This paper is focused on capacity and travel times on a signalized corridor and bus lanes withintermittent priority (BLIP). These strategies consist in opening the bus lane to general trafficintermittently when not in use by a bus. Even if benefits of such strategies have been pointed outby the literature, the activation phase has received little attention. This paper tries to fill this gapby studying analytically the activation of BLIP strategies. To this end, we resort to the extendedkinematic wave model with bounded acceleration. The paper shows that BLIPs activation reducesthe capacity and increases the travel time of bus. However, even if this strategy seems to becounter-productive at the first glance, it clearly increases the performance of transit bus at largerscale.
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