It is a unique urban passenger transport system that uses modern public transport technology to cooperate with intelligent transportation and operation management, opens up bus-only roads and builds new bus stations, realizes rail transit operation services and reaches the light rail service level.
Extended data:
Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) is a translation of the meaning of English bus rapid transit. It originated in Curitiba, a city in southern Brazil in the 1970s. It is a convenient, safe, comfortable and punctual public transport operation service mode that uses improved large-capacity public transport vehicles and modern intelligent transportation technology to run on bus lanes, maintains the operational characteristics of rail transit, and has the flexibility of ordinary public transport and economy. Because of its short construction period and low operating cost, it is called a people-friendly project that benefits the current people.
Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) has gradually become the development direction of the global urban public transport industry because of its advantages of large traffic volume, short construction period, fast operation speed, energy saving, road resource saving, environmental protection and effective relief of urban traffic congestion. The United Nations, the World Bank, the International Energy Agency, the International Public Transport Federation and other international organizations and institutions regard BRT as a revolutionary solution to urban traffic problems and actively recommend it to major cities around the world.