Guangzhou Bus Rapid Transit (Guangzhou BRT or GBRT) is the bus rapid transit (BRT) system of the city of

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in the People's Republic of

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. Its first line was put into operation on 10 February 2010. It handles approximately 1,000,000 passenger trips daily with a peak passenger flow of 26,900 pphpd (second only to the

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BRT system in

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). In fact, this rapid transit system contains the world's longest BRT stations – around 260m including bridges – with bus volumes of 1 bus every 10 seconds or 350 per hour in a single direction. The BRT system has two new lines and two extensions planned.

Fleet

The BRT operates the following models of buses: * King Long XMQ6127G2 * King Long XMQ6180G2 *

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JNP6182LPG * Yutong ZK6120HGV * Yutong ZK6180HLGAA The livery of the BRT is orange with BRT written in white on the sides.

Zhongshan Avenue Bus Rapid Transit trial line

Zhongshan Avenue Bus Rapid Transit Trial Line () is the first and only line in operation of Guangzhou BRT. The line is laid out along Zhongshan Avenue (中山大道), whose innermost lanes form a dedicated BRT corridor. It starts at Tianhe Sports Center in

Tianhe District Tianhe District () is one of the eleven districts of Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong province. In Chinese, the name Tianhe literally means "River of Heaven", which is also a Chinese name for the Milky Way. It is bordered by Yuexiu District ...

in the west and ends at Lumingshan Bus Terminal in Huangpu District in the east with 27 stations. Several stations have connections to

Guangzhou Metro The Guangzhou Metro ( zh, s=广州地铁, labels=no) is the rapid transit system of the city of Guangzhou in the Guangdong Province of China. It is operated by the state-owned Guangzhou Metro Corporation and was the fourth metro system to be b ...

. Same-direction transfers between buses within the BRT corridor are free. The project won numerous awards such as the Sustainable Transportation Development Award in 2011, the first Chinese transportation project to win such award.

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China Bus Rapid Transit: Guangzhou
{{Guangzhou Bus rapid transit in China Transport in Guangzhou 2010 establishments in China