Lanzhou's Bus Rapid Transit System Brings Quick Relief to Busy City

This publication showcases how an ordinary road network expansion can be transformed into a sustainable urban development initiative through the use of an innovative and green transport system.

The city of Lanzhou, in the People’s Republic of China's Gansu province, is home to around 3.6 million inhabitants. As a busy city, and a transport hub at that, it has been suffering from congestion. The Lanzhou Municipal Government (LMG) planned to decongest it by expanding its center onto one of its four districts.

Site Visit - Implementing a Resilient + Smart Community: Bonifacio Global City

Participants traveled to Bonifacio Global City in the Philippines to see best practice in smart urban mobility and resilience. Accompanied by local experts, participants toured High Street greenway, learned about water capture and storage features, and visited the future site of a new Bus Rapid Transit corridor and a pedestrian and bicycle greenway.

Waste-to-Fuel Technology Training

“Transport and climate change” is one of the priority pillars identified under the Asian Development Bank's Sustainable Transport Initiative Operational Plan, 2010 (STI-OP). Transport investments or the use of transport typically lead to increases in greenhouse gas emissions, and so increased knowledge and capacity on how to mitigate emissions to the extent possible will significantly benefit the transport sector.