THE TRANSIT PRIORITY ATLAS

Buses and trams are only as fast and reliable as the policies and infrastructure that enable them to avoid delays and bypass traffic. Many jurisdictions around the world have shown that thorough priority measures and transit-friendly traffic management policies can deliver effective on-street transit service.

The Transit Priority Atlas maps, illustrates, and makes broadly accessible to researchers, professionals, and decision-makers the strategies and tools cities worldwide have implemented to ensure faster and more reliable street-running transit.

We follow a bus's journey through space and time, documenting street-running transit’s performance across 32 cities and examining how stop spacing, road patterns, and traffic management practices correlate with running times and average speed.

The Atlas explores a wide variety of transit priority examples from two perspectives: a comprehensive toolbox and how they can be leveraged through strategies at the node, corridor and city-wide levels.

These measures are systematically mapped in a GIS database (coming soon!).

Finally, in-depth case studies offer a detailed account of cities that developed emblematic transit priority policies, focusing on the overall strategy, tools, governance, and politics.