Next Stop: Better Bus Systems in Indian Cities
EMBARQ signs partnership with the Urban Mass Transit Company (UMTC) to improve transport systems in Indian urban areas, beginning with Pune
EMBARQ, the WRI Center for Sustainable Transport, today signed a partnership with the Urban Mass Transit Company (UMTC) to improve the transport systems in several of India’s booming cities, beginning in Pune. Expected results include cleaner air and shorter, less stressful commutes, in some of India’s largest cities.
Measuring Air Pollution in Vietnam, Mexico, and Brazil
New EMBARQ publications help cities quantify emissions reductions from transport solutions
As transportation demand continues to rise at unprecedented rates, the need to compare alternative transport policies and their impacts on both CO2 emissions and local air pollution is becoming more and more critical.
On September 1, 2008, EMBARQ officially opened its first project office in India. Located in Parel, Mumbai, EMBARQ-India’s new home was made possible by the generous support of WRI board member, Jamshyd Godrej.
Metrobus Scores an Eight
High marks in passenger survey reflect the convenience and comfort of the system
Metrobus, EMBARQ and CTS-Mexico’s Bus Rapad Transit (BRT) project in the Mexican capital, has received high rankings from users for a third year in a row, according to the results of a new study.
EMBARQ’s efforts to promote an integrated sustainable transport system in the city of Arequipa, Peru, received additional momentum last month when Mayor Simon Balbuena and other Arequipa city officials presented the plan at an important national government-sponsored International Investment Forum in Lima.
Mexico City’s Experiences May Provide Solutions to India’s Traffic Woes
EMBARQ Network brings Latin American transport experts to India for week of events
Struggling with a transportation infrastructure stretched to the breaking point, Mumbai urgently needs more sustainable transport systems, and one of the blueprints it could use comes from a seemingly unlikely source – Mexico City.
According to Eduardo de Alcantara Vasconcellos, one of the world’s foremost experts on traffic mobility and congestion, CTS’s Sustainable Transport Congress is one of the most productive spaces for integrated discussion of transport and mobility in the world. ¨[The Congress] is living proof that CTS has an important influence on metropolitan transport in Mexico,” asserts Vasconcellos.
New Publication Highlights EMBARQ's Global Acheivements
Six Years of Innovation in Transport
Published in August, Forward Progress: Six Years of Innovation in Transport, details EMBARQ's major accomplishments in cities as diverse as Arequipa, Peru and Xi'an, China.
Download the publication here.
Metrobus Scores An Eight
For the third year in a row, users giver Metrobus a high ranking.
Metrobus, EMBARQ and CTS-Mexico’s Bus Rapad Transit (BRT) project in the Mexican capital, has received high rankings from users for a third year in a row, according to the results of a new study.
How We Move: Sustainable Transport Around the World
Dr. Nancy Kete and Dr. Dario Hidalgo explain that when it comes to urban transportation, ingenuity is the key to cleaner, greener, and smarter cities.
Originally published in Poder Magazine
