Comments on: Towards a Better BRT Taxonomy

By: ssk sorgulama

ssk sorgulama — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:18:51 +0000

Thanks for very interesting article. I really enjoyed reading all of your posts. It’s interesting to read ideas, and observations from someone elses point of view makes you think more. So please keep up the great work

By: Sohbet

Sohbet — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 02:16:01 +0000

The Quickway model is not merely an incremental step on the continuum of BRT, but represents a distinct mode of BRT, much in the same way that streetcar and heavy rail are two distinct modes of rail transit.

By: Frank, Robin

Frank, Robin — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 05:32:39 +0000

Some live up to expectations for “surface subways” and some don’t. Over at the City Fix, Dario Hidalgo notes the problems that arise from the inconsistency:More than just semantics, this confused nomenclature can lead to real-world policy problems, diluting the concept of BRT and undercutting efforts to promote it with skeptical populaces and politicians.

By: Sindhuja

Sindhuja — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:11:45 +0000

Im an engineering student in India.Your article was very useful for my project…thank you

By: Streetsblog » Are American Cities Building Top-Notch BRT or “Light Rail Lite”?

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:47:25 +0000

[...] by Ben Fried NYC’s Select Bus Service shaves trip time appreciably, but doesn’t yet fit the definition of a world-class BRT system.What makes a bus system "rapid"? Trying to agree on an answer can get contentious. With a big menu of possible features for transit operators to choose from — pre-payment, priority signal timing, and physically separated lanes, to name a few — the quality of systems labeled "Bus Rapid Transit" varies widely. Some live up to expectations for "surface subways" and some don’t. Over at the City Fix, Dario Hidalgo notes the problems that arise from the inconsistency:More than just semantics, this confused nomenclature can lead to real-world policy problems, diluting the concept of BRT and undercutting efforts to promote it with skeptical populaces and politicians. To set things straight, Hidalgo recommends a term coined by Allan Hoffman and Alasdair Cain in a recent article in Mass Transit Magazine: "Quickways." Here’s the quick and dirty version of how they distinguish Quickways from other forms of BRT:A Quickway, by definition, is a specialized bus guideway incorporating a number of essential elements. [...]

By: Alan Hoffman

Alan Hoffman — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:32:03 +0000

Dario, Thank you for citing the article I co-wrote with Alasdair Cain. The article was based on a study I wrote with the backing of the U.S. Federal Transit Administration (FTA), published by the National BRT Institute. The study, whose title is “Advanced Network Planning for Bus Rapid Transit: The ‘Quickway Model’ as a Modal Alternative to ‘Light Rail Lite’” goes into much greater detail about the Quickway Model (with a section devoted to TransMilenio), exploring its evolution and key design and planning principles underlying it. It is available free for download from several sources, including http://www.nbrti.org/research.html (scroll down the screen until you see the study) or at my own website, http://www.missiongrouponline.com.