Bus Rapid Transit Concepts

Invisible Women

by Caroline Criado Perez · 12 Mar 2019 · 480pp · 119,407 words

to the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics. The money was there, it was just being spent elsewhere. LSE Cities research found that the new Bus Rapid Transit corridors tended to privilege areas where Olympic facilities were located, leaving ‘the problem of collective transport between the poorer resettlements and downtown [. . .] unattended’.52 Furthermore

Are Trams Socialist?: Why Britain Has No Transport Policy

by Christian Wolmar · 19 May 2016 · 79pp · 24,875 words

not a sensible way of allocating resources. Investing in trams or indeed in better bus services such as the now very widely adopted system of Bus Rapid Transit would be a far more efficient use of the limited funds available for transport investment. It would not, though, be socialism. The Swiss experience, too

Circus Maximus: The Economic Gamble Behind Hosting the Olympics and the World Cup

by Andrew Zimbalist · 13 Jan 2015 · 222pp · 60,207 words

.”56 The plans include extensive construction in four separate clusters of Rio (following one defining feature of Barcelona's Olympic plan),57 encompassing sports facilities, bus rapid transit (BRT) lanes, metro connections, cleaning up of the port, a new golf course, an Olympic Village in Barra da Tijuca, new sewer systems, new parks

The Slow Fix: Solve Problems, Work Smarter, and Live Better in a World Addicted to Speed

by Carl Honore · 29 Jan 2013 · 266pp · 87,411 words

of people, including the elderly, the disabled and parents with push-chairs, to embark and disembark quickly and easily. The name of this system is bus rapid transit, or BRT. Ortega takes the H13 route, and when I catch up with him he looks like a poster boy for public transport. Trim and

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here.” But bogotanos do not rack up nearly 2 million trips every day on the TransMilenio in order to boost social solidarity. They have embraced bus rapid transit because it offers something that did not exist before: a comfortable and efficient way to travel across this anarchic city of 8 million souls. Delgado

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the world. Its infrastructure was poor even by Latin American standards thanks to years of underinvestment and unfettered immigration from the countryside. Parachuting a shiny bus rapid transit system into such anarchy would have been the worst sort of quick fix. Other cities in the developing world have learned that lesson the hard

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make the leap. As a city with wide streets, dense population and a strong tradition of bus travel, Bogotá is the natural home for a bus rapid transit system like the TransMilenio. The same cannot be said for the old cities of Europe, which simply do not have the road space to accommodate

How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors Behind Every Successful Project, From Home Renovations to Space Exploration

by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner · 16 Feb 2023 · 353pp · 97,029 words

dams 75 37 186 IT 73 18 447 Nonhydroelectric dams 71 33 202 Buildings 62 39 206 Aerospace 60 42 119 Defense 53 21 253 Bus rapid transit 40 43 69 Rail 39 28 116 Airports 39 43 88 Tunnels 37 28 103 Oil and gas 34 19 121 Ports 32 17 183

Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World

by Henry Grabar · 8 May 2023 · 413pp · 115,274 words

suit. In Brazil, cities like Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Brasilia routinely closed highways to cars. Curitiba, Brazil, is renowned as the birthplace of bus rapid transit—a low-cost way to move large numbers of people down what had once been congested avenues. Mexico City adopted a Ciclovía-type event every

Radical Cities: Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture

by Justin McGuirk · 15 Feb 2014 · 246pp · 76,561 words

often unorthodox policies that transformed its public transportation and made the city, in current parlance, more sustainable. Most famous of these is the so-called Bus Rapid Transit system, which revolutionised mobility in the city, but his reforms also included offering slum dwellers free bus passes and groceries in return for collecting their

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, which is scheduled to be dynamited any day now. Replacing the flyover, city officials are proud to announce, will be the world’s most extensive Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) network, one of whose four corridors has already opened. This system of public transport with its own traffic lane was pioneered in Brazil, in

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service, a public transport network to replace the private buses that had had a virtual monopoly on public transport in the capital. Modelled on the Bus Rapid Transit system developed in Curitiba two decades earlier, the TransMilenio had dedicated lanes in which buses could leave the traffic eating its proverbial dust. Together with

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de Rivero, Manuel, 67 Rico, Carolina, 169–70 ‘The Right to the City’ (Lefebvre), 27 Rio de Janeiro, 12, 16, 19, 99–137, 241, 243; bus rapid transit, 129, 224; cable car system, 25, 105–6, 132–5 passim, 163, 166 Roca, José, 220 Rocinha (favela), 102, 105, 119, 121, 133, 135 Romo

Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back

by Douglas Rushkoff · 1 Jun 2009 · 422pp · 131,666 words

traffic-engineering mind-set aimed at maximizing the city’s capacity for motor vehicles. While other world cities were building new bike infrastructure, pedestrian plazas, bus rapid transit, and congestion pricing systems, New York City government still treated motor vehicle traffic as something akin to the weather—a force beyond the control of

Lonely Planet Colombia (Travel Guide)

by Lonely Planet, Alex Egerton, Tom Masters and Kevin Raub · 30 Jun 2015

project was eventually buried and a decision to introduce a fast urban bus service called TransMilenio was taken instead. Today, it is the largest BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) system in the world. It is, in essence, a bus system masquerading as a subway. Covering 112km with a fleet of 1400 buses, TransMilenio counts

It's Better Than It Looks: Reasons for Optimism in an Age of Fear

by Gregg Easterbrook · 20 Feb 2018 · 424pp · 119,679 words

Gayer and Alex Gold of the Brookings Institution concluded there is “no discernible positive relationship between sports facility construction and economic development.” Roads, bridges, and bus rapid transit, by contrast, have clear multiplier effects. To take out loans to improve infrastructure can make good sense, in the same way that home improvement loans