
Bloomberg Philanthropies, the foundation of three-term New York City Mayor and current United Nations Special Envoy for Cities and Climate Change, Michael R. Bloomberg, announced today a new phase of its Global Road Safety initiative.
Bloomberg Philanthropies, the foundation of three-term New York City Mayor and current United Nations Special Envoy for Cities and Climate Change, Michael R. Bloomberg, announced today a new phase of its Global Road Safety initiative.
In 2010, EMBARQ Turkey – along with the rest of the Bloomberg Philanthropies Global Road Safety Program – began a
Raahgiri Day – the weekly event that closes streets to cars in the name of sustainable, active transport – has arrived in the world’s second largest city.
Public bicycle sharing (PBS) systems are widely utilized across Europe and China, with other regions of the world quickly catching up. India has yet to witness the implementation of a city-wide public bicycle sharing system, despite numerous local and neighborhood scale pilot initiatives.
While bus rapid transit (BRT) has been most widely implemented in Latin America, Asian cities are emerging as the next great market for BRT.
Binoy Mascarenhas, Manager, Urban Transport at EMBARQ India, led the session on road safety and bus rapid transit (BRT) design, part of the regional Workshop on Quantifying the Environmental, Social, and Economic Benefits from BRT Systems
The presentation looks into health impacts of transport, drawing from a case study of a bus rapid transit (BRT) corridor in Indore, India. It also outlines a Health Impact Assessment (HIA) process for decision-makers in transport planning.