<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CKAYEPA%7E1%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><link rel="themeData" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CKAYEPA%7E1%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx"><link rel="colorSchemeMapping" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CKAYEPA%7E1%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_colorschememapping.xml"><style>  </style> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Sustainable Urban Mobility in Asia (SUMA) News Digest Vol. 6 Issue 6 – 10 August 2009 </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">SUMA News Digest is a free monthly e-mail publication that features news, information, and events related to sustainable urban transportation in Asia. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">*** VISIT THE SUMA PAGES: <a href="http://www.cleanairnet.org/suma" target="_blank">http://www.cleanairnet.org/suma</a> *** </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">SUMA PARTNERS ON THE MOVE! </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><b style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">E Bikes in China</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> - </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Electric bikes (e-bikes) provide low-cost, convenient, and relatively energy-efficient transportation to an estimated 40 million–50 million people in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), quickly becoming one of the dominant travel modes in the country. As e-bike use grows, concerns are rising about lead pollution from their batteries and emissions from their use of grid electricity, primarily generated by coal power plants. This report analyzes the environmental performance of e-bikes relative to other competing modes, their market potential, and the viability of alternative battery technologies. It also frames the role of e-bikes in the PRC’s transportation system and recommends policy for decision makers in the PRC’s central and municipal governments.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> Read more @ <a href="http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/article-73435.html">http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/article-73435.html</a> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Ahmedabad BRTS – Ahmedabad BRTS is getting good publicity in media. The trail runs of BRTS is getting good publicity and people expectations have raised.<span style=""> </span>An analysis of media reports of past one year suggests high support from media to the BRTS.<span style=""> </span>In case you would like to know more about Ahmedabad BRTS read @ </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a href="http://cept.ac.in/cept/File/CRDU/Janmarg%20bus%20trial%20runs%20-%20Driver%20Training.pdf">http://cept.ac.in/cept/File/CRDU/Janmarg%20bus%20trial%20runs%20-%20Driver%20Training.pdf</a> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_ahmedabad-brts-has-best-marketing-strategy_1280829">http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_ahmedabad-brts-has-best-marketing-strategy_1280829</a> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.dnaindia.com/india/comment_ahmedabad-on-modernity-bus-says-brts-pioneer_1280614">http://www.dnaindia.com/india/comment_ahmedabad-on-modernity-bus-says-brts-pioneer_1280614</a> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a href="http://cept.ac.in/cept/File/CRDU/KeysToSuccessBRTAhmadabad.pdf">http://cept.ac.in/cept/File/CRDU/KeysToSuccessBRTAhmadabad.pdf</a> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">ADB-Clean Energy Week – </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The presentations from the <b>4th Asia Clean Energy Forum</b> are now available at this link: <a href="http://www.adb.org/documents/events/2009/CCEWeek/program.asp" target="_blank">http://www.adb.org/documents/events/2009/CCEWeek/program.asp</a></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">NEWS REPORTS </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">HEADLINES <br> Malaysia : All Systems Go For Synergised Public Transport System - Tee Keat<br> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/article-73504.html" target="_blank">http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/article-73504.html</a></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">ASIA: Hanoi, Seoul to promote cooperation in urban planning <span style=""> </span><br> <a href="http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/article-73508.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/article-73508.html</span></a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Global: U.S., China launch clean vehicle, building project<br> <a href="http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/article-73509.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/article-73509.html</span></a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Bangladesh: Old vehicles causing serious environ threat to Dhaka<br> <a href="http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/article-73512.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/article-73512.html</span></a></span></p> <h3><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal;">Vietnam: HCMC seeks government permission for road price scheme<br> <a href="http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/article-73513.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/article-73513.html</span></a></span></h3> <h3><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal;">Philippines : Gov't allocates P500-M to transport sector to convert diesel or gas engine to LPG<br> <a href="http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/article-73516.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/article-73516.html</span></a></span></h3> <h3><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal;">Pakistan : Wardens directed to focus on positive traffic culture<br> <a href="http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/article-73518.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/article-73518.html</span></a> </span></h3> <h3><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal;">China: Road accidents kill nearly 30,000 in first half of 2009 in China <span style=""> </span><br> <a href="http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/article-73520.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/article-73520.html</span></a></span></h3> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">South Korea: South Korea Sets New Automobile Fuel Economy, Gas Emission Standards<br> <a href="http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/article-73505.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/article-73505.html</span></a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Thailand: SME Bank sets aside loans for natural gas vehicles (NGV)-van purchase<br> <a href="http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/article-73524.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/article-73524.html</span></a> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Thailand: Thailand offers "eco car" producers tax breaks<br> <a href="http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/article-73525.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/article-73525.html</span></a><span style=""> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Cambodia: Cambodian cops despair as road deaths rise: but SA casualties are close to ten times higher <br> <a href="http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/article-73528.