Report: Presenting, “Modernizing Public Transportation”
Washington,DC,USA -World Resources Institute -October 13, 2010: ... Released by EMBARQ, the World Resources Institute’s Center of Sustainable Transport, the report synthesizes the challenges faced by transport system decision-makers in three key areas: planning, implementation and operations. In order to assist urban transportation planners and agencies, the study provides recommendations for avoiding or mitigating similar difficulties when introducing bus reforms in cities in the developing world... The report finds that the transit improvements in 13 cities resulted in a variety of improved conditions. These include reductions in air pollutants, greenhouse gas emissions, noise and traffic accidents, as well as increased efficiency by bus rapid transit (BRT) corridors compared with traditional bus services. Corridors in the selected bus systems exhibit very high usage levels (up to 45,000 passengers per hour in each direction), with comparatively low capital investments (less than $12.5 million per kilometer) and small operational subsidies... The report looks at transportation in 13 cities and will present in-depth case studies of nine of the cities. The first two case studies—profiling Leon and Guadalajara, Mexico—will be available by the end of October. The remaining seven case studies will be published by the end of November, including Bogota and Pereira, Colombia; Curitiba, Brazil; Guayaquil and Quito, Ecuador; Mexico City, Mexico; and Santiago, Chile. The other cities covered in the report are Sao Paulo, Brazil; Beijing, China; Ahmedabad, India; and Jakarta, Indonesia... The research was first announced at an Executive Committee meeting for the recently established Latin American Association of Integrated Transport Systems and Bus Rapid Transit (SIBRT), held during the 16th Latin American Congress on Urban Public Transport (CLATPU)... (Photo credit CTS-México - Optibus BRT station in Leon, Mexico)
* USA - Explains why BRT matters for cities around the world
Washington,DC,USA -The City Fix, Q&A with Dario Hidalgo (Part 2)/submitted by Jonna McKone -October 14, 2010: ... Dario Hidalgo from EMBARQ (the producer of this blog) explains why BRT matters for cities around the world... The 40-page main report will be accompanied by nine case studies, released over the next several weeks... Each case study has something remarkable, for example:
■ Curitiba’s long history of integration between land use and transport, without ever doing detailed transport demand studies (i.e. origin-destination surveys and transportation demand modeling);
■ Quito’s respect of the cultural heritage in the historic downtown;
■ Bogota’s transformation of very informal operators into large-scale organized transit providers and its continuous ridership growth despite declining user ratings;
■ Leon’s approach of negotiating with all existing transit companies and its pioneering approach in fare collection and trunk-feeder operations;
■ Mexico’s and Guadalajara’s fast implementation of BRT in less than two years;
■ Guayaquil’s extremely efficient operation with a very small public agency for planning and control;
■ Sao Paulo’s and Santiago’s contrasting stories in citywide integration.
Each project overcame technical, institutional and financial barriers, and provides very rich lessons. According to one of the peer reviewers, the case studies are “fun reading” ... (Photo by Luis Molina: TransMilenio, the BRT system in Bogota, Colombia, is known for its high ridership: the 84-kilometer system with 1,100 articulated buses carried 1.6 million trips per weekday in 2009 and the number keeps growing)Labels: bus markets
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