BUS RAPID TRANSIT * China - Beijing's System running quickly and efficiently
Beijing,China -The Engineering News (Garden View,South Africa). Press release, by Laura Tyrer -9 Nov 2007: -- Nearly two years since the first line of Beijing's bus rapid transit (BRT) system began operation, the rapid passenger transport system is contributing to the reduction of the city's severely congested roads and associated air pollution for which the city is infamous... With the capacity to reduce the space occupation of each individual car driver to one-twentieth of the space one would occupy using the BRT, the system emerged as a necessary option for Beijing to reduce emissions from traffic, and particularly the soaring number of private vehicles... The system, which took a mere 16 months to implement from conception to completion, was launched in 2003 when daily trips in the city had reached nearly 21-million. By this time, Beijing's gridlocked traffic crawled at an average speed of less than 12 km/h on trunk roads during rush hour... It offered a cost-effective solution to city traffic, supplementing the rail network at one tenth of the cost of a rail system to construct... The BRT line, the first of 18 lines spanning 322 km that the city plans to construct, currently has the capacity to transport about 140 000 people daily along the 17-km north-south line... (Picture by Jinhua NEOPLAN Youngman JNP6180G from http://www.gakei.com/ -Date: 2006/07/02 ): "Beijing Bus Rapid Transit")Labels: bus rapid transit - BRT
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