Expanding the Boundaries of Bus Priority in London

In 2005 Transport for London purchased one of the worlds largest real-time passenger information and fleet management systems in a project valued at £117M with the objectives of equipping 8000 vehicles with Global Positioning System (GPS) tracking and installing 500 passenger information signs.The option to expand the system to deploy priority at traffic signals forbuses was made in April 2006 which requires up to 3200 sets of signals tobe upgraded. With such a large scale deployment a number of useful tools and methods have been developed to minimise waste and improve efficiency. The desire to share this knowledge is the key purpose of this paper. For the covering abstract see ITRD E134522