The mobility secretary launched a pilot program of public bicycles in two important locations in Bogotá. Here we analyze the pilot system and provide recommendations.
This document aims to provide an overview of Bogotá’s status quo, business as usual and optimal urban development based on the evaluation and benchmarking of six categories. It proposes a way forward in order to achieve a world class, transit-oriented metropolis by 2050.
Despacio is a non-profit organization that conducts research to promote quality of life in all stages of the life cycle and works in productive, educative and reproductive sectors, seeking to challenge the intuitive in their respective fields of knowledge by performing applied research to improve the welfare of the community in general.
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.