This paper presents a review of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) systems in Australasia. It describes the major systems operating in Adelaide, Brisbane and Sydney, outlining their infrastructure, operations and development characteristics. The performance of these systems in terms of patronage, markets, operations and overall urban development impacts is described. Lessons learned in their implementatio...

With little investment required for operating in streets, bus services are often designed to serve many overlapping routes with frequent stops. To upgrade services and attract choice riders, major bus routes should be provided with exclusive lanes, preferential signals, and fewer but more distinct stops. The Federal Transit Administration’s (FTA) Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) program is aimed at upgr...

Salah satu dari proyek percobaan Kementerian Perhubungan dalam penyediaan layanan angkutan umum dengan skema kerjasama membeli dikenal istilah Buy The Service (BTS). Layanan ini sudah mulai dicoba diaplikasikan di bus Trans Jogja (TJ) sejak bulan Oktober 2020 pada saat kondisi Pandemi Covid-19. Sistem pembayaran non-tunai diterapkan seluruh BTS TJ. Berbeda TJ yang didanai oleh Pemerintah Daerah...

This paper identifies the opportunities for making significant improvements to bus transit operations by combining a variety of technical and service innovations that have heretofore been treated separately. Recently, increased attention has been devoted to “bus rapid transit” as an operational concept for enabling buses to provide a level of service closer to that normally only achievable in m...

Recent system advances in the rapid transit sector have led to a position where the various modes are trying to look and feel like a mode which they are not buses acting like trams, trams pretending to be metro or even heavy rail (tram-train). There are issues associated with this blurring of boundaries that makes the definition within the existing typology redundant. Added to this there is a p...