🚲 Mobility

MOVE: Belo Horizonte's BRT Corridors and Real-Time Fleet Control

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.

Live 📅 since 2014

🤖 AI-generated summary of the sources below — how this works · 🔎 Last verified 2026-08-02

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🎓 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.

Scale🏙️ City-wide

📖 Terms in this entry: Bus rapid transit (BRT) · E-ticketing · Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS)

Sources

↗ Prefeitura de Belo Horizonte / BHTrans — MOVE official pageOfficial description of MOVE corridors, trunk/feeder structure, and BHTrans as operating authority.

↗ Wikipédia — "Move (sistema de transportes)"December 2010 BHTrans announcement, March 2014 operational start, fleet figures (428 buses: 192 articulated, 236 standard), BHBUS/Ótimo contactless cards, SIU Mobile BH app launched 2015, onboard GPS/location and control-centre (CCO) monitoring.

↗ Prefeitura de Belo Horizonte — "BH inicia projeto piloto de semáforos inteligentes para ônibus" (2026)Confirms bus-priority signal pilot only began 8 May 2026, on nine intersections across two streets (Rua Niquelina, Rua Domingos Vieira) — the first such priority signalling on the MOVE network, twelve years after launch.

This overview was generated with AI from the public sources listed above and checked against them before publication. It has not had a complete human fact-check — treat it as a starting point and follow the sources.

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🇨🇴 Metroplús Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) & Fleet Telematics · Medellín Both paired dedicated-lane BRT with GPS telematics from opening day; neither corridor's materials confirm automated signal priority. 🇧🇷 RIT Fleet Telemetry Upgrade · Curitiba Curitiba added telemetry in 2012 atop smart cards from 2002; MOVE reversed the order — GPS from 2014, priority signals only 2026. 🇧🇷 Rio de Janeiro BRT: Four Corridors, a Revoked Concession & a Public Rebuild · Rio de Janeiro Both Brazilian BRTs feed GPS/camera data to a control centre and publish open data, yet Rio's newest corridor arrived seven years late. 🇺🇸 MARTA Rapid A-Line (BeltLine BRT) · Atlanta Both pair dedicated BRT lanes with transit-signal priority, but Belo Horizonte's GPS-fed control room predates Atlanta's by a decade.

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📎 Cite this project

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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