18 February 2013

India's Ministry of Urban Affairs issues Advisory on Congestion Charging

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.

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15 February 2013

Friends of Sustainable Transport Lunch discussion: "Sustainable Transport and its role in poverty eradication".

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”.

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