[sustran] RE: bus lanes research

[Paul Barter]

Dear Luis Fernando Di Pierro

I am replying to your message sent to sustran at po.jaring.my. Here are a few
suggestions to help you track down more information. (Although the rest of
the world tends to look to Brazil as a leader in this area!)

1.  I am forwarding this reply to sustran-discuss email discussion list.
Someone else in that discussion may have some suggestions for you. There has
been much discussion on the list at various times on this issue, including
news of Bogota's success with the Transmilenio project. You can view the
archives of these discusssions via
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sustran-discuss/

2.  The Asia-Pacific cities with major busway projects or existing busways
to my knowledge include:  Taipei, Taiwan; Nagoya, Japan; Kunming, China;
Brisbane, Australia;  Adelaide, Australia (guided busway); and there are
apparently proposals for Bangalore in southern India.  Karachi in Pakistan
considered an elevated 'transitway' but has apparently abandoned the idea. 

In addition numerous cities in the region have networks of bus lanes of
varying quality and size. Among the most significant (to my limited
knowledge) are: Seoul, Korea;  Hong Kong SAR, China;  Bangkok, Thailand
(including some successful contra-flow lanes); Singapore;  but there are
many others of course. 

3.  A web site that seems to have a lot of information and news on busways
and bus priority in this region (Asia and Pacific) is
http://www.smarturbantransport.com/

I hope this helps a little,

Paul

Dr Paul A. Barter
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: curiotransport [mailto:curiotransport at yahoo.com.br] 
> Sent: Thursday, 4 April 2002 7:39 PM
> To: sustran at po.jaring.my
> Subject: bus lanes research
> 
> 
> 
> I am carrying out a research about state of art in bus lanes for 
> urban public transport in Brazil and need information about THE MOST 
> IMPORTANT systems in Asia, Europe and Latin America. I´m trying to 
> put some indicators together in order to provide recommendations for 
> future studies in Brazil. I would like to know about source of 
> information concerning those more important cities in Asia. The data 
> needed concerns at the city profile (configuration, population, 
> demand for public transport, fleet, number of lines, etc.) as well as 
> data related to the bus lanes or bus priority measures teken 
> (investment, costs, operational, management and infrastructure data). 
> Ex post evaluation would be very useful as speed, level of service 
> etc.
> 
> The research is been supported by a nationa association of  buses 
> private operators companies Called NTU. I woud be very pleased if you 
> could help me in this matter.
> Luis Fernando Di Pierro
> curio at uol.com.br
> curio at fespsp.com.br  
> 
>