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| The Bus Rapid Transit Policy Center |
| BRT offers high quality public transportation that can meet or exceed the performance of most rail systems at a fraction of the cost. BRT is the best public transportation strategy to provide options to personal vehicles, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and promote transit-oriented development. BRT is "Better Rapid Transit." |
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Learn about SJR122, the Virginia Assembly bill that would create a transit network in Northern Virginia: * Read our recent editorial in Bacon's Rebellion - A Transit Network for NoVa The odds look good for the General assembly to study a rapid transit network covering Northern Virginia to points as far flung as Winchester and Fredericksburg. * View a copy of the legislation: SJR122 See our article, Attracting TOD, in Mass Transit magazine. A recent crop of new mixed-use developments shows that the potential of BRT to catalyze TOD and economic development in America, and has significant implications for transit agencies and federal policy on transit funding. View the Time/CNN global warming article citing BTI's BRT/CO2 report. Read about our new project studying "incremental BRT" strategies. Presentations from York Region Transit on their Viva BRT, from a briefing at the recent APTA BRT Standards Committee: Intro & Service * Facilities & Fleet * Marketing * TMS View our editorial in Bacon's Rebellion - VIVA Downtown Markham! Suburban Toronto's New Markham project, a mixed-use community served by BRT, could be a new model for development in Northern Virginia. See our new section on Funding BRT in the US. Read BTI's trip reports from Eugene, Oregon and from our Latin American scannnig tour: Bogota, Guayaquil, Pereira, and Mexico City. PDFs of our 2007 presentation and TRB paper on the Los Angeles Orange Line. Key BRT Documents Federal Transit Administration's Characteristics of Bus Rapid Transit BRT Case Studies, Volume 1 and Volume 2 Our BRT Fact Sheet US General Accounting Office (GAO) Testimony on BRT FTA "Small Starts" Fact Sheet Vehicles Analysis of battery-electric, hybrid-electric, and fuel cell buses (Federal Transit Administration). October 2005 Overview of clean fuel bus tax credits available through the US Energy Policy Act of 2005 Compendium of BRT vehicles Emissions The Potential for Bus Rapid Transit to Reduce Transportation CO2 Emissions Climate Change Mitigation in Developing Countries (Wright-Fulton) Evaluation of BRT and electric rail emissions Accessibility Accessibility overview in the US (Easterseals 2005) Bus Rapid Transit Accessibility Guidelines (World Bank) (17MB PDF) Transit on Highways Summary of experiences with buses on shoulders of freeways and arterials (FTA) (11MB PDF) BRT on HOT lanes showing potential in Virginia (web page and report) Video Watch our video Making Things Happen With Bus Rapid Transit, on Youtube Select BTI Presentatiions BRT in the US and Latin America, Congress on Sustainable Transportation (Mexico City 2006) BRT as a Sustainable Transportation Option (Seattle 2006) |
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| Meetings and Conferences BTI gave a presentation at the January 2008 Transportation Research Board (TRB) meeting on "Funding BRT in the US." Download a PDF of the presentation and the paper plus an addendum of BRT systems' funding charts. |
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| BRT Workshops Want to learn more about BRT? Let us sponsor a workshop in your city. For an example of a recent workshop, see here. |
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