1.
A product of WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
PAULO SERGIO CUSTODIO – SEPTEMBER 2016
"ARE INDIAN CITIES
MOVING TOWARDS
SUSTAINABLE
TRANSPORTATION?"

2.
• Sustainable cities will be the ones with
less cars on the streets
• The ideal situation would be cities without
cars
• Many cities promote
a day without car as
a way to show we can
move without cars

3.
• Cars are confortable and convenient but.
• They cause congestion and air pollution

4.
• Cars not only occupy street space causing
congestion and air pollution.
• They consume considerable space for
parking

5.
• Parking consumes also big chunk ot public
space. It is private use of public space.

6.
• With the event of car, there was a need for
space on the small streets of old towns
• Rail was a developed technology and the best
way was to put public transportation either
underground or elevated
London New York

7.
• Cities are started moving from investing in
infrastructure for cars to other actions:
• Better use of existing infrastructure for
cars – car pool, hov lanes
• Changing use of road space with more
eficient systems: queue jumps, bus lanes
BRT

8.
• Cities are started moving from investing in
infrastructure for cars to other actions:
• Better use of existing infrastructure for
cars – car pool, hov lanes
• Changing use of road space with more
eficient systems: queue jumps, bus lanes
BRT

9.
• Hov lanes in Los Angeles

10.
• Bus lanes were next step to improve use
of road space

11.
• BRT was next step to improve use of road
space
Curitiba

12.
• Bogota, Colombia proved BRT could have high capacity.
• Today is transports 45 thousand passengers per hour
per direction, more than most of metros in the world

13.
• Move people to more sustainable
transportation - bikes
Copenhagen
Paris

14.
• Move people to more sustainable
transportation – Public bikes
Sao Paulo - BrazilParis - France

15.
• Mixed uses makes cities more productive
• Increasing probability of short trips makes
a difference

16.
• Transit Oriented Development
• Transfoming environment to make transit
more attractive

17.
• Walking as a choice and acess mode

18.
• Solution is a puzzle. It depends on how we
mount the pieces
Urban
development
Demand
Management
NMT
+
Transit
Traffic
management

19.
Thank you