The University of Sydney – ITLS 30th Anniversary
ORIGINAL in The University of Sydney We are very pleased to celebrate with our BRT+ partner, the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies (ITLS), their 30th anniversary. On this occasion we share the news of how it was the celebration of this third decade of existence of the institute: After a twelve-month postponement and under the […]
Urbanism Hall of Fame: Jaime Lerner – The architect of Curitiba
ORIGINAL in TheCityFix by Dario Hidalgo This is the third entry in the Urbanism Hall of Fame series, exclusive to TheCityFix. This series is intended to inform people about the leading paradigms surrounding sustainable transport and urban planning and the thinkers behind them. By presenting their many stories, TheCityFix seeks to challenge our readers to think carefully […]
Seminar: Covid-19 impact on travel behavior [in Spanish]
Open seminar in which the results of the compartive research among South American cities will be presented. Presenters: Camila Balbontín. ITLS, University of Sydney José Vallejo-Borda. BRT+ Centre of Excellence Date: March 24th. Time: 11:00am (UCT-3) Place: Zoom. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0sduCvpjojGdUhM9ditJ7jhE3nkY0DSBcj Important: the seminar will be held in Spanish.
Book "Urban Form and Accessibility. Social, Economic, and Environment Impacts" is edited by BRT+ researchers
1st edition of book «Urban Form and Accessibility» was launched by Corinne Muley and BRT+ researchers. Description: The growth of global urbanization places great strains on energy, transportation, housing and public spaces needs. As such, transport and land use are inextricably linked. Urban Form and Accessibility: Social, Economic, and Environment Impacts consolidates key insights from multidisciplinary perspectives on […]
UITP Webinar: Enhancing Financial Sustainability and Commercial Viability of BRTs in Sub-Saharan Africa-Factor Analysis and Assessment Tool
The International Association of Public Transport (UITP) is hosting the webinar event «Enhancing Financial Sustainability and Commercial Viability of BRTs in Sub-Saharan Africa-Factor Analysis and Assessment Tool» virtually on December 15th, 2020 at 4 PM (CET). Description: «Rapid urbanisation and urban population growth in SSA have led to the development and expansion of cities which […]
BRT+ researchers take part of Mobilize Virtual Summit 2020
Mobilize Virtual Summit 2020 and VREF Research Forum side-event are being held on October 26-30, 2020. BRT+ researchers are participating on the following dates: Tuesday at 9 EST: Christo Venter will participate on the Plenary. Tuesday at 10 EST: Ricardo Giesen will host the session Re-enchanting the People with BRT and Public Transport after COVID. Wednesday […]
BRT+ develops a research about mobility during the pandemic
BRT+ Centre is developing an international study which main goal is to identify the changes in travel behavior due to Covid-19 emergency, with a special emphazise on work trips. In addition, it intends to understand how spatial conditions in which work is performed have been modified and to evaluate the reach of work-from-home implementation. In […]
Centro BRT+ desarrolla estudio sobre movilidad en pandemia
El centro de investigación BRT+ en conjunto con Movus-Lab y Modeltran están llevando a cabo un estudio internacional que tiene como objetivo identificar los cambios en las conductas de viaje producto de la emergencia de Covid-19, particularmente en los viajes con motivo de trabajo. Asimismo, busca conocer cómo han sido modificadas las condiciones espaciales en las […]
Book "Understanding Mobility As A Service (Maas)" appeared on top-ten must reads on business, tech and transport
The book «Understanding Mobility As A Service (Maas): Past, Present And Future» by David Hensher, Corinne Mulley, Chinh Ho, Yale Wong, Göran Smith and John D. Nelson appeared on second place in the ranking «Our top ten must reads on business, tech and transport» by technology site SKEDGO. We all know the transport sector is […]
BRT+, CODS and CEDEUS hosted Webinar Series: Adapting City’s Mobility System after Covid-19
Between the months of June and July BRT+ along CODS and CEDEUS hosted Webinar Series: Adapting City’s Mobility System after Covid-19. The goal was understanding how different cities have adapted their transport system in face of the Covid-19. This webinar had 4 sessions, in which experts presented the experience of different cities, companies and agencies of […]
BRT+ Webinar Series: Adapting City’s Mobility System after Covid-19. Session 4
Sign-up here for free BRT+ is launching Webinar Series «Adapting City’s Mobility System after Covid-19». The goal is to understand how different cities have adapted their transport systems in face of the Covid-19. Session 4: Financing Public Transport will be broadcasted by Youtube on Wednesday, July 1st (Colombia 10:00 AM, Chile 11:00 AM, USA (EST) 11:00 […]
BRT+ Webinar Series: Adapting City’s Mobility System after Covid-19. Session 3
Sign-up here for free BRT+ is launching Webinar Series «Adapting City’s Mobility System after Covid-19». The goal is to understand how different cities have adapted their transport systems in face of the Covid-19, studying the case of different cities across the world. Session 3: Public Transport will be broadcasted by Zoom on Wednesday, June 17th (Colombia […]
