The Impact on Traffic Safety in Bus Stop

3.2.
  Settings along isolation area between non-motor vehicle and motor 
vehicle for linear bus stop
There is no conflict due to no crossing non-motor vehicle and motor vehicle 
flows at this stop. As Fig. 7 shown that the main factors of traffic safety come 
from the following two aspects: 
(i) Conflict between buses and motor vehicle 
The outside motor vehicle lane is occupied with the process of bus stopping, 
which causes that the following cars change the lane to the inside motor vehicle 
lane, conflicting by tails with buses. It will produce rear-end conflict from 
mutual influences between buses and other motor vehicles when buses changing 
lane for entering and leaving station. 
(ii) Conflict between passengers and non-motor vehicles 
Only by crossing the non-motor vehicle lanes, can passengers arrive at or 
leave this type of station. It causes horizontal conflict and traffic safety risks by 
the interplay that passengers and non-motor vehicle cut off each other. 
3.3.
  Linear bus stop setting along sidewalk 
Non-motor vehicle traffic will be affected seriously by the process of bus 
stopping, at this point non-motor vehicles either stay at the upper reaches of 

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station or
overtake the stopping bus by the use of the outside lane and the 
non-motor vehicle lanes that the passenger transfer occupied. The kind of station 
is generally set on the double amplitude road or four amplitude road without 
traffic barricade so that passenger cross the road directly after getting off the bus 
giving up the zebra crossings on intersection. As Fig. 8 shown that the main 
factors of traffic safety come from the following two aspects: 
(i) Conflict between non-motor vehicles and buses, motor vehicle, 
passengers 
Non-motor vehicle traffic is scattered so that they couldn’t drive normally 
during the occupation of non-motor vehicle lane by buses using the stop. 
The process of bus entering and leaving the station bring out rear-end 
conflict between non-motor vehicles and buses. And some non-motor vehicles. 
Some of the non-motor vehicles use motor vehicle lane, leading lateral 
confliction with motor vehicles and the other non-motor vehicles continues to 
drive the path on the non-motor vehicles causing the horizontal confliction with 
passengers getting on or off while the non-motor lane is occupied to park buses. 
(ii) Conflict between motor vehicles and passengers 
Because of setting on the double amplitude road or four amplitude road and 
most of them without isolation area, horizontal conflict between motor vehicles 
and passengers result from that passenger getting off the buses cross the road 
randomly rather than long the zebra crossing. What’s more, passengers’ security 
is affected by the motor vehicle more seriously for limited visual range caused 
by buses obstruction.