Bus rapid transit (BRT), also called a busway or transitway, is a bus-based public transport

system designed to improve capacity and reliability relative to a conventional bus

system.[2] Typically, a BRT system includes roadways that are dedicated to buses, and
gives priority to buses at intersections where buses may interact with other traffic; alongside
design features to reduce delays caused by passengers boarding or leaving buses, or
purchasing fares. BRT aims to combine the capacity and speed of a metro with the flexibility,
lower cost and simplicity of a bus system.
The first BRT system was the Rede Integrada de Transporte ('Integrated Transportation
Network') in Curitiba, Brazil, which entered service in 1974.
As of March 2018, a total of 166 cities in six continents have implemented BRT systems,
accounting for 4,906 km (3,048 mi) of BRT lanes [3]and about 32.2 million passengers every day,
of which about 19.6 million passengers ride daily in Latin America, which has the most cities with
BRT systems, with 54, led by Brazil with 21 cities.[3] The Latin American countries with the most
daily ridership are Brazil (10.7M), Colombia (3.06M), and Mexico (2.5M). In the other regions,
China (4.3M) and Iran (2.1M) also stand out.[3] Currently, TransJakarta is considered as the
largest BRT network in the world with approximately 251.2 kilometres (156.1 mi) of corridors
connecting the Indonesian capital city.[1]
Bus rapid transit takes its name from rail rapid transit, which describes a high-capacity urban
public-transit system with its own right of way, multiple-car vehicles at short headways, and
longer stop spacing than traditional streetcars and buses. BRT uses buses on a wide variety of
rights-of-way, including mixed traffic, dedicated lanes on surface streets, and busways separated
from traffic.
The expression "BRT" is mainly used in the Americas and China; in India, it is called "BRTS"
(BRT System); in Europe and Indonesia, it is often called a "busway"; while in the British Isles, it
may be called a "quality bus".
Critics have charged that the term "bus rapid transit" has sometimes been misapplied to systems
that lack most or all the essential features which differentiate it from conventional bus services.
The term "bus rapid transit creep" has been used to describe severely degraded levels of bus
service which fall far short of the BRT Standard promoted by the Institute for Transportation and
Development Policy and other organizations