Dynamic Signal priority of the self-driving bus at an isolated intersection considering private vehicles

The transit signal priority leads to the delay of private vehicles in the priority and non-priority phases. To address this problem, a bi-level programming model is proposed based on the dynamic cycle and arrival rate of private vehicles under connected environment. The upper model is built by a delay triangle, with the maximum delay reduction of private vehicles between the decreased delay and increased delay in the experimental period. The lower model is constructed based on the Stackelberg model of game theory, and the objective is to obtain the dynamic cycle. A genetic algorithm (GA) is implemented to solve the proposed model. Based on SUMO, a case study of a self-driving bus in the city of Zhengzhou is conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed model. The results from GA and SUMO are consistent, which verifies the effectiveness of the proposed model. The delay of the private vehicles with dynamic signal priority declines by 21.32% on average compared to that without priority. Compared with active signal priority, it declines by 22.63% on average. The proposed method is compared with the method proposed by other papers, and the delay per private vehicle is small. The effectiveness of the proposed method is further illustrated. The proposed methodology is helpful for improving the operation efficiency of intersections with minimum delay.