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SRT (Smart Roadway Transit) Nagoya Station–Sakae Busway

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Nagoya's newest transit line isn't a subway or a tram — it's a 122-seat articulated bus with real-time GPS tracking, running just Friday through Monday between the station and Sakae.

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Evidence🏛️ Officialgrades the sourcing — this entry states no impact figure
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Run byNagoya City Housing and Urban Development Bureau (buses operated by Meitetsu Bus)
Scale🏘️ District

Part of 1001 Smart Cities — 1,167 documented projects · 🏙️ 5 more in Nagoya · 🚌 Public transport guide · 🚲 Mobility projects

Nagoya opened SRT (Smart Roadway Transit) on 13 February 2026: a 5.6 km, seven-stop corridor linking Nagoya Station and Sakae, run by the city's Housing and Urban Development Bureau with Meitetsu Bus operating the vehicles. Its 18-metre, 122-passenger articulated bus carries a real-time position-tracking system riders can check online, plus digital signage at stops. For now the line runs only Friday through Monday, several trips a day.

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Sources

↗ SRT Nagoya official siteofficial city project site (route, real-time tracking); JS-rendered, could not be fetched directly, referenced via search snippets
↗ Meitetsu Bus — SRT service announcementconfirms operator (Meitetsu Bus), 13 February 2026 launch, Nagoya Station–Sakae route
↗ NTT West Digre — SRT smart featuresPublished 30 April 2026describes the real-time vehicle position tracking system and stop-side digital signage
↗ MICE Times — SRT as Nagoya's smart public-transport projectPublished 28 October 2025 · updated 6 March 2026context: city-led project, 5.6 km/seven-stop route, launch date, BRT/LRT comparison
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Claim 1 clm-7dc4e7088b28112c quantitative
Nagoya opened SRT (Smart Roadway Transit) on 13 February 2026
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What the mapping says
Meitetsu Bus announces the start of service in its own words: 「名鉄バスでは、2026年2月13日（金）より「SRT（Smart Roadway Transit）名古屋駅－栄ルート」の運行を開始します。」 (‘From Friday 13 February 2026 Meitetsu Bus will begin operating the SRT Nagoya Station–Sakae route’). NTT West reports the launch in the past tense and adds the opening ceremony two days earlier: 「2026年2月13日（金）に運行を開始しました。それに先立ち、2月11日（水）、「SRT運行開始記念式典」が開催されました。」 MICE Times names the same date.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Meitetsu Bus — SRT service announcement
  2. NTT West Digre — SRT smart features
  3. MICE Times — SRT as Nagoya's smart public-transport project
Claim 2 clm-1cabfdd8d70844a1 quantitative
a 5.6 km, seven-stop corridor linking Nagoya Station and Sakae
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What the mapping says
The source states both figures together: 「運行ルートは、名古屋駅と栄間を結び、主に広小路通を走行します。運行距離は5.6kmであり、この区間に7か所の停留所が設けられます。」 (‘The route links Nagoya Station and Sakae, running mainly along Hirokoji-dori. The operating distance is 5.6 km, and seven stops are provided along this section.’)
Caveat
Both figures reach the reader through a trade publication that credits them to the city's own planning papers, which it names as documents of the Housing and Urban Development Bureau's transport promotion division; the project's own website publishes a route map and timetable rather than a stated route length.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. MICE Times — SRT as Nagoya's smart public-transport project
Claim 3 clm-a335403c88052fc8 descriptive
with Meitetsu Bus operating the vehicles
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What the mapping says
MICE Times states the contracting arrangement: 「本事業は一般乗合旅客自動車運送事業として、名鉄バス株式会社が運行業務を受託いたします。」 (‘The undertaking is a general passenger road transport business, with Meitetsu Bus Co., Ltd. contracted to carry out operations.’) Meitetsu Bus confirms it from its own side by announcing that it will run the route.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Meitetsu Bus — SRT service announcement
  2. MICE Times — SRT as Nagoya's smart public-transport project
Claim 4 clm-690cc8b8628b5b8b quantitative
Its 18-metre, 122-passenger articulated bus
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
The source gives the vehicle specification: 「この連節バスは全長18,125mmで、定員は122名（席数35席）です。」 (‘This articulated bus is 18,125 mm long and has a capacity of 122, of which 35 are seats.’) The same paragraph identifies it as a diesel Daimler Buses Citaro G.
Caveat
The source describes a single articulated bus, not a fleet: "連節バス1両が導入されます" (one articulated vehicle is introduced), with an ordinary Meitetsu single-body bus held in reserve. The plural in the passage overstates what the route runs.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. MICE Times — SRT as Nagoya's smart public-transport project
Claim 5 clm-3f0b48e8b4538b38 descriptive
carries a real-time position-tracking system riders can check online
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What the mapping says
NTT West, which built the feature, describes it: 「SRT公式ウェブサイトでは、運行情報や乗降方法をわかりやすく発信するとともに、車両の現在位置をリアルタイムで確認できる走行位置表示システムを提供しています。」 (‘The SRT official website publishes service information and boarding instructions, and provides a running-position display system that shows the vehicle's current position in real time.’) The project site itself carries the link, labelled 「現在の走行位置はこちら」 (‘current running position here’).
Caveat
The live position display is reached through a separate "bus forecast" website that the project site links to, and neither source describes equipment carried on board the vehicle, so the passage attributes to the bus what the sources attribute to the website.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. NTT West Digre — SRT smart features
  2. SRT Nagoya official site
Claim 6 clm-2c388b81f6f6c4f7 descriptive
plus digital signage at stops
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What the mapping says
The source describes the screens and what they show: 「さらに、停留所に設置されたデジタルサイネージでは、運行情報に加え、周辺施設やイベント情報など、街歩きを促すコンテンツも配信しています。」 (‘In addition, digital signage installed at the stops distributes service information as well as content that encourages walking around the city, such as nearby facilities and events.’)
Caveat
The source says signage was installed at the stops but never says that all seven have a screen, and the route's stops were planned in several forms — sheltered terraces, terraces and, at some points, a plain pole — so "at each stop" goes further than the evidence.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. NTT West Digre — SRT smart features
Claim 7 clm-8c5b69229d117000 descriptive
For now the line runs only Friday through Monday
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
MICE Times: 「運行は、金曜日、土曜日、日曜日、月曜日、および祝日の週4日程度が予定されています。」 (‘Service is planned for about four days a week: Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday and public holidays.’) The project site shows the same pattern on its "operating date" row.
Caveat
The pattern is not absolute: both the project site and the trade report add that the service also runs when a Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday falls on a public holiday.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. MICE Times — SRT as Nagoya's smart public-transport project
  2. SRT Nagoya official site
Claim 8 clm-8bbc75f5eb123691 descriptive
several trips a day
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
Both sources give a number rather than a vague quantity. MICE Times: 「運行時間帯は午前9時から午後5時台までの間で、1日あたり12本が運行されます。」 (‘Service runs between about 9am and the 5pm hour, with twelve runs a day.’) The project site's accessible timetable text counts the same twelve runs one by one, from 「1びんめ」 to 「12びんめ」.
Caveat
The sources are more precise than the passage: twelve runs a day, and the first and last of them are one-way workings rather than complete round trips.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. MICE Times — SRT as Nagoya's smart public-transport project
  2. SRT Nagoya official site
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Governance facts carried by the record

