Bus Rapid Transit: A Transport Renaissance

Delivering good quality, cost-effective public transport has been largely unrealized in the vast majority of the world’s urban areas. A reasonably affordable technology that provided quality customer experience seemed beyond the reach of transport planners until a small group of innovative policy and design professionals in a relatively unknown Brazilian city reinvented the sector.

 

Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) was created to deliver metro-like capacity and quality but at an affordable price. This issue of Built Environment traces both the history of and the current trends in BRT across the globe, providing a regional perspective on progress and challenges.

 

• Bus Rapid Transit: A Public Transport Renaissance 
  Lloyd Wright
• Curitiba: The Cradle of Bus Rapid Transit 
  Luis Antonio Lindau, Dario Hidalgo and Daniela Facchini
• BRT in Latin America – High Capacity and Performance, Rapid Implementation, Low Cost 
  Dario Hidalgo and Aileen Carrigan
• Bus Rapid Transit in the United States 
  William Vincent
• The European Bus with a High Level of Service (BHLS): Concept and Practice 
  Odile Heddebaut, Brendan Finn, Sébastien Rabuel and François Rambaud
• Africa: Transforming Paratransit into Bus Rapid Transit 
  Annie Weinstock and Aimee Gauthier
• Bus Rapid Transit in Australasia: An Update on Progress
  Graham Currie and Alexa Delbosc
• BRT’s Influence on Public Transport Improvements in Indonesian Cities
  John Ernst and Heru Sutomo
• Bus Rapid Transit Projects in Indian Cities: A Status Report 
  Geetam Tiwari and Deepty Jain
• Bus Rapid Transit in China 
  Karl Fjellstrom