[sustran] SUTP Newsletter September - November 2010

SUTP Team sutp at sutp.org
Mon Dec 13 18:06:59 JST 2010


****** SUTP Newsletter ******
****** Issue 05/10 September - November 2010 ******

A PDF version of the newsletter can be downloaded from 
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An online version is also available at 
http://www.sutp.org/newsletters/NL-Sep-Nov-2010.htm

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In this edition:

- Muenster, the bicycle-city of Germany – an excellent example for the 
promotion of non-motorised urban transport
- GTZ-SUTP participated at the BAQ 2010 Conference
- Indonesian Land Transport Academy
- GTZ-SUTP at CODATU XIV
- The City of Solo is working on Sustainable Urban Transport Strategy Plans
- GTZ at the 1st UATP Congress on the African Public Transport and the 
Expert Group Meeting on Sustainable Mobility for African Cities in 
Dakar, Senegal
- GTZ conducts training course on Travel Demand Management in Mexico City
- GTZ at the workshop "The future of carbon financing schemes for 
sustainable transport" for Mumbai
- GTZ SUTP participates at the First International World/Transport Share 
Forum in Taiwan

 From Partners:

- ITDP launches Transeunte.org
- 10 principles for Transport in Urban Life
- Studies Show the Connection Between Travel Times to Food Stores and 
Public Health
- New Report: Latin American Green City Index

Publications:

- GTZ module on Parking Management: A Contribution Towards Liveable Cities
- GTZ module on Urban Freight in Developing Cities
- GTZ technical document on Transport Alliances - Promoting Cooperation 
and Integration to offer a more attractive and efficient Public Transport
- SUTP Video Portal
- GTZ releases a reading list on Public Bicycle Schemes

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Muenster, the bicycle-city of Germany – an excellent example for the 
promotion of non-motorised urban transport

During the past years Muenster became Germany’s bicycle capital. With a 
proportion of 37.6% the bicycle is the prevailing transport mode there. 
Nearly half a million bicycles in comparison to 280,000 inhabitants 
requires a specific focus on the demands of cyclists. Today the city of 
Muenster provides a high standard of infrastructure and safety for 
cycling. In contrast, 10 years ago Muenster’s road safety was very poor. 
50% of all traffic-injured were cyclists. Therefore local politicians 
decided to elaborate a new policy “Vision Zero” meeting the particular 
needs of the vulnerable bicyclists and equally considering the failures 
and limited capacity of humans. With the introduction of “Vision Zero” 
an elimination of road causalities was targeted. Further, a high 
standard in road safety, mutual consideration and compliance with 
traffic laws became the basics of Muenster’s new policies in mobility.

To combat non-compliance with right-of-ways and red traffic lights, the 
main reasons for accidents, Muenster implemented new transport 
infrastructure and intensified traffic regulation and monitoring. In the 
scope of these measures cycle-paths along main roads, extended cycle 
high ways with a minimum width of 5meters and cycle-bridges and -tunnels 
at intersections were constructed. Further, the area of the former city 
wall was changed to a cycle-promenade, traffic speed was limited to 
30km/h in residential areas and segregated parking spaces were provided 
to avoid parking at cycle-paths. To increase the flexibility and 
attractiveness one-ways were opened for free cycling. As an essential 
measure to reduce accidents where cyclists are involved the overall 
visibility of cycle-routing was improved, too. Today Muenster supplies a 
high-performance cycle-network with a total length of 457 kilometres. 
For maintenance, parking as well as rental and purchase adequate options 
are available. The penalisation with non-compliance of traffic laws is 
regulated in a specific cycle code. To strengthen the safety of cyclists 
for instance cycling with blood alcohol or without the required lighting 
is punished by fines.


Funded by local and national institutions the feasibility of these 
measures has been ensured by a shift of political and administrative 
engagement towards safety and capacity of cycle-paths.

All these measures led to several improvements in Muenster’s city 
environment. Due to partial modal shift towards cycling the overall 
traffic volume of vehicles was reduced. Hence noise and emission 
decreased, too. Enhanced road safety supports especially the most 
vulnerable traffic participants. Nowadays elderly people and children 
are able to cycle secure at a higher level of convenience. Another 
benefit is the grown flexibility and the enhanced state of health. For 
example when cycling on their daily travel to school children do not 
need a lift by their parents anymore. Thus families can save time and 
costs. Additionally children are able to concentrate at school which 
increases their learning ability there.

During the past years Muenster developed to a city with increased 
quality of life and road safety. Although many improvements took place, 
there are still challenges to optimise the current state of transport.

