Replication: Efficiency of Bus Priority Infrastructure
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Felipe Gonzalez, Queen Mary University of London; Hugo Silva, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
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Project Citation:
Gonzalez, Felipe, and Silva, Hugo. Replication: Efficiency of Bus Priority Infrastructure. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2025-02-05. https://doi.org/10.3886/E218041V1
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Summary:
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We use bus GPS data across 500 routes to estimate the impact of priority infrastructure on buses' speed and ridership in Chile. Almost 100 million bus trips allow us to leverage within-route variation in the proportion of the route in which buses travel along bus lanes or Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridors. Corridors increase bus speeds by 20\% at peak hours. Bus lanes, often seen as an equally effective but cheaper alternative to a BRT corridor, are, on average, ineffective. However, bus lanes achieve the same travel time savings as BRT corridors only when fully isolated from private vehicles, coupled with monitoring cameras and enforcement.
Funding Sources:
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ANID FONDECYT (1241734)
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