A STUDY ON SUSTAINABLE BUS RAPID TRANSIT IN DEVELOPING CITIES—A CASE STUDY OF BANGKOK BRT—

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  • 発展途上国における持続可能なBRTに関する研究：バンコクBRTを事例として

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Although seven years have passed since the Bangkok Bus Rapid Transit System started the operation as one of the mass transit system in Bangkok, it has some problem that the number of users is less than expected and it had lost about 1.0 billion THB over the past seven years. Then, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) once decided to shut down the BRT at the end of April 2017. But after that, BMA stopped the abolition due to lack of public transportation along the BRT corridor and the collection of investment funds. Therefore, this study focuses on the sustainability of Bangkok BRT from technical and financial points of view. First, the analysis from the technical points of view revealed that harmonizing BRT operation with traffic signal control may reduce some factors worsening punctuality and increase the number of BRT operation with the same number of vehicles, without increasing the cost. And the analysis from financial points of view revealed the possibility of existence of BRT headway and operating section that may activate the potential of the BRT system.

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