BROCHURE -Promoting Transport Options That Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Africa |
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The Project SUSTRAN-Africa is designed as an Africawide
network of existing and new projects, people,
and institutions that are working to accelerate the
adoption of sustainable transport sector policies and
programmes. SUSTRAN-Africa is foreseen as a
mechanism that will not only add direct value to
existing projects, but will have a wider multiplier
effect on sustainable transport in Africa through:
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BROCHURE - Urban Transport Planning and Management |
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The programme conducts field studies and expert
group meetings to develop a range of policy options
and management tools in the field of urban
transport. This includes operational research and
field demonstration projects in the area of transport
demand management
and using nonmotorized
urban
transport as a tool for
poverty alleviation.
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BROCHURE - Protecting Vulnerable Road Users: Road Safety and the Urban Poor |
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To create a collaborative platform of interested
urban practitioners, policy makers and
representatives of international organizations
interested in furthering the global goal of enhancing
levels of urban road safety particularly in developing
countries and particularly with vulnerable road users
in mind.
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Provision
of Travelway Space for Urban Public Transport in Developing Countries,
UNCHS (Habitat), Nairobi, Kenya, 1993, (HS/288/93E) |
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The objective of this publication is to promote public transport
systems which are significantly less expensive than heavy rail, but
still provide high speed access along major corridors by use of segregated
travelways. It highlights a number of the more important pre-investment
planning considerations necessary for successful project implementation,
such as techniques of land acquisition and right-of-way development.
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Improvement
of Urban Public Transport in Developing Countries, UNCHS (Habitat),
Nairobi, Kenya, 1994, (HS/295/93E) |
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That public transport is a potentially cost-effective and more environmentally
sensitive mode of transport than travel exclusively by private automobile
is not disputed. However, in a developing country context, these systems
are often mis-managed and underfunded and require ever-greater public
subsidies. This publication explores successful management techniques
to improve public transport efficiency as well as explores non-transport
solutions to transport problems which can enable public transport
to be more cost-effective. |
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Economic
Instruments and Regulatory Measures for the Demand Management of Urban
Transport, UNCHS (Habitat), Nairobi, Kenya, 1995 (HS/378/95E) |
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It is now widely accepted that costly supply-side infrastructure
investments alone cannot solve the urban transport crisis facing many
of the world's cities. This paper highlights the alternative demand-management
measures, from both the economic and regulatory standpoints, that
are possible for policy-maker, planners and other decision-makers
to use to control the rising demand for urban travel. |
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Transport
and Communications for Urban Development: Report of the Habitat II
Global Workshop, UNCHS (Habitat), Nairobi, Kenya, 1997 (HS/435/96E) |
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In preparation for the Habitat II "City Summit", a Global Workshop
on transport and Communications was held in Singapore to provide inputs
for the transport component of the Habitat Agenda. This publication
presents the four main theme papers, four regional overviews on transport
conditions and trends, as well as papers from 12 different countries
presented, reviewed and discussed at the meeting. |
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Comparative
Modal Efficiencies in Urban Transport, With Reference to Developing
Countries - Volume I: Mass Public-Transport Modes and Sustainable
Development, UNCHS (Habitat), Nairobi, Kenya, 1991, (HS/236/91E) |
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Urban transport is both a cause and effect of unsustainable urban
development. This publication explores the ways in which contemporary
urban transport positively and negatively impacts on urban economic
development and quality of life for urban residents. |
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Informal
Transport in the Developing World, Dr. Robert Cervero, University
of California at Berkeley, UNCHS (Habitat), Nairobi, 2001 |
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The informal transport sector has burgeoned throughout cities of
both the developed and developing worlds, filling the gap of inadequate
and increasingly expensive public transport. Local, regional and national
transport decision-makers and managers need the knowledge, tools and
techniques to more rationally plan for and regulate informal transport
in order to maximize its inherent economic advantages vis-a-vis formal
transport.
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Energy-Environment
Linkages in African Cities: Final Report of the Regional Workshop,
UNCHS (Habitat), Nairobi, 2000 |
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The production and use of energy are associated with certain negative
environmental impacts, including land-base and atmospheric pollution
which threatens the very health and well-being of African society.
This publication calls for a new approach to managing the production
and consumption of energy in African cities that will more appropriately
address the equity, efficiency and environmental considerations of
energy usage in a more well-balanced manner.
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Linkages
Between Transport and Housing for the Urban Poor: Policy Implications
and Alternatives, A Habitat-commissioned paper by Dr. Paul Barter,
National University of Singapore, UNCHS (Habitat), Nairobi, 2001 |
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