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Mexico City's Metrobús bus rapid transit (BRT) system helped the city win the 2013 Sustainable Transport Award (STA). Nominate your city now for the 2014 STA! Photo by ITDP/Flickr.
EMBARQ, together with the rest of the Sustainable Transport Award (STA) Committee, invites you to nominate your city for the 10th Annual Sustainable Transport Award. Nominations open on Monday June 17th and will be accepted online until September 13th, 2013. More info and nomination form here.
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Urban Reform will target urban structures and policies across Mexico. Pictured: Guadalajara, Mexico. Photo by Emerson Posadas/Flickr.
Director Adriana Lobo of EMBARQ Mexico delivered policy proposals at the Plenary Session of the Consultation Forum of the National Development Plan, or “Prosperous Mexico,” chaired by Mexican President Peña Nieto on May 9. The proposals were generated by EMBARQ Mexico, together with the Centro Mario Molina and the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness.
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EMBARQ was represented at the 2013 International Transport Forum (ITF) Summit by Holger Dalkmann, Benoit Lefevre, and Salvador Herrera. Photo by ITF/Flickr. Cropped.
As a mark of the headway that the concept of sustainable transport has made in recent years, today’s discussions focus no longer on the “why,” in regards to sustainable transport projects, but on the “how.”
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Motorized traffic passes under Istanbul's Valens Aqueduct. Photo by Enric Archivell/Flickr.
Arzu Tekir, Director of EMBARQ Turkey, will be making the case for investment in sustainable mobility and its numerous benefits for Turkish cities at the 2013 Private Equity and Venture Capital Summit in Istanbul on June 21. Attendees will include investors and venture capitalists, creating a valuable opportunity to showcase how increased investment in communication technologies and sustainable transport has the potential to put Turkey on a more sustainable path.
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Pictured: Mexico City's Metrobús bus rapid transit (BRT) system. Photo by Mariana Gil/EMBARQ Brasil.
The World Bank and EMBARQ Mexico concluded its month-long 2013 Leaders in Urban Transport Planning capacity building program in Mexico City on May 25. The training was part of the World Bank’s “Leadership in Urban Transport Planning” capacity building series, which aims at building capacity for holistic and comprehensive urban planning.
This year’s program, conducted in Spanish, was geared toward developing leadership, awareness and implementation strategies for urban integrated mobility planning.
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Taxis lined up in Arequipa, Peru, where 76% of annual air pollutants are emitted from automobiles. Photo by Ethan Arpi/EMBARQ.
EMBARQ Andino joined forces with the Arequipa, Peru-based citizen’s initiative, Arequipa Te Queremos (Arequipa We Love You), to launch a nationwide campaign against a bill which would allow for the importation of used cars, without any sort of quality control regulations.
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iBus is India's newest bus rapid transit (BRT) system, located in the city of Indore. Photo by EMBARQ.
Last month, India’s newest bus rapid transit (BRT) system, iBus, launched trial operations in Indore. Over the last seven years, the implementing agency, Atal Indore City Transport Services Limited (AICTSL) worked closely with several public and private agencies, including EMBARQ India, to bring this project to fruition. The system includes an 11.4-kilometer (7-mile) corridor, 21 median stations, and custom-designed buses, which are expected to serve 70,000 passengers per day.
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Located at the southern tip of Brazil, the city of Pelotas is home to around 346,000 inhabitants and was the site of recent seminar on urban mobility organized by EMBARQ Brazil. Photo by Roger Amaral Scheridon de Moraes/Flickr.
EMBARQ Brazil’s newest project, “From PAC to Plan”, is an effort to increase technical knowledge on sustainable urban mobility plans. Targeted towards medium-sized cities all over Brazil, the initiative aims to increase the quality of Growth Acceleration Program (PAC) projects and help cities to develop their mobility plans. For two days (May 2-3, 2013), the southern city of Pelotas, which has 346,000 residents, hosted the first of what will be a series of workshops on sustainable mobility planning.
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Belo Horizonte, Brazil, June 4 to 7, 2013 event to improve quality of service and user satisfaction
Pictured: Buses of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil's TransOeste bus rapid transit (BRT) system. Photo by Mariana Gil/EMBARQ Brazil.
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In an exclusive interview, Jaime Lerner talks about challenges faced by public transport in Brazil and his expectations for the III SIBRT Conference
Jaime Lerner will be a keynote speaker at the Third SIBRT Conference of Best Practices in Latin America (Belo Horizonte, June 4-7). Photo by Chris Isidoro/EMBARQ Brazil.
The architect and urban planner Jaime Lerner – former Mayor of Curitiba for three terms and former Governor of Paraná for two terms – regards large urban center problems with a unique point of view. For him, the voice of the majority that repeats and reinforces the discourse that large cities are doomed to fail when it comes to urban mobility is a blurred vision of the city, "It is like a body receiving people’s life; not just a group of concrete and roads."
