Energy use in the transport sector fell from a record high level by almost 5 per cent between 2007 and 2009, and over the following two years energy usage has remained at a relatively constant level (figure), increasing according to preliminary data by 0.1 per cent between 2010 and 2011, writes the European Environment Agency in its annual report on transport and the environment.
The CDM Executive Board in its recent 72nd meeting considered a concept note on the challenges and opportunities for standardization and simplification in the context of the transport sector and requested the secretariat to develop guidelines on standardized baselines for the transport sector covering standardization at the following levels:
(a) Standardized parameters or approaches that are country- or region-specific;
The BRT Standard launches a new scoring system to establish a broad, global understanding of what defines world-class bus rapid transit (BRT) systems. The BRT Standard outlines best practices and case studies, and introduces a universal standard to recognize leaders and compare BRT systems. Version 1.0 is the culmination of a review by the BRT Standard Committee undertaken during 2011. The scorecard will be tested and evaluated throughout 2012 for a final release and implementation in early 2013.
This report, “The Life and Death of Urban Highways,” re-appraises the specific conditions under which it makes sense to build urban highways and when it makes sense to tear them down. After decades of building and maintaining urban highways, many cities are choosing to tear them down rather than repair or maintain them. Five such cities are examined in this report: Portland, Oregon; San Francisco, California; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Seoul, South Korea; and Bogotá, Colombia.
The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) was set up in 1947 by ECOSOC. It is one of five regional commissions of the United Nations. UNECE’s major aim is to promote pan-European economic integration. To do so, it brings together 56 countries located in the European Union, non-EU Western and Eastern Europe, South-East Europe and Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and North America. All these countries dialogue and cooperate under the aegis of UNECE on economic and sectoral issues.