Restructuring Public Transport through Bus Rapid Transit

Juan Carlos Munoz has developed parallel careers as a university professor, policy advisor and entrepreneur. He connects academia and practice by addressing problems needing well-conceived and robust answers, and by bringing innovative ideas for transport systems. Laurel Paget-Seekins went from being a community organiser to academic researcher to public agency administrator. She uses this experience to build interdisciplinary and community–academic–government collaboration to restructure public transport and urban space.

The promise of BRT ~ Laurel Paget-Seekins & Juan Carlos Munoz;
Global overview of BRT and bus corridors ~ Luis Antonio Lindau, Cristina Albuquerque Moreira da Silva, Guillermo Petzhold & Daniela Facchini;
Section 1: Institutional Relationships;
The path toward integrated systems ~ Dario Hidalgo, Juan Carlos Munoz & Juan Miguel Velásquez;
BRT as a tool for negotiated re-regulation ~ Onesimo Flores Dewey;
Institutional design and regulatory frameworks ~ Rosário Macário, Maria Spandou & Luis Neves Filipe;
Strategic participation for change ~ Lake Sagaris;
Designing bus concession contracts ~ Patricia Galilea & Marco Batarce;
Fare structures ~ Marco Batarce & Corinne Mulley;
Section 2: BRT and the City;
Conflict over public space ~ Laurel Paget-Seekins;
Designing BRT-oriented development ~ Chris Zegras, Anson Stewart, Rosanna Forray, Rocío Hidalgo, Cristhian Figueroa, Fábio Duarte & Jan Wampler;
Preferences for BRT and light rail – David Hensher, Corinne Mulley & John Rose;
User preferences and route choice ~ Sebastián Raveau, Juan Carlos Munoz & Juan de Dios Ortúzar;
Passenger information systems ~ Carola Zurob, José Manuel Allard, Rosário Macário, Bernardo Garcia and Camila Garcia;
Section 3: Operations and Design;
Opportunities provided by automated data collection systems ~ Nigel Wilson;
Designing a BRT-based network under integrated operations ~ Homero Larrain, Omar Ibarra, Juan Carlos Munoz & Corinne Mulley;
Assessing corridor performance ~ Juan Carlos Herrera, Juan Carlos Munoz, David Hensher, Corinne Mulley, Zheng Li & Luis Antonio Lindau;
BRRT: adding an R for reliability ~ Felipe Delgado, Juan Carlos Munoz & Ricardo Giesen;
Managing drivers and vehicles for cost-effective operations in regulated transit systems ~ Omar Ibarra & Ricardo Giesen;
Road safety impact of BRT and busway features ~ Nicolae Duduta & Luis Antonio Lindau;
Looking forward ~ Juan Carlos Munoz, Laurel Paget-Seekins.