Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridors and systems have emerged in the past three decades as affordablesolutions of medium capacity public transport services to highly urbanized areas, especially in LatinAmerica and Asia. In Stockholm, trunk bus lines have gained priority over mixed traffic over the yearsthrough exclusive bus lanes, signal priority, and reliability control, for example, but no complete BRTsolution has been implemented yet. Among the inner-city trunk lines, Line 4 is the most demanded witharound 70,000 passengers boarding the service daily. This thesis proposes, then, to assess theoperational impacts that BRT solutions as segregate median lanes, stations with off-board farecollection and platform level boarding and alighting through all bus doors, full signal priority andheadway control strategy, would have in bus Line 4, using a microscopic simulation approach. Twoscenarios were simulated, and the results compared to the existing conditions (Base Scenario).Scenario 1 considered a 5-minute headway service and Scenario 2, 3-minute headways. Overall, theproposed scenarios reduce travel times by 37.6-49.1%, increase average operational speeds (includingdwell times) by 60.4-96.6%, decrease dwell times by 57.9-65.6%, decrease delays by 18.4-36%,decrease vehicle occupancy rates by 3.5-44.9% and improve the Coefficient of Variation of theheadways from 0.83-0.85 in the Base Scenario to 0.1 in Scenario 1 and 0.2 in Scenario 2. As a resultof the reduction in travel times, a BRT service would need 13 buses to operate a 5-minute headwayand 21 buses for a 3-minute headway, against 27 vehicles that are used currently for a 4 to 6-minuteheadway during peak hour.

Självkörande bussar har börjat implementeras i liten skala, samtidigt som forskning för störresjälvkörande bussar fortsätter, så hur kommer en implementering av självkörande bussar påStockholms innerstads stombussar påverka kollektivtrafiken? Detta kommer göras med hjälpav kapacitet samt utifrån tidigare undersökningar om trygghet. Studien utgår ifrån tvåutredningsalternativ där det ena utgår ifrån att bussen ska köra i eget körfält, och i det andraalternativet kan bussen dela väg med övriga trafikanter. Resultatet visar på att enimplementering av självkörande bussar ger en ökning i resenärer som använder sig avstombussarna i innerstan, medan kapaciteten är relativt oförändrad på bussen på grund avtätare avgångar. Det som är viktigt för att lyckas med implementeringen är att resenärernakänner sig säkra när de reser med bussen. / Autonomous buses have begun to be implemented on a small scale, at the same time asresearch for larger autonomous buses continues, so how will the implementation ofautonomous buses on Stockholm’s inner city trunk buses affect public transport? This will bedone with the help of capacity and based on previous surveys on security. The study isbased on two investigation alternatives. One of which is based on the bus driving on its ownlane, and in the other alternative the bus can share the lane with other passengers. Theresult show that the implementation of autonomous buses gives an increase in passengerwho use the trunk buses in the inner city, while the capacity of the bus is relativelyunchanged due to more frequent departures. What is important for the success of theimplementation is that the passengers feel safe when they travel by bus.