Nevertheless Muenster, its engagements towards cycling as well as its 
improvements in road safety serve as a standard for sustainable urban 
transportation.

Read more: 
http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2453&Itemid=1&lang=en

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GTZ-SUTP participated at BAQ 2010 Conference, 8-12 November, Singapore

GTZ-SUTP along with several of its partners like CDIA Asia, LTA Academy 
and BTG members, participated at the BAQ 2010 Conference at the Suntec 
Singapore International Convention & Exhibition Centre, and the various 
pre- and post events planned around it, from the 8-12 November, 2010.

1. 08-Nov-2010: Pre-Event “One-day learning Course on Financing 
Sustainable Urban Transport – Bridging the Gap from Planning to 
Implementation” at the LTA Academy, together with CDIA Asia and LTA Academy.

2. 10-Nov-2010: Breakout Session on "Financing Urban Transport", 
together with CDIA Asia

3. 10-Nov-2010: Breakout Session on "How can Climate Change Negotiations 
Help Sustainable Transport?"

4.10-Nov-2010: Breakout Session on "Transport Modes and Systems- Green 
Freight & Logistics"

5. 12-Nov-2010: Post-Event "One day training course on Transportation 
Demand Management", together with the LTA Academy

In addition to the above, GTZ-SUTP also displayed a poster on 'Parking 
Management in Developing Cities' and released two new Sourcebook modules 
titled “Parking Management: A contribution towards Liveable Cities” and 
“Urban Freight in Developing Cities”, all of which generated great 
interest amongst participants, and were well received.

Read more: 
http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2449&Itemid=1&lang=en

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Indonesian Land Transport Academy

The Sekolah Tinggi Transportasi Darat (STTD), in Bekasi, close to 
Jakarta, being an official University established by Presidential Decree 
in 2000 under the Ministry of Transportation, hosts 475 students, being 
educated on land transport, traffic and road transport, railways,  river 
and inland waterway transport as well as motor vehicle inspection. 
SUTIP, the Sustainable Urban Transport Improvement Project, hosted at 
the Ministry of Transportation provides from time to time guest 
lecturing to STTD. Experts from SUTIP, GTZ, LTA Academy and from the 
Singapore-German  Institute have had guest lectures so far. On 
18.11.2010 Manfred Breithaupt from GTZ held a lecture on  the 
contribution of urban transport towards the creation of liveable cities 
and on urban transport restructuring. The lecture was attended by 180 
students.

Read more: 
http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2476&Itemid=1&lang=en

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GTZ-SUTP at CODATU XIV

Chhavi Dhingra from GTZ-SUTP presented a paper at the Codatu 
(Cooperation for Urban Mobility in the developing World) XIV Conference 
in Buenos Aires, Argentina from 25-26 October, 2010.  The theme of the 
Conference was 'Sustainable transport and the quality of life in the city'.

Miss Dhingra made a presentation titled "Addressing quality concerns for 
Public Transport in  Indian Cities" in the session on 'How to improve 
the quality of public transport?'. The conference was attended by almost 
150 delegates from various countries.

Read more: 
http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2455&Itemid=1&lang=en

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GTZ at the 1st UATP Congress on the African Public Transport and the 
Expert Group Meeting on Sustainable Mobility for African Cities, 3-7 
October 2010 in Dakar, Senegal

Mr. Michael Engelskirchen, GTZ Transport Advisor, was invited to make a 
presentation (download here) about the Rea Vaya BRT system in 
Johannesburg as a best practice example for the implementation of BRT in 
African cities. The presentation was held in the Public Transport, Modal 
Choice and integration session on 5th October 2010 and was attended by 
more than 300 participants including representatives of ministries 
across Africa, the African Union and the World Bank. With some 3,000m2 
of exhibition space and 31 exhibitors, including GTZ, this was the 
largest public transport exhibition ever to be held in Africa.

Issues of urban mobility and transport of goods are becoming a growing 
concern in Africa. Lack of adequate transport infrastructures and 
institutional and regulatory framework, infernal congestions,  
overloaded buses and trucks resulting in many traffic accidents, road 
annoyances, increased CO2 emissions, fares fluctuation, multifaceted 
assaults, the proliferation of informal transport operators etc. are 
amongst others, some key issues to be addressed for the sustainable 
development of public transport in Africa.

Read more: 
http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2454&Itemid=1&lang=en

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The City of Solo is working on a Sustainable Urban Transport Strategy 
and Plans

With the assistance of CDIA and GTZ SUTIP, the City of Solo in Central 
Java, Indonesia is working on establishing a Sustainable Urban Transport 
Strategy and Implementation Plans. Promoted by SUTIP, the Technical 
Agreement was signed by CDIA and the Mayor of Solo in September 2010. 
Various stakeholders from the greater area of Solo attended the kickoff 
workshop for the technical assistance that was held on October 14, 2010.

