Organizing committee

Juan Carlos Muñoz

Associate Professor, Department of Transport Engineering and Logistics, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley.

Cristián Cortés

Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Universidad de Chile.
Ph.D. University of California, Irvine

Ricardo Giesen

Assistant Professor, Department of Transport Engineering and Logistics, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
Ph.D. University of Maryland, College Park


Assistant Coordinators


Carolina Calderón Instituto Milenio Sistemas Complejos de Ingeniería, Universidad de Chile.
Felipe Delgado Department of Transport Engineering and Logistics, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
Christine Harding Department of Transport Engineering and Logistics, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
Carlos Melo Department of Transport Engineering and Logistics, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
Sebastian Raveau Department of Transport Engineering and Logistics, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
This International Workshop on BRT will have three main goals
Provide some suggestions for the Transantiago system, particularly regarding BRT corridors. Transantiago is planning exclusive bus corridors in the city, but faces many practical constraints and pretty often also citizen resistance. To reach this goal we will spend the first day of the workshop introducing the main problems that the Transantiago system is facing. During that day we will tour around the city and discuss with some of the main actors of this system (planners, operators, citizens, etc).

Discuss about how to improve the operation performance of a BRT by presenting some of the worldwide experiences and the state of the art research in the field. We will spend the remaining days of the Workshop aiming at this goal, where of course we will also have Transantiago in mind.

Finally, we would also like to provide enough time for networking activities that could foster future collaborations.