About Transit-oriented development (TOD) is a critical solution to the unsustainable, car-dependant, and transit-poor urban sprawl that has characterized the growth of cities around the world over the last century. It also contrasts with transit-adjacent development that fails to foster the strong walking and cycling environment needed to complement and actively support the use of…
Today, the city of Yichang, in China’s central Hubei province and the site of the Three Gorges Dam, opened a major transportation and urban development project largely funded by an Asian Development Bank loan. The Yichang bus rapid transit corridor, initially on Dongshan Avenue in the city center, will serve half a million daily passenger…
The Greater Boston BRT Study Group, made up of transportation experts, planners, and community leaders, released a comprehensive report detailing the possibility of implementing high-standard Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) in the Greater Boston region and the benefits it would bring to residents, commuters, and the economy. The report, titled Better Rapid Transit for Greater Boston:…
* This post originally appeared on Embarq.org and is reprinted here with permission. In 2007, Istanbul added the Metrobüs bus rapid transit (BRT) system to its multimodal transport network. Initially stretching 18.2 km between the city’s Avcılar and Topkapı districts, the BRT corridor has since tripled in length to 52 km and today carries more…
At a recent meeting of the BRT Standard Institutional Endorsers, the Barr Foundation, UN Environment Programme (UNEP), and UN Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) signed on to the 2014 BRT Standard‘s vision of high-quality BRT. The BRT Standard establishes a common definition of what constitutes true BRT, allowing high quality systems to be recognized for the…