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/article-73528.html</span></a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">India : </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">New levies on vehicles to drive transport services</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Govtplansnewleviesonvehicles/articleshow/4869629.cms">http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Govtplansnewleviesonvehicles/articleshow/4869629.cms</a> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Nepal : </span><span class="heading"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Electric city</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.nepalitimes.com.np/issue/2009/08/10/Nation/16201">http://www.nepalitimes.com.np/issue/2009/08/10/Nation/16201</a> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">* * * * <br> INTERESTING FINDS/SEMINARS </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Biofuels in Asia – An Analysis of Sustainability Options</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Biofuels have been at the center of intense interest, discussion, and debate in recent years. This recent biofuels report by USAID provides an objective and comprehensive regional analysis summarizing the benefits and risks of biofuels development <span style=""> </span>in Asia, and examining the distribution and use of biofuels through the lens of global climate change; biodiversity conservation; energy alternatives; food security; economic development; and local livelihoods. The report focuses in fist, second and third generation liquid biofuels for transport applications, and, to a certain extent, its applications for power generation in decentralized contexts. One of the key findings of the study is that by 2030, biofuels will meet only an estimated 3-14% of the total transport fuel demand in Asia. This estimate is predicated on the optimistic scenario that countries will rapidly expand cultivation of efficient first generation biofuels crops on underutilized land while promoting second-generation, “cellulosic ethanol” using agricultural residues. Read more @ <br> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a href="http://cleanenergyasia.net/upload/resources/file/file_510.pdf" target="_blank">http://cleanenergyasia.net/upload/resources/file/file_510.pdf</a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Urban Research Symposium 2009</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The research papers from the Urban Research Symposium are online @</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.urs2009.net/papers.html">http://www.urs2009.net/papers.html</a><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The papers explore various dimensions of climate change in cities. Special interest would be of impact of city transport on climate change. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Moving Cooler – An analysis of Transportation Strategies to reduce green house gas emissions – This report by Cambridge Systematics explores the impact of various policy options on green house gas emissions from Transport in US. <span style=""> </span>The report states that United States can cut greenhouse gas emissions from transportation in half by 2050 with strategies ranging from cutting speed limits to imposing road pricing. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Read more @ <a href="http://movingcooler.info/Library/Documents/Moving%20Cooler%20Executive%20Summary.pdf">http://movingcooler.info/Library/Documents/Moving%20Cooler%20Executive%20Summary.pdf</a> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Bus Rapid Transit Impacts on Land Uses and Land Values in Seoul, Korea</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Significant gains in bus speeds should be followed by significant land-use changes, like densification and property value increases, especially in congested mega-cities like Seoul. Land markets can be expected to place a high premium on parcels close to transit corridors that enjoy significant traveltime savings since, after all, such settings have scarcity value – i.e., there is a finite, limited supply of settings with superior transit offerings. This paper from UC Berkeley Center for Future Urban Transport <span style=""> </span>probes this hypothesis by studying land-use changes and property-value increases induced by Seoul’s introduction of exclusive, median-lane BRT services. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Read more @ <a href="http://repositories.cdlib.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1026&context=its/future_urban_transport">http://repositories.cdlib.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1026&context=its/future_urban_transport</a> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">* * * * <br> MARK YOUR CALENDARS </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Citynet Congress 2009, 11 September, Yokohama, <br> <a href="http://www.citynet2009yokohama.jp/index_en.html" target="_blank">http://www.citynet2009yokohama.jp/index_en.html</a> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">5th International Marketing Conference - Successfully marketing <br> public transport, 7-9 October 2009, Lisbon, Portugal <br> <a href="http://www.uitp.org/events/2009/lisbon/en/" target="_blank">http://www.uitp.org/events/2009/lisbon/en/</a> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">8th International Conference of EASTS, 19-October, 2009, Surabaya <br> <a href="http://www.easts2009.org/" target="_blank">http://www.easts2009.org/</a> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Accident Prevention: Road Safety Measures 4th IRF Regional Conference <br> on Road Safety, 23 October 2009 , New Delhi, India </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.irfnet.org/eventdetail.php?catid=1&id=100&title=4th%20Regional%20IRF%20Conference%20on%20Road%20Safety" target="_blank">http://www.irfnet.org/eventdetail.php?catid=1&id=100&title=4th%20Regi...</a> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">2nd MENA Public Transport Congress and Showcase , 25-27 October 2009, <br> Doha, Qatar <br> <a href="http://www.uitp.org/events/2009/qatar/en/index.cfm" target="_blank">http://www.uitp.org/events/2009/qatar/en/index.cfm</a> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">TRAINING PROGRAMME, 8th Training Programme for Public Transport <br> Managers , <br> 16-18 November 2009, Belfast, <a href="http://www.uitp.org/events/2009/8Training/en/index.cfm" target="_blank">http://www.uitp.org/events/2009/8Training/en/index.cfm</a> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Urban Mobility India – 2009, 3-December 2009, New Delhi, <br> <a href="http://www.iutindia.org/urban2009.html" target="_blank">http://www.iutindia.org/urban2009.html</a> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> TRB 89th Annual Meeting, 10 January, 2010, Washington DC <br> <a href="http://www.trb.org/AnnualMeeting/default.asp" target="_blank">http://www.trb.org/AnnualMeeting/default.asp</a> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">* * * CONTRIBUTE * * * </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">To contribute articles, news items, or event announcements for the next issue, send an email with the complete details and URL source to <a href="mailto:suma-news-owner@googlegroups.com">suma-news-owner@googlegroups.com</a> with subject "FOR SUMA NEWS". Past issues can be found at <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/suma-news" target="_blank">http://groups.google.com/group/suma-news</a> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">* * * ABOUT SUMA * * * </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Sustainable Urban Mobility in Asia (SUMA) program is supported by the Asian Development Bank through a grant from Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency. SUMA is implemented by the Clean Air Initiative for Asian Cities Center (<a href="http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia" target="_blank">www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia</a>), in partnership with EMBARQ - the World Resources Institute Center for Sustainable Transport (<a href="http://embarq.wri.org/" target="_blank">http://embarq.wri.org</a>), GTZ Sustainable Urban Transport Project ( <a href="http://www.sutp.org/" target="_blank">www.sutp.org</a>), Interface for Cycling Expertise (<a href="http://www.cycling.nl/" target="_blank">www.cycling.nl</a>), Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (<a href="http://www.itdp.org/" target="_blank">www.itdp.org</a>), and United Nations Center for Regional Development (<a href="http://www.uncrd.or.jp/est" target="_blank">www.uncrd.or.jp/est</a>) </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> </span></p> <input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div>