EMBARQ in the News

Mexican car-rental operator CARROT plans to expand service. EMBARQ México highlights that 17% of private trips in the district are made with personal vehicles.

“Delhi’s bus corridor was not implemented as a full BRT system. It included exclusive buslanes, but did not have adequate stations, vehicles or information systems.

"The bus corridor has not been implemented as a full BRT system. It included exclusive bus lanes, but did not have adequate stations, vehicles, information systems, and lacked the centralised management," said Dario Hidalgo, Director of Research and Practice, EMBARQ.

But they agree that this can be easily set right. "The bus corridor can be improved, but not scrapped," added Hidalgo.

Se trata de un proyecto que encabeza el Centro de Transporte Sustentable EMBARQ México (CTS) y el Banco Mundial con el que se pretende liberar vialidades y mejorar la productividad y la calidad de vida de los trabajadores.

EMBARQ Mexico is helping the Santa Fe region of Mexico City offset its car-oriented traffic with transportation demand management (TDM) solutions.

The court’s argument for justifying the use of bus lanes by all vehicles is based on traffic engineering studies focused on moving cars, not people. In this context, a bus is just three or four passenger car equivalents, but moves 80 people as opposed to eight.

According to the Center for Sustainable Transport EMBARQ Mexico when circulating transport at 30 miles per hour, there is a 95 percent survival for pedestrians involved.

Ground zero for BRT is Curitiba, Brazil, which first launched its BRT service in 1974 and has served as a model for practitioners worldwide. Subsequent systems have developed in China, India, Mexico and elsewhere. And while Los Angeles and Pittsburgh built the first precursors of American BRT in the ’70s, it wasn’t until recently that the systems caught on. Historically, the U.S.

According to the city's comprehensive traffic and transportation plan (CTTP), the average Bangalorean is spending 240 hours stuck in traffic every year. In July, the ULTA met with EMBARQ, a Washington-based non-profit that works on providing sustainable transport solutions to discuss the implementation of a BRT system in the city.

Rajkot is all set to get 'auto on call' service at their door step from July 13. RMC will provide an initial assistance of Rs 5 lakh to G-Auto that has been selected with the help of EMBARQ India as a strategic partner to implement the fleet autorickshaw service.