The Quito Busways system consisting of the busway-based Trolebus System and the Ecovía System was designed to improve the operations of the bus transportation in the capital of Ecuador.

To learn more about the Quito Busways system you can use the navigation bar provided below, which can be found at the bottom of each page of this web site, or print out the PDF version of the entire document (PDF, 10 MB).

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Additional information on Quito Busways can be found under the following links. While we hope that these sites are of interest, the World Bank is not responsible for the content of external Web sites.

• http://www.trolebus.gov.ec
• http://www.tramz.com/ec/q/00.html
• http://www.busesintl.com/Dec_2002.htm

Acknowledgements

A first draft of this Fact Sheet on “Quito Busways, Ecuador” was prepared by John Cracknell in 2003 for the World Bank. It has been reviewed and integrated by Cesar Arias and Gerhard Menckhoff to whom special gratitude is extended.

We also take the opportunity to express our appreciation to the Municipality of Quito, Cesar Arias, Gerhard Menckhoff, Allen Morrison for allowing us to use the photos, maps, and other visual materials.