Restructuring Public Transport through Bus Rapid Transit: An International and Interdisciplinary Perspective (Book)
Book Summary Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) is commonly discussed as an affordable way for cities to build sustainable rapid transport infrastructure. This book is the first to offer an in-depth analysis of BRT, examining the opportunities it presents along with the significant challenges cities face in its implementation. A wide range of contributors bring expertise […]
Answering BRT’s Biggest Questions: Interview to BRTCoE's book editors
Source: The City Fix – part I (January 27, 2016 ) & part II (January 28, 2016 ) – By: Ryan Winstead and Alex Rogala On January 11, 2016 the BRT Center of Excellence launched a new book called “Restructuring Public Transport through Bus Rapid Transit.” The new resource provides researchers, students and decision makers an […]
The impact of bus rapid transit on housing price and accessibility changes in Sydney: a repeat sales approach.
Abstract New public transport infrastructure is expected to improve the accessibility for local residents, and thus contribute to the land value uplift. The contribution that a bus rapid transit (BRT) system can make to land value uplift is less certain than for rail based systems with the literature mostly containing bus-based examples from developing countries […]
Rail Transit Ridership – A Station-Area Analysis of Boston’s MBTA
Event Wrap Up: General Assembly at TRB16
Our General Assembly this year was held on Tuesday January 12th, at the EMBARQ office at Washington DC. Assistants had the chance to observe and give feedback to the progress reached by the projects in the Centre. This years’ participants were: Aimee Gauthier – ITDP Amit Bhatt – WRI India Anders Brännström – VREF Anqi Zhao – WRI Carlos Bueno […]
Fare structures (book chapter)
Book Summary Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) is commonly discussed as an affordable way for cities to build sustainable rapid transport infrastructure. This book is the first to offer an in-depth analysis of BRT, examining the opportunities it presents along with the significant challenges cities face in its implementation. A wide range of contributors bring expertise […]
Road safety impacts of BRT and busway features (book chapter)
Book Summary Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) is commonly discussed as an affordable way for cities to build sustainable rapid transport infrastructure. This book is the first to offer an in-depth analysis of BRT, examining the opportunities it presents along with the significant challenges cities face in its implementation. A wide range of contributors bring expertise […]
BRRT adding an R for reliability (book chapter)
Book Summary Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) is commonly discussed as an affordable way for cities to build sustainable rapid transport infrastructure. This book is the first to offer an in-depth analysis of BRT, examining the opportunities it presents along with the significant challenges cities face in its implementation. A wide range of contributors bring expertise […]
The TRESIS approach to population synthesis and spatial micro simulation
Book Summary Generate and Analyze Multi-Level Data Spatial microsimulation involves the generation, analysis, and modeling of individual-level data allocated to geographical zones. Spatial Microsimulation with R is the first practical book to illustrate this approach in a modern statistical programming language. Get Insight into Complex Behaviors The book progresses from the principles underlying population synthesis […]
BRT as a tool for negotiated re-regulation (book chapter)
Book Summary Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) is commonly discussed as an affordable way for cities to build sustainable rapid transport infrastructure. This book is the first to offer an in-depth analysis of BRT, examining the opportunities it presents along with the significant challenges cities face in its implementation. A wide range of contributors bring expertise […]
Designing bus concession contracts (book chapter)
Book Summary Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) is commonly discussed as an affordable way for cities to build sustainable rapid transport infrastructure. This book is the first to offer an in-depth analysis of BRT, examining the opportunities it presents along with the significant challenges cities face in its implementation. A wide range of contributors bring expertise […]
Densificación residencial e integración social en torno a estaciones de transporte masivo (in Spanish)
Propuesta desarrollada en el marco del Concurso de Políticas Públicas UC 2015, publicada en el libro Propuestas para Chile 2015. El artículo aborda la densificación e integración socioespacial en torno a la infraestructura de transporte público. Se evalúa la disposición a densificar con integración de los actores relevantes, para lo que se clasifican las estaciones […]
Data challenges: more behavioural and (relatively) less statistical – a think piece.
