New book on Bus Rapid Transit
A new book on Bus Rapid Transit with contributions from BRT+ researchers has been published: DEVELOPING BUS RAPID TRANSIT. The Value of BRT in Urban Spaces. «BRT implementation, planning, operation, performance, and impacts, from a wide range of developed and developing cities across the globe are examined in depth in this exemplary book, with contributions […]
BRT+ PhD student awarded Lee Schipper Memorial Scholarship
Jaime Soza-Parra, PhD student from PUC, Chile, who is actively collaborating with BRT+ was awarded with the “Lee Schipper Memorial Scholarship for Sustainable Transport and Energy Efficiency”. His current research aims to identify the causes and effects of public transit system reliability, with special research attention given to cities in Latin America. Jaime presented his research […]
BRT+ Students participated in a multidisciplinary course that took them to Mexico
The aim of the course was to coordinate different areas of knowledge in order to solve a complex problem in an urban setting. The problem was to revitalize an urban axis in the city of Guadalajara, Mexico, through a Transist Oriented Development aproach, known as TOD for its abbreviation. As part of this course, students […]
BRT+ General Assembly January 16th
BRT+ Centre of Excellence will have its General Assembly on Wednesday 16th, 12:30 to 5:30pm. During the event an update of our recent research will be presented as well as our main findings. The entrance is free, just register yourself on the following link. Location: World Resources Institute (WRI) offices, Harmon Center, 8th Floor. […]
Lake Sagaris is nominated as Remarkable Women in the field of transport
To begin 2019, the German agency GIZ notified Lake that she had been nominated as one of the Remarkable Women in the field of transport initiative that is being driven by the Transformative Urban Mobility Initiative (TUMI). This recognition is bestowed as part of a series of publication to encourage and increase the participation of […]
Ricardo Giesen, BRT+ Director, and Cristina Albuquerque presented at ITDP Workshop on BRT systems
The Workshop was held at Ciudad de Mexico and included experts from 6 Latin American countries. In addition to Ricardo, Cristina Albuquerque, from WRI, also participated as an expert on the field. The event programme is available on the following link.
Thinking Outside the Box
Surprise Surprise – Trackless Trams are in vogue with light rail supporters! by David Hensher For many years we have been trying to remove the emotional ideology in the debate on public transport where there have been clear lines drawn between those who support light rail and outwardly (passionately) reject bus rapid transit. Attempts to […]
Professor Corinne Mulley talks about her research on BRT systems
BRT+ hosts a remarkable Workshop in Tanzania
For the first time, the BRT+ Centre of Excellence with the cooperation of the World Bank organized a Workshop gathering academics, policymakers and stakeholders of African public transport systems, in Dar es Salaam to discuss opportunities and concerns of how BRT is being implemented in African cities. One of the goals of the BRT+ […]
Ricardo Giesen is the new Director of BRT+
We have the pleasure to announce that Professor Ricardo Giesen is our new Director. He is replacing the role of Professor Juan Carlos Muñoz who has been in charge since 2010 when BRT+ was founded. The information was confirmed after the acceptance of a letter from the dean of the School of Engineering at Pontificia […]
The Stark (and Hopeful) Facts About Bus Ridership
ORIGINAL in CityLab by Zak Accuardi It’s not a death spiral—at least, not yet. Examples abound of how city leaders can turn the numbers around. Any frank conversation about building better bus service in American cities must address one fact at the outset: Ridership is in free fall across the country. Numbers released last month from […]
Postdoctoral Research Position in Complete Streets policy and design
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) and key member of the Centre for Sustainable Urban Development – CEDEUS (www.cedeus.cl), is currently looking for a post-doctorate or experienced researcher to join our research group starting around July 2018. We […]
BRT Members participate in Conference in Argentina
The Andean Development Corporation – Development Bank of Latin America has organized a new event about Infrastructure and sustainable development. In this opportunity 3 members of our Centre has presented, Darío Hidalgo, from World Resources Institute (WRI), Juan Carlos Muñoz, Director of BRT+ Centre of Excellence, and Lake Sagaris, Assistant Professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile […]
Tackling road congestion – What might it look like in the future under a collaborative and connected mobility model?