Read more: 
http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2450&Itemid=1&lang=en

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GTZ SUTP participates at the First International World/Transport Share 
Forum in Taiwan

The First World Share Transport Forum was held in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 
during September 16-18, 2010. The conference is described as "bringing 
together leading thinkers and practitioners from around Taiwan, Asia and 
the world, to examine the concept of share/transport in a series of 
focused collaborative interdisciplinary Master Classes."

Mr. Carlosfelipe Pardo participated on behalf of GTZ-SUTP as a moderator 
and panel expert in this event, and made a presentation on 'The 
Psychology of Sharing'.

Read more: 
http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2365&Itemid=1&lang=en

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GTZ at the workshop "The future of carbon financing schemes for 
sustainable transport" for Mumbai

Chhavi Dhingra Deb from GTZ-SUTP participated in this two day workshop 
organized jointly by the Institute Veolia Environment (Paris), Veolia 
Transport (Paris), TERI (New Delhi), TRL (London) and IDDRI (Paris), 
held during 28-29 September, 2010 at Mumbai, India.

The objective of the workshop was to get inputs from various experts on 
the possible development of a carbon financing mechanism and more 
importantly the methodology to be adopted for the same, for funding 
future sustainable transport projects in Mumbai city. Representatives 
from city authorities, private sector and CDM experts from India and 
abroad were amongst those present at the workshop. The discussions 
revolved around issues like existing carbon financing schemes for urban 
transport and their limitations, the data challenges, need for setting 
baselines and possible ideas for financing urban transport projects for 
Indian cities.

Read more: 
http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2405&Itemid=1&lang=en

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GTZ conducts training course on Transportation Demand Management in 
Mexico City

GTZ SUTP, Clean Air Institute and CTS Mexico, supported by the Institute 
for Transportation and Development Policy, held a training course on 
Travel Demand Management (TDM) in English and Spanish language (with 
simultaneous translation) during October 7-8, 2010 in Mexico City, as a 
side event to the Congress for Sustainable Transport held in the same 
city during that week.

30 participants from different cities in Latin America attended the 
course, and participants from at least 15 cities in municipalities and 
other organizations took part in the course via web-link provided by the 
Clean Air Institute as part of their STAQ program.

Read more: 
http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2347&Itemid=1&lang=en 


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* PUBLICATIONS *
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GTZ releases a reading list on Public Bicycle Schemes

Encouraging public bike systems have shown that there can be numerous 
short that could be made by a bicycle instead of using motorised modes. 
Public bike schemes also encourage creative designs in bikes and also in 
the operational mechanisms.

The current document is one of the several efforts of GTZ-Sustainable 
Urban Transport Project to bring to the policymakers an easy to access 
list of available material on Public Bike Schemes (PBS) which can be 
used in their everyday work. The document aims to list out some 
influential and informative resources that highlight the importance of 
PBS in cities and how the existing situation could be improved.

Read more: 
http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2447&Itemid=1&lang=en

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GTZ module on Parking Management: A Contribution Towards Liveable Cities

Parking controls and pricing are transport demand management measures 
implemented frequently by local authorities, yet little of the academic 
literature deals with experience of this policy, preferring instead to 
concentrate on the politically “more lucrative” topic of congestion 
charging. This module attempts to redress that balance a little. It 
discusses the various definitional, operational, planning, institutional 
and social challenges around parking practices in cities, and how these 
could be overcome. The module also discusses topics like types of 
marking, parking demand and common myths associated with vehicle 
parking. The publication contains 50 fully illustrated pages, 20 
figures, 12 tables and 16 boxes and provides further reading and links 
on additional aspects related to parking management.

This new GTZ Sourcebook module on parking management is authored by Tom 
Rye, Professor of Transport Policy & Mobility Management in the School 
of Engineering and the Built Environment at Edinburgh Napier. This 
module offers measures to address parking problems in developing cities 
and is aimed primarily at stakeholders in local, regional or national 
governments and anybody with an interest in this issue. This includes 
not only traffic engineers but also  policy makers, land use planners, 
transport planners, urban designers and in general anyone who has an 
interest in making parking more efficient and more sustainable.

Read more: 
http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2471&Itemid=1&lang=en

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GTZ module on Urban Freight in Developing Cities

The economic development of urban agglomerations depends heavily on a 
reliable and friction-free supply of goods and materials. At the same 
time, freight transportation in urban centres contributes considerably 
to air pollution, noise emission and traffic congestion. Decisive action 
is necessary in order to optimise urban freight delivery, and thus to 
alleviate the negative effects.

