Corridor Management of Large Planned Special Events: Integrated Optimization of Park-and-Ride and Bus Contraflow Measures

To improve the corridor efficiency during large planned special events, an integrated strategy with Park-and-ride (P&R) and bus contraflow is presented in this paper. This strategy eases the safety or performance limitations of the two congestion mitigation measures applied alone. A qualitative analysis first shows that P&R measure increases the transit demand on bus contraflow lane, while bus contraflow measure provides an express and non-congested service to P&R users. Then, a P&R facility location method is developed to search for the optimal P&R facility site. And a simulation corridor network is used to compare the performance of the proposed integrated strategy with the normal operation and the conventional P&R strategies, in four scenarios and with five groups of assumptions. The simulation results and measure of effectiveness (MOE) analysis indicate the benefits and applicability of the proposed integrated strategy.