Honolulu BRT Project

Lea+Elliott provided expertise regarding rail and bus technologies for a Major Investment Study for the City and County of Honolulu. Short-, medium- and long-term projects are being studied. The city is looking for solutions where medium-term projects can serve as steps to a long-term solution to serious congestion in the corridor from Pearl City through downtown to the University of Hawaii.

Lea+Elliott’s specific role in this project was to identify applicable technologies for the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) portion of the transportation system. Lea+Elliott authored a the In-Town BRT Technology Report, which was a key deliverable for this project. This report provides a technical review of candidate technologies for the In-Town BRT along with our recommended approach for selecting a technology. Candidate propulsion technologies include touchable embedded power distribution systems (Ansaldo-Breda’s STREAM, and Wampfler’s Inductive Power Transfer), hybrid (IrisBus’s CiViS, Lockheed Martin’s Hybridrive, and Allison Transmission’s AEs-System) and fuel cell (DBB Fuel Cell Engines). In s subsequent phase of the project, Lea+Elliott provided additional assistance during the development of implementation and procurement strategies and the procurement of transit technologies and systems.

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