Operator
Nagoya City Housing and Urban Development Bureau (buses operated by Meitetsu Bus)
Actor types
utility, private
Funding model
ppp
Funding description
Not recorded
Cost
Not recorded
Ownership
Not recorded
Decision rights
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Exit conditions
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4 source dossiers

SRT Nagoya official site srt.city.nagoya.jp · 3 linked claims

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Stable source ID
src-921444118bfe5e35
Publisher
Name not classified · srt.city.nagoya.jp
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-02
Dossier created
2026-08-22
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

official city project site (route, real-time tracking); JS-rendered, could not be fetched directly, referenced via search snippets

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Meitetsu Bus — SRT service announcement meitetsu-bus.co.jp · 2 linked claims

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Stable source ID
src-eb96349f5e7aad14
Publisher
Name not classified · meitetsu-bus.co.jp
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-02
Dossier created
2026-08-22
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
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No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

confirms operator (Meitetsu Bus), 13 February 2026 launch, Nagoya Station–Sakae route

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Claims linked
NTT West Digre — SRT smart features ntt-west.co.jp · 3 linked claims

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Stable source ID
src-3b45f4a1348fa2dd
Publisher
Name not classified · ntt-west.co.jp
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2026-04-30
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-02
Dossier created
2026-08-22
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

describes the real-time vehicle position tracking system and stop-side digital signage

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
MICE Times — SRT as Nagoya's smart public-transport project micetimes.jp · 6 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-54ada2d7f7587aa2
Publisher
Name not classified · micetimes.jp
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2025-10-28
Updated
2026-03-06
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-02
Dossier created
2026-08-22
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

context: city-led project, 5.6 km/seven-stop route, launch date, BRT/LRT comparison

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
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  • Existing source notes are descriptive locators, not page- or paragraph-exact citations.
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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “SRT (Smart Roadway Transit) Nagoya Station–Sakae Busway” — Nagoya, Japan. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/nagoya-srt-brt/ (last verified 2026-08-02). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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