Editing Bus rapid transit (section)

{{short description|Public transportation system}}
{{redirect|Transitway|the network in Ottawa|Transitway (Ottawa)|other BRT systems|List of bus rapid transit systems}}
{{redirect|BRTS|the singular of BRTs|BRT (disambiguation)}}
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[[File:Transjakarta MYS 18116 at Gambir.jpg|thumb|right|[[Transjakarta]] in [[Jakarta]], Indonesia, the longest BRT system in the world (264.6&nbsp;km)<ref name="TJ-Koridor"/>]]
[[File:Mercedes Citaro G 5394 RATP, ligne TVM, Créteil.jpg|thumb|Mercedes Citaro RATP, [[Trans-Val-de-Marne|ligne TVM]], [[Créteil]] Paris]]
[[File:Transmetro en Ciudad de Guatemala.jpg|thumb|30 meter long [[Transmetro]] in [[Guatemala City]], Guatemala, for 300 passengers<ref name=":3" />]]
'''Bus rapid transit''' ('''BRT'''), also referred to as a '''busway''' or '''transitway''', is a [[trolleybus]], [[electric bus]], or [[bus service]] system designed to have higher [[Route capacity|capacity]], [[On-time performance|reliability]], and other quality features than a conventional [[bus]] system.<ref name="itdp20140724">{{Cite web|url=https://www.itdp.org/library/standards-and-guides/the-bus-rapid-transit-standard/what-is-brt/|title=What is BRT?|date=24 July 2014 |publisher=Institute for Transportation and Development Policy}}</ref> Typically, a BRT system includes [[Bus lane|roadways that are dedicated to buses]], and gives [[Bus priority|priority to buses]] at [[Intersection (road)|intersections]] where buses may interact with other traffic; alongside design features to reduce [[Terminal dwell time|delays]] caused by passengers boarding or leaving buses, or paying [[fare]]s. BRT aims to combine the capacity and speed of a [[Light rail|light rail transit]] (LRT) or [[Rapid transit|mass rapid transit]] (MRT) system with the flexibility, lower cost and simplicity of a bus system.

The world's first BRT system was the [[Runcorn Busway]] in [[Runcorn]] New Town, England, which entered service in 1971.<ref name="Runcorn Busway JSTOR">{{cite journal| last = Lesley| first = Lewis| date = 1983| title = Runcorn - A Rapid Transit New Town? | jstor = 23286723| journal = Built Environment| volume = 9| issue = 3/4| page = 234}}</ref><ref name="RUDI 7.3 Transport">{{cite web |url=http://www.rudi.net/books/3346 |title=Runcorn New Town - 7.3 Transport |website=rudi.net |access-date=24 July 2020 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141018012240/http://www.rudi.net/books/3346 |archive-date=18 October 2014}}</ref> {{As of|2018|03}}, a total of 166 cities in six continents have implemented BRT systems, accounting for {{Convert|4906|km|abbr=on}} of BRT lanes<ref name="BRTdata" /> and about 32.2&nbsp;million passengers every day.

The majority of these are in [[Latin America]], where about 19.6&nbsp;million passengers ride daily, and which has the most cities with BRT systems, with 54, led by Brazil with 21 cities.<ref name="BRTdata">{{cite web|url=http://www.brtdata.org/|title=Global BRT Data&nbsp;— Worldwide and Key indicators per region|author=EMBARQ – The WRI Center for Sustainable Transport|publisher=BRTdata.org|date=November 2016|access-date=27 November 2016|archive-date=8 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140208053814/http://brtdata.org/|url-status=dead}}</ref> The Latin American countries with the most daily ridership are Brazil (10.7 million), Colombia (3.0 million), and Mexico (2.5 million).

In the other regions, China (4.3 million) and Iran (2.1 million) stand out.<ref name="BRTdata" /> Currently, [[Transjakarta]] is the largest BRT network in the world, with about {{convert|251.2|km||abbr=}} of corridors connecting the [[Jakarta|Indonesian capital city]].<ref name="TJ-Koridor">{{cite web | title = Koridor | work = Transjakarta | url = http://transjakarta.co.id/produk-dan-layanan/infrastruktur/koridor/}}</ref>