Meet the 'Trackless train'
Source: CityLab Can We Just Call This a Bus? by LAURA BLISS New “trackless trains” out of China suggest buses by any other name could smell sweeter. It’s the shape of a swoopy modern streetcar, but it’s got rubber-shod wheels of a bus. Also, there’s no driver—it’s automated like a tram. The “trackless train” is […]
A psychological approach to understand decisions about time in public transport. Evidence from lab experiments in London, UK and Santiago, Chile.
When presented with a choice of waiting another ten minutes for a bus or spending the same amount of time travelling, how would you decide? Strictly speaking, if an increase in waiting time (w) or in-vehicle time (v) produces the same difference in journey time (j), it may be argued that the impact of increases […]
MOBILIZE Santiago 2017 moments
This year Universidad Católica de Chile hosted the second version of MOBILIZE international summit. ITDP prepared this video to capture the event. MOBILIZE Santiago 2017 Full from ITDP on Vimeo. Next year summit is in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on June 26-28. For more information follow all updates in http://mobilizesummit.org/
Metropolitan Governance for Sustainable Mobility
Land use and mobility interactions in the modern metropolis manifest themselves in two competing, age-old, forces: centripetal forces pulling us together into agglomerations and centrifugal forces pushing us ever further into the metropolitan hinterland. Thus, mobility is a fundamental part of urbanization and metropolitanization processes. Furthermore, mobility also serves as the core metric in defining […]
How to Get More People to Ride the Bus
A driver, a transportation official, and a transit advocate explain why Seattle recently saw one of the biggest citywide increases in passenger numbers. Original: The Atlantic Almost every major U.S. city has seen years of decline in bus ridership, but Seattle has been the exception in recent years. Between 2010 and 2014, Seattle experienced the […]
A new solution framework for the limited-stop bus service design problem
Limited-stop services are a key element to the successful operation of bus rapid transit corridors. In this study, we present a framework for addressing the limited-stop service design problem over a corridor, and formally introduce a family of subproblems involved in its solution. Using a bi-level optimization approach, we introduce a method of designing these […]
Thredbo 15: Top 10 Cited Papers
Researchers from BRT+ Center of Excellence stand out with their works in the Top 10 most cited Thredbo papers of all time. We congratulate Juan Carlos Muñoz, David Hensher and Darío Hidalgo for being part of this outstanding group. T Paper Scopus Scholar 10 Currie, G. & Wallis, I. (2008). Effective ways to grow urban […]
Event Wrap Up: General Assembly at Thredbo15
Our General Assembly this year was held on Sunday August 13, 12:00 – 16:00 at the Ragnar room, Stockholm School of Economics. We have the following attendees confirmed: Allen, Jaime (PUC) Aranda, Viviana (PUC) Balbontin, Camila (USYD) Bragdon, David (Transit Center) Clifton, Geoffrey (USYD) Currie, Graham (Monash University) Dragicevic, Marina (PUC) Galilea, Patricia (PUC) Giesen, […]
Sara Larraín
Margareth Gutierrez
BRTData Enhances Indicators to Improve Accuracy and Comparisons
Since 2012, BRTdata.org has provided up-to-date information on bus rapid transit systems (BRTs) in more than 200 cities, from passenger data to coverage and costs. Developed in partnership with the Centre of Excellence for Bus Rapid Transit, International Energy Agency and Latin American Association of Integrated Transport Systems and Bus Rapid Transit, the site is the most comprehensive online database of […]
Jason Jackson
Do Bus Rapid Transit Systems Improve Equity? A Look at the Evidence
Dario Hidalgo Director Integrated Transport Practice WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities international August 1st, 2017 (Cross-posted in The City Fix) Some time ago, professor Christo Venter of the University of Pretoria sent me an intriguing message: Did I have data on how bus rapid transit systems, or BRTs, affect equity in cities? […]
How well does BRT perform in contrast to LRT? An Australian case study using MetroScan_TI
BRT is typically a relatively more popular transport investment in developing countries in contrast to the bias observed increasingly in developed economies towards LRT. While there have been a number of comparative assessments of BRT and LRT (in all of its possible manifestations), with a focus on one or more elements of patronage demand, and […]
The impact of bus rapid transit on housing price and accessibility changes in Sydney: a repeat sales approach.
New public transport infrastructure is expected to improve accessibility for local residents, and thus contribute to increased land value. The contribution that a bus rapid transit (BRT) system can make to increased land value is less certain than for rail-based systems, with the literature mostly containing bus-based examples from developing countries with extensive BRT networks. […]
BRT+ CoE representatives meet with authorities of VREF and Universidad Católica de Chile for renovation of support for our center.
