Research on Public Transit Priority Level and Travel Cooperation Level

Abstract

Public transit priority strategy is a key measure for alleviating urban traffic congestion problem, but there are few researches on public transit priority level. The connotation of public transit priority level is analyzed. Public transit priority level includes travel time priority level, travel expense priority level, travel comfort priority level and comprehensive priority level. Public transit travel time priority level is analyzed at different travel distance, different public transit carrying speed and car travel speed. Questionnaire survey based on traveler’s acceptance is conducted. The relationship between travel cooperation level and travel time priority level, travel expense priority level, travel comfort priority level is obtained. The results shows that the key of improving travel cooperation level is to moderately increase car travel expense, increase public transit travel time priority as far as possible and increase public transit travel comfort as far as possible.