GRT Vehicles and Technology
There are many potential suppliers of high quality BRT vehicles. Impressive 18m BRT buses in Hangzhou, Beijing, Dalian, Jinan and Changzhou cost around 1.5 million yuan.
Vehicles and technology
The passenger volumes on Zhongshan Avenue and other major corridors in Guangzhou are sufficiently high to justify the use of articulated, 18m buses. The key bus design elements on Zhongshan Av are:
- New BRT buses will be roughly 18.5 metres long. (Some routes will be allowed to use existing 12m buses.)
- The BRT bus floor will be the same height as the station platform, 35cm. This height also matches the first step on the existing 12m buses.
- New BRT buses will have four 1.1m wide doors.
- The buses will have air conditioning.
- BRT buses will adhere to strict Guangzhou BRT system identity specifications.
See the Urban Transport Photo Library for examples of BRT vehicles in other cities.
ITS applications
The BRT system in Guangzhou will require many ITS features such as traffic signalling, passenger information, fare collection and integration systems, operations control and communications, and a system control centre.
ITS is used in BRT systems primarily for two purposes:
- controlling the private bus operators
- passenger information systems.
Phase I BRT routes 
