By 2020, the BRT Standard will help evaluate bus rapid transit (BRT) systems, recognize those of the highest quality, and enable planning, design, and development of the most effective proposals. By 2020, we hope that at least ten cities have used the Standard to make their systems higher quality silver or gold standard. These operational systems will serve as global models, inspiring hundreds of more effective BRT systems worldwide.

We will work one-on-one with key cities to help them evaluate their plans and will provide the technical assistance to make them better if need be. We will embed the Standard into planning guides so that it is disseminated more broadly than the one-one-one technical assistance. We will recognize the systems that have been leaders in BRT implementation, with rankings once a year being released and certification being conferred upon the BRT corridor.

The four parts of the BRT Standard process are:
1) Develop a BRT Recognition Scheme: Clearly define, at a global level, what BRT is and what best practice looks like;
2) Create a Certification Program: Provide a means of building and sustaining political will by ranking and certifying systems that achieve these high standards
3) Deploy a Public Relations Strategy: Showcase the highest ranking systems, as well as the positive economic, social, and environmental impacts that these high-quality BRTs bring to a community; and
4) Evaluate Planned Systems: Serve as a benchmark for evaluating new system plans to convince government leaders to build systems that achieve high standards.

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