Print Email Facebook Twitter Designing bus rapid transit systems Title Designing bus rapid transit systems: Lessons on service reliability and operations Author Ishaq, Robert (Technion) Cats, O. (TU Delft Transport and Planning) Date 2020 Abstract Cities worldwide are looking for expanding the capacity of their public transport system while considering budget limitations. Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) systems are increasingly considered as alternatives for designing a mass public transport in mid-size cities in developed countries. While operations have been recognized as an important success factor, previous studies have focused on infrastructure design and planning principles of BRT. We study the operations of BRT related to service reliability and service utilization and derive lessons for planning and operations. The study is centered on the performance of the Matronit BRT system in Haifa, which is the first mass transit network of its kind in Israel. The inter-relation between service reliability, fleet management and service utilization are analysed. The speed and reliability improvements attained by the infrastructure and technological priority measures need to be complemented with control instruments to yield further gains for both service users and service provider. Subject Bus rapid transitService reliabilityTransit operations To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:605f6fc9-9ed8-4e84-8d04-60071e31ad91 DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cstp.2020.05.001 Embargo date 2020-11-05 ISSN 2213-624X Source Case Studies on Transport Policy, 8 (3), 946-953 Bibliographical note Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public. Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2020 Robert Ishaq, O. Cats Files PDF 1_s2.0_S2213624X18300701_main.pdf 2.6 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:605f6fc9-9ed8-4e84-8d04-60071e31ad91/datastream/OBJ/view