Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh, is the largest and most industrialized city with 15 million people. Due to rapid unplanned development, versatile land use, rapid population growth, poor public transport system, and increase of private car users, traffic problems are worsening day by day. The only mass transit is bus, which is insufficient in terms of safety, capacity, comfort, and convenience. Considering the worsening congestion it is high time to develop effective mass transit system such as Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) as a means for achieving sustainable urban transport in the city. In this paper an attempt has been made to propose a conceptual physical structure of BRT for the line3, which starts from Uttara and ends in Ramna covering around 18.5 km. The BRT stations and runways are designed in a way to satisfy the ever-increasing public transport demand of achieving a sustainable urban public transport system.
Conceptual Physical Design of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) in Dhaka
Third International Conference on Urban Public Transportation Systems ; 2013 ; Paris, France
Urban Public Transportation Systems 2013 ; 285-295
2013-10-09
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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