Are buses the key to efficient, green city transit?
In a warming, rapidly urbanizing and penny-pinching world, what’s the best way to help move millions of people around
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Faster than a standard bus service and cheaper (and faster) to implement than light rail, bus rapid transit (BRT) typically
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Santa Monica, California, operates a Big Blue Bus system with a fleet of more than 200 vehicles, all of them
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Launched in 2004, Las Vegas’ Metropolitan Area Express (MAX) is considered one of the best examples of a BRT system
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Curitiba, Brazil, the granddaddy of bus rapid transit, implemented its first BRT system in the 1970s. It began using high-capacity,
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Still little more than a gleam in Siemens’ eye (it’s in development, though) is the e-BRT, a concept unveiled
