The European Bus with a High Level of Service (BHLS): Concept and Practice

Odile Heddebaut (1) , Brendan Finn (2) , Sébastien Rabuel (3) , François Rambaud (3)

1 INRETS/DEST - Département Economie et Sociologie des Transports
2 ETTS - ETTS Ltd
3 CERTU - Centre d'études sur les réseaux, les transports, l'urbanisme et les constructions publiques

The paper discusses the respective American Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) and European Bus with a High Level of Service (BHLS) concepts comparing their approaches and implementation conditions. It describes the main BHLS characteristics and the gains in ridership findings for several case studies among European countries.

Mots clés: BRT; BHLS; BHLS Characteristics; Implementation conditions; gains in ridership

Domaines: Economies et finances

Odile Heddebaut, Brendan Finn, Sébastien Rabuel, François Rambaud. The European Bus with a High Level of Service (BHLS): Concept and Practice. Built Environment, 2010, Vol36 (n3), p307-316. ⟨hal-00614586⟩