Transcript Slide 1

Write down one word that comes into your thought
when you read the following word:
Transport
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Words contributed by the participants:
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Improving the transportation sector?
What do you understand by that?
Transporting what?
People or cars?
Why do people need transportation?
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People need transportation
because it gives them the ability to move from one
place to another.
Is mobility a necessity in life?
Yes, it is.
Mobility give people access to………
So, transportation is all about
accessibility and mobility?
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How to improve the
mobility and accessibility of people?
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How to improve the transportation sector?
Do they both mean the same?
If not what is the difference?
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Mobility:
Efficient movement of people and goods
where congestion or inadequate roads need not be a problem
Accessibility:
ability to reach opportunities
where congestion or inadequate roads should not be a problem
Traffic:
vehicle movement and speed
where congestion or inadequate roads is a problem
Source: http://www.gdrc.org/uem/sustran/access-mobility.html
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In road-focused approach:
access to services, goods and contacts requires
a lots of mobility,
as it is in the case of remote rural areas.
Is it?
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Tata’s nano car – any comments?
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Source: www.cartoonstock.com/directory/t/traffic_jams.asp
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What are the problems associated with automobile
dependent cities?
Environmental
problems
Economic
problems
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Social
problems
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World Carfree Day
September 22
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Source: http://www.worldcarfree.net/wcfd/
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How to access services, goods and contacts with
less mobility?
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- BRT system is different from conventional bus service
- buses run in dedicated lanes
- buses have signal priority so they spend less time stopped at red
lights
- board passengers through all doors after paying fares at station
platforms
- space for the busway is often re-allocated from existing traffic or
parking lanes
Bus Rapid
Transit (BRT)
Station in
Curitiba, Brazil
which
pioneered BRT
technology in
the 1970s
Source: www.bcsea.org/publications/thejoule/010/
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BRT helps to reduce transport-related pollution,
improve urban transport,
improve accessibility,
Improve traffic safety,
improve public security,
and boost the quality of public spaces in the City.
Mexico’s
BRT
system
The existing 20 km
BRT line (is being
extended to 220km in
five years) already
carries more than
260,000 passengers
each day and has
shortened commute
times by up to an hour
Source: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/09/mexico_city_may.php
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Bogotá, Colombia
built 70 miles of
bicycle routes and
closed several
streets to cars
(converting them into
pedestrian malls).
- The initial $350 million, 38 km TransMilenio system was
introduced in less than 2 years.
- The buses are able to carry 780,000 people a day at an
average speed of 26 km per hr.
- Unlike expensive subways or elevated trains, the
TransMilenio actually runs at a profit.
http://archive.wri.org/newsroom/wrifeatures_text.cfm?ContentID=880
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The Transjakarta
Busway in Indonesia,
Asia’s biggest BRT,
began operations in
February 2004 amid
stiff opposition - but
its success silenced
critics.
The system carries 100,000
passengers a day, three times the
number when it started. It is so
popular that six corridors will be
added in the next 3 years.
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Source: http://www.cleanairnet.org/baq2006/1757/propertyvalue-26756.html
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TransSantiago
BRT system in
Santiago, Chile
failed
catastrophically.
Why?
http://embarq.wri.org/documentupload/Willumsen_Transantiago_short.pdf
http://embarq.wri.org/documentupload/Correa_Transantiago_short.pdf
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Shanghai
Overpass
– a transport
solution
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London is the largest
city to adopt
congestion pricing
cutting traffic and air
pollution, fighting climate
change to create highquality public spaces
“Congestion pricing is a
superior gridlock and pollution
solution because it has a
financial incentive that
discourages driving,
encourages mass transit and
funds it.”
- Michael Replogle
Source: http://www.sutp.org/content/view/1041/1/lang,uk/
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Congestion pricing works by shifting purely
discretionary rush hour highway travel to other
transportation modes or to off-peak periods, taking
advantage of the fact that the majority of rush hour
drivers on a typical urban highway are not commuters.
Airline tickets and
phone rates use
congestion pricing
Source: http://www.sutp.org/content/view/1041/1/lang,uk/
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Paris created an individualized mass
transit system called Vélib
(“Freedom Bikes”).
People pay a low fee to use the
bikes from one of the 1,200 bike
parking stations located in the city
and they can return the bikes to any
station they wish.
cutting traffic and air
pollution, fighting climate
change to create highquality public spaces
By the end of 2007, Vélib had more
than 1,200 stations and 15,000 bikes
in the system. As of November
2007, more than 11 million trips have
been made on these bikes.
Source: http://www.sutp.org/content/view/1041/1/lang,uk/
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$120M
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- Paris is revitalizing community life in public spaces
- Paris is prioritizing pedestrians by renovating public
squares and plazas, widening sidewalks, and adding new
landscaping and raised crosswalks
- Paris has built more than 314 km of bike lanes, and
bicycling has increased 48% during the past 5 years
- 3 corridors of the new BRT system also opened in 2007
- private vehicle traffic is decreased by 20%
- CO2 emissions is reduced by 9%
Source: http://www.sutp.org/content/view/1041/1/lang,uk/
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What about the terrain?
Could you bicycle in Kandy with its high slopes?
To experience an invention for cyclists on a
slope in a country that gets very cold,
visit
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/09/the_bicycle_lif.php
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Isn’t it risky to ride a bicycle on city roads?
To experience cyclists lives on a busy Dutch
intersection without any traffic controls,
visit
http://westnorth.com/category/car-culture/
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Both the stop sign and stop light were invented in
Detroit — ca. 1915 and 1920, respectively!
Urban streets had been happily and safely shared by
pedestrians, cyclists, horses, and whatnot.
Traffic regulations only became necessary once cars
began choking the streets, since cars’ size and speed
make them nearly incapable of civilly sharing the road.
Source: http://www.projetmontreal.org/programme/elements.php?lang=en
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When
everyone
drives a
car,
there will
be no
space on
the road to
drive it.
Source: www.sustainable-transport.net/
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