[sustran] SUTP update: August - December 2006

[Sustainable Urban Transport Project SUTP]

Sustainable Urban Transport Project (GTZ SUTP) update

August - December 2006

 

This newsletter gives updates on the SUTP activities, resources, website and
events related to our topic of interest. For more information or feedback,
please contact sutp at sutp.org , or visit our website at www.sutp.org (or
www.sutp.cn from China).

 

*****Project related News*****

(For greater detail of these news, please go to www.sutp.org. Users from
China please visit www.sutp.cn)

 

* BRT Planning Traning Course at BAQ 2006, Yogyakarta (Indonesia)

 

Date: December 11, 8:00- 16:00

Venue: Mercure Phoenix 1, Mercure Hotel

Organizer:GTZ Sustainable Urban Transport Project

 

Based on the Bus Rapid Transit Planning Guide document developed by Lloyd
Wright for GTZ, the course will describe the key components of a BRT system
and give basic tools for policymakers and technical staff of municipalities
to start developing a successful and high-impact system in their cities. It
will emphasize on the necessary steps to develop a Bus Rapid Transit system,
comparing it with other mass transit options, and participants will be able
to analyze their situation with the trainer in order to see how they could
start planning for a system in their city. The main objective of this
training course is to introduce participants to the features of BRT and how
it can be applied in their city. In case a city would want to develop a full
BRT system in the future, a more comprehensive course (4-5 days) would be
developed with a specific municipality.

http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=159&Itemid=40&
lang=en

 

 

* Public Awareness and Behaviour Change in Sustainable Transport – Training
Course at BAQ, Yogyakarta (Indonesia)

 

Schedule: 12 Dec (Tue) 2006 / 8:00-16:00 

Venue: Mercure Museum Room, Mercure Hotel

Organizer: GTZ Sustainable Urban Transport Project

 

Based on the Public Awareness and Behavior Change training document
developed by GTZ SUTP, the course will emphasize on how to develop
comprehensive and effective strategies of behavior change in sustainable
transport, which will complement an existent transport policy and further
its potential in improving citizen’s awareness and habits while using one or
another mode of transport. The training course will describe why public
awareness is important in developing a complete transport strategy, and will
focus on specific measures that can be later applied in each participant’s
city. Participants will have the chance to develop a comprehensive public
awareness and behavior change strategy, along with a proper communications
scheme that will diffuse the strategy’s objectives and results. Strategies
will be developed based on proposed budgets depending on each city’s
possibilities, and all strategies will be evaluated and corrected throughout
the training course.

http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=160&Itemid=40&
lang=en

 

 

* Bus Rapid Transit planning training for Indonesian cities, Jakarta
(Indonesia)

 

55 participants from 10 cities in Indonesia attended the training course on
Bus Rapid Transit planning jointly organized by GTZ, ITDP, Ministry of
Transport, PUSTRAL and MTI on December 7 and 8, 2006. The training was
conducted by Mr. Ulises Navarro, and had inputs from Mr. Heru Sutomo from
PUSTRAL and Mr. Carlos F. Pardo from GTZ-SUTP. More information on this
training course will be available shortly at www.sutp.org .

 

 

* GTZ-SUTP website for China

 

Due to the great need of information on sustainable transport in Chinese,
the GTZ-SUTP project has developed a website specifically for China
accessible from www.sutp.cn . The content is both in Chinese and English,
and the website has the same features as the original sutp.org website.
Please visit www.sutp.cn and take a look!

