Summary of the Application Effect of Bus Rapid Transit at Beijing South-Centre Corridor of China

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

“…The metropolis is governed as a direct-controlled municipality under the national government, with 14 urban and suburban districts and 2 rural counties. Beijing Southern Axis BRT Line 1 (BRT1) is the first BRT system implemented in China and the first large-capacity rapid bus line based on the needs of developing public transportation, which was designed using foreign advanced ideas and technology as reference (Lin and Wu 2007). BRT1 started commercial operations in December 2004 with a pilot line of only 5.5 km in length.…”

“…The investment in the road reconstruction project was about 321.31 million yuan, and the investment for the stations and ITS (including operation for stations, parking lots, vehicles, etc.) was approximately 288.19 million yuan, for a total cost of 609.5 million yuan; construction cost per kilometer was about 38.1 million yuan (Lin and Wu 2007), a cost in American dollars (in 2014 values) of approximately $6.2 million.…”

“…The lines use vehicles with a passenger capacity of 180 persons (Lin and Wu 2007), and all are low-floor buses and cost about US$250,000 each, including features such as automatic stop announcements, three double left-side doors, and air conditioning (FTA, 2006). The buses are mounted with GPS terminal equipment and meet universal emission standards.…”

“…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).…”

Lessons from the spread of Bus Rapid Transit in Latin America

“…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).…”