BRT+ Webinar Series: Adapting City’s Mobility System after Covid-19. Session 2
Sign-up here for free BRT+ is launching Webinar Series «Adapting City’s Mobility System after Covid-19». The goal is to understand how different cities have adapted their transport systems in face of the Covid-19, studying the case of different cities across the world. Session 2: Freight and Last-Mile Logistics will be broadcasted by Zoom on Wednesday, […]
BRT+ Webinar Series: Adapting City's Mobility System after Covid-19
Sign-up here for free BRT+ is launching Webinar Series «Adapting City’s Mobility System after Covid-19». The goal is to understand how different cities have adapted their transport systems in face of the Covid-19, studying the case of different cities across the world. Session 1: Active Transport will be broadcasted by Zoom on Wednesday, June 10th […]
New Publication: Bus Transport – Demand, Economics, Contracting, and Policy
BRT+ researcher David Hensher from ITLS – University of Sydney published a new book on Public Transportation. Bus Transport – Demand, Economics, Contracting, and Policy This book examines in one source the most critical and current research themes of public transport relevant to regulators, planners, operators, researchers and educators. It highlights the wider economic impacts of […]
Public Transport in a Changing World and Times of Crisis
Bruno Charrade, head of International Zone at Transdev Group, gave the talk «Public Transport in a Changing World and Times of Crisis», in the context of the academic year launch of the Transport Engineering Department at PUC.
Frequency Optimization Models for Reducing Overcrowding Discomfort
Behavioural response of paratransit to formal public transport in hybrid systems
Using Twitter to Infer User Satisfaction With Public Transport: The Case of Santiago, Chile
User satisfaction is an important aspect to consider in any public transport system, and as such, regular and sound measurements of its levels are fundamental. However, typical evaluation schemes involve costly and time-consuming surveys. As a consequence, their frequency is not enough to properly and timely characterize the satisfaction of the users. In this paper, […]
New Publication: Understanding Mobility as a Service. Past, Present and Future
BRT+ researchers David Hensher, Corinne Mulley, Chin Ho, Yale Wong, Goran Smith and John Nelson, from ITLS – University of Sydney, publish a new book on Mobility as a Service. Understanding Mobility as a Service (MaaS) – Past, Present and Future The widespread adoption of smartphones, ridesharing and carsharing have disrupted the transport sector. In cities […]
BRT+ General Assembly. January 15th. Save the date!
BRT+ Centre of Excellence invites you to its General Assembly on Wednesday, January 15th, 1:00pm to 5:30pm. The event will consist on an update of our recent research: 1:00 Light Meal 1:30 Main Finding of the BRT+ Centre 2019. Policy and results 1:30 Welcome | Ricardo Giesen 1:40 Leveraging Urban Mobility Disruptions to Create Better Cities | Natalia […]
Integrating Frequency Setting, Timetabling, and Route Assignment to Synchronize Transit Lines
Synchronization of different transit lines is an important activity to increase the level of service in transportation systems. In particular, for passengers, transferring from one line to another, there may be low-frequency periods and transfer zones where walking is needed, or passengers are exposed to adverse weather conditions and uncomfortable infrastructure. In this study, we […]
Public preferences for mobility as a service: Insights from stated preference surveys
As mobility as a service (MaaS) continues to evolve with increasing interest throughout many countries, a key driver of its success will be the take up by the community of users seeking an alternative way of accessing individual modal options. Whether a packaging of modal services into a mobility bundle will appeal to the travelling […]
On evasion behaviour in public transport: Dissatisfaction or contagion?
Fare evasion, in public transport (PT), is a major problem in certain countries and threatens the PT administrators’ funds directly. Hence, identifying the possible causes for this behaviour can be highly relevant. Governments and PT administrators aim to deliver first-class services to satisfy customers, who will then tend to reuse the services and recommend them […]
Introduction to Special issue on developments in mobility as a service (MaaS) and intelligent mobility
Transit-oriented development and air quality in Chinese cities: A city-level examination
In this paper, we aim to see whether transit-oriented development (TOD) in Chinese cities is associated with better air quality. We first identify 37 Chinese cities with existing urban rail transit and/or bus rapid transit (BRT) systems. For each of these cities we generate performance-based TOD indicators – including measures such as urban area coverage, […]
Do preferences for BRT and LRT change as a voter, citizen, tax payer, or self-interested resident?
