Performance and Lessons from Implementation of BRT in the United States

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.

• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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  Washington, DC  United States  20001
• Authors:
  • Darido, Georges Bianco
  • Diaz, Roderick B
  • Kim, Eugene J
  • Schimek, Paul
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 86th Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2007-1-21 to 2007-1-25
• Date: 2007

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: CD-ROM
• Features: Illustrations; References;
• Pagination: 31p
• Monograph Title: TRB 86th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers CD-ROM

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bus rapid transit; Case studies; Knowledge; Political factors; Public transit; Quality of service; Ridership; Transit operating agencies
• Geographic Terms: Boston (Massachusetts); Honolulu (Hawaii); Las Vegas (Nevada); Los Angeles (California); Miami (Florida)
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01047581
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 07-3446
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Feb 8 2007 8:07PM