ADB’s Sustainable Transport Initiative - Midterm Review

Read about ADB’s Sustainable Transport Initiative Operational Plan and how it plans to update its operations in the transport sector in line with Strategy 2020.

This presentation shares the implementation progress achieved by ADB in the areas of road project sustainability mainstreaming, road safety, urban transport, and climate change. It also shares the new priority areas that ADB has identified.

Heather Allen

Heather has more than 20 years international of experience and is a highly regarded expert in gender, urban transport, sustainable development and climate change. She worked at UITP, the International Association of Public Transport with members and as Program Director for Sustainable Transport with the UK Transport Research Laboratory’s Sustainable Transport Group.

Gender Tool Kit: Transport

Transport infrastructure and services should be designed to best meet the needs of women and men in equitable, affordable, and responsive ways.

This tool kit provides guidance for transport sector specialists and gender specialists on how to mainstream gender equality issues into transport project design, implementation, and policy engagement.

Trends in global travel behaviors, indicators, and their use in urban transport planning in Indian cities

The presentation includes discussion on: (i) an overview of the work being done by ITDP, particularly in the area of sustainable and equitable transportation; (ii) statistics on the usage of urban transport; (iii) a framework for how city streets should be designed; (iv) detailed discussion on the gendered nature of travel and how this should be taken into consideration in the design of transport systems to make them more inclusive and safer, more comfortable and more convenient for women and girls.

Kathmandu Cable Car

MDP Consulting & Engineering specializes in urban and transportation solutions, executing comprehensive studies on alternative urban transportation solutions. This presentation shares the findings of a recently-completed transport study about Nepal’s capital city of Kathmandu, and how ropeway-propelled systems can help ease urban transportation challenges in the city.