Interest in modal preferences remains a topic of high interest as governments make infrastructure decisions that often favour one mode over the other. An informative input into the infrastructure selection process should be the preferences of residents, since they can guide buy into support political and bureaucratic choice making. Cost–benefit analysis (CBA) uses the self-interest […]
Effect of critical incidents on public transport satisfaction and loyalty: an Ordinal Probit SEM-MIMIC approach
Supplying public transport systems with high levels of service quality is fundamental for retaining users and attracting new ones. Policies that improve transit service quality will ultimately lead to more sustainable travel patterns. Measuring overall service quality implies measuring the quality of several specific attributes and is prevalently evaluated through the perceptions of users, using […]
The efficiency of bus rapid transit (BRT) systems: A dynamic congestion approach
The penetration of BRT systems has been increasing fast, although there have been many reports of heavy queuing to board the buses. We propose a dynamic congestion approach that endogenously models queuing both on the road and at BRT stations, which are the center of our interest. We show analytically that, if capacity is perfectly […]
Understanding public transport satisfaction: Using Maslow’s hierarchy of (transit) needs
Public transport (PT) administrators require mechanisms to prioritise investments for improving their services, not only to maintain existing customers but also to attract new users. Customer satisfaction surveys allow detecting the level of global satisfaction with the PT system in addition to more specific satisfaction with its various attributes. Statistical analyses of these data allow […]
On the efect of operational service attributes on transit satisfaction
Public transport (PT) providers aim to ofer services that meet users’ satisfaction, and for this, they can control some operational service attributes such as frequency, speed, crowdedness and reliability. Understanding how these objective attributes afect user satisfaction is essential to improve it cost-efectively, but these associations have not been examined enough in the PT literature. […]
The danger zone of express services: When increasing frequencies can deteriorate the level of service
Express bus services are services that skip some of the stops along their routes to provide a faster ride for particularly demanded trips on a corridor. There is a growing literature on express services that focuses on route design and performance evaluation. In this work, we study a simplified transit corridor where a regular service […]
Citizen participation for sustainable transport: Lessons for change from Santiago and Temuco, Chile
Winning citizens’ support for urban planning decisions has been a challenge at least since Jacobs published her groundbreaking Death and Life of Great American Cities (Jacobs, 1961) and Arnstein defined a “ladder of participation” (Arnstein, 1969). Since then, anti-highway movements and pro-cycling advocacy have demonstrated considerable efficacy (Buehler & Pucher, 2017; Fackler, 2009; Harcourt, Rossiter, […]
The underlying effect of public transport reliability on users’ satisfaction
Service reliability has an important impact on the satisfaction stated by public transport users with the service they receive. The main source of unreliability is found in headway variance, which also affects waiting times and distributes passengers unevenly across vehicles. However, it is still unclear how headway irregularity, with its impact in waiting, crowdedness and […]
Postdoctoral Research Position in BRT+ Centre of Excellence
The Department of Transport Engineering and Logistics (DTEL) at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, host of the BRT+ Centre of Excellence (www.brt.cl) is currently looking for a post doctorate or experienced researcher to join our research group starting around March 2020. We have a number of ongoing projects on different Public Transport issues in […]
Yale Wong on New Mobility with Government authorities and MPs
On Wednesday 31st, Yale Wong, BRT+ reasearcher from ITLS -U. of Sydney- gave a briefing to the Minister Population, Cities and Urban Infrastructur of Australia, Alan Tudgeon, on bus industry issues. Afterwards, he delivered a keynote lecture to members of parliament, senators and industry proffesionals on the changing mobility landscape and gave policy recommendations for the […]
BRT+ Researcher at Mobilize Conference, Fortaleza, Brazil
Between June 22nd and June 27th, several BRT+ researchers gathered at Mobilize Conference, which was held in Fortaleza, Brazil. Ricardo Giesen, Juan Carlos Muñoz, Lake Sagaris and Jaime Soza from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile attended the event, as well as Christo Venter, from University of Pretoria and Darío Hidalgo and Guillermo Petzhold, from WRI. […]
BRT+ / UITP / VREF New Report on how to integrate BRT
The report Transforming Cities with Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Systems – How to integrate BRT? was launched at the UITP 2019 Global Transport Summit in Stockholm, Sweden. It is co-production between UITP -the International Association of Public Transport-, the BRT+ Centre of Excellence, and VREF. The report included the collaboration of two BRT+ researchers, Ricardo […]
