No Car Lanes or Bus Lanes: Which is Best?

Bus priority covers a wide range of measures intended to speed up the progress of buses and avoid congestion, especially in urban areas. The implementation of No Car Lanes as a method of allocating space on the highway is a relatively new concept giving priority to buses and other types of vehicles, facilitating the movement of goods as well as people in congested urban areas. This paper compares the impact of the different eligibility requirements for priority on the different classes of traffic, using the road network in the single location of Tyne and Wear in the northeast of England, United Kingdom.