Project Concepts
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Electric Handcarts in Mombasa
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The population growth is in a rise in Mombasa and also informal settlement is high in urban fringes. Those areas are underserved by infrastructure and other amenities. The small scale traders, peri-urban farmers or street hawkers living in urban fringes of Mombasa have difficulty due to inadequate urban services and the situation is more difficult due to poor economic condition. Using minibuses for goods transportation to urban market from fringes is costly for small business. Therefore, manual handcarts are widely used for cargo services by small businesses in Mombasa. However, they are labour intensive, provide poor productivity and the infrastructure does not support its ease in movement. This has created a delay in services, traffic congestion and caused health impact. Indirectly, the traffic congestion or traffic snarl up due to manual handcarts has led to more carbon emission. Mombasa has currently over 10,000 handcarts plying on the road daily competing for the same space together with other vehicles. Start-ups, such as Auto-Truck E.A Ltd have recognized the need for an alternative, and start providing low-cost and efficient solutions, such as electric handcarts that uses clean mobility technology to run and operate.
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Fahrradstrasse in Belo Horizonte
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Belo Horizonte has an innovative Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan, called PlanMob-BH, with comprehensive measures including TOD, BRT and Bike solutions. In September of 2013, Belo Horizonte formalized PlanMob-BH as a guide for improving mobility for the next 20 years. Belo Horizonte became the first city in Brazil to have a Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan with a long-term vision that links mobility to urban development goals (Secretariat Municipal de Governo BH, 2013).
The plan consists of elements such as an integrated public transport network composed of metro lines and a bus rapid transit (BRT) system with exclusive bus corridors; a bikeway network with the installation of protected bike lanes and a public bicycle sharing system; and a pedestrian facilities network. By 2030, the plan expects that the measures implemented contributes to reductions of 36% in GHG emissions, 25% in travel time and 19% in transport costs (Secretaria Municipal de Governo BH, 2013). A process of review and adjustment of the plan started in 2016 and was approved in 2017. The plan contains 176 measures to be implemented until 2030, from which 56% were already implemented until May 2018. Beyond the immediate mobility related issues, Belo Horizonte also recognises these measures as an opportunity to revitalise the downtown area and enhance the quality of life by creating pedestrianised streets and giving the space back to people from cars. |
Zone 30 in the Cachoeirinha neighbourhood
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Worldwide, road accidents are the cause of death of more than 500 children daily, 92% of which occur in low- and middle-income countries (ITDP, 2018). Additionally, in 2012, air pollution caused the death of3 million people and 169,250 children under the age of five, of which 87% also occurred in low- andmiddle-income countries (WHO, 2016). Moreover, children and teenagers have important mobility needs as they commute every day to school and back. In Brazil, almost 25% of the population is in school age, i.e. between 4 and 17 years old (IBGE, 2010). Accordingly, the provision of safe routes to and school zones is crucial.
The Zone 30 project in the Cachoeirinha neighbourhood is the first of a series of planned interventions to be implemented in approximately 25 blocks. The first intervention will be in an area of the neighbourhood where the conflict between pedestrians and motor vehicles is critical because of the width of the road, the lack of signage for vehicles, the very narrow sidewalks and the intense flow of children andadolescents due to the existence of two large schools in the area. |
Pedestrian Street along Tam bac River - Hai Phong
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Hong Bang District is Hai Phong socio-economic centre with historical, cultural and recreational importance. The population of this district is 108,101 with a density of 7,471 people/km2. Beside a growing population, in 2017 Hai Phong received approximately 7 million visitors, which included 1 million international visitors.One area of great significance and high touristic attraction is the Hong Bang District’s Tam Bac park, named after the Tam Bac river flowing through the district.
