Moving the Masses: Bus-Rapid Transit (BRT) Policies in Low Income Asian Cities
Public transport in low-income Asian (LIA) cities fails to meet people’s mobility needs, generates high greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and worsens social exclusion. Following successful Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) projects in Bogota and Curitibá, LIA countrie
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Moving the Masses: Bus-Rapid Transit (BRT) Policies in Low Income Asian Cities Case Studies from Indonesia
Moving the Masses: Bus-Rapid Transit (BRT) Policies in Low Income Asian Cities
Suryani Eka Wijaya • Muhammad Imran
Moving the Masses: Bus-Rapid Transit (BRT) Policies in Low Income Asian Cities Case Studies from Indonesia
Suryani Eka Wijaya BAPPEDA of NTB Province Mataram, Nusa Tenggara Barat, Indonesia
Muhammad Imran Massey University Palmerston North, New Zealand
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To planners, environmentalists and the general public who aspire for sustainable and affordable transport systems for their respective cities.
Foreword
Since the mid-1970s, the fame and popularity of Bus Rapid Transit has steadily grown. One of the most unusual characteristics of this mode of transport is that the BRT was developed by a relatively low-income city in a developing country context, turning its city of birth, Curitiba, Brazil, into a mecca for transport planners and prompting many imitations worldwide. Indonesian cities have organically developed a range of transport options that offer a range of service levels and prices. These include motorbike taxis, minibuses and angkot. The available options would be familiar to transport users across Asia: from rickshaws in Lahore to dyipnes in Manila. As this book details, on the face of it, the BRT would have been an obvious solution to the transport problems of rapidly growing urban regions such as
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