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This paper presents some of the results of a cross-sectional study conducted in Mexico City in 2015-2016. The approach has been the application of a questionnaire to a sample size of n = 1489. Six high schools participated in the study that are located within the seismic zones of the city. Some of the results and conclusions are given below: (a) 95% of the students have experienced an earthquake and 71% considered that earthquakes cannot be predicted; however, 29% did not know this fact; (b) 82.2% of students were all aware of the likelihood of an earthquake occurrence sometime in the future. (c) One of the key conclusions is associated with the need to educate the residents of the capital city on a more realistic scale of the size of an earthquake; this could be the "Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale" or similar. (d) More generally, the residents of the city should be educated with urgency on these basic concepts. The more effective is the communication on risks and consequences, the better may be their preparedness to earthquakes.

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This paper presents a comprehensive review of the state of the art that have been conducted on the accidents in Bus Rapid Transit Systems (BRT) in intersections or crossroads. The review comprises a number of articles consulted in the electronic databases SCOPUS and WEB OF SCIENCE from 2005 to the present year, since in that time period, the Metrobus transport system was installed in Mexico City. The result shows the need to carry out more prevention and sound approach studies of accidents in this type of system using statistical analysis and to be more explicit when presenting results, this paper presents the methodology that allows to obtain quantifiable data to measure the frequency with which the accidents happen, and some future research direction is given.