BRT Planning Guide 4th Edition

The guide is currently is in its final revisions, with intention to be released in the beginning of 2016.

Pre-release chapters can be found on ITDP's go public page, on MS-Office ".doc" format, and linked in the Table of Contents

This is an attempt to bring the guide content to a functional format that would:

• encourage contributions;
• generation of html and/or ".pdf" from the same source;

Based on this experience, that accepts contributions here markdown seems an appropriate format. (By the end of Sept 2015 I have learned that they intend to shift from current LaTeX to markdown (".md").) and use a conversion tool from markdown to ".tex" format.

".md" instead of ".tex" has the additional advantage of allowing a relatively nice linked view immediately for contributors, that is without any processing. Although we foresee the eventual need to create a few tools to deal with current flavour of markdown used in git, we will, for now stick to it as an experience.

At this moment, this is just pasting one chapter from doc (Chapter 24th, that I was hired to review in ".doc" format) and marking it down... ... to later try to generate a nice pdf and/or html format from it with TeX for fine printing format (or LaTeX for not-so-fine format).

If this test succeeds than, we may convert (or write a converter) for other chapters and any given time, one may freeze this repository and work on a fine print with TeX or other tool.

Documents still can be written in MS-Word or Open Office Writer to make use of spell checking, but need to be saved as plain text ('.txt').

##BRT Planning Guide Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION/OVERVIEW OF GUIDE

VOLUME I PROJECT PREPARATION

1. PROJECT INITIATION

2. THE BENEFITS OF BRT

3. PROJECT SET-UP AND MANAGEMENT

VOLUME II OPERATIONS

4. DEMAND ANALYSIS

5. CORRIDOR AND NETWORK DEVELOPMENT

6. SERVICE PLAN

7. CAPACITY AND SPEED

8. TRAFFIC IMPACT ASSESSMENT (FORMERLY CH. 7)

VOLUME III COMMUNICATIONS & ENGAGEMENT

9. STRATEGIC PLANNING FOR COMMUNICATIONS

10. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION

11. MARKETING & Customer Service

VOLUME IV BUSINESS PLAN

12. INSTITUTIONAL PLAN

13. BUSINESS STRUCTURE & CONTRACTING

14. FINANCIAL MODELING

15. FARE POLICY AND STRUCTURE

16. VEHICLE OPERATOR CONTRACTING

17. FINANCE PLAN

VOLUME V TECHNOLOGY

18. FARE SYSTEMS

19. INTELLIGENT TRANSPORT SYSTEMS

20. VEHICLES

VOLUME VI INFRASTRUCTURE

21. INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT AND COSTING

22. ROADWAY AND STATION CONFIGURATIONS

23. ROADWAY DESIGN

24. INTERSECTIONS AND SIGNAL CONTROL

25. STATIONS AND TERMINALS

26. DEPOTS

27. CONTROL CENTERS

VOLUME VII INTEGRATION

28. MULTI-MODAL INTEGRATION

29. PEDESTRIAN INTEGRATION

30. UNIVERSAL ACCESS

31. BICYCLE AND PEDICAB INTEGRATION

32. TRANSPORTATION DEMAND MANAGEMENT (TDM)

33. URBAN DESIGN AND LAND USE/TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT