Application of The BRT Standard Document as the Basis for Russian Legislation Regulating Rapid Bus Transport Systems

The article analyzes the provisions of the document "The BRT Standard", which contain the definition and classification criteria for rapid bus transport systems. It seems important to analyze the provisions of this document in order to develop proposals for the creation of a new regulatory legal act, as well as to amend current legislation in order to increase the effectiveness of regulating the requirements for equipping the infrastructure of high-speed bus and trolleybus transport corridors in the Russian Federation. The development of high-speed bus and trolleybus transport in the cities of the Russian Federation can provide the population with more predictable and spacious public transport with greater carrying capacity, as well as increase the capacity of the road network, increase the average route speed of public transport. Technological solutions used in the construction and operation of high-speed bus and trolleybus transport systems affect the parameters of predictability, speed, accessibility, awareness and carrying capacity. Logical, comparative, empirical, analytical, historical-legal, descriptive and other methods were used as the main methods of cognition during the research. The scientific novelty of the study was the following conclusion: in order to increase the effectiveness of the legal regulation of high-speed bus and trolleybus transport in the Russian Federation, it is necessary to introduce multiple changes in the conceptual framework, as well as consolidate its basic technical and infrastructural characteristics of its corridors. It is necessary to provide a legal definition of "high-speed bus transport", as well as expand the list of technical and operational characteristics. Direct borrowing of the conceptual framework and evaluation criteria from The BRT Standard document seems difficult, since the functional meaning of the document is non-legal and generates some uncertainties and assumptions, however, borrowing criteria with adaptation and expansion of the conceptual framework for the most complete and accurate legal regulation will allow using the above standard as the basis for legal regulation of high-speed bus transport in the Russian Federation.

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