Researchers, the general public, practitioners, decision makers, public transport operators, journalists and the financing community worldwide are in need of knowing what are the strengths and weaknesses of BRT systems, and the benefits these bring if implemented in innovative and well-thought ways.

Our goal is to provide an understanding of BRT worldwide and the issues that are critical in the successful design and implementation of new projects. We support this task also by hosting and wrapping up significant Transport events we have participated in. They are designed for an audience of researchers and industry professionals and the content ranges from regulatory frameworks to technological aspects of operations and control decisions. Access to the summaries of CoE hosted workshops and seminars:

• 2016 – Washington D.C., US: General Assemby of the Centre and Launch of the book «Restructuring Public Transport Through Bus Rapid Transit», held at TRB 2016.
• 2015 – Santiago, Chile: International Conference Series on Competition and Ownership in Land Passenger Transport, Thredbo 14th
• 2013 – Santiago, Chile: International Workshop on Urban Transport Sustainability (IWUTS). Organized also with CEDEUS.
• 2013 – Oxford, UK: Bus Rapid Transit Workshop – Experiences and Challenges.
• 2013 – Oxford, UK: General Assembly of the Centre, held in the 13^th Thredbo.
• 2012 – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: BRT Workshop in Rio de Janeiro, held before the 13^th WCTR.
• 2012 – Pereira, Colombia: BRT Workshop in Pereiro.
• 2012 – Santiago, Chile: International Conference on Advanced Systems of Public Transport (CASPT12). In the last week of July around 250 researchers and practitioners from five continents gathered to discuss and propose.
• 2012 – Santiago, Chile: Transantiago and Metrobús – How to achieve social sustainability? Devoted to understand how transit innovations can achieve social sustainability by comparing Transantiago (in Santiago) and Metrobús (in Mexico City). You can read it also in Spanish here.
• 2012 – Santiago, Chile: Beyond a Bus System – Complete Streets to revitalize Santiago. Researchers from EMBARQ and SIBRT led by PUC ran a workshop with transit agencies and local governments to design a BRT corridor for the most important avenue in Chile’s capital.
• 2010 – Nairobi, Kenia: VREF CoE Workshop.

Other wrapped up events organized externally:

• 2013 – Oxford, UK: 13^th International Conference on Competition and Ownership in Land Passenger Transport (Thredbo), where CoE members participated intensively.
• 2012 – Washington D.C, USA: Transforming Transportation 2012.
• 2011 – Durban, South Africa: 12^th Thredbo.
• 2011 – Guayaquil, Ecuador: Congreso SIBRT: Best practices in integrated transport systems and BRT in Latin America.
• 2011 – Boston, USA: 4^th Annual MIT Transit Leaders Roundtable