of NTCIP 1211, Object Definitions for Signal Control Priority (SCP), which a majority of this module is based on.
Target Audience:
• Transit planning, operations, and maintenance staff
• Specification writers
• Traffic management operations staff
• Transit procurement staff
• Traffic procurement staff
• Integrated Corridor Management project and operations managers
• Transit ITS contractors and consultants