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5 Shifts Needed to Transform Transportation Systems and Meet Climate Goals

The City Fix

Transportation connects us to one another. Integrated Transport 1.5C It’s how we get to school and work, how we visit our families, and how we access our food and health care. It’s also how we ship goods and deliver services. As economies and.

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A Greener, Cleaner and Better Vietnam Through Transport Decarbonization

The City Fix

This is the third installment in a series of articles documenting lessons learned across NDC-TIA country activities, to be published throughout 2022. In Vietnam, a country home to 97 million inhabitants, there are 65 million registered motorcycles and mopeds,1.5 million.

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How Baltimore Engaged Disenfranchised Communities In Its Transportation Planning

Next City

The Baltimore & Potomac Tunnel replacement project would run through a Black community that had already been divided by a highway. Here’s how the city carried out an effective public engagement process

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4 Lessons on Increasing Transport Mitigation Ambition in China

The City Fix

Abating China’s transport sector greenhouse gas emissions, which accounted for about 11% of the world’s transport emissions in 2018, is key to meeting both national and global climate goals.

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Transforming Transportation 2023: Accelerating Toward Green and Inclusive Mobility

The City Fix

After two years of unprecedented disruption to transport globally and two years of virtual conferences, Transforming Transportation returned to Washington, DC, March 14-15. More than 900 policymakers, experts and leaders in transport gathered at the World Bank Headquarters to explore.

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Why Mexico Needs a Federal Funding Program for Semiformal Transport

The City Fix

In cities around the world, the sudden and sustained drop in public transport ridership during COVID-19 has caused a financial and operational crisis for both large public transport agencies and semiformal service providers.

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Big Changes Are Needed for More Sustainable, Inclusive Transport

The City Fix

In the global conversation around decarbonizing transport, the spotlight on electric vehicles has never shone brighter. The EV revolution is underway, with consumers embracing them in record numbers and manufacturing ramping up around the world. And yet, electric vehicles will.

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5 Key Transport Challenges Facing Developing Countries and What to Do About Them

The City Fix

Transportation is a crucial enabler of economic development, providing people access to markets, employment, education, and health services.

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How China Can Cut 95% of its Road Transportation Emissions

The City Fix

China’s cars, buses, trucks, shipping and other transport generated 828 million tonnes of greenhouse gases in 2014. The world’s ability to overcome the climate change challenge hinges, in part, on what happens on China’s roads.

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3 Ways to Reimagine Public Transport for People and the Climate

The City Fix

The coronavirus pandemic hit public transport hard. Global ridership tanked initially by as much as 80%, and transit was still at around just 20% of pre-pandemic ridership at the end of 2020. There is serious concern that people will increasingly opt for private vehicles, should public.

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Beyond Highways: Funding Clean Transportation through the US Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

The City Fix

President Biden has touted the potential climate benefits of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which makes historic investments in transportation, the country’s largest and fastest-growing source of greenhouse gas emissions.

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Intelligent transportation management alleviates congestion

GCN

Rather than expanding highways in response to traffic congestion, communities can more efficiently manage their roadways with integrated insights from partner agencies, automated vehicles and navigation systems. Emerging Tech

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The Electric Moment and What’s Next: Transforming Transportation 2022

The City Fix

Transforming Transportation 2022 will continue on February 17. The case for decarbonizing transport cannot be clearer: it’s the fastest growing sector of emissions after. Visit transformingtransportation.org to register and watch full sessions.

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4 Lessons on How to Transform to Zero-Emission Transport in India

The City Fix

As a result, passenger transport activity has more than tripled, and energy demand more than doubled from 2000 to 2020. The transport sector is the third largest greenhouse gas. Vehicle ownership per capita has grown five‐fold in India since 2000.

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5 Ways to Shape a Greener, More Equitable Recovery Through Transport

The City Fix

The global coronavirus pandemic brought a wave of public and private initiatives to help societies adapt and recover, from economic stabilization and safety measures to new business models and shifts in consumption. Many of these initiatives are not green, despite. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Transport and Inequality: Why Disparities in Access Matter in Cities

The City Fix

They marched for human rights, for health care and education, but they came for the metro system, burning and damaging more than 86 stations across the city. Massive protests in Santiago last October forced the government to agree to rewrite. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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It Is Time to Decarbonize Transport

The City Fix

Climate change is the defining challenge of our time, and clean energy and green transport are the keys to addressing it. Less than two decades ago, energy emissions seemed to be spiraling out of control as countries were locked into. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Assessing and Improving the Essential Role of Public Transport in NDCs

The City Fix

Public transport is a powerful tool to curb climate emissions and to reduce dependence on private motorized vehicles – not to mention to provide more equitable and affordable access to opportunity for riders. But surprisingly few countries have made public transport part.

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Reorganizing Informal Transport in Uganda: Achieving a Multimodality that Works for All

The City Fix

Multimodal public transport in Uganda is widespread but largely an informal affair. Kampala, like many African cities, relies on this informal system – comprised largely of taxis (14-seater minibuses) and boda bodas (motorcycle taxis) – to provide much-needed connectivity to.

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Modernization and Inclusion? Informal and Semiformal Transport in Latin America

The City Fix

For most Latin American and Caribbean cities, public transport is the single most important way to access opportunity and essential services for most urban dwellers, from finding a job to education. This blog is also available in Spanish on IADB.org.

