Benefits for Car Drivers and Passengers
BRT will greatly improve conditions for mixed traffic on the BRT corridors in Guangzhou, as it is getting a lot of buses out of the way of mixed traffic. BRT will also substantially reduce the number of buses operating outside the BRT corridors.
Benefits for mixed traffic
BRT will have a major positive impact on the mixed traffic along the Zhongshan Avenue and other BRT corridors. The buses being withdrawn from general traffic and taken into the BRT lanes account for up to one third of all the traffic in the western part of the Zhongshan Av corridor. Microsimulation shows that in Zhongshan Av between 体育中心 and 岗顶 the travel speed for mixed traffic will increase from 12 km/hr to more than 30 km/hr.
This positive impact comes from signal phase changes as well as the huge traffic impact of withdrawing more than 400 buses per hour from the mixed traffic lanes in this location.
Phase I BRT routes 