SANTIAGO – On June 30th, UC and School of Engineering authorities received representatives from the Volvo Research and Educational Foundations (VREF) and BRT+ Center of Excellence. The purpose of the meeting was to thank the funding and supporting given by VREF to the center for five more years. BRT+ CoE is the only one of ten centers, […]
Exploring the social and spatial potential of an intermodal approach to transport planning
Gilbert and Perl (2007 Gilbert, R., & Perl, A. (2007)) established how different epochs in human history came with specific “transport revolutions.” Our research suggests that intermodal approaches could constitute an invisible transport planning revolution. Based on a review defining “social” sustainability as it applies to urban passenger transportation, we consider the potential of an […]
Congratulations Anson Stewart, new PhD from MIT
Anson Stewart has earned a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His thesis was titled Advancing Accessibility: Public Transport and Urban Space. You can check it here. Anson has been an active member within the BRT-CoE and participated in Section 2 of our book «Restructuring Public Transport through Bus Rapid Transit», in the item […]
Lake Sagaris was interviewed at Velo-City 2017
Velo-City 2017 is the annual global cycling summit, which was recently held in Arnhem and Nijmegen, the Netherlands. For four days, the conference sought to immerse the audience in the “Freedom of Cycling” through international speakers and delegates, innovative ideas and research, excursions, and workshops. Lake Sagaris, member of BRT-CoE, was speaking in the sessions ‘Wise […]
The cooperation with VREF has been prolonged for 5 more years
“After a six year-period of trustworthy collaboration with the VREF, the Centre delivered most interesting results that proved to be most useful. The successful operation has now led to a renewed cooperation funded by VREF.” These were the words from VREF web site to BRT-CoE. The vision of Volvo Research and Educational Foundations (VREF), through […]
Autonomous Cars: Placing them in Context
David A. Hensher and John Stanley Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies The University of Sydney Business School 1 June 2017 The Roads Australia National Conference in Sydney (May 31, June 1, 2017) had a lot of presentations on autonomous cars (ACs); and despite some suggesting we should go directly to level […]
€1bn plan to increase bus patronage by 50% in Dublin by speeding up trips unveiled
A plan to increase bus patronage by 50% in Dublin through bus rapid transit and ‘next generation’ bus corridors has been unveiled by the Irish Government and the National Transport Authority. The ‘BusConnects’ programme aims to ensure that «just about everybody will be able to beat the congestion by using the bus rather than a […]
Buenos Aires integrated urban renewal project wins global transport award
Metrobus 9 de Julio project honoured at summit of transport ministers / Special mentions for iRAP road safety programme and Istanbul metro The successful inner-city renewal initiative in Buenos Aires. Argentina has been awarded the International Transport Forum’s Transport Achievement Award. The Award will be presented to the Transport Authority of Buenos Aires on 1 […]
2nd International Sustainable Transport Summit MOBILIZE
The 2nd International Sustainable Transport Summit MOBILIZE in Santiago (Chile), will be held on June 28-30th 2017. MOBILIZE is the annual sustainable transport summit of the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP), which brings together urban transport and development practitioners alongside world-class researchers to celebrate best practices and accelerate implementation of sustainable transport projects. […]
Our book was reviewed and published in JAPA
Our book called “Restructuring Public Transport through Bus Rapid Transit” was reviewed by Journal of the American Planning Association (JAPA) on January 5th, 2017. Since 1935, JAPA has published research, commentaries, and book reviews useful to practicing planners, policy makers, scholars, students, and citizens of urban, suburban, and rural areas. JAPA publishes only peer-reviewed, original […]
Montgomery Co.’s new Bus Rapid Transit system to be called ‘Flash’
WASHINGTON — The Montgomery County Department of Transportation asked county residents to name its planned Bus Rapid Transit System, and they have: Flash. The county transportation department ran a contest from November to January, asking residents to vote on one of several proposed names, or suggest their own, and “Flash” received the most votes. “We […]
Evaluating BRT and LRT on a level playing field in developed economies: A cross cultural comparison
New generation of BRT in China
China has set the goal to implement 5,000 kilometers of BRTs by 2020, according to the Ministry of Transport in 2007. According to BRTdata.org, today 21 Chinese cities have implemented BRT systems and as this number continues to increase, it has become critical to identify the key factors that influence the operation performance and service […]
Meeting with WMATA: Sharing experiences
In the context of the General Assembly held on January 12th 2017 in Washington DC, a team of researchers of the BRT Center from Santiago, Chile, led by the Professor Juan Carlos Muñoz, met with the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA). This meeting was scheduled with the objective of sharing international experiences and discussing […]
BRT CoE Executive Board annual dinner was held
On January 8th, our annual dinner was held among some members of the CoE BRT Executive Board. As in previous years, we seize the visit from BRT CoE members to 2017 TRB Annual Meeting. In this occasion, the participants were: Ricardo Giesen (PUC), Darío Hidalgo (WRI), Corinne Mulley (University of Sydney), Juan Carlos Muñoz (PUC), […]
