Rio de Janeiro will launch next month the first leg of a 24-hour rapid bus system that it hopes will cut both traffic and carbon emissions in the congested Brazilian city in time for the Olympic games it will host in 2016.

Rio de Janeiro will launch next month the first leg of a 24-hour rapid bus system that it hopes will cut both traffic and carbon emissions in the congested Brazilian city in time for the Olympic games it will host in 2016.

The country has agreed that the BRT projects are necessary, and when completed, they will bring benefits to the municipalities they serve, the nation's leaders say.

Nobody is more optimistic about the prospects of BRT than Toni Lindau, director of the Center for Sustainable Transport in Brazil (CTS-Brasil), part of the international EMBARQ network, whose mission is to catalyze and help implement

The country has agreed that the BRT projects are necessary, and when completed, they will bring benefits to the municipalities they serve, the nation's leaders say.

Nobody is more optimistic about the prospects of BRT than Toni Lindau, director of the Center for Sustainable Transport in Brazil (CTS-Brasil), part of the international EMBARQ network, whose mission is to catalyze and help implement