The danger zone of express services: When increasing frequencies can deteriorate the level of service
Express bus services are services that skip some of the stops along their routes to provide a faster ride for particularly demanded trips on a corridor. There is a growing literature on express services that focuses on route design and performance evaluation. In this work, we study a simplified transit corridor where a regular service […]
Citizen participation for sustainable transport: Lessons for change from Santiago and Temuco, Chile
Winning citizens’ support for urban planning decisions has been a challenge at least since Jacobs published her groundbreaking Death and Life of Great American Cities (Jacobs, 1961) and Arnstein defined a “ladder of participation” (Arnstein, 1969). Since then, anti-highway movements and pro-cycling advocacy have demonstrated considerable efficacy (Buehler & Pucher, 2017; Fackler, 2009; Harcourt, Rossiter, […]
The underlying effect of public transport reliability on users’ satisfaction
Service reliability has an important impact on the satisfaction stated by public transport users with the service they receive. The main source of unreliability is found in headway variance, which also affects waiting times and distributes passengers unevenly across vehicles. However, it is still unclear how headway irregularity, with its impact in waiting, crowdedness and […]
Postdoctoral Research Position in BRT+ Centre of Excellence
The Department of Transport Engineering and Logistics (DTEL) at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, host of the BRT+ Centre of Excellence (www.brt.cl) is currently looking for a post doctorate or experienced researcher to join our research group starting around March 2020. We have a number of ongoing projects on different Public Transport issues in […]
Yale Wong on New Mobility with Government authorities and MPs
On Wednesday 31st, Yale Wong, BRT+ reasearcher from ITLS -U. of Sydney- gave a briefing to the Minister Population, Cities and Urban Infrastructur of Australia, Alan Tudgeon, on bus industry issues. Afterwards, he delivered a keynote lecture to members of parliament, senators and industry proffesionals on the changing mobility landscape and gave policy recommendations for the […]
BRT+ Researcher at Mobilize Conference, Fortaleza, Brazil
Between June 22nd and June 27th, several BRT+ researchers gathered at Mobilize Conference, which was held in Fortaleza, Brazil. Ricardo Giesen, Juan Carlos Muñoz, Lake Sagaris and Jaime Soza from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile attended the event, as well as Christo Venter, from University of Pretoria and Darío Hidalgo and Guillermo Petzhold, from WRI. […]
BRT+ / UITP / VREF New Report on how to integrate BRT
The report Transforming Cities with Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Systems – How to integrate BRT? was launched at the UITP 2019 Global Transport Summit in Stockholm, Sweden. It is co-production between UITP -the International Association of Public Transport-, the BRT+ Centre of Excellence, and VREF. The report included the collaboration of two BRT+ researchers, Ricardo […]
Mobility as a Service (MaaS) Trial in Sydney
Mobility as a Service (MaaS) is a combination of public and private transport services within a given regional environment that provides holistic, optimal and people centred travel options, to enable end-to- end journeys paid for by the user as a single charge, and which aims to achieve key public equity objectives. (Cubic definition) At […]
BRT+ researcher, Professor David Hensher, declared "industry champion"
[source: The University of Sydney Business School https://sydney.edu.au/business/news-and-events/news/2019/06/07/internationally-respected-academic-honoured-by-the-roads-industr.html ] «The Director and Founder of the Business School’s Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies (ITLS), Professor David Hensher, has been awarded the prestigious John Shaw Medal by the industry’s peak body Roads Australia. The John Shaw Medal honours an «industry champion» who is considered to have […]
BRT+ Post-Mobilize Workshop. Invited Speakers and Agenda
Integrating new mobility services into public transport. June 27th, 9:00 – 12:30 Gran Mareiro Hotel – Salão José De Alencar IV, 100 Rua Oswaldo Araújo, Fortaleza, Brazil. REGISTER HERE! Agenda 9:00 Welcome and Introduction. Ricardo Giesen, BRT+ Director 9:30 Fortaleza Shared Bikes Integration. Luiz Sabóia, Executive Secretary of Public Services, Fortaleza 10:00 Shared mobility in Goiania. Hugo Santana, Director de Trasnportes – […]
BRT+ researchers in the forum ‘Movilidad 2050: Bogotá a la altura de sus proyecciones’
During May 29th, BRT+ researchers Darío Hidalgo and Chris Zegras participated in the forum ‘Movilidad 2050: Bogotá a la altura de sus proyecciones’, in Bogotá, Colombia. The activity aimed to open a space for analysis and discussion on the current situation of mobility in Bogotá and to review the projects that seems necessary in order to […]
BRT+ Workshop: Integrating new mobility services into public transport, June 27th
The BRT+ Centre of Excellence announces its post-Mobilize Workshop: Integrating new mobility services into public transport, which aims to discuss and propose how to better integrate new mobility solutions with public transport. The event is going to be held in Fortaleza, Brazil, and is open to profesional practitioners, academics, students and general public interested in the […]
BRT+ Research Meeting at U. of Pretoria
Professor David Hensher, BRT+ researcher from U. of Sydney, visited the University of Pretoria (UP) in March as part of the ongoing collaboration between UP and ITLS Sydney as members of the BRT+ CoE. Professor Hensher spent some time with UP researchers on the planning of upcoming Stated Preference surveys that are aimed at identifying […]
U. of Sydney ITLS: Shining the spotlight on our MaaS research with Yale Wong
Yale Wong, a doctaral candidate from one of the BRT+ Centre member’s institutions showcased a video on MaaS: Mobility as a Service. Yale was selected as ‘smart mobility expert’ in this extended interview. Also, he will be presenting on iMOVE on March 27th on the theme: Digital public transport in an era of shared and […]
