About this Edition The BRT Standard is both a framework for understanding BRT and an evaluation tool for BRT corridors based on international best practices. BRT experts have evaluated the elements that receive points in the BRT Standard in a wide variety of contexts. When present, these elements result in consistently improved system performance and…
There is growing demand for high quality, high capacity transit all over the world. Increasingly, cities are finding solutions with bus rapid transit (BRT), an efficient, affordable, and sustainable option that, when done right, can compete with the capacity, speed, and comfort of metro systems. The Institute for Transportation and Development Policy and The World…
BRT TransOlímpica was conceived to connect the Olympic arenas of Barra da Tijuca and Deodoro. It also offers a new cross connection in the West Zone of the city. One of the most recent additions to Rio de Janeiro’s public transit system, the BRT TransOlímpica, offers great service to 25,000 people/day who were previously underserved….
* This post originally appeared on Embarq.org and is reprinted here with permission. In 2007, Istanbul added the Metrobüs bus rapid transit (BRT) system to its multimodal transport network. Initially stretching 18.2 km between the city’s Avcılar and Topkapı districts, the BRT corridor has since tripled in length to 52 km and today carries more…
At a recent meeting of the BRT Standard Institutional Endorsers, the Barr Foundation, UN Environment Programme (UNEP), and UN Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) signed on to the 2014 BRT Standard‘s vision of high-quality BRT. The BRT Standard establishes a common definition of what constitutes true BRT, allowing high quality systems to be recognized for the…