[sustran] SUTP update - September to November 2008
Sustainable Urban Transport Project- SUTP
sutp at sutp.org
Thu Dec 11 05:00:31 JST 2008
/*Sustainable Urban Transport Project (GTZ SUTP) Update*/* *
September - November*, 2008*
This newsletter gives updates on the SUTP resources, news and events
related to our topic of interest. For more information or feedback,
please contact sutp at sutp.org <mailto:sutp at sutp.org>, or visit our
website at www.sutp.org (China users go to www.sutp.cn
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/******Project related News******/
/(For greater detail of the news below, please click the link below
each item)/
GTZ Workshop in Cochin, India
26 November 2008
GTZ-Advisory Services in Environmental Management (ASEM), an
environmental program with the Indian government, along with Cities
Development Initiative for Asia (CDIA), conducted a workshop titled
"Support of GTZ to JNNURM - Focus Urban Transport". The event was
conducted on the 24-25th November 2008 in Cochin, Kerala at the Taj
Ernakulam.
Former Bogotá mayor Mr. Enrique Penalosa addressed the workshop as the
chief guest. Dr. Axel Friedrich, Advisor for GTZ, also participated in
the workshop and conducted a presentation entitled "Sustainable
Transport, Public Transport Institutions and Integration".
Link:
*http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1335&Itemid=1&lang=uk*
GTZ at BAQ2008
14 November 2008
The Better Air Quality 2008 Workshop was held in Bangkok, Thailand
during 12-14th November, 2008. As pre-events to this workshop GTZ SUTP
conducted two training courses and one pre-event. The training courses
were on “Mass Transit and Bus Rapid Transit Planning” and “Travel Demand
Management” respectively, while the pre-event was on “Climate and
Transport”. Reports on these courses are available upon request.
Link:
*http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1331&Itemid=1&lang=uk*
Overview on Transport Policy and Planning Documents
14 November 2008
GTZ compiled on overview on transport policy and planning documents. The
compilation aims at assisting practitioners and decisions-makers in
benchmarking and developing sustainable policies in the transport sector.
Link:
http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1345&Itemid=1&lang=uk
GTZ SUTP at CODATU XIII, Vietnam
12 November 2008
Mr. Manfred Breithaupt, GTZ Senior Transport Advisor and Project
Director of SUTP, presented at CODATU XIII conference held in Ho Chi
Minh City on the 12th November, 2008. His presentation was entitled
“Capacity building and awareness raising on sustainable urban transport
in Asia” and is available for download here (registered users).
Link:
*http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1330&Itemid=1&lang=uk*
Kyoto Declaration Signing by Asian Mayors
12 November 2008
The United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD), Ministry of
the Environment- Government of Japan, and the Clean Air Initiative for
Asian Cities (CAI-Asia), jointly organized the Special Event for the
Signing of the Kyoto Declaration by Asian Mayors for the Promotion of
EST in Cities,” during the Better Air Quality (BAQ) 2008 Workshop, 12
November 2008. In the Special Event, twelve more Asian cities - Bangkok
(Thailand), Baguio (Philippines), Cebu (Philippines), Colombo (Sri
Lanka), Batam (Indonesia), Guwahati (India), Karachi (Pakistan),
Kathmandu (Nepal), Makassar (Indonesia), Makati (Philippines), Palembang
(Indonesia), and Surat (India), signed the Kyoto Declaration.
Link:
*http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1334&Itemid=1&lang=uk*
GTZ-Discussion paper: EXPLOIT FALLING MARKETS – a contribution to the
debate on fuel pricing mechanisms
The current phase of sharply declining crude oil and petroleum product
prices offers an opportunity for a critical investigation of the
absolute level of pump prices for fuel and the nature and manner of
adjustment of the price level. This includes the opportunity to move
from ad hoc pricing towards formula-based automatic pricing at
relatively low political cost. The same applies to the elimination of
direct and indirect subsidies which should continue in parallel, and to
the imposition of (possibly earmarked) tax on fuel. The discussion paper
provides an overview of forms of fuel pricing in the transport sector.
