Bus rapid transit

The Bus Rapid Transit corridor on Van Ness will shorten travel times by about a third & improve 49 Van Ness/Mission reliability along the entire line. These beautiful red transit lanes will ease major traffic congestion.

Vientiane has a proposed to build a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system as part of a planned sustainable transport system for the city. This page includes links and resources to any planned urban transi…

With Millennials leading America’s historic decline in driving, cities are exploring ways to attract young professionals through reliable mass transit. Benjamin de la Pena and Nicholas Turner argue that Bus Rapid Transit is the optimal solution.

Bus rapid transit has gone totally off the rails.

Today, the city of Yichang, in China’s central Hubei province and the site of the Three Gorges Dam, opened a major transportation and urban development project largely funded by an Asian Development Bank loan. The Yichang bus rapid transit corridor, initially on Dongshan Avenue in the city center, will serve half a million daily passenger trips, providing citywide high quality transit service through ‘direct service’ BRT routes which operate both inside and outside the BRT corridor. The…

Design guidance and tools to actively prioritize transit on city streets.

Via Smart Growth Around America, this video of a hard-hitting, hardhat-wearing journalist who goes underground to explore Beijing's new subway line and later comes out again to examine the city's new bus rapid transit line, provides…

Some passengers boarding a high-capacity bus-based transit system, popularly known as Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), were attacked and robbed by some street thugs on Tuesday, in Orile Lagos. A victim The post JUST IN: Thugs attack, rob BRT passengers in Lagos appeared first on The Nation Newspaper.

TransPeshawar or Zu Peshawar is a bus rapid transit system in Peshawar, capital of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province. TransPeshawar BRT system consist...

Yichang, China’s new sustainable urban corridor proves that with strong vision and planning, swift, dramatic change is possible. With 1.5 million residents, Yichang is a mid-sized, yet influential city in central China. In one year, the city has opened a 20km, Gold-Standard bus rapid transit corridor, launched a new public bike system, and implemented strong parking reform and pedestrian improvements. These changes are already delivering results, with residents reporting faster trips, more…

There’s a new global benchmark for rating bus rapid transit projects. Today the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy released the BRT Standard 2013, which lays out the requirements for bus routes to qualify as BRT and scores 50 systems in 35 cities around the world as basic, bronze, silver, or gold based on various […]

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Bogotá, Colombia's Tranmilenio: How Public Transportation Can Socially Include and Socially Exclude | Sustainable Cities Collective

Connection of Neighborhoods - quality of life implies the adoption of measures to ensure urban mobility aimed at accessibility to all existing services and opportunities. In 2000, a rapid transit bus system capable of meeting Bogota's recent growth was created. The plan relies on trunk corridors with single-use track, stations, bridges, bike paths and squares to facilitate the use of the system and allow the user to get around to any part of the city.

Just one city's fleet of electric buses is bigger than the five largest North American bus fleets combined.

Duo-Gard is seeing a significant increase in its Bus Rapid Transit projects. A primary reason is our custom capabilities. The shelter pictured is at the Chelsea, Massachusetts location. Chelsea is part of the Silver Line BRT of Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority, serving metro Boston and Chelsea. Duo-Gard has provided multiple custom BRT shelters over the last 5 years and this also included bike shelters to accommodate the first-mile / last-mile needs of commuters.