Due to tourism flows and commercial activities in the area, vehicular movement is very high with huge risksto pedestrian. Pedestrian safety is also low due to the lack of allocated walking space, further evident withfrequent and high volume of traffic accidents. With this in mind, the Tam Bac river front has the potential to be developed into a pedestrian friendly space by reducing vehicular movement, implementing energy effi- cient street lighting, and improving waste management. Hence, Hai Phong city plans to develop a project to redevelop the area along the Tam Bac river and Tam Bac Park to prioritise pedestrians and create an amiable public space for the citizens and the environment |
E-Rickshaws in Kochi
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The Indian e-mobility sector has seen steady growth in momentum, especially since the national Ministry of Roads Transport declared intentions to achieve 100% electrification of cars by 2030. Accordingly, the Central Government has pursued multiple action plans, including subsidies on sales of e-vehicles as well as prioritising setting up charging infrastructure. These efforts have moderately improved Electric Vehicles (EV) uptake across the country. Between 2012 and 2016, the share of EV purchases for all passenger vehicles sold grew from 0% to 1.3% (ICCT, 2016). Particularly, the passenger vehicle segments to have achieved maximum EV adoption have been two-wheelers and three-wheelers. It is estimated that the number of electric two-wheelers presently plying on Indian roads is 450,000 while that for electric rickshaws is over 500,000 (TERI and YES Bank, 2018). The current growth of e-rickshaws market has also attracted the attention of app-based cab services to invest in it. In March 2018, Ola, one of India’s largest app-based transport service aggregators declared its plans to launch a fleet of 10,000 e-rickshaws in three cities (not including Kochi) (Shu, 2018).
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Electric Two-Wheelers in Hai Phong
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Vietnam currently contributes 0.6% of the world’s total greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions and ranks 27th globally in terms of GHG emissions (Vietnamnet, 2017). For the period of 1990-2014, the country’s cumulative GHG emissions were 252 MtCO2e. During the same period, GHG emissions for energy (electricity sub-sector) were 50 metric tons, for transport: 31.9 metric tons and waste: 9.4 metric tons (WRI-CAIT, n.d.).
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Electric Bike Sharing in Colombia - Ibagué
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Urban transport and mobility have over the years become an essential concern for city authorities and planners whose challenges have grown, especially towards improving sustainable transportation systems. With the advancement of electric mobility in transport, electric bicycles have also seen significant increase in usage many cities globally. A fact-finding mission by the Dutch Cycling Embassy on cycling in Colombia reported that there is a steady growth in biking in major Colombian cities with the popularity of e-bikes also increasing over time (Berenschot and Urbanos, 2015). Efforts to expand cycling activities and promote the use of bicycles as an alternative transport mode in cities can potentially contribute to reducing the impacts of fossil-fuel dependent public transportation not only in Colombian cities, but also in urban areas around the world. This paper proceeds to review the potentials that exist in promoting e-bikes sharing systems in the Colombian city of Ibagué.
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Open Streets in Cape Town
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Open Streets Cape Town is an initiative that aims to change and challenge the paradigm of urban mobility by carrying out campaigns, temporary interventions, dialogues, and walks that raise citizen awareness, spark public debate, and ultimately drive behaviour change around the role of streets in the life of the city - taking inspiration from Bogotá’s Ciclovía, a recreational programme that creates 120 km of car-free streets in the Colombian capital every Sunday and public holiday.
In partnership with the city of Cape Town, Open streets day’s will close major streets for motorized transportation on specific days. The public is then encouraged to enjoy the car free streets where activities are hosted on the day – these include music, art, interactive workshops, dancing, yoga, chess and other sports and games. Open Streets is free and everyone is encouraged to participate and help plan the day – the organisation of this activity is usually done in broad consultation with local businesses, civil organisation in the area, and the whole community. The city of Cape Town’s transport and Urban Development Authority (TDA, 2018) provides the administrative support and governance framework for this action – financial support is gained via sponsorship and donations. |
E-Mobility options in Ghana
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In Accra, most trips are made by private cars, taxis, mini-buses (called trotro) and buses; the latter three constituting the core of public transport services in the city. In recent times, there is an in- crease in the use of motorcycles and bicycles as a means of transporting goods and people. The use of motorcycles popularly called “Okada” constituted 8% of all modes of public transportation as at the year 2015 and has gained popularity though it is considered illegal (Graphiconline, 2018). The table3 shows the shares in the various of mode of transportation (both motorized and non-mo- torized) used in Accra as at 2008.
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Sustainable Mobility in Suva
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Mobility in Fiji
Action 1: Pedestrian Zones Action 2: Dedicated Bus lane Action 3: Electric Taxis Action 4: Electric Two-wheeler Action 5: Car-Pooling Action 6: Electric Bike-Sharing |
