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The Bangalore Intra-city grid (BIG) bus network reorganizes city bus routes to increase efficiency, enhance service, and make sustainable transport a better option of city residents. Photo by Noppasin/Shutterstock.
Bangalore is the third largest city in India, with a population of about 8.5 million people. As the sole provider of public bus transport, the Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) carries about 4.8 million passenger trips daily – and accounts for 42% of all motorized travel in the city. Facing pressures of rapid population growth and increasing private motorization, BMTC is implementing major reforms in order to improve the quality of its service.
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Indian cities like Chennai (pictured), along with others located in Asia, Latin America, and the Mediterranean, have the opportunity to apply for the European Commission's "SOLUTIONS" project. Photo by Matthieu Aubry/Flickr.
The SOLUTIONS project on innovative and green urban transport solutions has issued a call for cities from Asia, Latin America, and the Mediterranean to get involved in innovation activities as a leading, take-up, or training city. The deadline to submit applications to join the project is September 30, 2013.
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Lindau received the Kubitschek Medal of Honor for EMBARQ Brazil's work on the Belo Horizonte's Bus Rapid Transit project. Photo by Mariana Gil/EMBARQ Brazil.
The award recognizes EMBARQ Brazil’s work in partnership with the city of Belo Horizonte
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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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EMBARQ Brazil is working to strengthen its partnership with the Federal government in Brasília. Pictured: the Palácio do Planalto in Brasília, Brazil. Photo by swperman/Flickr.
EMBARQ Brazil visited Brasília for two important outreach actions in late July: a meeting with the federal government to foster best practices on urban mobility among Brazilian cities, and the Second Strategic Alignment of Federal District BRT Eixo Sul.
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EMBARQ Turkey is helping to spread cycling to cities across Turkey. Photo by Bisikletliler Derneği.
The Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality has an ambitious target: to have 1,000 km (620 miles) of bikeways by 2023. The municipality has at least one strong ally in this goal: EMBARQ Turkey has been helping to improve cycling infrastructure across the country, and has already been a key supporter of Istanbul’s efforts.
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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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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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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.
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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.