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Developing a Green Freight Strategy - First Steps

16 September 2016
Learn how to achieve green freight in Asia. Development of a green freight strategy requires measuring and reporting environmental impacts of freight transport and setting targets to reduce these impacts.

Green Freight Strategy: Experiences of ADB Green Freight Project

16 September 2016
Learn about ADB’s experiences on green freight projects. This presentation features green freight projects implemented by ADB and the Ministry of Transport in Laos, Thailand, and Viet Nam from 2016 to 2016, with the objective of fostering low-carbon sustainable freight transport. It shares project…

Connecting Today’s Freight Rail Landscape

15 September 2016
The path to optimizing outcomes is unlocking the exponential value of connection and data to solve systems problems. Learn about GE Transportation's digital industrial focus and understand how it connects systems, drives big data analytics, and creates mobility and accessibility.

Is the Future of Urban Mobility Above our Heads?

15 September 2016
Learn why the cable car system is a proven technology for sustainable urban transport. This presentation enumerates the advantages of installing a cable car system. It also features the cable car system in Bolivia’s capital city of La Paz as a case study example.

Contactless Technology for Smart Mobility

15 September 2016
Learn about contactless technology and the benefits it provides. Contactless technology provides fast and highly-secure transactions, user convenience, durability and reliability, form factor flexibility, and low maintenance costs. Learn about the flexible and open technology, continuous innovation…

Bus Rapid Transit

15 September 2016
Learn about the key success factors in the implementation of a new bus rapid transit (BRT) system. Implementing a new BRT system entails the removal of existing old fleets from the streets. To align stakeholder interests, an inclusive, win-win approach is needed.

Using Technology to Making Cities Safer: The Case of Safetipin

14 September 2016
Safetipin is a map-based online and mobile phone application that works to make communities and cities safer. It collects and disseminates safety-related information on a large scale through crowdsourcing and other methods.

Harassment on Public Transport: A Tale of Three Cities

14 September 2016
Women are the predominant users of public transport. Yet the transportation systems they depend on are not geared toward their needs. ADB’s 2015 report on the prevalence of harassment on public transport across three cities in Central and West Asia shows the impact of this behavior on women’s lives…

Transport Technology Funding and Implementation

14 September 2016
Learn how the application of information technology in public transport projects are funded and implemented. This presentation also shares lessons learned from previous experiences of ADB in funding and implementing transport technologies.

Electric Mobility: Status, Success Stories, and Prospects

14 September 2016
A multi-government policy forum launched in 2010 with International Energy Agency as the coordinator, the Electric Vehicles Initiative is dedicated to accelerating the introduction and adoption of electric vehicles worldwide. Strong policy support is crucial for the uptake of electric vehicles on a…