Link:
http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1341&Itemid=69&lang=uk
GTZ at the GTS08 Symposium
10 November 2008
Mr. Manfred Breithaupt, GTZ Senior Transport Advisor, participated and
presented at the German Thai Symposium (GTS) 08 <http://www.gts08.org/>
held in Bangkok on 10th November 2008. The presentation was titled
"Capacity Building and Awareness Raising on Sustainable Urban Transport
in Asia" and can be downloaded here. Mr. Torsten Fritsche, GTZ-
Thailand, also presented at the event with a presentation titled "Clean
Development Mechanism in India – Preparing a country for a complex
global market"
Link:
*http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1333&Itemid=1&lang=uk*
SUTP brochures in Bahasa Indonesia and Thai online
04 November 2008
SUTP users can now download the project brochures in Bahasa Indonesia
and Thai. Further, users can also download the International Fuel Prices
2007 and Tackling Climate Change in the Transport Sector brochures in
English. Links to download are available here.
Link:
*http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1326&Itemid=1&lang=uk*
GTZ-SUTP training course in Jakarta
23 October 2008
GTZ-SUTP conducted a training course at the Ministry of Transportation,
Jakarta, Indonesia on 23rd October 2008. Course participants were
invited from various Indonesian cities. The participants were chiefly
people working in the city governments responsible for initiating and
implementing urban transport projects and policies.
Link:
*http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1323&Itemid=1&lang=uk*
GTZ and Metropolis International Institute - MoU signed
21 October 2008
GTZ signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Metropolis
International Institute on 22nd October 2008 in Sydney on the event of
the 9th World Congress of Metropolis
<http://www.metropoliscongress2008.com/>.
The principal objective of the MoU was to collaborate on building and
strengthening capacities for local authorities in the field of
sustainable mobility. Both organisations will address the objective
through assistance to cities in developing and emerging countries by
activities such as training, technical assistance and dissemination of
international experiences and targeted work.
Link:
http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1332&Itemid=1&lang=uk
<http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1332&Itemid=1&lang=uk>
GTZ-SUTP training at Metropolis, 2008 Sydney
20 October 2008
GTZ-SUTP in cooperation with Interface for Cycling Enterprise (I-CE) and
Technical University Berlin (TU Berlin) offered a 2 day training course
titled "Non-Motorised transport in metropolises - the undervalued urban
mobility" from 20-21.10.2008, being part of Metropolis 2008. This
training course was focussed towards planners, engineers and experts
related to urban planning. The course was opened by the Lord Mayor of
Sydney Ms. Clover Moore.
Link:
*http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1299&Itemid=1&lang=uk*
Memorandum of Cooperation between GTZ-SUTP and CEPT
26 September 2008
GTZ-Sustainable Urban Transport Project (SUTP) and the Center for
Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT, Ahmedabad) have signed a
memorandum of cooperation at Visakhapatnam on the 26th September, 2008.
Under this agreement, both organisations will strengthen cooperation in
the area of urban transport development in the South-Asian region. It is
also envisaged under this agreement that new programs/training courses
and/or material development will be undertaken.
Link:
*http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1307&Itemid=1&lang=uk*
GTZ-SUTP participates at BRTS conference in Visakhapatnam, India
26 September 2008
Mr. Manfred Breithaupt, Senior Transport Advisor and Project Director of
the Sustainable Urban Transport Project (SUTP), and Mr. Santhosh
Kodukula, Urban Transport Expert of the SUTP participated in a Seminar
cum Workshop on Bus Rapid Transit held between 24th to 26th September
2008 at Visakhapatnam, India.
The conference was organised by the Indo-German Institute of Advanced
Technology and the Gayatri Vidya Parishad Engineering College. It was
mainly sponsored by the German Technical Cooperation Agency (GTZ), the
Federal Transport Administration (FTA) of the United States of America,
the Greater Visakhapatanam Municipal Corporation (GVMC), as well as
other sponsors. More than 150 participants attended the event.
Link:
*http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1306&Itemid=1&lang=uk*
GTZ SUTP participates at energy efficiency conference in Sao Paulo
19 September 2008
Carlosfelipe Pardo, project coordinator of GTZ SUTP, delivered a
presentation on "Revitalization of public transport in Latin America -
some lessons learnt" during the Energy Efficiency and Competitiveness
Conference, organized jointly by IDB and GTZ Brazil.
Link:
*http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1297&Itemid=1&lang=uk*
GTZ SUTP hosts a meeting on Ecomobility for Brazil
16 September 2008
GTZ SUTP held a meeting with Brazilian stakeholders from government,
NGOs, academia and international organizations to discuss the potential,
activities and timeline for an initiative on Ecomobility for Brazil, in
partnership with ICLEI Ecomobility Alliance, GTZ Brazil, Secretaria de
Verde y Meio Ambiente Sao Paulo, Interface for Cycling Expertise,
Institute for Transportation and Development Policy, Clinton Climate
Initiative, Pedala Brasil, and other key actors of the topic in Brazil.
