BRT can be defined as “a high-quality bus-based transit system that delivers fast, comfortable, and costeffective urban mobility through the provision of segregated right-of-way infrastructure, rapid and frequent operations, and excellence in customer service”. Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) systems are an increasingly popular public transport option internationally.
The improvement of BRT network is a difficult task which does not lend itself readily to give instant solutions available in traditional techniques. So it gives the importance of devising faster methods to obtain solutions to the network improvement. The aim of this study is to improve the existing BRT network in Visakhapatnam using BEAD Tool, the state-of-the-art planning and simultaneously assessment tool which is a comprehensive, flexible software system for transportation planning, travel demand modelling and GIS-based network data management. It helps the transportation planners to improve the existing bus network of a city.
BRTS Network, Evaluation, BEAD Tool, Network Modelling
