Sustainable Urban Mobility in Asia

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EST Consultation Meeting in Davao

The Sustainable Urban Mobility in Asia (SUMA) program works with Asian cities and countries to strengthen the formulation and implementation of sustainable urban transportation and air quality management policies.

Partners and Experts
SUMA is jointly implemented by its partners and experts. SUMA outputs usually have a partner as a major proponent and the rest of the partners are expected to provide technical or logistical contribution where applicable. The SUMA partners and experts are ADB, CAI-Asia Center, CAI-Asia Local Networks GTZ-SUTP, ITDP, I-CE, UNCRD, WRI-EMBARQ, Christopher Cherry and Marie Thynell. More >>

Outputs and Activities
SUMA will deliver studies, a policy action plan, training, conferences, pilot projects, news digests, and a contact directory on sustainable urban transportation. Its special focus areas include social impacts of transportation, bus rapid transit, non-motorized transportation, electric bicycles, motorized 2-3 wheelers, transportation demand management and fiscal measures. More >>

Climate Change and Transport in Asia: a need for a better debate!

Join the Working Group on Financing Sustainable Urban Transport in Developing Countries!

Asia - Land Transportation and Emissions

Formulation of a National Environmentally Sustainable Transport (EST) Strategy for the Philippines

India Transport Indicators (Draft for comments)

Sustainable Urban Transport in Review - 2008

Ahmedabad BRT

Sustainable Urban Transport Blog

SUMA Factsheets

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SUMA Presentations

• 2009
• 2008

Sustainable Urban Transport News

• Urban planning: How to deal with too many people in too little space
• ASEAN to set up transport infrastructure fund
  
• Nano likely to take congestion to tier II and III towns
  

For more SUT news, go to the SUMA News Digest (Google Group)
See also other AQM news

Sustainable Urban Transport Events

• Citynet Congress 2009, 11 September, Yokohama,
  http://www.citynet2009yokohama.jp/index_en.html
• 5th International Marketing Conference - Successfully marketing public transport, 7-9 October 2009, Lisbon, Portugal
  http://www.uitp.org/events/2009/lisbon/en/
• 8th International Conference of EASTS, 19-October, 2009, Surabaya
  http://www.easts2009.org/
• Accident Prevention: Road Safety Measures 4th IRF Regional Conference on Road Safety, 23 October 2009 , New Delhi, India
  http://www.irfnet.org/eventdetail.php?catid=1&id=100&title=4th%20Regional%20IRF%20Conference%20on%20Road%20Safety
• Enhancing transportation infrastructure and services in a rapid regional growth, Surabaya, Indonesia, 19-22 October 2009
  http://www.easts.info/firstannouncement%202009.pdf
• 2nd MENA Public Transport Congress and Showcase , 25-27 October 2009, Doha, Qatar
  http://www.uitp.org/events/2009/qatar/en/index.cfm
• TRAINING PROGRAMME, 8th Training Programme for Public Transport Managers, 16-18 November 2009, Belfast
  http://www.uitp.org/events/2009/8Training/en/index.cfm
• Urban Mobility India – 2009, 3-December 2009, New Delhi,
  http://www.iutindia.org/urban2009.html
• The 14th International Conference Of Hong Kong Society For Transportation Studies, Hong Kong, 10-12 December 2009
  http://home.netvigator.com/~hksts/conf.htm
• TRB 89th Annual Meeting, 10 January, 2010, Washington DC
  http://www.trb.org/AnnualMeeting/default.asp

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