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Demonstration and testing in real operation are expected to be developed in four or five different European cities and at least one city in a partner country in a developing context either in Africa or in the region of Latin American and Caribbean countries. The demonstration activities should include mega-cities, larger/smaller cities and the link to peri-urban, inter-urban and sub-urban dwellings in order to afford complementary solutions in test and demonstrations.  Zero tailpipe emission buses and their related infrastructure are expected to be applied in BRT lines, in different city contexts, together with the needed integration of e-BRT with other mass-public transport systems, and with personal mobility solutions. Solutions include both the physical vehicles, recharging infrastructure and the overall services offering.

Proposals are expected to address all the following:

• Electrification combined with automation and connectivity enablers, to optimize and validate the whole advanced BRT system.
• Operational concepts: increasing the capacity use rate; the average commercial speed; punctuality / regularity.
• Synchronization with other city transport modes; service quality whilst reducing CO2 emissions, and cost per km/passenger.
• Replicability: use of the e-BRT technology under environmental, infrastructure and social conditions different from the European ones.

Proposals are expected to take into consideration the transport operators’ and transport authorities’ needs for financial viability, effectiveness, flexibility, environment conformance, safety and security. The impact of e-BRT technologies on bus performance and on the frequency of necessary repair and maintenance work, the life duration of the bus, and the costs that have to be covered at the end of the life (recycling; upgrading etc.) might have a huge influence on the financial side and should, therefore, also be covered.