Communications - Scientific letters of the University of Zilina X:X | DOI: 10.26552/com.C.2026.003

Evaluation of Bus Lane Implementation Expediency on Streets with Different Lane Numbers: Case Study

Fuad Dashdamirov ORCID...*, Turan Verdiyev ORCID...
Logistics and Transport Institute, Azerbaijan Technical University, Baku, Azerbaijan

The introduction of bus lanes on streets may not be feasible from the standpoint of reducing the overall time loss for road users. The goal of this study was to develop a method for checking the effectiveness of bus lane implementation. Using simulation experiments, conducted in PTV VISSIM, for a different number of traffic lanes, the speeds of buses and vehicles were determined both when buses are moving in the general flow and after the introduction of a bus lane, at different values of flow intensity and bus frequency. Regression equations, describing the dependence of speed on the traffic flow intensity and frequency of buses for different numbers of traffic lanes, are formulated. A mathematical model has been developed to calculate and compare the time losses of road users before and after the introduction of a bus lane, based on determining the average speed of traffic flow and buses.

Keywords: bus lane, traffic flow, speed, intensity, bus arrival frequency, time loss, simulation
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The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Received: August 22, 2025; Accepted: December 11, 2025; Prepublished online: December 11, 2025 

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