Traffic congestion continues to be the bane of many metropolitan areas and has exercised the minds of experts for at least the last 60 years. With the advent of smart (intelligent) mobility, aligned with digital disruption and future connected and collaborative transport including extensions to autonomous vehicles, the question of whether we have a new […]
Looking forward to Mobilize 2018
Our partners from the Institute for Transportation and Development (ITDP) are working hard preparing the annual sustainable transport summit, Mobilize. Meanwhile, we want to show you why you might be interested in this event and how can participate even though there are still 3 months left for the event. As you remember last year summit was held in […]
Postdoctoral Research Position in Public Transport
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) and key member of the Centre for Sustainable Urban Developoent (www.CEDEUS.cl), is currently looking for a post doctorate to join our research group starting around June 2018. We have a number […]
Cost and fare estimation for the bus transit system of Santiago
This paper studies the costs of the transit system of Santiago, Chile, and proposes pricing schedules to finance it considering a fixed amount of subsidy. We estimate a cost function for the firms providing bus services in Santiago and study their industrial structure. We also estimate a demand model using aggregate data, which delivers information on the […]
David Hensher
Dario Hidalgo
Corinne Mulley
Comparing Chinese and Non-Chinese Bus Rapid Transit Systems Evidence from Evaluating Global Systems on the Basis of Bus Rapid Transit Design Indicators
In the past decade, bus rapid transit (BRT) corridors have been added in China at a faster rate than anywhere else in the world. As the number of BRT systems in Chinese cities continues to increase, it is critical to identify the key factors that influence the operation performance and service quality of these systems. […]
John Nelson
Call for Paper: Special issue on developments in Mobility as a Service (MaaS) and intelligent mobility
Issued: 4 January 2018 Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice Title: Special issue on developments in Mobility as a Service (MaaS) and intelligent mobility Guest Editors: David A. Hensher and Corinne Mulley, Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies (ITLS), the University of Sydney Business School David.hensher@sydney.edu.au Corinne.mulley@sydney.edu.au We are inviting extended abstracts (up to 1000 words) on […]
Cristina Albuquerque
Christo Venter
Luis Antonio Lindau
Christopher Zegras
Chinh Ho
Brenda Medeiros
Regulatory Schemes on Public Transport Effects on Innovation and Main Service Quality Variables
Regulatory schemes have remained an open question about the implementation of an urban bus system. Because of the introduction of a higher private initiative within these systems, the expectation of increased patronage has not been met. Hence, studying the effect of regulation on innovation becomes the first objective of this research because innovative solutions may […]
Virginia Tavares
Rico Merkert
Johan Joubert
Jinhua Zhao
South Africa needs to revamp its new public transport system
ORIGINAL: The Conversation By Christo Venter, Associate Professor in Transport Engineering, University of Pretoria, and Gary Haye, PhD Candidate in Transportation Planning, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Over the past eight years the South African government has spent more than 130 billion rand on public transport projects in the country’s main cities. The projects included the refurbishment […]
3 Questions: Chris Zegras on designing your city’s transit system
ORIGINAL: MIT News by Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office on December 8, 2017 Have you ever wanted to change your city’s public transit system? A new digital tool developed by an MIT team lets people design alterations to transit networks and estimate the resulting improvements, based on existing data from urban transit systems. The […]
Tackling road congestion – what might it look like in the future?
