India’s Ministry of Urban Affairs has issued an advisory requesting authorities on urban transport to issue necessary instructions for identifying the most congested areas in their cities, getting a proper study done on various aspcts of congestion chargingas per city requirements and consider adopting “congestion charging system” as a measure to decongest a particular area/CBD, increasing a mode share of cycling as well public transport and increase the mobility of people besides controlling pollution.
The Missions of Thailand and the Netherlands in cooperation with UN_DESA, hosted an informal lunchtime meeting as a follow-up to the panel discussion on Sustainable Transport held at the Netherlands Mission on 19th of November 2012.
The topic for the meeting was “Sustainable Transport and its role in poverty eradiction”.
“From Breakthrough to Breakout”. After having realized an internal consensus in the transport community on the need for more sustainable, low carbon transport and realizing a convergence around the “Avoid-Shift-Improve” as the new paradigm for development of transport infrastructure and services in the context of sustainable, low carbon development the emphasis of the SLoCaT Partnership will now shift to bringing the wider development community on-board and promote the rapid scaling up of sustainable, low carbon transport solutions.
31 January 2013: A review document by the Partnership on Sustainable, Low Carbon Transport (SLoCaT) considers megatrends in transport, the Partnership’s effectiveness towards realizing its objectives, and future directions. The review document was prompted by the 2009 Partnership mandate to review progress within three years of its establishment.