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🇯🇵 Nagoya

SRT (Smart Roadway Transit) Nagoya Station–Sakae Busway

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 Transportation Bureau with Meitetsu Bus operating the vehicles. Its 18-metre, 122-passenger articulated buses carry a real-time position-tracking system riders can check online, plus digital signage at each stop. For now the line runs only Friday through Monday, several trips a day — the city frames it as a stopgap ahead of a planned Linear Chuo Shinkansen connection, not a subway replacement.

Live 📅 since 2026

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🚲 MobilityPublic transportSensors & IoT
Scale🏘️ District

📖 Terms in this entry: Adaptive traffic signals · Bus rapid transit (BRT) · CBTC (communications-based train control)

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 featuresdescribes the real-time vehicle position tracking system and stop-side digital signage
↗ MICE Times — SRT as Nagoya's smart public-transport projectcontext: city-led project, 5.6 km/seven-stop route, launch date, BRT/LRT comparison

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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🇨🇳 Guangzhou Bus Rapid Transit Corridor · Guangzhou Same dedicated-lane BRT genre, though Guangzhou runs full-time citywide rather than Nagoya's four-day-a-week stopgap corridor. 🇨🇴 Metroplús Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) & Fleet Telematics · Medellín Both pair the bus corridor with real-time position tracking — Medellín's via GPS telematics, Nagoya's via rider-facing tracking. 🇵🇭 EDSA Busway (Carousel) · Manila Manila's busway also leans on real-time monitoring of its buses, though its cameras track dwell times, not rider positions.

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📎 Cite this project

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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