A global database showing the use of Bus Rapid Transit systems was released Monday to enormous consumer interest as more communities consider the growing trend in commuter transportation.
The website shows the overall use of BRT in various countries — including the 13 cities within the Unites States that are using the bus system — and was created by EMBARQ, the World Resources Institute's cent
This database – www.brtdata.org – is the most ambitious, globally encompassing effort to map out BRT systems around the world and will include a web portal, which is publicly available for anyone wishing to access information about BRT data.
This database – www.brtdata.org – is the most ambitious, globally encompassing effort to map out BRT systems around the world and will include a web portal, which is publicly available for anyone wishing to access information about BRT data.
Regular readers of SmartPlanet know how much we love cities, transportation and data. How could we resist? The organization’s new “Global BRT Data” database — produced in conjunction with the BRT Centre of Excellence, naturally — promises to let regular people (and transit wonks) compare BRT systems and bus corridors in 134 cities in 36 countries.
Regular readers of SmartPlanet know how much we love cities, transportation and data. How could we resist? The organization’s new “Global BRT Data” database — produced in conjunction with the BRT Centre of Excellence, naturally — promises to let regular people (and transit wonks) compare BRT systems and bus corridors in 134 cities in 36 countries.
"A lot of the data we wanted to have access to to do the analysis researchers have been talking about didn’t exist," says Aileen Carrigan, a senior associate at EMBARQ, the World Resource Institute’s center for sustainable transport.
"A lot of the data we wanted to have access to to do the analysis researchers have been talking about didn’t exist," says Aileen Carrigan, a senior associate at EMBARQ, the World Resource Institute’s center for sustainable transport.
