National workshop on Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) on 26th February 2010 at Bengaluru: report

Bangalore and surrounding cities are intending to implement a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) and in order to sensitise the officials on the importance of having BRT as a mass transit system the following workshop was conducted. This report will summarise the various organisations that were involved in this one day workshop and the results obtained from the evaluations turned-in by the participants of the workshop. The objective of workshop is to promote awareness among the various stakeholders in Karnataka and also to provide the technical awareness to the engineers and planners involved in the BRT planning. The workshop also aims to address the issues of marketing the BRT among various stakeholders and integration of the other urban transport modes with the BRT system.