MOVE: Belo Horizonte's BRT Corridors and Real-Time Fleet Control
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Belo Horizonte's BRT has GPS-tracked every bus since its 2014 launch — but its buses didn't get a priority traffic light until a nine-intersection pilot in 2026.
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The strongest source is the operator's or the city's own reporting — an official report, dataset or press release. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →Part of 1001 Smart Cities — 1,167 documented projects · 🏙️ 5 more in Belo Horizonte · 🚌 Public transport guide · 🚲 Mobility projects
Belo Horizonte's MOVE bus rapid transit began operating in March 2014 (announced by transit authority BHTrans in December 2010), running trunk and feeder lines over roughly 23km of dedicated corridors with a launch fleet of 428 buses. Every bus reports its position continuously via onboard GPS and computer to its concessionaire's control centre, feeding BHTrans's SitBus intelligent-transport system and, since 2015, the SIU Mobile BH app for real-time arrival information, with fares collected through the contactless BHBUS and Ótimo cards. The counterweight is the corridors' own signalling: MOVE ran for twelve years with fixed-time signals before the city piloted its first bus-priority traffic lights — nine intersections on two streets — in May 2026.
🎓 Lesson
GPS fleet tracking and automated signal priority are two separate investments; a BRT can run the first for over a decade before adding the second.
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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “MOVE: Belo Horizonte's BRT Corridors and Real-Time Fleet Control” — Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/belo-horizonte-move-brt/ (last verified 2026-08-02). Data: CC BY 4.0.
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