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The Regional and Urban Design Committee (RUDC) aims to improve the quality of the regional and urban environment by promoting excellence in design, planning, and public policy in the built environment. This will be achieved through its member and public education, in concert with allied community and professional groups. Join us!

2024 Symposium

The 2024 symposium will be held in Indianapolis, IN in November. Stay tuned for dates and location. Registration will open in July.

2023 RUDC Symposium

The RUDC Symposium, held in Washington, DC October 19-20, covered emerging trends, theories, and technologies that are shaping the future of regional and urban design. Watch the engaging highlight and speaker videos >.

Can the bus become attractive transit?

  • 1.  Can the bus become attractive transit?

    Posted 09-01-2016 02:23 PM

    Can Route-Overhaul Make the Bus Attractive?

    From subways to Bus Overhaul

    Overhaul of existing bus transit networks appears to be the latest straw cities grasp for to match their dwindling resources with a growing insight that better transit is a must-have for future prosperity. 

    Type “bus overhaul” into the Google search box and a whole bunch of cities and transit agencies pop up who have considered one. The most recent addition to the bandwagon: Austin, Texas. Vancouver in Canada decided to do it and our neighbor DC is no exception. Houston's neighbor Dallas wants to do it, too, but piecemeal and over ten years. In New York City activists were the ones calling for a complete overhaul. 


    Corresponding with the ever smaller pool of money available, transit improvements in most larger cities have become  more modest over the last few decades:  

    Full article read here

    Community Architect: Can Route-Overhaul Make the Bus Attractive?

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    Nikolaus Philipsen FAIA
    Archplan Inc. Philipsen Architects
    Baltimore MD
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