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Title:

Performance and Lessons from Implementation of BRT in the United States

Accession Number:

01047581

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

This paper updates the state of knowledge about Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) projects placed into service within the past few years in the United States. It profiles five case studies of BRT systems in Miami, Honolulu, Las Vegas, Boston and Los Angeles for which complete planning and operating data are available. For each case, it summarizes the local factors that led to the project's genesis, the general features of the project and how it was marketed, the performance compared to pre-existing transit services, the market response to those improvements, and the effects on transit planning. It concludes by providing lessons related to quality of service impacts, ridership gains, and the BRT planning and political process.

Monograph Accession #:

01042056

Report/Paper Numbers:

07-3446

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Darido, Georges Bianco
Diaz, Roderick B
Kim, Eugene J
Schimek, Paul

Pagination:

31p

Publication Date:

2007

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 86th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2007-1-21 to 2007-1-25
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

CD-ROM

Features:

Illustrations (3) ; References

Subject Areas:

Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2007 Paper #07-3446

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Feb 8 2007 8:07PM