Freeway Transit/Bus Rapid Transit (BRT)

This report in the Transit Strategies Series explores freeway bus services.  Freeway bus services operate along freeways, either in regular traffic lanes, in high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes, or along the shoulders.  Freeway bus services also have stations within the freeway right-of-way to minimize travel times by eliminating all or most of the local circulation that […]

Austin’s next transit frontier? Think, the Jetsons

Nashville Business Journal Scott Harrison The cars look like something out of the Jetsons (minus the flying part). Rapid personal transit, or RPT for short, is among the transit proposals being explored by the private sector in Austin, as our sister paper Austin Business Journal reported last week. The idea, being spearheaded by a former […]