Bus Rapid Transit

The Bus Rapid Transit

System of Curitiba

1974

AN URBAN AND TERRITORIAL

TRANSPORT SYSTEM

The urban planning in Curitiba, Brazil, and in particular its transport system, it represents how doing a lot with a little. When 1 plus 1 does not simply do 2, but 3, 4, etc. The solutions adopted by urban planners of Curitiba indicate a method, a criterion. In fact, the example of Curitiba is not automatically replicable anywhere, in any metropolis.

The key features of the Curitiba's Overground Metro,

a "low cost" metro system:

3 types of lines: extra-urban lines of articulated buses with 3 segments, and with few stops; urban lines for the two segment buses; local lines for the standard buses.
Preferential lanes only for all public buses in the main streets.
Raised platforms for the bus stop. In this way the bus does not waste time with the ascent and descent of passengers. In addition, the passenger validates the ticket entering into the bus-stop platform space. In other words each bus stop is a mini-station of an overground metro.

Compared to costs of an underground subway, this "overground metro" is low cost. Alternatively you can use trams rather than buses.
Benefits: silence, quiet, no noise from vehicular traffic; no smog, no fine particle pollution. More space for our feet, more physical and mental health.
Negative effects: zero. No pollution in the main streets as it happens in the ordinary metropolis, full of fine powders present in suspension in the air.

The Rapid Transit Bus of Curitiba,

Brazil

Curitiba Public Transport maps. Source: Wikipedia, "Rede Integrada de Transporte" in Curitiba, Brazil. Transit type: Bus Rapid Transit. Number of special lines: 6. Number of terminal station: 21. Daily ridership: 2,300,000 per day. Began operation: 1974.

The Curitiba Public Bus Transit System,

Brazil

Curitiba BRT,

Brazil

Cities in Focus: Curitiba,

Brazil

Curitiba: The Bus Rapid Transit System,

Brazil

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Jonas Rabinovitch and Josef Leitman: "Urban Planning in Curitiba: A Brazilian city challenges conventional wisdom and relies on low technology to improve the quality of urban life", Scientific American Magazine, New York City, NY - U.S.A., March 1996.

From Wikipedia, etc.:

Bus rapid transit;
Rede Integrada de Transporte (Curitiba, Brazil, 1974); URBS-RIT;
Transitway (Ottawa, Canada, 1983);
TransJakarta (Jakarta, Indonesia, 2004),
List of bus rapid transit systems;
List of bus rapid transit systems in the Americas.

T H E M A R I N D U C T

THE MARINE WATER AQUEDUCT

D E E P B L U E

SEAWATER FOR OVER 200,000 POOLS OF

L O S A N G E L E S

D U N E S

THE MARINDUCT OASIS SYSTEM

T H E P E N S I L E P O O L S

BY BRIDGE-POOLS

WATERFUN & SPORTING BATHS

THE ROLLER COASTER OF STAIRS

A LABYRINTH OF STAIRS

FOR SEAWATER FUN PARKS

F O R H U M A N B E I N G S

N O T F O R C L O N E S

S T A I R S I N T H E W A T E R

A SEAWATER SPORTING & FUN PARK

T H E N A U T I L U S

A VILLAGE IN THE DESERT

T H E B L U E S H E L L

A HOME WITH A THERMAL

SHIELD OF SAND

T H E Z E B R A S

CHAIRS & TABLES BY POLYCARBONATE

& ALUMINIUM TUBES

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Even the longest journey begins with a first step! Systemic Habitats is on line since the 18th of May 2012. This website was created to publish online my ebook "Towards a different habitat" on the contemporary architecture and urbanism. Later many other contents were added. For their direct or indirect contribution to its realisation strarting from 2012, we would like to thank: Roberto Vacca, Marco Pizzuti, Fiorenzo and Raffaella Zampieri, Antonella Todeschini, All the Amici di Marco Todeschini, Ecaterina Bagrin, Stefania Ciocchetti, Marcello Leonardi, Joseph Davidovits, Frédéric Davidovits, Rossella Sinisi, Pasquale Cascella, Carlo Cesana, Filippo Schiavetti Arcangeli, Laura Pane, Antonio Montemiglio, Patrizia Piras, Bruno Nicola Rapisarda, Ruberto Ruberti, Marco Cicconcelli, Ezio Prato, Sveva Labriola, Rosario Francalanza, Giacinto Sabellotti, All the Amici di Gigi, Ruth and Ricky Meghiddo, Natalie Edwards, Rafael Schmitd, Nicola Romano, Sergio Bianchi, Cesare Rocchi, Henri Bertand, Philippe Salgarolo, Paolo Piva detto il Pivapao, Norbert Trenkle, Antonietta Toscano, Gaetano Giuseppe Magro, Carlo Blangiforti, Mario Ludovico, Riccardo Viola, Giulio Peruzzi, Ahmed Elgazzar, Warren Teitz, and last but not least Lena Kudryavtseva. M.L.