Planning the route to higher bus quality: Creating a roadmap for effective implementation of high-quality bus systems in the Netherlands

The transport sector needs to change to meet some of the global challenges we face: climate change, population growth and urbanisation. It needs to become more sustainable, which is why the Netherlands wants to introduce more high-quality bus systems. However, there are some barriers to implementing these systems.<br/><br/>In this thesis,...

Post-Spartacusplan: Exploring the future possibilities of innovative public transportation for spatial and mobility transition in Belgian Limburg

Spartacusplan, the transportation plan for the Belgian province of Limburg from 2004, is now turned into the most extensive and ambitious bus rapid transit (BRT) project in Europe. However, the proposed vehicles and network do not correspond well to the region’s highly dispersed, poly-centric structure. Moreover, the dispersed urbanisation...

Bus Rapid Transit, Safety, and Roundabouts: Evaluation of design solutions for roundabouts with Bus Rapid Transit based on safety and level of service of all modes

The popularity of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) has been growing rapidly over the past years, where more and more cities add BRT to their public transport systems. Roundabouts are also growing and are popular intersection designs because they are one of the safest types of intersections and improve traffic flow. It is, therefore, likely that in some...

The BRT-LRT dilemma: A public transport users’ and policymakers’ perspective on differences in preferences and perceptions between BRT and LRT

The discussion involving BRT and LRT is well alive among policymakers, who often rely on personal preferences or, as it is called in literature, on “blind commitment” towards one system or the other for their decision-making. The reason for choosing a system according to personal taste is also caused by the unknown preferences that public...

Bus Rapid Transit: Establishment of a BRT Design Model to Design and Evaluate BRT Configurations

A research is conducted into the applicability of different Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) configurations. Based on knowledge acquired from researching a set of reference systems a BRT design model is formulated. This model is subsequently implemented into a tool, the BRT design scanner. This scanner provides the possibility to investigate, based on...

Cost-Benefit analysis of RetBus: A new Bus Rapid Transit system in Barcelona

The RetBus project is a plan of the City Council of Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain) and the transit operator TMB aimed at improving the public transport service in the city. The project involves building a new Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system called RetBus as well as eliminating or modifying some existing bus lines. The main design objective of the...

Design of a Bus Rapid Transit Network for Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Towards improvement of the Public Transportation System

A well planned and organized public transport system contributes significantly to the economic growth and improved quality of life in a city and a nation at large. However, developing such a system requires understanding of the city's local conditions and development dynamics, so that the design addresses the current and future needs of the city...

Transit Priority to Improve Bus Running Time: A Specific Case in Boston

This master-thesis analyzes the deployment of congestion protection strategies to improve the bus running time through a specific case; an intersection in the city of Boston, United States of America. At this juncture two bus routes, operated by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (the transit authority), suffer from congestion...

The Case of Jakarta: A City with an Isolated Bus Rapid Transit: formulating a design strategy to establish an integrated transit oriented development in Jakarta using the existing bus rapid transit system

Jakarta is the capital of Indonesia, a developed country in the Southeast Asia. With the population of 23 million, Jakarta and the surrounding area is the 4th largest urban area in the world. As the result, Jakarta suffers from inadequate facility such as severe traffic jams caused by too much commuting from areas around Jakarta, and air...