[sustran] Sustainable Urban Transport in Review - 2008

[Sudhir]

 Dear All,

We hope you have enjoyed this year and taken many sustainable transport
activities in 2008.


Year 2008, from the urban transport perspective, can be considered as a
pivotal year as many countries began to realize the impact of transport on
quality of life. The issues concerning urban transport received good media
coverage thanks to Beijing Olympics, fuel price hike, continued air
pollution and congestion problems, as well as climate change. In order to
get results quickly, many cities are contemplating on a mix of carrot and
stick policies such as increasing investments both on roads and public
transport, fuel subsidies and congestion charging, and tightening new
tail-pipe emissions standards while still struggling to implement in-use
emissions standards, etc. The impact of such actions would be more visible
and measurable in the future years but considering the year 2008, what is
the status of urban transport? How did year 2008 rate on sustainable urban
transport in Asia? What were the issues and the challenges?

*Please find the link/attachment for the short review of SUT in Asia for the
year 2008. Hope this document would inspire us to do more in 2009 !!*

*http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/articles-73177_review08.pdf*<http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/article-73177.html>

best regards
Sudhir Gota
Transport Specialist
CAI-Asia Center
Unit 3510, 35th Floor, Robinsons-Equitable Tower,
ADB Avenue, Ortigas Center, Pasig City
Metro Manila, Philippines 1605
Tel: +63-2-395-2843
Fax: +63-2-395-2846
http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia
Skype : sudhirgota



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Sudhir Gota
Transport Specialist
CAI-Asia Center
Unit 3510, 35th Floor, Robinsons-Equitable Tower,
ADB Avenue, Ortigas Center, Pasig City
Metro Manila, Philippines 1605
Tel: +63-2-395-2843
Fax: +63-2-395-2846
http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia
Skype : sudhirgota
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