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Safer, More Sustainable Transport in a Post-COVID-19 World

The City Fix

The COVID-19 crisis has shown that effective public transport is vital to keeping cities running. By serving essential workers in health care, emergency services, food services, and other sectors, public transport has become a service not just for some people.

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The Long-Term Impacts of COVID-19: Transforming Transportation 2021

The City Fix

Plummeting bus and train ridership, lost jobs, overflowing warehouses, more inequality: 2020’s disruptions to the transport sector were widespread and deep. Speaking at Transforming Transportation 2021, co-hosted by WRI and the World Bank, sustainable mobility leaders from around the world.

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How Gender Impacts Transportation and Accessibility in Fort Portal, Uganda

The City Fix

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As Mobility Undergoes a Revolution, “There Is No Turning Back”: Transforming Transportation 2022

The City Fix

After COP26, transport has reached an important milestone in the global climate conversation. Visit transformingtransportation.org to watch full sessions from the conference. And join the conversation on Twitter with #TTDC22.

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How cities can use transport data to reduce pollution and increase safety

AWS Public Sector Blog

This is a guest post by Rikesh Shah, outgoing head of open innovation at Transport for London, on behalf of the AWS Institute from Amazon Web Services (AWS), a thought leadership and executive education program to accelerate digital transformation for public sector executives.

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Saving Public Transportation and the Untapped Potential of Listening

The City Fix

One thing is clear: around the world, public transport ridership declined precipitously and has not. Integrated Transport Brazil buses COVID-19 focus group pandemic public transportation QualiOnibus rider experience service quality sustainable mobility transit agencies transit ridership

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Public Transport Challenges in Africa: Mapping and Transit Data as a Remedy

The City Fix

Long queues for public transport have become common sights during peak hours all over Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Under the hot sun or the heavy rain, people anxiously wait for the next public transport to arrive.

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RAISE Grant Rollout: Local Transportation Projects Moving

NLC (National League of Cities)

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How to Effectively Plan Your Public Involvement Initiative for Transport

Social Pinpoint

In this new three-part blog series, follow Adrienne Hamilton’s journey to get a client-side view of successful project planning, launching, and reporting of a public involvement initiative for transport.

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5 Ways to Cut Oil and Gas Use Through Clean Transportation

The City Fix

There’s never been a better time to reduce reliance on fossil fuels. Oil and gas prices are skyrocketing as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with gas prices exceeding $4 a gallon in the United States in March 2022. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Transport and Inequality: Why Disparities in Access Matters in Cities

The City Fix

They marched for human rights, for health care and education, but they came for the metro system, burning and damaging more than 86 stations across the city. Massive protests in Santiago last October forced the government to agree to rewrite. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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DOT awards $94 million for innovative transportation tech

GCN

The Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation Grants Program made 59 awards for demonstration projects leveraging automation, connected vehicles, sensors and drones as well as smart grid and intelligent traffic signal technologies.

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Informal Transport Must Play a Bigger Role in Post-Pandemic Recovery. Here’s How That Can Happen.

The City Fix

Crisis often sparks changes to the ways we move. Post-war prosperity made the automobile a household item, and lifestyle. The 1970s global oil and fiscal crisis brought a short-lived bike boom and a retreat of city dollars for public transit. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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California Shows How the U.S. Can Reduce Transport Emissions

The City Fix

California will require that all new passenger cars and trucks sold in the state be emissions-free by 2035 – a move that is expected to lead to more than a 35% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and an 80% cut in. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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New Study from Bogotá Shows How Women Experience Transport Differently

The City Fix

Cities around the world are slowly realizing that gender dynamics play an important role in how people interact with transport systems. Taken as groups, women and men tend to have different travel patterns, different safety concerns, and even make different. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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How the Transportation Security Administration delivers equitable customer experience

Partnership for Public Service

With the holiday season approaching, millions of people will be flooding to airports and other transportation hubs across the country. The Transportation Security Administration is responsible for screening and providing information about policies and procedures for all commercial airline passengers, with the agency screening more than 450 million travelers in fiscal year 2020. Customer Experience Equity research reports Transportation Security Administration

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Inclusive Design Creates a Safer Transportation System for All Residents of Peshawar, Pakistan

The City Fix

For decades, the city of Peshawar, in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of northern Pakistan, has been rocked by wars and acts of terrorism that disrupted public safety and made it difficult to plan the city’s growth. A particularly challenging consequence.

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Rethinking Urban Freight Transport in Mumbai: A Paradigm Shift from Road to Rail

The City Fix

As sales move increasingly online, e-commerce has boomed globally. Shipping goods has become more complex, as more items must be individually delivered to consumers’ homes, compared with bulk delivery to a store. In New York City, for example, the average. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Disruption and Refocusing: COVID Response and the Climate Crisis at Transforming Transportation 2021

The City Fix

2020 brought tremendous disruption to the global transportation sector. As the world coped with a pandemic, millions began working from home and millions more lost their jobs. Logistics networks were broken and then reshaped. All while the planet experienced the.

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3 Ways China’s Transport Sector Is Working to Recover from COVID-19 Lockdowns

The City Fix

As elsewhere, public transport ridership in Chinese cities dipped precipitously during the early days of the pandemic. Ghost-like cities with deserted metro cars and empty buses have been a vivid manifestation of how COVID-19 has affected society worldwide.

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