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Despite the rapid dissemination of Bus Rapid Transit BRT systems in Latin America and Asia, little is known about the type of urban development around stops of this mass transportation system. This paper expands the methodology applied in Latin America to India in order to identify a BRT typology based on built environment attributes collected around BRT stops within a buffer area of 250 meters. A typology of urban development around BRT stops from a sample of 33 BRT stops in Indore and Ahmedabad is developed based on factor and cluster analysis using built environment characteristics and geographic information systems data. Some BRT types identified in this study reflect the high-density environment characteristic of larger Indian cities, while other types show the presence of slums in conjunction with commercial land uses within a non-motorized transport urban environment. Other types identified suggest the emergence of high-rise developments in close proximity to BRT stops with a mixture of land uses, including high levels of parking. This paper seeks to inform policy makers, planners and communities living in close proximity to BRT corridors regarding data collection techniques in data-poor areas as well as the orientation of urban development towards bus rapid transit in India.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABE90 Transportation in the Developing Countries.

01550057

15-3735

English

24p

2015

Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

References; Tables

Built environment; Bus rapid transit; Bus stops; Transit oriented development; Urban development

Typology

Ahmedabad (India); Indore (India)

Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2015 Paper #15-3735

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Dec 30 2014 1:14PM