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District Roads in Rural Nepal – the Swiss Cooperation’s experience

By admin

Mattia Poretti from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), presented the District Roads Support Program (DRSP), implemented in Nepal and aiming at improving the living conditions of the local population, by facilitating mobility and access. The Program, made up of an agreement among the Switzerland and Nepal Governments, started in 1999 and is... »

Toward a personal intermodality?

By FrancescoG

As the SWOMM’s blog visitors know well, one of the most debated issues in sustainable mobility certainly is intermodality. And a crucial question is to undestand how passengers and freight can efficiently and effectively move from one to another mode of transport at a reasonable cost. An original idea was proposed by Frank Rinderknecht, inventor... »