Urban Development Around Bus Rapid Transit Stops in Seven Cities in Latin America

Although bus rapid transit (BRT) has become an increasingly popular transportation innovation in cities worldwide, little is known about the built environment around stop of these mass transit investments. In this study, the authors develop a typology of urban development around 81 BRT stops in seven Latin American cities. Using factor and cluster analysis they examined primary and secondary data collected within 250 meters of regular BRT stops and 500 meters of BRT terminals. Ten BRT stop types were identified, eight of which were represented in several cities. Some stop types had attributes consistent with expectations of what are transit oriented development features. Other stops types were burdened by incompatible land uses and barriers to station access, while others captured conditions prevalent in many Latin American cities: mixed of land uses, informal housing distant from activity nodes, large commercial developments –frequently big-box– providing private spaces for public use and recreation, and a relative absence of green spaces open to the public. The typology developed here can motivate planners and city leaders to identify types of development patterns that could be encouraged given BRT investments.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABE90 Transportation in the Developing Countries.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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• Authors:
  • Rodriguez, Daniel A
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC
  • Date: 2014-1-12 to 2014-1-16
• Date: 2014

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: 24p
• Monograph Title: TRB 93rd Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Built environment; Bus rapid transit; Bus stops; Cities; Cluster analysis; Factor analysis; Transit oriented development; Urban development
• Uncontrolled Terms: Typology
• Geographic Terms: Latin America
• Subject Areas: Environment; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01515605
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 14-0666
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Feb 24 2014 10:41AM