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12 CHAPTER 2 SYNTHESIS OF FINDINGS This chapter synthesizes the experience of 26 case studies of BRT located in the United States, Canada, Australia, Europe, and South America. It starts by defining the concepts and attributes of BRT and traces BRT's evolution over the years.
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13 Figure 1. Components of bus rapid transit.
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systems have made BRT a more attractive transit alternative to both transit users and transportation-planning officials. Several reasons were cited repeatedly in the case studies for considering BRT as a potential high-performance transit investment.
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this proposal was an elevated loop road circling downtown St. Louis, measuring six blocks north and south and five blocks east and west.
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HOV lanes and LRT. HOV lanes were perceived as a widely applicable, environmentally positive way of expanding road capacity while reducing single-occupant-vehicle use.
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Pittsburgh. Busways were politically viable and were easier to implement and more affordable than major highway construction or rail transit.
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TABLE 8 Types of facility by region under development in Boston, Cleveland, and Eugene will also have the six BRT elements. Within the United States and Canada, 13 of 17 systems have dedicated running ways (bus lanes or busways)
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Figure 3 shows the typical median busway design used in South American cities. Stations BRT station characteristics and features are given in Table A-4 and Table A-5, which are located in Appendix A
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alighting of passengers from high-floor vehicles, as shown in Figures 5 and 6. Guided vehicles such as the Irisbus Civis vehicle used in Rouen or buses with drop-down bridges, such as those used in Bogotá, Quito, and Curitiba, are required for floor-to-platform boarding and alighting.
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Body Style. Vehicle body styles include the standard (40-foot)
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do buses operating in Bogotá. Some of the buses operating in Sao Paulo have doors on both sides to better serve various platform arrangements.
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23 TABLE 9 Ridership figures for selected BRT systems 650 buses per hour (e.g., on the New Jersey approach to the Lincoln Tunnel and the Port Authority of New York/New Jersey Midtown Bus Terminal.) The Ottawa Transitway system reports bus volumes of 180 to 200 buses per hour along downtown bus lanes.
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Busways. Most facilities achieve time savings of 2 to 3 minutes per mile.
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tion around Transitway stations. Pittsburgh reported $302 million in new or improved developments along the East Busway stations.
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