Mobility as a Service (MaaS) Trial in Sydney
Mobility as a Service (MaaS) is a combination of public and private transport services within a given regional environment that provides holistic, optimal and people centred travel options, to enable end-to- end journeys paid for by the user as a single charge, and which aims to achieve key public equity objectives. (Cubic definition) At […]
BRT+ researcher, Professor David Hensher, declared "industry champion"
[source: The University of Sydney Business School https://sydney.edu.au/business/news-and-events/news/2019/06/07/internationally-respected-academic-honoured-by-the-roads-industr.html ] «The Director and Founder of the Business School’s Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies (ITLS), Professor David Hensher, has been awarded the prestigious John Shaw Medal by the industry’s peak body Roads Australia. The John Shaw Medal honours an «industry champion» who is considered to have […]
BRT+ Post-Mobilize Workshop. Invited Speakers and Agenda
Integrating new mobility services into public transport. June 27th, 9:00 – 12:30 Gran Mareiro Hotel – Salão José De Alencar IV, 100 Rua Oswaldo Araújo, Fortaleza, Brazil. REGISTER HERE! Agenda 9:00 Welcome and Introduction. Ricardo Giesen, BRT+ Director 9:30 Fortaleza Shared Bikes Integration. Luiz Sabóia, Executive Secretary of Public Services, Fortaleza 10:00 Shared mobility in Goiania. Hugo Santana, Director de Trasnportes – […]
BRT+ researchers in the forum ‘Movilidad 2050: Bogotá a la altura de sus proyecciones’
During May 29th, BRT+ researchers Darío Hidalgo and Chris Zegras participated in the forum ‘Movilidad 2050: Bogotá a la altura de sus proyecciones’, in Bogotá, Colombia. The activity aimed to open a space for analysis and discussion on the current situation of mobility in Bogotá and to review the projects that seems necessary in order to […]
BRT+ Workshop: Integrating new mobility services into public transport, June 27th
The BRT+ Centre of Excellence announces its post-Mobilize Workshop: Integrating new mobility services into public transport, which aims to discuss and propose how to better integrate new mobility solutions with public transport. The event is going to be held in Fortaleza, Brazil, and is open to profesional practitioners, academics, students and general public interested in the […]
BRT+ Research Meeting at U. of Pretoria
Professor David Hensher, BRT+ researcher from U. of Sydney, visited the University of Pretoria (UP) in March as part of the ongoing collaboration between UP and ITLS Sydney as members of the BRT+ CoE. Professor Hensher spent some time with UP researchers on the planning of upcoming Stated Preference surveys that are aimed at identifying […]
U. of Sydney ITLS: Shining the spotlight on our MaaS research with Yale Wong
Yale Wong, a doctaral candidate from one of the BRT+ Centre member’s institutions showcased a video on MaaS: Mobility as a Service. Yale was selected as ‘smart mobility expert’ in this extended interview. Also, he will be presenting on iMOVE on March 27th on the theme: Digital public transport in an era of shared and […]
New video on Empowering Women through Improved Access
Originally published on: http://www.slocat.net/news/2015 The Research for Community Access Partnership (ReCAP) launched a new infographic video on «Empowering Women through Improved Access» to celebrate the International Women’s Day. The video was prepared by the Roads Research Group in Civil Engineering at the University of Birmingham in collaboration with the Partnership for Sustainable Low Carbon Transport (SLoCaT). Empowering […]
Celebrating 18 Years of TransMilenio: Growing Pains and What Lies Ahead for Bogotá’s BRT
Originally posted on The CityFix. By Darío Hidalgo, BRT+ researcher. Eighteen years ago, I was deputy general manager of TransMilenio S.A., the city agency running Bogotá’s brand new bus rapid transit (BRT) system. It was amazing to be there at the start of operations for this system knowing that it took just three years from […]
On Video: David Hensher, BRT+ member, propose a new road pricing system
Sydney’s chronic traffic congestion results from «political neglect» and can be solved by a radical new system of charges for road usage, according to a BRT+ researcher David Hensher. From: https://sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2019/03/11/new-road-pricing-system-needed-after-years-of-political-neglect.html
José Reyes joined our team as Coordinator of the Centre
In BRT+ the role of the coordinator of the Centre is to administrate the different contracts and financing that are involved in the research projects. In addition, the coordinator must keep track of the general advances of the researches, collect the outputs and ensure that the results are disseminated. José had worked as a research […]
Event Wrap Up: BRT+ General Assembly 2019
During the last day of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) 98th Annual Meeting and before Transforming Transportation conference, in Washington, we had had our BRT+ General Assembly. Here we presented some of the main projects of the Centre during 2018 and interchanged feedback in order to improve our work this year. The meeting was held […]
