BUS RAPID TRANSIT (BRT)

IN GUATEMALA CITY

PROJECT BASELINE

• High transportation and

maintenance costs.

• Long time per travel.

PROJECT BASELINE

PROJECT BASELINE

• High levels of air and

noise pollution.

• High fuel consumption.

PROYECT BASELINE

• High rate of assaults and

murders in units.

PROJECT BASELINE

• Lack of planned bus stops.

• Lack of infrastructure for

users (handicapped).

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

• Establish a new public

transportation.

• Characteristic:

- Bases in BRT System

- Safe

- Efficient

- Convenient

- Comfortable

- Organized

CHARACTERISTICS

• Exclusive right-of-way lanes

• Rapid boarding and alighting

• Enclosed trunk route stations

• Clearly defined routes

• Manage vehicle movements

• Excellence in marketing and customer

service

• Environmentally friendly

• Organized

• Public sector is responsible for the

investment.

• Local private Banks finance the

project.

• Department of Transmetro (public)

controls and manages the trunk buses.

• Fleet Management Centre.

• Pre-board collection system and cash

tokens (coins).

MASTER PLAN BRT

• Total distance CDM projected

46.9 km

Non-project line:

South Trunk Line –West

Existing Line:

Central Corridor Trunk Line

Planned Lines:

Northeast trunk Line, zone6

Northeast Trunk Line, zone 18

RooseveltTrunk Line

ACCOMPLISHED BENEFITS

Don Bosco Station

TRANSMETRO SOUTH LINE

Trebol Station Portal Plaza Barrios Station

Portal Municipalidad Station

7 YEARS in operation (2007) 500

MILLIONS users

12.5 KM with 78 ARTICULATED BUSES.

Centa-Sur Station Offers 74MTS of

services and trade.

12 STATIONS and 2 TRANSFER

STATION

TRANSMETRO CENTRAL CORRIDOR

30 MILLON users in 4 YEARS

of operation

30 articular SCANIA and Volvo

buses.

12 KM DISTANCE Integrated

system.

IGGS Station Montufar Station Los Arcos Station

Banco de Guatemala Station

TRANSMETRO HISTORICAL CENTER

1.5 MILLION users in 6

MONTHS of operation.

8 SCANIA buses in a

4 KM circuit operating

under a prepaid integrated

system.

SOCIAL IMPACT

ACCESS TO EVERYONE

FRIENDLY VISUAL COMMUNICATION

Service schedule

Urban routes

RECOVERY AND RESTAURATION OF MUNICIPAL URBAN SPACES

ROUTE AND LANDSCAPE PLANNING

BOOST OF ECONOMIC ACTIVITY

BICYCLE TRAILS

INTEGRATION OF ALTERNATIVE

TRANSPORTATION

2,500 daily commutes to the San Carlos public University

POSITIVE CULTURAL CHANGE INFLUENCED

BY TRANSMETRO

Order Respect to mothers and orderly people Social integration

Universal access Pedestrian education Citizen service

SECURE BUS STOPS

100 MILLION USERS CELEBRATION

CONCLUSIONS

• Many years of problems with the current transportation system

have stressed the environmental and social benefits in the city

of Guatemala. The success of this project has been confirmed

through the acceptance of millions of users in the metropolitan

area.

• This is a first of its kind public transportation system in Central

America, it offers access to everyone in a cleaner, safer,

organized and planned space.

• The success of this projects and the positive effects in cultural

change is barely the tip of the Iceberg. Carbon revenues are an

essential source of financial support, that is why it is important

to invite carbon buyers to be part of this innovative effort and

support the whole process off change.