This new GTZ Sourcebook module describes the importance of freight 
transportation in the context of urban development and provides detailed 
information on available options to meet current and future challenges 
for urban goods transport in rapidly growing cities of the developing world.

The module has been written by Bernhard O. Herzog, expert in the field 
of freight operation and fleet-management with more than 30 years 
experience in the field of transport planning and logistics.

Read more: 
http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2473&Itemid=1&lang=en

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GTZ technical document on Transport Alliances - Promoting Cooperation 
and Integration to offer a more attractive and efficient Public Transport

This new GTZ Technical Document # 4 titled “Transport Alliances - 
Promoting Cooperation and Integration to offer a more attractive and 
efficient Public Transport” summarises the development of the German 
public transport alliance system, the so called Verkehrsverbund that is 
often regarded as the first and most successful form of integrated 
transport in the world.

It offers information on aspects ranging from institutional issues to 
best practices in introducing an integrated fare system. This document 
also looks at transport alliances in the neighbouring country of 
Switzerland.

The publication contains 130 fully illustrated pages 70 figures and 9 
tables. Additionally it provides further reading and links on additional 
aspects of public transport alliances and public transport integration.

Read more: 
http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2475&Itemid=1&lang=en

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SUTP Video Portal

The new SUTP video portal presents visuals on the different aspects of 
sustainable urban transport. This compilation of interesting videos 
shows various scenes taking place on the streets and urban spaces of 
cities all over the world – from Shanghai in China to Curitiba in 
Brazil.One can see how flaws in urban transport planning can result in 
air pollution, traffic congestion, inefficient public transport and 
unsatisfied city inhabitants. At the same time, many videos also present 
good examples of how to improve transportation and make it comfortable, 
attractive, efficient, environmentally friendly and user optimized.

The video portal covers various aspects of urban transport like Mass 
Rapid Transit, Cycling, Walking, Parking and Road Safety.

Watch the new SUTP Video Portal now at http://www.sutp.org/video

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* From Partners   *
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ITDP launches Transeunte.org

ITDP Mexico launched Transeunte.org, a Mexico City-focused blog that 
aims to be an interactive source of news and analysis on transport, 
cycling, urban planning, civic culture and public policy.

With Transeunte.org, ITDP Mexico hopes to create an online community 
that will promote the renewal of Mexico City’s streets, making them more 
livable.

Visit Transeunte – http://www.Transeunte.org

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10 Principles for Transport in Urban Life

Visionary urbanist Jan Gehl and Walter Hook, Executive Director of the 
Institute of Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP), have together 
set out ten keys to creating more sustainable cities in a new publication.

Read more: 
http://www.itdp.org/index.php/news_events/news_detail/10_principles/

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Studies Show the Connection Between Travel Times to Food Stores and 
Public Health

“The mapping, survey, and research findings presented in this report 
clearly demonstrate that the Bay Area, California, most disadvantaged 
communities face significant transportation barriers to healthy 
activities. In low-income communities of color, where car-ownership 
rates are low, inadequate public transit limits access to hospitals, 
community clinics, supermarkets, and regional parks. People of color are 
disproportionately injured and killed on unsafe streets – a health 
crisis in itself that in turn contributes to fears of walking and 
bicycling.”

Read more: 
http://thecityfix.com/studies-show-the-connection-between-travel-times-to-food-stores-and-public-health/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thecityfix%2Fposts+%28TheCityFix%29

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* Events          *
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23.01.2011 Washington D.C., US: TRB 90th Annual Meeting - 
http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_eventlist&Itemid=56&func=details&did=471&lang=en

27.01.2011 Washington D.C, US: Transforming Transportation 2011 - 
http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_eventlist&Itemid=56&func=details&did=483&lang=en

10.04.2011 Dubai, AE: 59th UITP WORLD CONGRESS AND EXHIBITION - 
http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_eventlist&Itemid=56&func=details&did=381&lang=en

26.09.2011 Mexico City, MX: XXIVth World Road Congress - 2011 - 
http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_eventlist&Itemid=56&func=details&did=389&lang=en


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A PDF version of this newsletter can be downloaded at 
http://www.sutp.org/newsletters/NL-Sep-Nov-2010.pdf

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Contact us: Any further queries regarding this document can be addressed 
to sutp at sutp.org.
All the documents mentioned here are available for download from the 
SUTP website: http://www.sutp.org
For registration please visit 
http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=registers&lang=uk

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