Sustainable Transportation Services for the Urban Poor - Feb 20, 2007 - Woodrow Wilson Center

Lee Schipper, chief of research, and Wei-Shieun Ng, research associate, at EMBARQ - The World Resources Institute Center for Sustainable Transport, discussed the work of their organization to relieve the problems of urban mobility world wide.Wei-Shieun Ng discussed the work of EMBARQ’s Partnership for Sustainable Urban Transport (PSUTA) to strengthen the sustainability of low-emissions transport systems and mobility in Asian cities. She detailed the project’s efforts in Hanoi, Vietnam; Pune, India; and Xi’an, China. To create schemes for sustainable transport planning, they identify gaps and indicators before policymakers make decisions about their transport systems.