Impact of BRTS on Indian Cities

Presented by Under the guidance of

K Srinivas Reddy Dr. CSRK Prasad
191710 Professor
Transportation Engineering
NIT Warangal
 Objectives
• BRTS in Delhi and Pune
• Why BRTS Was Unsuccessful in Delhi
• BRTS in Ahmedabad
• Success Story of Ahmedabad BRTS
• Challenges and Issues of Implementation of the
system in the future
• Conclusion
• References
Reasons behind the failure of BRTS in
Delhi
• Special dedicated bus lane was just 5.8 Km.
• They built in the wrong place.
• They didn’t increase the frequency of buses.
• Uncomfortable boarding.
• Less efforts on infrastructure development.
• After 8 years of operation, the system was
dismantled in 2016 due to its poor
implementation.
 Ahmedabad BRTS -Success Story
• Planned Commuting System.
• Run as a free service for first three months.
• Charges were low even after the three months.
• It is a closed system unlike Delhi.
• City saves on Fuel.
 Challenges of the BRTS
• The infamous scrapping of the Delhi BRTS
teaches us the importance of properly planning
operation of the BRTS with regular traffic
because the BRTS lanes take up a lot of space
on the road.
• This increases the degree of congestion for the
regular traffic, the cross sections on which
BRTS is to be implemented need to be wide
enough.
 Challenges of the BRTS
• The BRT is low-cost as compared to Light Rail
Transit (LRT), but the capacity it can carry is
much less – around 50-100 as compared to 500-
1000 for the LRT per transit unit.
• There have been instances of compromise in the
BRTS standards, especially in India – quality of
stations has often been compromised, off-board
ticketing has not been implemented rigidly and
exclusive Right-of-Way for the buses has been
encroached by other vehicles.
 Conclusions and Suggestions
1.Regular bus services should not be
introduced in BRT routes with proper signal
priority process.
2. The problem of low capacity can be dealt
with by incorporating articulated or double-
decker buses with high frequency.
3. For physically disabled persons BRT
buses should be specially designed to carry
the person easily.
 References
• Chen, X. M., Yu, L., and Guo, S.X. (2007).
“Impacts of Exclusive Bus Lanes and Signal
Priority on Bus Rapid Transit Effectiveness”.
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• Zhou, Chonghua, SU, Zhizhe.(2011). “Interface
between Vehicles and Stations for Bus Rapid
Transit Systems”. International Conference of
Chinese Transportation Professionals
Thank you
 Contents
• Definition
• Evolution of BRTS
• Why BRTS?
• Features and Components of BRTS
• Impact
• Benefits and Challenges
• Case Study of Ahmedabad BRTS
• Conclusions and References
 Efforts so far…
• Road widening for vehicles-often
compromising footpaths
• Flyovers
• A few cities have opted for metro rail
• Some others now opting for BRTS
• Need to shift people from personal motor
vehicles to public transport and non motorized
vehicles.
• Therefore the thrust of our efforts has to be on
shifting 2 wheeler users and old car users to
public and non motorized modes.
• To overcome all these issues BRTS is coming
into the picture
 WHAT IS BRTS…???
• Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) or High Capacity Bus
System (HCBS) is a high quality, ultra
modern,customer oriented transit option that
could deliver fast, comfortable and cost effective
urban mobility, quite similar to metro rail
 WHY BRTS…??
• Urgent need for efficient mass transport
system.
• Scope for both low density and high density
passenger movement.
• Low cost transit solution
• Less time for planning and construction, more
flexibility
• Higher speed with little delay for buses
 Advantages of BRTS
• Costs of Building and Maintainance
• Speed
• Fair use of public service
• Flexibility
Images of different BRTS in India
A Review of BRTS Implementation in
India
• Between 2008 and 2015, bus rapid transit
system increased its implementation from two
cities to eight cities with a significant increase
in total ridership.
• It is now considered as a good solution for
transportation problems in large and medium
sized cities.
• It aims at providing a good level of service in
terms of operating speed.
 Conclusion
• Ridership of Indian BRTS totals 127 million p.a. This ridership is
dominated by the Ahmedabad BRTS which carries almost 31 percent of the
total daily passengers. Principle factors affecting ridership are network
coverage, low speed, stop spacing, land use, accessibility, feeder service
etc.
• Indian BRTS is majorly categorized in two types of system i.e. open and
closed system. Both the systems have certain characteristics as mentioned
in paper. The best working example of a closed system in India is
Ahmedabad BRTS having the largest network length of 82 km.
• On observing the system summary it was seen that average achieved
operating speed of Indian BRTS is ranging from 18 to 24 km/hr. Almost all
BRT stops of different systems are located before intersection. Ahmedabad
BRTS has in total 127 stations which are the maximum number of stations
in a city BRT system of India. The stop spacing of BRTS is ranging
between 525 and 710 meters for all the systems.
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