[sustran] SUTP update - September to November 2008

[Sustainable Urban Transport Project- SUTP]

    /*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
    <http://www.sutp.cn/> ).


    /******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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http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_eventlist&Itemid=56&lang=uk 
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