Alternative financing for Bus Rapid Transit (BRT): The case of Porto Alegre, Brazil

Lindau, Luis Antonio; Senna, Luiz Afonso dos Santos; Strambi, Orlando; Martins, Wagner Colombini

doi:10.1016/j.retrec.2008.05.018

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“…Curitiba achieved what other cities in Brazil did not when facing similar opportunities. Cities like São Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Recife, Porto Alegre, and Rio de Janeiro used the federal funding available in the 1970s for bus systems' performance improvements only (Lindau et al 2008), whereas Curitiba used the investment opportunity to direct the city's urban development.…”

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A review of technological improvements in bus rapid transit (BRT) and buses with high level of service (BHLS)

Hidalgo

Muñoz

2014

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Bus rapid transit BRT, and its European counterpart buses with high level of service BHLS, have been adopted by more than 160 cities around the world as a low cost, rapid implementation option for improved transit services. This paper summarizes some past advances of BRT and BHLS and presents some trends in vehicle guidance, propulsion technologies and information systems which are shaping the future of bus systems. We use the cities of Curitiba, Paris, Bogotá, Santiago, Istanbul, and Guangzhou to present relevant breakthroughs in bus system evolution. Thanks to the advances pioneered in these cities, BRT and BHLS became feasible alternatives to or complement metro and trams, and an integral part of integrated transit solutions, even in megacities like Mexico, Rio de Janeiro, Beijing, and New York. Evolution is ongoing; cities and providers are advancing technological components to enhance passenger experience and improve the technical, economic and environmental performance of BRT and BHLS.

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A review of technological improvements in bus rapid transit (BRT) and buses with high level of service (BHLS)

Hidalgo

Muñoz

2014

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“…Such connections and the interactions involved could be studied from different perspectives. In fact, BRT systems have been approached from an institutional perspective (Lámbarry Vilchis et al, 2011Vilchis et al, , 2010Ponnaluri, 2011), a social perspective (Cahill Delmelle and Casas, 2012;Lin and Wu, 2007), an economic perspective (Cervero and Kang, 2011;Hensher and Golob, 2008;Lindau et al , 2008), an urban planning perspective (Ardila-Gómez, 2004), a technical perspective (Hensher and Golob, 2008;, and an environmental perspective (Nugroho et al, 2010;Wöhrnschimmel et al, 2008).…”

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Lessons from the spread of Bus Rapid Transit in Latin America

Mejía-Dugand

Hjelm

Baas

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Journal of Cleaner Production

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Technological transitions and governance theories are employed for the analysis of the dissemination behavior of Bus Rapid Transit systems in Latin America. This process presents interesting characteristics and traits that seem to facilitate the overcoming of barriers and act as catalysts for the adoption of innovation. The present study uses a systems perspective to explore the dynamics of Bus Rapid Transit's adoption by different cities in the region and to follow its geographical dissemination, relying on historical data collected on numerous implemented projects.The resulting analysis provides an insight on the determinants and key points for the concept's expansion, which may be useful for the study of the dissemination of environmental technologies in cities. Contextualized, solid demonstration projects and incremental innovations, it is here argued, facilitated the adoption of new ways and promoted the dissemination of this urban mobility solution within a homogenous group of cities. A description of the Bus Rapid Transit system's approach to barriers that are also found to hinder the dissemination of environmental technologies provides a learning basis for future dissemination strategies.

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“…BRT systems have been approached from an institutional perspective (Filipe and Macario 2013;Lámbarry Vilchis et al 2010), a social perspective (Delmelle and Casas 2012;Lin and Wu 2007), an economic perspective (Cervero and Kang 2011;Hensher and Golob 2008;Lindau et al 2008), an urban planning perspective (Gómez 2004), an environmental perspective (Wöhrnschimmel et al 2008), and a technical perspective (Hensher and Golob 2008;Hidalgo et al 2012). All these authors agree that the BRT concept could be a feasible solution for many cities' mobility problems and, furthermore, that "there is a lack of studies analyzing the connection among the implementing venues, the transmission of ideas from one to the other, and the impact that incremental improvements have had on the geographical expansion of the concept" (Mejia-Dugand et al 2013).…”

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A Worldwide State-of-the-Art Analysis for Bus Rapid Transit: Looking for the Success Formula

Nikitas¹,

Karlsson²

2015

JPT

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Alternative financing for Bus Rapid Transit (BRT): The case of Porto Alegre, Brazil

Cited by 22 publications

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A review of technological improvements in bus rapid transit (BRT) and buses with high level of service (BHLS)

A review of technological improvements in bus rapid transit (BRT) and buses with high level of service (BHLS)

Lessons from the spread of Bus Rapid Transit in Latin America

A Worldwide State-of-the-Art Analysis for Bus Rapid Transit: Looking for the Success Formula

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