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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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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."
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Passengers exit one of Curitiba, Brazil's famous tube stations on the city's bus rapid transit (BRT) system. Photo by Fabio Mascarenhas/Flickr.
Essential to the sustainable development of cities, mobility was a central agenda item for the Second Meeting of Municipalities for Sustainable Development, held in Brasilia April 23-25.
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Passengers board a bus on Lima, Peru's Metropolitano bus rapid transit (BRT) system. Photo by EMBARQ.
On May 2 and 3, transport professionals and representatives from the cities of Leon, Mexico; Santiago, Chile; Bogota, Columbia; and Sao Paulo, Brazil, will convene in Lima, Peru, for the Forum on Integrated Transport Systems in Latin America, organized by the Transitemos Foundation.
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Singapore's Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system is a shining example of a sustainable, low-carbon transport system in Asia. Photo by Williamcho/Flickr.
The world, and Asia in particular, is heading in the wrong direction
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CONNECTKaro participants convened in Mumbai, India, to discuss ways in which sustainable transport and urban development can help build a brighter future for India’s cities. Pictured: Children at play in Mumbai. Photo by EMBARQ.
By Holger Dalkmann and Ashwin Prabhu — this post also appears in WRI Insights