Traffic congestion continues to be the bane of many metropolitan areas and has exercised the minds of experts for at least the last 60 years. With the advent of smart (intelligent) mobility, aligned with digital disruption and future autonomous connected and collaborative transport, the question of whether we have a new window of opportunity to […]
Postdoctoral Research Position in Public Transport
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 to join our research group starting around March 2018. We have a number of ongoing projects on different Public Transport […]
Challenges to Santiago's Public Transport
Cities development is a multidisciplinary problem. It involves many actors and it faces a lot of problems. There are economics, social, cultural and environmental matters to solve, so it is natural to think that the proposals may be complex. Considering that, United Nations (UN) in 2016 hosted a conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development […]
Global recognition for transport expert who has helped “shaped the way we live”
Research by economist, Professor David Hensher, the Director of the Business School’s Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, has now been cited more than 40 thousand times in scholarly publications. The number of citations is an Australian record for an economist specialising in transport, infrastructure and logistics and reaffirms Professor Hensher’s place amongst the world’s […]
BRTData one of the Top Planning Websites
The BRTData is a project of BRT+ Center of Excellence. Since 2012 its purpose is to collect an share information about Bus Rapid Transit experience around the world. Last week was recognized as one of the Top Planning Websites by Planetizen. Planetizn selects the ranking according to the focus of the website, its professionalism, and accessibility […]
Meet the 'Trackless train'
Source: CityLab Can We Just Call This a Bus? by LAURA BLISS New “trackless trains” out of China suggest buses by any other name could smell sweeter. It’s the shape of a swoopy modern streetcar, but it’s got rubber-shod wheels of a bus. Also, there’s no driver—it’s automated like a tram. The “trackless train” is […]
A psychological approach to understand decisions about time in public transport. Evidence from lab experiments in London, UK and Santiago, Chile.
When presented with a choice of waiting another ten minutes for a bus or spending the same amount of time travelling, how would you decide? Strictly speaking, if an increase in waiting time (w) or in-vehicle time (v) produces the same difference in journey time (j), it may be argued that the impact of increases […]
MOBILIZE Santiago 2017 moments
This year Universidad Católica de Chile hosted the second version of MOBILIZE international summit. ITDP prepared this video to capture the event. MOBILIZE Santiago 2017 Full from ITDP on Vimeo. Next year summit is in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on June 26-28. For more information follow all updates in http://mobilizesummit.org/
Metropolitan Governance for Sustainable Mobility
Land use and mobility interactions in the modern metropolis manifest themselves in two competing, age-old, forces: centripetal forces pulling us together into agglomerations and centrifugal forces pushing us ever further into the metropolitan hinterland. Thus, mobility is a fundamental part of urbanization and metropolitanization processes. Furthermore, mobility also serves as the core metric in defining […]
How to Get More People to Ride the Bus
A driver, a transportation official, and a transit advocate explain why Seattle recently saw one of the biggest citywide increases in passenger numbers. Original: The Atlantic Almost every major U.S. city has seen years of decline in bus ridership, but Seattle has been the exception in recent years. Between 2010 and 2014, Seattle experienced the […]
A new solution framework for the limited-stop bus service design problem
Limited-stop services are a key element to the successful operation of bus rapid transit corridors. In this study, we present a framework for addressing the limited-stop service design problem over a corridor, and formally introduce a family of subproblems involved in its solution. Using a bi-level optimization approach, we introduce a method of designing these […]
Thredbo 15: Top 10 Cited Papers
Researchers from BRT+ Center of Excellence stand out with their works in the Top 10 most cited Thredbo papers of all time. We congratulate Juan Carlos Muñoz, David Hensher and Darío Hidalgo for being part of this outstanding group. T Paper Scopus Scholar 10 Currie, G. & Wallis, I. (2008). Effective ways to grow urban […]
Event Wrap Up: General Assembly at Thredbo15
Our General Assembly this year was held on Sunday August 13, 12:00 – 16:00 at the Ragnar room, Stockholm School of Economics. We have the following attendees confirmed: Allen, Jaime (PUC) Aranda, Viviana (PUC) Balbontin, Camila (USYD) Bragdon, David (Transit Center) Clifton, Geoffrey (USYD) Currie, Graham (Monash University) Dragicevic, Marina (PUC) Galilea, Patricia (PUC) Giesen, […]
