Bus rapid transit

"Transitway" redirects here. For the network in Ottawa, see Transitway (Ottawa). For other BRT systems, see List of bus rapid transit systems.

TransJakarta in Jakarta, Indonesia, the longest BRT system in the world (264.6 km)[1]
Mercedes Citaro RATP, ligne TVM, Créteil Paris
30 meter long Transmetro in Guatemala City, Guatemala, for 300 passengers[2]

Bus rapid transit (BRT), also referred to as a busway or transitway, is a trolleybus, electric bus and public transport bus service system designed to have much more capacity, reliability, and other quality features than a conventional bus system.[3] Typically, a BRT system includes roadways that are dedicated to buses, and gives priority to buses at intersections where buses may interact with other traffic; alongside design features to reduce delays caused by passengers boarding or leaving buses, or paying fares. BRT aims to combine the capacity and speed of a light rail transit (LRT) or mass rapid transit (MRT) system with the flexibility, lower cost and simplicity of a bus system.

The world's first BRT system was the Runcorn Busway in Runcorn New Town, England, which entered service in 1971.[4][5] As of March 2018, a total of 166 cities in six continents have implemented BRT systems, accounting for 4,906 km (3,048 mi) of BRT lanes[6] and about 32.2 million passengers every day.

The majority of these are in Latin America, where about 19.6 million passengers ride daily, and which has the most cities with BRT systems, with 54, led by Brazil with 21 cities.[6] The Latin American countries with the most daily ridership are Brazil (10.7 million), Colombia (3.0 million), and Mexico (2.5 million).

In the other regions, China (4.3 million) and Iran (2.1 million) stand out.[6] Currently, TransJakarta is the largest BRT network in the world, with about 251.2 kilometres (156.1 mi) of corridors connecting the Indonesian capital city.[1]

  1. ^ a b "Koridor". Transjakarta.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference :3 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "What is BRT?". Institute for Transportation and Development Policy. 24 July 2014.
  4. ^ Lesley, Lewis (1983). "Runcorn - A Rapid Transit New Town?". Built Environment. 9 (3/4): 234. JSTOR 23286723.
  5. ^ "Runcorn New Town - 7.3 Transport". rudi.net. Archived from the original on 18 October 2014. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
  6. ^ a b c EMBARQ – The WRI Center for Sustainable Transport (November 2016). "Global BRT Data — Worldwide and Key indicators per region". BRTdata.org. Archived from the original on 8 February 2014. Retrieved 27 November 2016.