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Rising gas prices have pushed Mumbai's bus companies to find creative ways to save fuel. Photo by Meena Kadri/Flickr.
As India’s public bus companies work to stay afloat amidst rising gas prices and shrinking budgets, EMBARQ India is helping. From June 7th-10th, EMBARQ India conducted a series of two-day workshops, one for BEST (Mumbai’s City Bus Service Provider) and one for NMMT (Navi Mumbai Bus Service Provider), aimed at teaching bus drivers how to drive more safely and more efficiently. By working together, EMBARQ India and Mumbai’s bus companies are improving both the safety of bus operations and the fuel efficiency of the vehicles.
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The inclusion of sustainable urban reforms in Mexico’s national development plan will help to make Mexico’s cities safer, cleaner, and more equitable. Pictured: Plaza de Republica, Mexico City. Photo by Dani Simons/Flickr.
The Mexican National Development Plan unveiled May 21st, lays out a framework for the development of Mexico’s cities over the next six years. President Enrique Peña Nieto called the plan “a road map,” which will guide Mexico’s development from 2013 through 2018. President Peña Nieto wrote on the administration’s blog “it is a plan to make substantial changes.
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Peru's roads are among the most dangerous in Latin America. Pictured: Tuk-Tuks in Iquitos, Peru. Photo by Calvin Lee/Flickr.
"A bus carrying 54 tourists fell into an abyss of almost 100 meters deep. The accident left a toll of 37 dead, 8 missing and 9 wounded. The tragedy took place because of bad road conditions. " -Diario El Comercio, June 23, 2013
"17 people were injured when a public bus rolled over. The accident occurred in an area known for its dangerous hills, which have been the site of other fatal accidents" -Daily Republic, June 25, 2013
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Pictured: Cheonggyecheon urban renewal project and public recreation space in Seoul, South Korea. Photo by longzijun/Flickr.
On June 7th, EMBARQ Brazil and ITDP Brazil officially launched the Portuguese version of “The Life and Death of Urban Highways.” Titled “Vida e Morte das Rodovias Urbanas,” The publication brings together examples of cities
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The 2013 Lee Schipper Memorial Scholarship recipients are Sudhir Gota and Fei Li. Pictured: Dr. Lee Schipper, co-founder of EMBARQ. Photo by EMBARQ.
The scholarship was created by the Schipper Family and EMBARQ, with cooperation from leading scholars and policy makers, and is made possible from donations from individual donors as well as from an instrumental grant from the Shell Foundation.
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Sudhir Gota is a 2013 Lee Schipper Memorial Scholar. Photo courtesy of Sudhir Gota.
Sudhir Gota’s research will focus on the current ASIF framework in Asia, or “activity, “mode share,” “intensity,” and “fuel mix,” and its usage to determine what existing parameters could be causing a high fluctuation in results. In doing so, the ASIF usage can become more credible and consistent. This framework was initially developed by Schipper himself and created a way to understand the different components of transport energy use in order to calculate emissions.
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Fei Li is a 2013 Lee Schipper Memorial Scholar. Photo courtesy of Fei Li.
Ms. Fei Li will evaluate and challenge the current parking standard, a prevalent vehicle planning policy that is often overlooked, through data collection and analysis to fill the research gap. Through this, policy recommendations for more efficient and sustainable planning regulations can be made.
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Claudia Adriazola-Steil, Director of EMBARQ’s Health and Road Safety program, presented at Towards Zero in June 2013 - a world leading road safety conference held in Sweden. Pictured: TransMilenio BRT system in Bogotá, Colombia. Photo by Carlos Felipe Pardo/Flickr.
On June 4th, 2013, Claudia Adriazola-Steil, Director of EMBARQ’s Health and Road Safety program presented at Towards Zero, a world leading road safety conference held in Sweden. The country is known for its bold road safety efforts, but this is the first time it has hosted such a large event on the topic.
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Mexico City's pedestrian-only Avenida Francisco Madero (pictured) underscores the growing awareness that urban reform has garnered in recent months in Mexico. Photo by Travis S./Flickr.
Over the past six months, Mexico has demonstrated a renewed focus on urban policies. The newly elected Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) government, which came into power in December 2012, has created a new Department known as SEDATU (Secretaría de Reforma Agraría, Desarrollo Territorial y Urbano) – Department for Agrarian Reform, Territorial and Urban Development – which focuses on planning and sustainability.
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EMBARQ commemorates the one-year anniversary of Rio+20 (pictured) by continuing to honor its commitment to advance sustainable transport. Photo by Peachie Aquino-Reed/UN ISDR. Enlarged and cropped.
Rio+20, the UN conference on sustainable development, was hailed as the first high-level international development conference to pay significant attention to sustainable transportation. Sixteen transport-related voluntary commitments emerged from partners convened by SLoCaT at the conference. One of the first announcements was the commitment from multi-lateral development banks to shift $175 billion towards sustainable transport.