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Bus Rapid Transit Vehicle Characteristics Report

Federal Transit Administration, June 2001, FTA-DC-26-7075-2001.1

Author: Matthew Hardy, William Stevens, and Donald Roberts

Performing Organization and Address: Mitretek Systems, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Suite 755, Washington, D.C. 20024

Sponsoring/Monitoring Agency Name and Address:U...

Bus Rapid Transit in Los Angeles

Bus Rapid Transit WorkshopApril 8-9, 2002

"Action Plan for a Thriving BRT Market"

On April 8-9, 2002 at Los Angeles, CA a Bus Rapid Transit Workshop was held on "An Action Plan for a Thriving BRT Market." Participants at this workshop including the Federal Transit Administration (FTA)...

Bus Rapid Transit in Minnesota

Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Workshop

The Federal Transit Administration and the National Transit Institute (NTI) sponsored a two-day Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Workshop on November 13-14, 2002 at Hennepin County, Minnesota. The workshop focused on educating local officials and decision makers about the...

Bus Rapid Transit in Pennsylvania

Federal Transit Administration (FTA)/Pennsylvania Transportation InstituteBus Testing and Procurement Workshop

June 20-21, 2002The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel215 Innovation Blvd.State College, PA 16803

The purpose of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Testing Workshop held on June 20-21,...

Bus Rapid Transit in Paris

WestStart Trip Report: "BRT in Paris"

A trip in January 2002 was planned by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) to support the efforts underway for the FTA Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Demonstration Program. This was an information-gathering trip, so trip delegates met with Paris transit...

Bus Rapid Transit and the American Community

The Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) and the American Community report was sponsored by the Federal Transit Administration and released in 2002. The study, accompanied by a CD-Rom, contains all BRT National Planning and Design Competition entries and narrates information about the entries. The BRT design...

Vehicle Automation for Safety

Assessing the Business Case for Integrated Collision Avoidance Systems on Transit Buses Integrated Collision Warning System: Final Technical Report - Technical developments that integrate the advanced frontal and side collision warning systems into a unified collision warning system.Integrated...

Traveler Information

2006 National 511 Progress Report Highlights the status and direction of the nation’s 511 program.Bus Signage for Persons with Visual Impairments A Best Practices Paper addressing the ADA specifications for destination signs with LED displays.Customer Preferences for Transit ATIS Advanced Traveler...

Rural and Other Forms of Transportation

National Evaluation Of The New Mexico Client Referral, Ridership, And Financial Tracking (CRRAFT) System: Final Evaluation ReportOperational Test for the Implementation of Advanced Technologies in Rural Transit Service (Final Report)Rural ITS Guidebook: Technology in Rural Transit - Linking People...