Sustainable urban transport in review - 2008
This paper by CAI-Asia recaptures highlights of 2008 related to urban transportation, air quality, and climate change. Summarizes some of the significant events, news, issues of 2008 for policy makers, researchers, NGOs and other stakeholders working on SUT issues in Asia.
Year 2008, from the urban transport perspective,can be considered as a pivotal year as many countries began to realize the impact of transport on quality of life. The issues concerning urban transport received good media coverage thanks to Beijing Olympics, fuel price hike, continued air pollution and congestion problems, as well as climate change. In order to get results quickly, many cities are contemplating on a mix of carrot and stick policies such as increasing investments both on roads and
public transport, fuel subsidies and congestion charging, and tightening new tail-pipe emissions standards while still struggling to implement in-use emissions standards, etc. The impact of such actions would be more visible and measurable in the future years but considering the year 2008, what is the
status of urban transport? How did year 2008 rate on sustainable urban transport in Asia? What were the issues and the challenges?
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