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The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways (usually referred to as the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, abbreviated MUTCD) is a document issued by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) of the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) to specify the standards by which traffic signs, road surface markings, and signals are designed, installed ...
BRT is a high-capacity bus-based transit system that delivers fast, reliable, high quality, safe, and cost-effective services at relatively low cost, metro-level capacities. It achieves that through dedicated bus lanes that are median aligned, off-board fare collection, level boarding, bus priority at intersections, and fast and frequent ...
A bus lane or bus-only lane is a lane restricted to buses, generally to speed up public transport that would be otherwise held up by traffic congestion. The related term busway describes a roadway completely dedicated for use by buses, whilst bus gate describes a short bus lane often used as a short cut for public transport.
1 mile (2 km) of guided busway and a further 0.6 miles (1 km) of unguided bus lanes on Manchester Road to the city centre.----No [1] Bristol: MetroBus: The bus rapid transit network which is a section of guided busway in Ashton Gate and a bus-only exit and bridge on the M32 motorway: 29 May 2018: 5-50 km (31 mi) No [1] Cambridgeshire: Guided Busway
Innermost lanes on freeway – HOV 2+, have rail-like stations and portions of route separate from freeway running elevated, and on-street bus lanes in Downtown Los Angeles used by Harbor Transitway routes. Los Angeles: Metro Rapid: Only exclusive lanes are a 1.5-mile (2.4 km) section of Wilshire Boulevard in West Los Angeles. Oakland, San ...
A high-occupancy vehicle lane on Interstate 5 in Seattle. A high-occupancy vehicle lane (also known as an HOV lane, carpool lane, diamond lane, 2+ lane, and transit lane or T2 or T3 lanes) is a restricted traffic lane reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles with a driver and at least one passenger, including carpools, vanpools, and transit buses.
Another federal grant of $575,000 allowed the city to hire 22 traffic agents to enforce bus lane rules. [11] In 1982, the city started a pilot project in which it installed red thermoplastic strips along 10 bus lanes in Manhattan. The strips were installed to remind motorists of heavy bus-lane penalties. [12]
In transport engineering nomenclature, a counterflow lane or contraflow lane is a lane in which traffic flows in the opposite direction of the surrounding lanes. Contraflow lanes are often used for bicycles or bus rapid transit on what are otherwise one-way streets. In a sample configuration for buses, a street might have four lanes: the ...