Traffic Delay of Vehicles Caused by Curb-Lane Bus Stop

To enhance the utilizing efficiency and accessibility of curb-lane bus stop and minimize the im- pacts on dynamic traffic flow, the traffic delay models based on traffic flow wave theory were proposed by investigating and analyzing four curb-lane bus stops in Nanjing. Those models were used to describe traffic delay in the condition of no-signalized intersections flow, dissipated flow in green times, dissipated flow in a signal cycle and interacted flow in next signal cycle. Practical example of vehicle arrive shows that the vehi- cle arriving characteristic is continuous and interacted on urban roadway affected by signalized intersection flow. A compressional dilatational wave was found near curb-lane bus stop, which has three states of con- sciousness, expandability and dissipation. The proposed approach can be applied to describe the delay of traf- fic delay effectively.