Pioneered in the mid-sized Brazilian city of Curitiba in the 1970s, Bus Rapid Transit increased bus speeds and improved road safety by placing high-capacity buses within committed bus lanes which ...

MARTA is about to break ground on the region’s first “bus rapid transit” line — the Summerhill ... will be at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Latin American Association, 2750 Buford Highway NE ...

Many cities should instead try looking south—far south—to where Latin American metropolises ... Brazil’s Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system. There, bus stations are enclosed, tube-shaped ...

It’s true. We all talk ... The Flatiron Flyer was sold as a bus rapid transit system. Despite its pretty color scheme, it is not. The most abused phrase in the American transport vocabulary ...

Cleveland was the only U.S. city to earn a “Silver Standard” ranking from the Institute for Transportation & Development Policy (ITDP) in its second annual bus rapid transit corridor rankings.

During a recent public input meeting for the Candler Road ART project in DeKalb County, Gregory Chilik, who is a Senior Transit Project ... will take place at the Latin American Association ...

Design is set to start on Columbus's first true bus rapid transit line, with a dedicated lane and much faster travel times, along Olentangy River Road. Despite lost revenue, COTA plans more rapid ...

And over the last decade, Mexico City has supplemented its subway by developing one of the world’s leading bus rapid transit ... the group’s Latin American director for public transit.

The World Bank has been instrumental in supporting the development of urban mass transit systems in Latin America, including metro lines, bus rapid transit ... Many Latin American cities suffer from ...

But this doesn’t reflect the bus’s true capability ... buses upended urban rail transit by freeing riders from aging, crowded, screeching streetcars. In 1922, American buses carried 404 ...

For years, the Tampa Bay region has been stuck in a prolonged transit fight: bus vs. rail. The form of transit is beside the point, said Art Guzzetti, vice president of the American Public ...

Bus Rapid Transit and the Latin American City: Successes to Date, But Miles to Go by COHA Research Associate Robert Banick Over the past fifteen years, cities throughout Latin America have ...