Abstract The study of traveller behaviour has blossomed into a multi-disciplinary array of theories, methods and data paradigms aimed at improving our understanding of drivers of passenger and freight movement. While progress continues unabated, there remains the challenge of extracting more behavioural richness out of the way in which we work to understand the nuances […]
A simplified and practical alternative way to recognise the role of household characteristics in determining an individual’s preferences
It is common practice in choice modelling to include the socioeconomic characteristics of other members of a household in the utility expressions associated with the preferences of a particular individual. By including household descriptors, the analyst is assuming that other household members can influence the choices made by the household as if the preference weights […]
Preferences for BRT and light rail (book chapter)
Book Summary Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) is commonly discussed as an affordable way for cities to build sustainable rapid transport infrastructure. This book is the first to offer an in-depth analysis of BRT, examining the opportunities it presents along with the significant challenges cities face in its implementation. A wide range of contributors bring expertise […]
Assessing corridor performance (book chapter)
Book Summary Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) is commonly discussed as an affordable way for cities to build sustainable rapid transport infrastructure. This book is the first to offer an in-depth analysis of BRT, examining the opportunities it presents along with the significant challenges cities face in its implementation. A wide range of contributors bring expertise […]
The path toward integrated systems (book chapter)
Book Summary Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) is commonly discussed as an affordable way for cities to build sustainable rapid transport infrastructure. This book is the first to offer an in-depth analysis of BRT, examining the opportunities it presents along with the significant challenges cities face in its implementation. A wide range of contributors bring expertise […]
Managing drivers and vehicles for cost-effective operations in regulated transit systems (book chapter)
Book Summary Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) is commonly discussed as an affordable way for cities to build sustainable rapid transport infrastructure. This book is the first to offer an in-depth analysis of BRT, examining the opportunities it presents along with the significant challenges cities face in its implementation. A wide range of contributors bring expertise […]
Our book has been launched!
More than one hundred attendees from five different continents joined the BRT Center of Excellence as we launched our book last Monday January 11th, in the 95th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) held at Washington D.C.. After 5 years of hard work, the book “Restructuring Public Transport through Bus Rapid Transit” is […]
Designing a BRT based network under integrated operations (book chapter)
Book Summary Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) is commonly discussed as an affordable way for cities to build sustainable rapid transport infrastructure. This book is the first to offer an in-depth analysis of BRT, examining the opportunities it presents along with the significant challenges cities face in its implementation. A wide range of contributors bring expertise […]
FMS-TQ: combining smartphone and iBeacon technologies in a transit quality survey.
Global overview of BRT and bus corridors (book chapter)
Book Summary Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) is commonly discussed as an affordable way for cities to build sustainable rapid transport infrastructure. This book is the first to offer an in-depth analysis of BRT, examining the opportunities it presents along with the significant challenges cities face in its implementation. A wide range of contributors bring expertise […]
Institutional design and regulatory frameworks (book chapter)
Book Summary Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) is commonly discussed as an affordable way for cities to build sustainable rapid transport infrastructure. This book is the first to offer an in-depth analysis of BRT, examining the opportunities it presents along with the significant challenges cities face in its implementation. A wide range of contributors bring expertise […]
Looking forward (book chapter)
Book Summary Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) is commonly discussed as an affordable way for cities to build sustainable rapid transport infrastructure. This book is the first to offer an in-depth analysis of BRT, examining the opportunities it presents along with the significant challenges cities face in its implementation. A wide range of contributors bring expertise […]
Rainbow BRT Opens New Section, Wins National Acclaim
Source: ITDP (December 4th, 2015) Just months into operations, the Rainbow BRT in Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad, India is moving a whopping 67,000 commuters per day and receiving widespread attention. The high ridership is proof of the comfort of the system, and surveys show that passengers find taking the bus very convenient. On November 28, 2015, […]
The promise of BRT (book chapter)
Book Summary Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) is commonly discussed as an affordable way for cities to build sustainable rapid transport infrastructure. This book is the first to offer an in-depth analysis of BRT, examining the opportunities it presents along with the significant challenges cities face in its implementation. A wide range of contributors bring expertise […]
Conflict over public space (book chapter)
Book Summary Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) is commonly discussed as an affordable way for cities to build sustainable rapid transport infrastructure. This book is the first to offer an in-depth analysis of BRT, examining the opportunities it presents along with the significant challenges cities face in its implementation. A wide range of contributors bring expertise […]
User preferences and route choice (book chapter)
Book Summary Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) is commonly discussed as an affordable way for cities to build sustainable rapid transport infrastructure. This book is the first to offer an in-depth analysis of BRT, examining the opportunities it presents along with the significant challenges cities face in its implementation. A wide range of contributors bring expertise […]
Strategic participation for change (book chapter)
Book Summary Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) is commonly discussed as an affordable way for cities to build sustainable rapid transport infrastructure. This book is the first to offer an in-depth analysis of BRT, examining the opportunities it presents along with the significant challenges cities face in its implementation. A wide range of contributors bring expertise […]
Network governance through time: the case of London´s public transport system