 

* GTZ-SUTP in China: 3 training courses and diffusion

 

GTZ-SUTP delivered three training courses in Beijing in November, 2006. The
first was on Bus Rapid Transit on 2-4 November, while a course on
Sustainable Urban Transport was given to Chinese mayors on November 6. The
third training course was a four day course on Sustainable Urban Transport
given on November 7-10. This is the first exercise of a series of training
courses to be delivered in China within the next years, initially organized
with the cooperation of CUSTReC (BRT course) and Ministry of Transport,
Tsinghua University and Southeast University (SUT course). Participants for
all courses were between 30 and 50, from various cities all over China.
These efforts will be combined with the SUMA program (in partnership with
CAI Asia, WRI, ITDP,  I-ce and UNCRD) which will be launched early 2007, and
will have a strong capacity building component led by GTZ-SUTP, which will
address Asian nationals who are willing to become trainers on sustainable
urban transport topics or those willing to implement specific project on
this topic.

http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=147&Itemid=40&
lang=en

 

* Training course on Bus Rapid Transit in Mexico

 

The GTZ SUTP project developed a training course on Bus Rapid Transit in
Querétaro, Mexíco On October 19-21, 2006. The main trainer for the course
was Dr Darío Hidalgo, former Deputy Manager of TransMilenio in Bogotá. The
3-day training course had 47 participants, mainly from Mexican cities.

http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=135&Itemid=40&
lang=en

 

* Three training courses in Sao Paulo

 

During and after the CAI LAC conference in Sao Paulo (24-27 July, 2006), the
GTZ SUTP project developed three training courses on Public Awareness, Bus
Rapid Transit and Non motorised transport in Sao Paulo during July 24-
August 3, 2006. The Public awareness (July 24) course was developed by
Carlos F. Pardo and had assistants from different cities in Brazil, and some
other Latin American cities. The course on Bus Rapid Transit (July 28) was
developed by Mr Lloyd Wright and had participants from cities in Brazil and
other cities in LAC. The 4-day non motorised transport training course (July
30- August 3) was directed specifically to Brazilian cities and was
coorganized by GTZ, I-ce, ITDP, Ministry of Cities in Brazil and the
Municipality of Guarulhos. The latter had 50 participants and 4 trainers
from all cooperating institutions.

http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=85&Itemid=40&l
ang=en

 

 

***** CURRENT AND UPCOMING EVENTS (organized by continent, starting date).

 

* Events in Latin America

Events: 1 

 

05.02.2007           UITP - 5th International Bus Conference

http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_eventlist&Itemid=56&func=details&di
d=28&lang=en

 

26.2.2007             ANDINATRAFFIC 2007: 2nd International Exhibition for
Transport and Traffic Technologies

http://www.andinatraffic.com/sa3t/home/index.cfm

 

* Events in Asia

Events: 8              

 

29.11.2006           2nd annual Asian Infrastructure Congress

http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_eventlist&Itemid=56&func=details&di
d=2&lang=en

 

02.12.2006           International colloquium in Shanghai

http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_eventlist&Itemid=56&func=details&di
d=34&lang=en

 

09.12.2006           11th Intl. Conf. of Hong Kong Society for Transport
Studies          

http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_eventlist&Itemid=56&func=details&di
d=15&lang=en

 

13.12.2006           Better Air Quality Workshop, Yogyakarta (Indonesia)

http://www.baq2006.org 

 

 

* Events in Europe

Events: 3              

 

09.05.2007           NECTAR Conference Porto , FEUP

http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_eventlist&Itemid=56&func=details&di
d=25&lang=en

 

12.06.2007           Velo-city 2007 in Munich

http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_eventlist&Itemid=56&func=details&di
d=18&lang=en

 

25.06.2007           ENHR Sustainable Urban Areas Conference

http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_eventlist&Itemid=56&func=details&di
d=33&lang=en

 

 

* Events in North America

Events: 1

21.01.2007           Transportation Research Board (TRB) 86th Annual Meeting

http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_eventlist&Itemid=56&func=details&di
d=19&lang=en

 

Please check our website for constant updates of all this information.
Further information is also available when emailing sutp at sutp.org .

 

GTZ Sustainable Urban Transport Project (SUTP) 

Room 0942, Transport Division, UN-ESCAP ESCAP UN Building Rajadamnern Nok
Rd. 

Bangkok 10200, Thailand

Tel:  +66 (0) 2 - 288  2576

Fax: +66 (0) 2 - 280  6042

Mobile: +66 (0) 1 - 772 4727

e-mail: sutp at sutp.org 

Website: www.sutp.org

 

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