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A product of WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
PAULO SERGIO CUSTODIO – SEPTEMBER 2016
"ARE INDIAN CITIES MOVING TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORTATION?"
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• Sustainable cities will be the ones with less cars on the streets
• The ideal situation would be cities without cars
• Many cities promote a day without car as a way to show we canmove without cars
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• Cars are confortable and convenient but.• They cause congestion and air pollution
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• Cars not only occupy street space causing congestion and air pollution.
• They consume considerable space for parking
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• Parking consumes also big chunk ot public space. It is private use of public space.
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• With the event of car, there was a need for space on the small streets of old towns
• Rail was a developed technology and the best way was to put public transportation either underground or elevated
London New York
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• Cities are started moving from investing in infrastructure for cars to other actions:
• Better use of existing infrastructure for cars – car pool, hov lanes
• Changing use of road space with more eficient systems: queue jumps, bus lanes BRT
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• Cities are started moving from investing in infrastructure for cars to other actions:
• Better use of existing infrastructure for cars – car pool, hov lanes
• Changing use of road space with more eficient systems: queue jumps, bus lanes BRT
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• Hov lanes in Los Angeles
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• Bus lanes were next step to improve use of road space
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• BRT was next step to improve use of road space
Curitiba
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• Bogota, Colombia proved BRT could have high capacity.• Today is transports 45 thousand passengers per hour
per direction, more than most of metros in the world
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• Move people to more sustainable transportation - bikes
CopenhagenParis
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• Move people to more sustainable transportation – Public bikes
Sao Paulo - BrazilParis - France
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• Mixed uses makes cities more productive• Increasing probability of short trips makes
a difference
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• Transit Oriented Development• Transfoming environment to make transit
more attractive
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• Walking as a choice and acess mode
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• Solution is a puzzle. It depends on how we mount the pieces
Urban development
Demand Management
NMT + Transit
Traffic management
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Thank you