Posts Tagged ‘sustainable transport’
Sustainable Transport Award 2017
Despacio is part of the Sustainable Transport Award selection committee. Every year, the award is given to a different city for its leadership, vision, and achievements in sustainable transport and urban planning during the past year. More than ten cities have won the award since its start in 2005. The committee is currently accepting nominations for the 2017 STA. More information…
Read MorePromoting Sustainable Mobility
As part of the Ecomobility World Festival 2015 in Johannesburg, Executive Director Carlosfelipe Pardo wrote an article titled “Promoting sustainable mobility – key theoretical and practical issues“. The article looks at how to promote sustainable transport, particularly in changing people’s attitudes and behavior. Pardo therefore proposed different practices to develop a promotion strategy, including analyzing the target population,…
Read MoreNew Spanish Document on Open Data and Sustainable Transport
Despacio recently translated a GIZ report on the role of open data in sustainable transport into Spanish. The report includes a definition of open data, its relevance to public transit, and its applicability to developing countries. The publication was released last Friday in anticipation of the Hackathon on November 7th. The full Spanish PDF is available here- El papel de…
Read MoreCatharsis Bogotá: Improving Mobility
The second phase of Catharsis Bogotá (a joint initiative of Despacio and El Espectador) focuses on mobility, one of the main urban problems identified in the first phase of the project. The survey received 504 responses to the following question: What are you willing to do to improve mobility in Bogotá? Proposals included governmental action–improving Transmilenio, making public transit…
Read MoreThe role of sustainable urban transport in urban development
Along with GIZ, SUTP and ICLEI Ecomobility Alliance, Despacio created a course about urban development and transportation for more equitable cities. 40 attendees from 7 countries actively participated in the lectures and the practical activity based on the course materials. The course was directed towards engineers, planners, policy consultants, public officials and people who work…
Read MoreTransport and Just Cities
In addition to Despacio, the organizations that supported this event were: Bridging the Gap Initiative, CAF-Development Bank of Latin America, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Ford Foundation, Inter-American Development Bank y Institute for Transportation Development and Policy. The main objective was to show the importance of sustainable urban mobility in making cities economically and…
Read MoreSustainable Transport and the Post-2015 Development Agenda
During this event, a group of climate change experts and the audience evaluated the pertinence and effectiveness of the goals set in the sustainable transport Results Framework, a document being prepared with the aim of including sustainable transport in the United Nation’s Post-2015 Development Agenda. This is being done on behalf of the Partnership on…
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