New video on Empowering Women through Improved Access
Originally published on: http://www.slocat.net/news/2015 The Research for Community Access Partnership (ReCAP) launched a new infographic video on «Empowering Women through Improved Access» to celebrate the International Women’s Day. The video was prepared by the Roads Research Group in Civil Engineering at the University of Birmingham in collaboration with the Partnership for Sustainable Low Carbon Transport (SLoCaT). Empowering […]
Celebrating 18 Years of TransMilenio: Growing Pains and What Lies Ahead for Bogotá’s BRT
Originally posted on The CityFix. By Darío Hidalgo, BRT+ researcher. Eighteen years ago, I was deputy general manager of TransMilenio S.A., the city agency running Bogotá’s brand new bus rapid transit (BRT) system. It was amazing to be there at the start of operations for this system knowing that it took just three years from […]
On Video: David Hensher, BRT+ member, propose a new road pricing system
Sydney’s chronic traffic congestion results from «political neglect» and can be solved by a radical new system of charges for road usage, according to a BRT+ researcher David Hensher. From: https://sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2019/03/11/new-road-pricing-system-needed-after-years-of-political-neglect.html
José Reyes joined our team as Coordinator of the Centre
In BRT+ the role of the coordinator of the Centre is to administrate the different contracts and financing that are involved in the research projects. In addition, the coordinator must keep track of the general advances of the researches, collect the outputs and ensure that the results are disseminated. José had worked as a research […]
Event Wrap Up: BRT+ General Assembly 2019
During the last day of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) 98th Annual Meeting and before Transforming Transportation conference, in Washington, we had had our BRT+ General Assembly. Here we presented some of the main projects of the Centre during 2018 and interchanged feedback in order to improve our work this year. The meeting was held […]
New book on Bus Rapid Transit
A new book on Bus Rapid Transit with contributions from BRT+ researchers has been published: DEVELOPING BUS RAPID TRANSIT. The Value of BRT in Urban Spaces. «BRT implementation, planning, operation, performance, and impacts, from a wide range of developed and developing cities across the globe are examined in depth in this exemplary book, with contributions […]
BRT+ PhD student awarded Lee Schipper Memorial Scholarship
Jaime Soza-Parra, PhD student from PUC, Chile, who is actively collaborating with BRT+ was awarded with the “Lee Schipper Memorial Scholarship for Sustainable Transport and Energy Efficiency”. His current research aims to identify the causes and effects of public transit system reliability, with special research attention given to cities in Latin America. Jaime presented his research […]
BRT+ Students participated in a multidisciplinary course that took them to Mexico
The aim of the course was to coordinate different areas of knowledge in order to solve a complex problem in an urban setting. The problem was to revitalize an urban axis in the city of Guadalajara, Mexico, through a Transist Oriented Development aproach, known as TOD for its abbreviation. As part of this course, students […]
BRT+ General Assembly January 16th
BRT+ Centre of Excellence will have its General Assembly on Wednesday 16th, 12:30 to 5:30pm. During the event an update of our recent research will be presented as well as our main findings. The entrance is free, just register yourself on the following link. Location: World Resources Institute (WRI) offices, Harmon Center, 8th Floor. […]
Lake Sagaris is nominated as Remarkable Women in the field of transport
To begin 2019, the German agency GIZ notified Lake that she had been nominated as one of the Remarkable Women in the field of transport initiative that is being driven by the Transformative Urban Mobility Initiative (TUMI). This recognition is bestowed as part of a series of publication to encourage and increase the participation of […]
Ricardo Giesen, BRT+ Director, and Cristina Albuquerque presented at ITDP Workshop on BRT systems
The Workshop was held at Ciudad de Mexico and included experts from 6 Latin American countries. In addition to Ricardo, Cristina Albuquerque, from WRI, also participated as an expert on the field. The event programme is available on the following link.
Thinking Outside the Box
Surprise Surprise – Trackless Trams are in vogue with light rail supporters! by David Hensher For many years we have been trying to remove the emotional ideology in the debate on public transport where there have been clear lines drawn between those who support light rail and outwardly (passionately) reject bus rapid transit. Attempts to […]
Professor Corinne Mulley talks about her research on BRT systems
BRT+ hosts a remarkable Workshop in Tanzania
For the first time, the BRT+ Centre of Excellence with the cooperation of the World Bank organized a Workshop gathering academics, policymakers and stakeholders of African public transport systems, in Dar es Salaam to discuss opportunities and concerns of how BRT is being implemented in African cities. One of the goals of the BRT+ […]
Ricardo Giesen is the new Director of BRT+
We have the pleasure to announce that Professor Ricardo Giesen is our new Director. He is replacing the role of Professor Juan Carlos Muñoz who has been in charge since 2010 when BRT+ was founded. The information was confirmed after the acceptance of a letter from the dean of the School of Engineering at Pontificia […]
The Stark (and Hopeful) Facts About Bus Ridership
ORIGINAL in CityLab by Zak Accuardi It’s not a death spiral—at least, not yet. Examples abound of how city leaders can turn the numbers around. Any frank conversation about building better bus service in American cities must address one fact at the outset: Ridership is in free fall across the country. Numbers released last month from […]
