EVALUATING BUS TERMINALS AND REROUTES FOR THE MIDTOWN BUS TERMINAL RECONSTRUCTION

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) is a
bi-state agency that operates and maintains tunnels, bridges, and
bus terminals, among other transportation facilities. PANYNJ is
planning the reconstruction of its Midtown Bus Terminal on its
existing location, which will require the use of a temporary bus
terminal for a multi-year period. Given the capacity constraints of
the planned temporary terminal, PANYNJ tasked the Capstone
team with identifying and evaluating sites to be used as additional
temporary terminals, as well as suitable bus routes to be rerouted
to those sites. After examining existing conditions, conducting an
extensive literature review, and learning from case studies of similar
rerouting projects, the team proposed a longlist of potential sites.
The team then developed a set of fatal flaws and scoring metrics
to select a shortlist of the most feasible sites, and recommended
bus reroutes to each site, along with associated strengths and
weaknesses of each option.