It is a unique urban passenger transport system that uses modern bus technology to cooperate with intelligent transportation and operation management, opens bus lanes and builds new bus stops, realizes rail transit operation service and reaches the light rail service level.
As a new operating system between rail transit and conventional bus, BRT has lower investment and operating costs and is close to conventional bus.
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Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system is a large-capacity, convenient and fast public transport mode. It uses improved public transport vehicles and runs on public transport roads, which not only maintains the characteristics of rail transit, but also has the flexibility of ordinary public transport. It is a system integrated by BRT stations, BRT, service, operation mode, Intelligent Bus System (ITS) and other elements.
There are many ways to set up bus rapid transit lanes, such as central lane, one-sided two-way lane, two-sided lane, reverse lane, bus lane under elevated road and so on.
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