Bus rapid transit (BRT)
Autobús de tránsito rápido (BRT)
- Date
- 1974 · confidence high
- Place
- Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
- Credited to
- Jaime Lerner and IPPUC
- People
- 👤 Jaime Lerner1937–2021
- Field
- Movement
What it is
Exclusive lanes for articulated buses with pre-payment stations and level boarding, giving metro-like capacity at a fraction of the cost. It was copied in more than 170 cities.
The tube-shaped stations were added in 1991.
What it led to
- TransMilenio (Bogotá, 2000)
- Metrobús (Mexico City, 2005)
- transit-oriented urban planning