Postdoctoral Research Position in Complete Streets policy and design
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) and key member of the Centre for Sustainable Urban Development – CEDEUS (www.cedeus.cl), is currently looking for a post-doctorate or experienced researcher to join our research group starting around July 2018. We […]
BRT Members participate in Conference in Argentina
The Andean Development Corporation – Development Bank of Latin America has organized a new event about Infrastructure and sustainable development. In this opportunity 3 members of our Centre has presented, Darío Hidalgo, from World Resources Institute (WRI), Juan Carlos Muñoz, Director of BRT+ Centre of Excellence, and Lake Sagaris, Assistant Professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile […]
Tackling road congestion – What might it look like in the future under a collaborative and connected mobility model?
Traffic congestion continues to be the bane of many metropolitan areas and has exercised the minds of experts for at least the last 60 years. With the advent of smart (intelligent) mobility, aligned with digital disruption and future connected and collaborative transport including extensions to autonomous vehicles, the question of whether we have a new […]
Looking forward to Mobilize 2018
Our partners from the Institute for Transportation and Development (ITDP) are working hard preparing the annual sustainable transport summit, Mobilize. Meanwhile, we want to show you why you might be interested in this event and how can participate even though there are still 3 months left for the event. As you remember last year summit was held in […]
Postdoctoral Research Position in Public Transport
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) and key member of the Centre for Sustainable Urban Developoent (www.CEDEUS.cl), is currently looking for a post doctorate to join our research group starting around June 2018. We have a number […]
Cost and fare estimation for the bus transit system of Santiago
This paper studies the costs of the transit system of Santiago, Chile, and proposes pricing schedules to finance it considering a fixed amount of subsidy. We estimate a cost function for the firms providing bus services in Santiago and study their industrial structure. We also estimate a demand model using aggregate data, which delivers information on the […]
David Hensher
Dario Hidalgo
Corinne Mulley
Comparing Chinese and Non-Chinese Bus Rapid Transit Systems Evidence from Evaluating Global Systems on the Basis of Bus Rapid Transit Design Indicators
In the past decade, bus rapid transit (BRT) corridors have been added in China at a faster rate than anywhere else in the world. As the number of BRT systems in Chinese cities continues to increase, it is critical to identify the key factors that influence the operation performance and service quality of these systems. […]
John Nelson
Call for Paper: Special issue on developments in Mobility as a Service (MaaS) and intelligent mobility
Issued: 4 January 2018 Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice Title: Special issue on developments in Mobility as a Service (MaaS) and intelligent mobility Guest Editors: David A. Hensher and Corinne Mulley, Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies (ITLS), the University of Sydney Business School David.hensher@sydney.edu.au Corinne.mulley@sydney.edu.au We are inviting extended abstracts (up to 1000 words) on […]
Cristina Albuquerque
Christo Venter
Luis Antonio Lindau
Christopher Zegras
Chinh Ho
Brenda Medeiros
Regulatory Schemes on Public Transport Effects on Innovation and Main Service Quality Variables
Regulatory schemes have remained an open question about the implementation of an urban bus system. Because of the introduction of a higher private initiative within these systems, the expectation of increased patronage has not been met. Hence, studying the effect of regulation on innovation becomes the first objective of this research because innovative solutions may […]
Virginia Tavares
Rico Merkert
Johan Joubert
Jinhua Zhao
South Africa needs to revamp its new public transport system
ORIGINAL: The Conversation By Christo Venter, Associate Professor in Transport Engineering, University of Pretoria, and Gary Haye, PhD Candidate in Transportation Planning, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Over the past eight years the South African government has spent more than 130 billion rand on public transport projects in the country’s main cities. The projects included the refurbishment […]
3 Questions: Chris Zegras on designing your city’s transit system
ORIGINAL: MIT News by Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office on December 8, 2017 Have you ever wanted to change your city’s public transit system? A new digital tool developed by an MIT team lets people design alterations to transit networks and estimate the resulting improvements, based on existing data from urban transit systems. The […]
Tackling road congestion – what might it look like in the future?
Traffic congestion continues to be the bane of many metropolitan areas and has exercised the minds of experts for at least the last 60 years. With the advent of smart (intelligent) mobility, aligned with digital disruption and future autonomous connected and collaborative transport, the question of whether we have a new window of opportunity to […]
Postdoctoral Research Position in Public Transport
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 to join our research group starting around March 2018. We have a number of ongoing projects on different Public Transport […]
Challenges to Santiago's Public Transport
Cities development is a multidisciplinary problem. It involves many actors and it faces a lot of problems. There are economics, social, cultural and environmental matters to solve, so it is natural to think that the proposals may be complex. Considering that, United Nations (UN) in 2016 hosted a conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development […]
Global recognition for transport expert who has helped “shaped the way we live”
Research by economist, Professor David Hensher, the Director of the Business School’s Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, has now been cited more than 40 thousand times in scholarly publications. The number of citations is an Australian record for an economist specialising in transport, infrastructure and logistics and reaffirms Professor Hensher’s place amongst the world’s […]
BRTData one of the Top Planning Websites
The BRTData is a project of BRT+ Center of Excellence. Since 2012 its purpose is to collect an share information about Bus Rapid Transit experience around the world. Last week was recognized as one of the Top Planning Websites by Planetizen. Planetizn selects the ranking according to the focus of the website, its professionalism, and accessibility […]
