<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 12 (filtered medium)"> <style>  </style>  </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1> Sustainable Urban Transport Project (GTZ SUTP) update<o:p></o:p> August - December 2006<o:p></o:p>  <o:p></o:p> 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@sutp.org , or visit our website at www.sutp.org (or www.sutp.cn from China).<o:p></o:p>  <o:p></o:p> *****Project related News*****<o:p></o:p> (For greater detail of these news, please go to www.sutp.org. Users from China please visit www.sutp.cn)<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> * BRT Planning Traning Course at BAQ 2006, Yogyakarta (Indonesia)<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Date: December 11, 8:00- 16:00<o:p></o:p> Venue: Mercure Phoenix 1, Mercure Hotel<o:p></o:p> Organizer:GTZ Sustainable Urban Transport Project<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 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.<o:p></o:p> http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=159&Itemid=40&lang=en<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> * Public Awareness and Behaviour Change in Sustainable Transport – Training Course at BAQ, Yogyakarta (Indonesia)<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Schedule: 12 Dec (Tue) 2006 / 8:00-16:00 <o:p></o:p> Venue: Mercure Museum Room, Mercure Hotel<o:p></o:p> Organizer: GTZ Sustainable Urban Transport Project<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 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.<o:p></o:p> http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=160&Itemid=40&lang=en<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> * Bus Rapid Transit planning training for Indonesian cities, Jakarta (Indonesia)<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 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 .<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> * GTZ-SUTP website for China<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 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!<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> * GTZ-SUTP in China: 3 training courses and diffusion<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 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.<o:p></o:p> http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=147&Itemid=40&lang=en<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> * Training course on Bus Rapid Transit in Mexico<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 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.<o:p></o:p> http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=135&Itemid=40&lang=en<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> * Three training courses in Sao Paulo<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 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.<o:p></o:p> http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=85&Itemid=40&lang=en<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> ***** CURRENT AND UPCOMING EVENTS (organized by continent, starting date).<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> * Events in Latin America<o:p></o:p> Events: 1 <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 05.02.2007           UITP - 5th International Bus Conference<o:p></o:p> http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_eventlist&Itemid=56&func=details&did=28&lang=en<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 26.2.2007             ANDINATRAFFIC 2007: 2nd International Exhibition for Transport and Traffic Technologies<o:p></o:p> http://www.andinatraffic.com/sa3t/home/index.cfm<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> * Events in Asia<o:p></o:p> Events: 8              <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 29.11.2006           2nd annual Asian Infrastructure Congress<o:p></o:p> http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_eventlist&Itemid=56&func=details&did=2&lang=en<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 02.12.2006           International colloquium in Shanghai<o:p></o:p> http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_eventlist&Itemid=56&func=details&did=34&lang=en<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 09.12.2006           11th Intl. Conf. of Hong Kong Society for Transport Studies          <o:p></o:p> http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_eventlist&Itemid=56&func=details&did=15&lang=en<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 13.12.2006           Better Air Quality Workshop, Yogyakarta (Indonesia)<o:p></o:p> http://www.baq2006.org <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> * Events in Europe<o:p></o:p> Events: 3              <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 09.05.2007           NECTAR Conference Porto , FEUP<o:p></o:p> http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_eventlist&Itemid=56&func=details&did=25&lang=en<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 12.06.2007           Velo-city 2007 in Munich<o:p></o:p> http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_eventlist&Itemid=56&func=details&did=18&lang=en<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 25.06.2007           ENHR Sustainable Urban Areas Conference<o:p></o:p> http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_eventlist&Itemid=56&func=details&did=33&lang=en<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> * Events in North America<o:p></o:p> Events: 1<o:p></o:p> 21.01.2007           Transportation Research Board (TRB) 86th Annual Meeting<o:p></o:p> http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_eventlist&Itemid=56&func=details&did=19&lang=en<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Please check our website for constant updates of all this information. 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