are indian cities moving towards sustainable transportation?
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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?"
• 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
• Cars are confortable and convenient but.• They cause congestion and air pollution
• Cars not only occupy street space causing congestion and air pollution.
• They consume considerable space for parking
• Parking consumes also big chunk ot public space. It is private use of public space.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Hov lanes in Los Angeles
• Bus lanes were next step to improve use of road space
• BRT was next step to improve use of road space
Curitiba
• 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
• Move people to more sustainable transportation - bikes
CopenhagenParis
• Move people to more sustainable transportation – Public bikes
Sao Paulo - BrazilParis - France
• Mixed uses makes cities more productive• Increasing probability of short trips makes
a difference
• Transit Oriented Development• Transfoming environment to make transit
more attractive
• Walking as a choice and acess mode
• Solution is a puzzle. It depends on how we mount the pieces
Urban development
Demand Management
NMT + Transit
Traffic management
Thank you