Link:
*http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1298&Itemid=1&lang=uk*
Quarterly Newsletter of JIKO
09 September 2008
The quarterly newsletter of the Joint Implementation and Clean
Development Mechanism project (JIKO) development 2007-2009) from the
Wuppertal Institute is available for download. The project aims at
supporting the development of the national organisational structure and
procedures that will be necessary for processing future CDM and JI
projects. For this reason, the project works close together with JIKO in
the German Federal Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation and
Nuclear Safety.
Link:
*http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1293&Itemid=1&lang=uk*
Presentation in Cartagena
04 September 2008
Carlos Felipe Pardo from GTZ SUTP gave a presentation on Sustainable
Financing for Public Transport, as part of the CONALTUR National
Congress in Cartagena on August 29, 2008. The event was held with
participation from various international organizations as well as the
Colombian President, its Minister of Transport and the Secretary of
Mobility of Bogotá.
Link:
*http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1289&Itemid=1&lang=uk*
GTZ at Plock 2008
02 September 2008
Armin Wagner (Transport Policy Advisor GTZ) participated in a joint
UNITAR/GTZ workshop on Sustainable Urban Transportation: Transit
Options" in Plock / Poland. In his presentation he gave an overview on
recent international trends and developments in respect to bus planning.
The workshop was attended by participants from local transport
authorities from various cities in Central- and Eastern Europe.
Link:
*http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1294&Itemid=1&lang=uk*
/****Upcoming Events about Sustainable Urban Transport*****//
//*segregated chronologically/
/Date : 15-12-2008/
/Venue : Beijing, China/
/Title : International workshop on integrated transport and sustainable
urban development/
/Link :
http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_eventlist&Itemid=56&func=details&did=283&lang=uk/
/Date : 18-12-2008/
/Venue : Bucharest, Romania/
/Title : Spicycles Bucharest Conference/
/Link :
http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_eventlist&Itemid=56&func=details&did=285&lang=uk/
/Date : 05-01-2009/
/Venue : Mauritius/
/Title : Sustainability Conference 2009/
/Link :
http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_eventlist&Itemid=56&func=details&did=291&lang=uk/
/Date : 14-01-2009/
/Venue : Washington DC, USA/
/Title : Transforming Transportation 2009/
/Link :
http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_eventlist&Itemid=56&func=details&did=286&lang=uk/
/Date : 20-01-2009/
/Venue : Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates/
/Title : Global City/
/Link :
http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_eventlist&Itemid=56&func=details&did=255&lang=uk/
/Date : 21-01-2009/
/Venue : Amsterdam, Netherlands/
/Title : The Permanent Oil Crisis /
/Link :
http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_eventlist&Itemid=56&func=details&did=289&lang=uk/
/Date : 22-01-2009/
/Venue : New Mexico, USA/
/Title : 8^th Annual New Partners for Smart Growth/
/Link :
http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_eventlist&Itemid=56&func=details&did=292&lang=uk/
/Date : 26-01-2009/
/Venue : Zurich, Switzerland/
/Title : AGS Annual Meeting 2009: //Urban Futures: the Challenge of
Sustainability/
/Link :
http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_eventlist&Itemid=56&func=details&did=293&lang=uk/
/Date : 26-01-2009/
/Venue : Brussels, Belgium/
/Title : CAST Final Conference: Final results presentation/
/Link :
http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_eventlist&Itemid=56&func=details&did=294&lang=uk/
/Date : 28-01-2009/
/Venue : Dhaka, Bangladesh/
/Title : Climate Change and Urban Poverty/
/Link :
http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_eventlist&Itemid=56&func=details&did=298&lang=uk/
/Date : 29-01-2009/
/Venue : Mumbai, India/
/Title : 6^th //International Conference on Good Urban Governance for
Inclusive and Sustainable Cities/
/Link :
http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_eventlist&Itemid=56&func=details&did=297&lang=uk/
/Date : 29-01-2009/
/Venue : Mumbai, India/
/Title : International Conference on Humane Habitat (ICHH) 2009/
/Link :
http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_eventlist&Itemid=56&func=details&did=296&lang=uk/
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