Dario Hidalgo, from a Washington-based global network, EMBARQ: The WRI Centre for Sustainable Transport, says that worldwide, 16 cities started operating BRTs last year , bringing the number of cities with BRTs to more than 120. BRTs transport about 28-million passengers a day, globally. Fourteen of the new BRTs are in developing countries, while seven cities expanded their systems.
Dario Hidalgo, from a Washington-based global network, EMBARQ: The WRI Centre for Sustainable Transport, says that worldwide, 16 cities started operating BRTs last year , bringing the number of cities with BRTs to more than 120. BRTs transport about 28-million passengers a day, globally. Fourteen of the new BRTs are in developing countries, while seven cities expanded their systems.
The city considered to have the most successful, and first, BRT system is Curitiba, Brazil, with 2.26 million passengers a day and 45 miles of lanes. From three bus corridors in the late 1970s, the system has grown to six, all added in combination with zoning and land-use policies that promoted industrial and residential development.
The city considered to have the most successful, and first, BRT system is Curitiba, Brazil, with 2.26 million passengers a day and 45 miles of lanes. From three bus corridors in the late 1970s, the system has grown to six, all added in combination with zoning and land-use policies that promoted industrial and residential development.
Trabalho com a imprensa, através de estratégias de marketing para a implantação do Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), foi apresentado pela equipe da Embarq Brasil, durante um workshop nesta quarta e quinta, na cidade do Rio de Janeiro.
Trabalho com a imprensa, através de estratégias de marketing para a implantação do Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), foi apresentado pela equipe da Embarq Brasil, durante um workshop nesta quarta e quinta, na cidade do Rio de Janeiro.
About 28 million commuters in cities including Bogotá, Mexico City and Jakarta rode B.R.T. lines every workday last year, according to Embarq, a global transport network at the World Resources Institute, an environmental research organization in Washington.
Dario Hidalgo with EMBARQ, the sustainable transportation think tank at the World Resources Institute (WRI), kicked off a session at Transforming Transportation 2011 by explaining that 120 cities now have BRT with bus corridors.
Optar por el Tren Ligero sería alargar el problema de movilidad en la ciudad por lo menos cinco años más, mientras se consiguen los recursos para su construcción e implementación, sentenció el director de la red EMBARQ, Darío Hidalgo Guerrero.
La ciudad de Guadalajara se tardaría por lo menos dos años en conseguir de nueva cuenta recursos del Fondo Nacional de Infraestructura (Fonadin) para impulsar un proyecto de transporte masivo, aseguró ayer la directora del Centro de Transporte Sustentable (CTS), Adriana Lobo.
