Efficient Public Transport System Through XBL Approach

Indian cities are rapidly growing due to uncontrolled urbanization. In order to meet the traffic needs of these growing urban cities, the number of registered vehicles is also increasing. In these growing vehicles, major proportion includes private vehicles such as cars and two-wheelers. In India, vehicles are growing at a rate of 9.91 CAGR (considering year 2009–2019). A total of 295,772,000 vehicles were registered vehicles in the year 2019. Out of these, the number of private vehicles is 259,703,000 (87.80%) and the number of other vehicles is 36,069,000 (12.20%). This increasing proportion of private vehicles considerably influence the traffic system due to traffic congestion during peak hours, unsafe driving, speeding, illegal usage of pedestrian ways, and lack of lane discipline. In general, commuters prefer private vehicles for their daily travel needs as it is more convenient and time-saving. Promoting the use of the public transportation system is one of the effective approaches to minimizing traffic congestion. In order to shorten journey times and boost speeds, this may be accomplished through effective public transportation system. This study aims to assess the effects of Exclusive Bus Lane (XBL) on speeds and travel times. In order to do this, a road corridor in the city of Mysuru was chosen as the research region. Several simulations are conducted using the microscopic simulation program VISSIM, and the impact of dedicated bus lanes on the traffic characteristics is analyzed.