This report documents a research effort to understand the current practice and issues associated with Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) planning and deployment. It reviewed the design options incorporated into existing BRT deployments across California and the nation. The project team interviewed...

This report addresses Transit Signal Priority (TSP) deployment issues. It reviews National Transportation Communications for ITS Protocol (NTCIP) 1211 Signal Control and Prioritization (SCP) standards, defines five SCP scenarios, and describes how the SCP scenarios can be applied differently...

This research demonstrated two potential VII (vehicle-infrastructure integration) services, one in traffic data probes and the other with safety. A real private vehicle, operating on California roadways, “talked†to the roadside, with the roadside backhaul interfacing into an existing...

The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is developing a virtual weigh and compliance system (VWCS) for better commercial vehicle monitoring and weight enforcement. The objective of this synthesis is to document recent efforts and technologies associated with the automated...

Employment and the journey to work have long been a focus of transportation study. Although today, the work trip accounts for a much smaller share of total trips than it did a few decades ago, there are several reasons why this subject deserves our continued attention. In planning for the...

The nation is about to enter into the second stage of welfare reform with its federal reauthorization within the upcoming year. The first stage of welfare reform started the enactment of the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act (PRWORA), which transformed welfare from an income...

The City of Berkeley has had a Bike Plan since 1971, one of the first city bike plans in the US. The plan was comprehensively updated and expanded in the 1990's, resulting in a new Berkeley Bicycle Plan which was adopted by the Berkeley City Council in 2000. The new plan laid out Berkeley's...

Road safety is a serious public health issue throughout the world, with more than one million people killed in traffic accidents each year. Despite the severity of its health impacts, the World Health Organization says that traffic safety is a "neglected" topic. Perhaps this is the case in the...