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Bus Rapid Transits can operate at frequencies of about 10 seconds per bus. Obviously they're highly parallelised to achieve that and have special infrastructure
by grues-dinner 1y ago
Bus Rapid Transits can operate at frequencies of about 10 seconds per bus. Obviously they're highly parallelised to achieve that and have special infrastructure to enable it like dedicated stations and pedestrian access, so it's not just "a bus", but bus-based systems are how many of the very highest-throughput public transportation lines function, with up to 35000 people per hour per direction with three digit numbers of buses per hour.
For comparison, the most frequent London underground service is 100 seconds per train and the system moves about 50k passengers an hour (based on a 21% increase representing 10k passengers, I couldn't find a direct figure), presumably that being both directions.
- chgs 1y agoWhat single BRT line runs at that capacity?
- dantastic 1y agoProbably the Rio de Janeiro one. The BRS Presidente Vargas corridor has a peak frequency of 600/hour, according to this site [0]. Pretty impressive IMHO. [0]: https://brtdata.org/location/latin_america/brazil/rio_de_janeiro https://brtdata.org/location/latin_america/brazil/rio_de_jan...
- ta1243 1y agoSo you're just talking a ton of buses down the same road?
- grues-dinner 1y agoBRTs corridors often have dedicated stations with passing/bypass lanes and dedicated pedestrian access, but in the same way that subways and light rail are just a ton of trains down the same track, pretty much.