5.1.9. Public Bicycle Systems

The assumption of this measure is to change 0.6% per year of trips made by the sources shown in Table 7 to bicycle trips. It will start in the second year and reach progressively up to 3% in the sixth year and maintain 3% of these annual total trips to bicycle trips for the rest of the period [36]. According to this author, in this article we considered a bicycle average speed of 18 km/h, an average distance of 6 km per trip, and an average 7.1 trips per bicycle, an annual maintenance cost of 42 USD and a cost of 1250 USD for each new bicycle. Finally, it is considered that there is enough infrastructure to incorporate these new bicycle trips, where the new bicycles cost includes improvements of the infrastructure.



Source: [36].

### 5.1.10. Bus Rapid Transit Systems (BRT)

This measure promotes Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) systems fueled by diesel. According to [36] it is considered that 15% of BRT system passengers stopped using their private vehicle and the other 85% change from using conventional public transport to BRT which is more efficient. In addition, these passengers benefit from shorter transfer times. It is also considered, according to the same author, an occupation of 100 passengers per bus used in the BRT, a performance of 1.45 km/L, and a constant traveled kilometers per vehicle per person in all transport modes. Also, a gradual increase in BRT corridors, from 130 km in the reference year to 650 km in the last year of the analysis period, an average cost of 3.9 MUSD per km of corridor, were considered according to [36]. Finally, it is also assumed that the M costs are similar to those of conventional buses in the baseline case.
