BRT Capability Study In Mountain Cities

Compared with a normal city, mountain cities are special. Its'terrain, road network, ways of trips people use, Etc. are different, and traffic problems are serious. With the increasing of the number of car, there is only one way to solve traffic problems----public transit priority. The bus system what we use now is low service; it can't fit the demand of citizens. Further more, the rail system is under junior phase, and there would be a long time for a rail network. So we need to find another efficiency public transit system. BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) is welcomed because of its low cost, short time for network and rail system service.Firstly, The paper introduce BRT experience; Anlyse its society advantage, traffic advantage, eviroment advantage and disadvantages; Based on the analyse of mountain city's characteristic, traffic chanllenge, traffic choose mode and public transit choose mode, the paper study necessity of BRT in mountain cities; Based on the analyse of policy condition, adminstration condition, road condition, passenger condition and finance condition, the paper study feasibility of BRT in mountain cities, Based on the evaluation of traffic and eviroment, the paper study the implement result of BRT in mountain cities. Traffic mode should be aggregate in mountain cities, speciously in huge mountain cities. The paper is based on mountain city's characteristic, lined with BRT, concerned on adaptability, and used Chongqing for example, get the result of capability of BRT in mountain cities,Wish to be a reference for mountain city's government.