Our General Assembly this year was held on Tuesday January 15th, at the EMBARQ office at Washington DC. We had a record of audience, with more than 30 participants who had the chance to observe and give feedback to the progress reached by the projects in the Centre. Several advisors were invited to the meeting: Paulo Custodio, Brendan Finn, Gerhard Menckhoff, Shivanand Swamy, Sam Zimmerman, Walter Colombini, and also an important group of key people:
- Suzy Balloussier (Fetranspor)
- Amit Bhatt (EMBARQ India)
- Carlos De Paco (BID)
- Stephan Hassold (University of Auckland)
- Jorge Jara (EMBARQ Andino)
- Yang Jiang (China Sustainable Transport Center)
- Adriana Lobo (CTS Mexico)
- Abel López (CTS México)
- Carlos Mojica (BID)
- Fernando Paez (CTS México)
- Madhav Pai (EMBARQ India)
- Marco Priego (CTS México)
- Pilar Rodríguez (Metrocali)
- José Viegas (International Transport Forum)
- Zhigao Wang (China Sustainable Transport Center)
- Ruishan Zheng (China Sustainable Transport Center)
This is the agenda of the meeting with all the presentations:
| Speaker | Subject |
| Juan Carlos Muñoz | Presentation of the CoE, meeting introduction. Presentation / Video |
| Darío Hidalgo | Observatory: current state and next steps of www.BRTdata.org. Case studies: L4 Metrobus, Transantiago. Presentation / Video |
| Rosário Macário | LS2, Exploring the complexity of policy design: develop a formal structure for retrospective analysis of the various policy components interplaying, and finally a dynamic systems model to search for well-designed and promising policy packages. Presentation / Video |
| Chris Zegras | LS3, From vision to promise to delivery: this project examines two types of pressures that affect the path of BRT from vision to reality: claims from outside and claims from within the existing public transport system. Presentation / Video |
| Abel López | The fragility of the Authority-Operator and Operators-Shareholders: the impact on the sustainabiltily of brt systems. Presentation |
| Toni Lindau | LT1, Development, calibration and validation of bus-following model to support analyses and evaluation of alternative BRT strategies under different scenarios. Presentation / Video |
| Patricia Galilea | LT2, Typology and analysis of business plans, contracts and incentives for BRT and urban mobility systems. Presentation / Video |
| Anson Stewart | LT4, Analysis of successful high-quality bus services in larger developed cities. Presentation / Video |
| Chris Zegras | LT9, Urban design and BRT design to catalyze TOD. Presentation / Video |
| Yang Jiang | BRT-oriented development in China: opportunities and challenges. Presentation |
| Juan Carlos Muñoz | LO1, Explore innovative ways to manage and control BRT services. Presentation / Video |
| Anna Matias | LO5, BRT-TSP: Simulation of Transit Signal Priority Strategies for BRT Corridors. Presentation / Video |
| Dario Hidalgo | Traffic Safety Guidelines. Presentation |
| Luis Gutierrez | SIBRT update. Presentation / Video |
| Juan Carlos Muñoz | Benchmark study and CEDEUS presentation. Presentation 1 Presentation 2 / Video |
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