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Concerns over the growth of motorcycles in cities
The number of motorcycles in many Latin American cities, such as São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia and Bogotá, has grown much faster than the automobile fleet in recent years. In many Asian cities,...
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Transport projects and the potential impact on crime
Transport projects typically do not include the reduction of crime and violence as an objective, but it could be a collateral benefit from investments in certain equipment and services also meant to...
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Transport and maternal health: President Zoellick agrees with me!
With only five years left until the 2015 deadline to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, one particular topic in transport that I believe should gather more collaboration and contributions from...
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Road safety is everyone's responsibility. Mine too.
Here is a quiz question for you: "You are driving on a highway and you suddenly realize that you just missed the intended exit ramp. What would you do?" Most people would hopefully say “Go to the next...
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Bike Local, Think Global and What to Do When the Car is Unavoidable
A few years ago I proudly put a sticker on my bicycle that claimed one should ‘bike local’ in order to ‘think global.’ These days, it seems that the car is unavoidable in the majority of growing...
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The Story behind 50 Years of Transport Investment in the Poorest Countries
The International Development Association (IDA) is a vital, yet oddly lesser known, arm of the World Bank Group. Briefly, IDA receives donor remittances and a portion of interest payments received from...
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How to mainstream gender in transport? It should not be complicated for...
The ambiguities surrounding the interpretation of the word gender and what it means to ‘mainstream gender’ in relation to transport could prove to be a significant obstacle to those who plan and...
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A road crash changed my life. Join me now to save lives...
On the 26th of September 2003 my best friend Jonathan was killed in a car crash in Nairobi, Kenya in East Africa. Jonathan was only 19 years old and had just joined University three weeks prior to the...
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Today! United Nations Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020 kicks off
Saving Lives Through Safer Roads (World Bank story) U.N. Decade of Action on Road Safety aims to save five million lives, prevent 50 million road injuries.
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Is the bicycle one of our best and oldest transport innovations yet?
I was recently invited to a panel discussion to comment on the movie ‘With My Own Two Wheels’ (http://www.withmyowntwowheels.org) which illustrates how bicycles can serve as a missing link to...
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New findings on social and physical mobility bring transport into the...
For those of us anxiously awaiting the new edition of the World Bank’s leading publication, the World Development Report (WDR) each year, this year’s edition does not disappoint. Credit should be...
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Air Transportation – Quo Vadis?
For several years, the World Bank, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), and the air transport industry met annually at a conference discussing issues concerning the air transport...
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The problem with rural transport is that it is rural, the solution is in...
A major constraint with developing and maintaining rural roads is the fact that they are, unfortunately, rural. The areas where they are needed are often difficult to access, logistics become...
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Getting ready for ICT’s potential to make transport safer and more efficient
How relevant is ICT for transport? The emergence of low-cost open-source mapping tools; widespread cellular network coverage in developing countries; declining costs of mobile phone hardware; and...
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A Transport Fare Card Moves Rio Closer to Social Inclusion and Carbon...
Mr. Julio Lopes, Secretary of Transport of the State of Rio de Janeiro, recently visited the World Bank to present what the city is doing to improve the quality of public transport. It is a fascinating...
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The Way We Move Will Define our Future
Mobility is a precondition for economic growth: mobility for access to jobs, education, health, and other services. Mobility of goods is also critical to supply world markets in our globalized economy....
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En Quoi les Transports Dessinent-ils l'Avenir de Notre Planète?
La mobilité est un prérequis essentiel à la croissance économique : elle garantit l’accès à l’emploi, à l’éducation, à la santé et à bien d’autres services. Dans notre économie mondialisée, la mobilité...
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Use, transparency and reuse – how the transport sector in Mexico is being...
Also available in: EspañolFollow the author on Twitter: @shomik_rajOn a recent trip to Mexico City, I had the pleasure of participating in three events that really brought home the transformative...
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Ecovia in Monterrey -- How Bus Rapid Transit is Transforming Urban Mobility
Follow the author on Twitter: @shomik_raj One of the shiny new Ecovía buses Listening to Juan Ayala rave about how they only let the most talented bus drivers operate the shiny new buses on the Ecovía...
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Building Metros in Latin America: Not all projects are created equal, but...
Follow the author on Twitter: @danpulido Construction of the Quito Metro Representatives from international and local commercial and development banks convened in Bogota, Colombia at the end of March...
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