{"id":15736,"date":"2015-05-04T14:48:21","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T19:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/despacio.org\/?p=15736"},"modified":"2015-05-04T14:48:21","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T19:48:21","slug":"despacios-publications-promoting-sustainable-transport-and-urban-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/despacio.org\/en\/2015\/05\/04\/despacios-publications-promoting-sustainable-transport-and-urban-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Despacio’s Publications: promoting sustainable transport and urban development"},"content":{"rendered":"

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At Despacio, we’d like to think our publications\u00a0have created changes in urban policies. Although we cannot prove this scientifically, we hope that\u00a0our reports and books\u00a0have had this kind of influence. Below, a list of our publications.<\/p>\n

– In 2012, we\u00a0conducted research, designed and published Bogot\u00e1 21<\/a>\u00a0(Pardo was a\u00a0co-author), which proposed\u00a0ways for\u00a0Bogot\u00e1 to promote transit-oriented development<\/strong> while improving the city’s\u00a0economic conditions. GIZ and Siemens financed the project, which Despacio carried out\u00a0alongside Universidad de los Andes and Infratrans Consulting. Wanting to do something else, we developed a video<\/a> and a launch event for the book. This was Despacio’s first publication and still one of our proudest.<\/p>\n

– In a 2013 project for the IDB and ITDP<\/a>, we turned to the topic of\u00a0parking<\/strong>, which we felt required urgent discussion. Despacio\u00a0conducted research on congestion reduction and parking policies in 12 Latin American cities. This research project resulted in a final report totalling more than 500 pages without appendices and a much shorter guide to congestion reduction and parking policy in Latin America. Despacio also organized a launch event in Bogot\u00e1 for the publication.\u00a0Click here<\/a> for more information on the event and here<\/a> to download the guide<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

– We had\u00a0a little bit of energy left in 2013 to publish (with few resources but a lot of interest) the Bicycle Parking Guide<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>that included a design guide, recommendations and a brief guide on measuring emissions reductions resulting from implementing bicycle parking.<\/p>\n

– In 2014, after various conversations with the Bogot\u00e1 Chamber of Commerce, we decided to focus on the\u00a0potential of\u00a0non-motorized transport for Sustainable Transit-Oriented Development <\/strong>(“DOTS”<\/em> in Spanish). We conducted a study to examine this question in\u00a0the specific case of Bogot\u00e1 and subsequently published a book on the subject\u00a0(click<\/a> for more information and a PDF version).<\/p>\n

– At the very end of 2014, we decided to invest\u00a0the small amount of money left over in our first publication of 2015: the Bogot\u00e1 Bicycle Account<\/a>. \u00a0<\/strong>We ended up with a report of almost 100 pages compiling and detailing various\u00a0aspects of bicycle use in Bogot\u00e1, published first in English with a subsequent summary in Spanish. We held a launch event<\/a> in Bogot\u00e1 for the\u00a0Spanish version alongside the Chamber of Commerce and the Embassy of Denmark.<\/p>\n

–\u00a0Despacio supported the IDB’s publication, “Bicycle Inclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean: a guide for boosting\u00a0bicycle use<\/a>,<\/strong>” a preliminary exercise that compiled\u00a0information about bike-inclusive policies in more than 50 cities in\u00a0the region.<\/p>\n

– Finally, we’re about to publish another book for the CAF about the critical topic of\u00a0motorcycles in Latin America<\/strong>, which has some of the results of our 2012 qualitative study about motorcycles<\/a> in six cities in the region.<\/p>\n

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Now, what have\u00a0these PDFs and all this paper actually done?<\/b><\/p>\n

– The topic of\u00a0Sustainable Transit-Oriented Development<\/strong> (presented in Bogot\u00e1 21 and later in the publication on NMT and DOTS) has gained strength since the end of 2012. In fact, the Colombian government is in the process of receiving 20 million dollars to implement transit-oriented development\u00a0in Colombia! This\u00a0effort\u00a0is called the TOD NAMA<\/a>\u00a0and is being promoted by both local and international organizations. Although Despacio is not part of the TOD NAMA project, many people have thanked us for Bogot\u00e1 21, which made\u00a0people ask “is my city doing TOD?”<\/p>\n

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– The\u00a0bicycle indicators<\/strong>\u00a0presented in\u00a0both the Bicycle Account and the bicycle-inclusion guide have received a lot of attention in recent months and many Latin American cities have started to think about how to improve their statistics and show themselves as places that promote bicycle use.<\/p>\n

– A number of\u00a0Latin American cities have started shifting slowly towards\u00a0more sustainable parking policies,\u00a0<\/strong>using Despacio’s parking guide as a reference for making improvements.<\/p>\n

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So that’s what we at Despacio have\u00a0done so far. The thought that our\u00a0publications (and those that we have supported) have had an impact on urban and transport policies around the world makes us very happy. We hope you find the\u00a0documents\u00a0useful as well.\u00a0 For a full list of our publications, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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