City growth patterns. Image from UNEP report, "Towards A Green Economy."
Después de haber desempeñado las funciones de viceministro de transporte en Perú y consultor de transporte para el Banco Mundial, se puede decir que Luis Gutiérrez Aparicio conoce de primera mano los quebraderos de cabeza del transporte urbano, así como las dificultades que acarrean los proyectos de transporte colectivo.
The city of Arequipa is working to make streets safer, especially for pedestrians, the most vulnerable users of the road. Photo by Phil Whitehouse.
Despite this cyclist (and the nearby pile of parked bikes) in Sakarya, there is a lack of commuter biking infrastructure in virtually all Turkish cities. Photo by Sibel Bulay.
Dario Hidalgo with EMBARQ, the sustainable transportation think tank at the World Resources Institute (WRI), kicked off a session at Transforming Transportation 2011 by explaining that 120 cities now have BRT with bus corridors.
Ahmedabad, India, is one city trying to answer that question. Under imperial Britain, its clutch of textile plants earned it the nickname "Manchester of the East." These plants never strayed too far from the city center, so development grew densely.
Optar por el Tren Ligero sería alargar el problema de movilidad en la ciudad por lo menos cinco años más, mientras se consiguen los recursos para su construcción e implementación, sentenció el director de la red EMBARQ, Darío Hidalgo Guerrero.
A new paper published by EMBARQ, the “World Resources Institute Center of Sustainable Transport,” includes best practices for choosing what to focus on measures through a region.
The World Resources Institute is out with a new paper Monday that tackles a thorny question: The pros and cons of different methods cities can use to measure transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions. (It gets tricky for a variety of reasons, like how policymakers consider trips that cross city boundaries.)
Ejecutivos de Federal Express (Fedex), una de las compañías de transportes más grandes el mundo compartió sus conocimientos con funcionarios de sistemas de transporte público de todo el país, del 4 al 8 de octubre, en el marco del 6º Congreso de Transporte Sustentable organizado POR CTS México y Embarq.
