Framework for Deployment Planning of Bus Rapid Transit Systems

Bus rapid transit (BRT) systems combine vehicles, stations, running ways, and intelligent transportation system elements into a fully integrated system with a unique identity. It has great flexibility in incremental deployment of these BRT elements. Proposed is a deployment planning framework that provides, in a sequence of steps, a general structure for optimal deployment of BRT systems. This framework and its formulation, once operationalized, would provide transit agencies a practical tool for determining the optimal deployment strategy or strategies given budgetary, institutional, and other types of constraints associated with the corridor for which they have decided to deploy BRT. A case study example is provided to illustrate how the proposed framework would be used.

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Authors:
- Yin, Yafeng
- Miller, Mark A
- Ceder, Avishai
Publication Date: 2005

Language

English

Media Info

Media Type: Print
Features: Figures; References; Tables;
Pagination: pp 11-19
Monograph Title: Transit: Bus, Rural Public and Intercity, and Paratransit
Serial:
- Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board
- Issue Number: 1903
- Publisher: Transportation Research Board
- ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

TRT Terms: Bus rapid transit; Case studies; Deployment; Strategic planning
Uncontrolled Terms: Framework (Planning)
Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

Accession Number: 01003763
Record Type: Publication
ISBN: 0309093740
Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
Created Date: Sep 1 2005 11:40AM