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The proposed BRT system will include 150-passenger extended buses for trunk routes and conventional buses (80 to 100 passengers) for feeder routes.
Read More →At one of several Federal Transit Administration BRT workshops held across the country, bus industry officials meeting in Los Angeles in April could not reach a consensus on how this "new" mode of transportation should be categorized.
Read More →After several years of moving in fits and starts, bus rapid transit is beginning to generate some momentum — well, if not momentum, at least serious discussion.
Read More →As it slides toward a respectable mode of U.S. public transportation, bus rapid transit still faces budgetary, political and community-related problems.
Read More →Bus rapid transit can work in concert with existing public transportation at a considerable savings over the cost of installing light rail transit, said the study.
Read More →The U.S. Department of Transportation awarded four designs for high-capacity buses in its National Bus Rapid Transit Vehicle Design Competition.
Read More →The FTA, in conjunction with WestStart, launched a vehicle design competition late last year called "Bus Rapid Transit and the American Community." Here are the winners.
Read More →More than 50 federal, state and local transit officials representing 10 U.S. cities, including many members of the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Consortium, traveled to Curitiba, Brazil, Dec. 10 to 13, 2000.
Read More →The $33 million system would include 29 stops over almost six miles.
Read More →Four of the most prominent civic organizations in the Detroit area are collaborating to examine how a regional bus rapid transit (BRT) network of rapid transit service—modeled after the successful one in Curitiba, Brazil—could be established in the Detroit metropolitan region.
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