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India’s third full BRT system begins trial operations
BRT drivers gather in front of a Sitilink bus in Surat, India. The Sitilink bus rapid transit (BRT) system will provide vital mobility services to a city previously without any public transport. Photo by the Center of Excellence in Urban Transportation (CoE).
On January 26, 2014 — as the country celebrated its Republic Day — Surat, India began trial operations of its Sitilink BRT system. Out of the proposed 30 kilometer (19 mile) corridor, 10 kilometers (6 miles) have opened for trial operations. The system connects the city of Surat, with its population of 4.5 million people, with the edge city of Navsari. The Sitilink BRT network will provide vital services to a rapidly growing city that was previously without any public transport system.
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The 11th annual Transforming Transportation conference, co-organized by EMBARQ and the World Bank, attracted the largest audience in the history of the event. Photo by Andreas/Flickr. Cropped.
EMBARQ co-organized the 11th annual Transforming Transportation conference with the World Bank and a team of partner organizations on January 16 and 17, 2014. Hosted at the World Bank headquarters in Washington, D.C., this year’s event was the largest in the history of Transforming Transportation.
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What will it take to keep people moving in tomorrow’s cities? City and business leaders discuss opportunities for sustainable urban mobility
Transforming Transportation 2014 (#TTDC14) — Better Cities, Better Business. Join us to explore opportunities for the private sector to advance sustainable mobility in cities. Pictured: the streets of Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, China. Photo by Andreas/Flickr. Cropped.
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From left to right: Andrew Steer, President and CEO of the World Resources Institute (WRI); Liu Xiaoming, Director of the Beijing Municipal Commission of Transport (BMCT); and Holger Dalkmann, EMBARQ Director, at the Sustainable Urban Transport Workshop with BMCT in Washington, DC, on December 17, 2013. Photo by BMCT.
The World Resources Institute (WRI) and EMBARQ China are now professionally affiliated with the key government agency accountable for mitigating emissions from the transport sector in Beijing, China’s capital city. Beijing is also China’s most motorized city, with a vehicle fleet totaling 5.4 million.
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EMBARQ India’s behind-the-scenes, leading role in planning and implementing India's first car-free Sunday
Young participants line up for a cycle rally at Raahgiri Day in Gurgaon, India. EMBARQ India helped ensure the sucess of Raahgiri Day, a non-motorized community event, throughout over a year of planning. Photo by EMBARQ.
In seven short weeks, Sundays in Gurgaon, India, have become ubiquitously associated with Raahgiri Day, a non-motorized community event that closes 4.5 kilometers (2.8 miles) of city streets to vehicles and opens them to people. Boasting about 60,000 weekly participants, Gurgaon’s streets are now full of revelers playing, walking, and riding bicycles each Sunday.
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A boy rides a bicycle in Zorro, Burkina Faso, while friends look on. Transforming Transportation 2014 (#TTDC14) will examine sustainable solutions to the challenges of urban mobility in developing world countries like Burkina Faso. Photo by Ollivier Girard/CIFOR. Cropped.
Are you passionate about sustainable transportation? Do you want to share your thoughts on urban transportation challenges or solutions in your city? Would you like to present your thesis, technical report, or work-in-progress paper to a large and diverse audience? The “Future Leaders in Sustainable Transportation” session at Transforming Transportation 2014 (#TTDC14) is calling for presenters to share innovative ideas with our 500+ registered attendees on January 16-17, 2014 in Washington, DC.
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Parque da Cidade in São José dos Campos, Brazil. EMBARQ Brazil recently hosted a workshop in São José dos Campos to provide training and technical support to the team tasked with developing the city's sustainable urban mobility plan. Photo by Lígia Renata Delgado/Flickr.
On December 12, 2013, EMBARQ Brazil hosted “On the Way to an Urban Mobility Plan,” in São José dos Campos, the seventh largest city in the state of São Paulo, boasting a population of 674,000 inhabitants. The event aimed to build the capacity of the city’s technical team tasked with preparing a sustainable urban mobility plan.
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Research highlights Bogotá, Mexico City, Johannesburg and Istanbul
New research shows that bus rapid transit (BRT) systems like Rio de Janeiro's TransOeste (pictured) have a wide range of benefits for quality of life in cities. Photo by Benoit Colin/EMBARQ.
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Editor’s note: See the new video, “Bus Rapid Transit: Social, Environmental and Economic Impacts”
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EMBARQ China weighs in on the long-term viability of Beijing’s new measure
Beijing, China’s vehicle fleet currently totals about 5.4 million, ranking it first in motorization of any Chinese city. On November 28, Beijing’s municipal government announced it will further constrict its vehicle quota controls starting in 2014, but vehicle ownership restriction alone isn’t enough to mitigate the city’s severe air pollution and traffic congestion. Photo by Malingering/Flickr.
Beijing has announced an effort to further constrict its vehicle quota control regulation in the hopes of curbing air pollution and traffic congestion in China’s capital city. Echoing the city’s recent “Clean Air Action Plan (2013-2017),” an amendment to the car ownership restriction regulation was issued on November 28 that will cut the annual vehicle increases from 240,000 to 150,000 beginning in 2014.
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The Day One Workshop, organized by EMBARQ Brazil, provided training to technicians from the Transportation and Traffic Agency of Belo Horizonte (BHTRANS) who will be directly involved in the management of MOVE – Belo Horizonte's new bus rapid transit (BRT) system. The workshop included a tour of several MOVE stations currently under construction (pictured above). Photo by Mariana Gil/EMBARQ Brazil.