25-08-2017, 09:32 PM
OPTIONS FOR MASS RAPID TRANSIT (MRT)UNDER AN INTEGRATED URBAN TRANSPORT FRAMEWORK
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Trends in Developing Countries
Urban population expanding at more than 6 percent per year in many developing countries.
The number of mega-cities (with over 10 million inhabitants) expected to double within a generation.
More than one-half of the developing world’s population and between 1/3rd and one-half of its poor will live in cities.
Traffic Congestion and Air Pollution is on the rise in these cities.
Pedestrians and Non-Motorized Transport (NMT) are poorly served by the cities transport systems.
World Bank’s Focus in Urban Transport
Urban transport contributes to poverty reduction
indirectly through its impact on the city economy
directly through its impact on the daily needs of the poor.
View transport needs in the broader context of urban development
Need a shift of emphasis from economic and financial viability alone to a strong poverty focus.
Need to target socially excluded (in terms of inaccessibility to jobs, schools, health facilities and social activities) and not just the income poor.
Therefore, the three pillars of the Bank’s Urban Transport strategy include:
improving the operational efficiency of transport;
better focusing of interventions to assist the poor; and,
policy and institutional reform.
Improving the Operational Efficiency of Transport
Investment decisions based on comparative analysis of strategic objectives, technological alternatives, and socio-economic and financial implications—not on short-term political or commercial opportunism.
Rail-based mass transit systems have a role only in very large cities, as these are less congesting and serve the peripherally located in work journeys.
Plans for urban rail systems must be part of an overarching urban transport strategy—physical and fare integration between modes, specially to avoid the exclusion of the poor.
Policy and Institutional Reform
Infrastructure Pricing
Service Provision & Pricing
Urban Transport System Financing
Strengthened Institutions
Sound Political Framework