A pedestrian street in Oaxaca. Photo by EReker.
The Center for Sustainable Transport Mexico, a member of the EMBARQ network, needs your help.
By voting for its proposal to launch a sustainable transport and urban planning network throughout Mexico, you can help us make Mexican cities better places for pedestrians, cyclists, and mass transit [...]
The Context
Querétaro, a historic city in the center of Mexico named a United Nations World Heritage Site, faces the predicament of fast-growing medium-sized cities—a need to upgrade its public transportation system to control rapidly rising motorization rates and high congestion levels.
EMBARQ worked with the city to quantify the emissions from the existing bus system and showed that introducing a BRT corridor and improving the efficiency of the bus network could yield extensive emissions reductions. Introducing alternative fuels and vehicle and emission control technologies yielded little additional reductions.
