SWOMM 2009 HIGHILIGHTS
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Sustainable Urban Mobility in Developing Countries – Web based course by UNITAR and GTZ
An 18-week on line course on Sustainable Urban Mobility in Developing Countries will be held from 4 October 2010 to 18 March 2011, based on material jointly developed by UNITAR (United Nations Institute for Training and Research) and GTZ . Urban transport planning in developing cities is nowadays a key political and technical issue, requiring... »
Google Launches Open Spot, an App to Help You Find Open Parking
Google has launched Open Spot, a new app aimed at helping “driving users” to find and share parking spots. How does it work? It is very easy: users update a map when they are leaving their parking spots, thus enabling other drivers who are looking for a parking spot in the same area to quickly... »
Joint Session of the TRANSITECTS & AlpCheck 2 Projects Meetings
The Joint Session of the TRANSITECTS & AlpCheck 2 Projects Meetings was held on 13 July 2010 at FAO Headquarters in Rome. It included an introductory speech by the Mountain Partnership Secretariat’s Coordinator, Mr. Douglas McGuire. The Joint Session was organized to coincide with the partners’ meetings of the two projects related to the European... »
Mr. McGuire, Sustainable Mobility in Mountain Areas – 13 July 2010
On 13 July 2010, the Coordinator of the Mountain Partnership Mr. Douglas McGuire will give a speech at 12:45 on “Sustainable Mobility in Mountain Areas”, at FAO Headquarters in Rome. The speech will introduce the Joint Session of the Partners Meetings of two European projects, TRANSITECTS and AlpCheck2. Both the projects address transport issues and... »
A commitment for Sustainable Mobility from US most promising entrepreneurs
28 companies among 200 suggested by the Businessweek.com’s readers have been signalled among the most promising entrepreneurs of America. The companies’ rank is various, as small start ups as well as multi millionaires (in dollar) are both represented: their common character is that they all run business activities encompassing a social commitment. The companies passed... »
The 21st century “green evolution” of London red bus
Few places in the world may be immediately identified just by the presence of one means of transport as London does with its red double-decker buses, symbolizing the city in any picture or media’s image. London Municipality – Major Boris Johnson and the transport commissioner Peter Handy – unveiled the project of renewing the “Routemaster”... »
Fostering the institutional cooperation between Balkan countries structures and Member States in transports
The SEETAC (South East European Transport Axis Cooperation) project was officially approved in April 2009 and will last until March 2012. The project is funded under the South East Europe Transnational Cooperation Programme and it involves 17 partners – Ministries for Transport and Infrastructure of Austria, Italy, Greece, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Romania, Albania, Croatia, former... »
Railways in mountain areas – UIC
Margrethe Sagevik, of the International Union of Railways (UIC), addressed the issue of railways in mountain areas during her presentation at the CSD18 SWOMM Side Event. The UIC is the Worldwide Association representing the Railway Sector, counting about 200 members from all continents. The scope of UIC mission is promoting the rail transport at a... »
District Roads in Rural Nepal – the Swiss Cooperation’s experience
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... »
The United Nations transport policies and SWOMM
The General Assembly of United Nations recognised, in the Agenda 21 (Chapter 7 and 9) and in its further implementing sessions, that the issue of transport has been playing a key role in determining the demand for energy. Transportation, in fact, is expected to grow both in the developed than in the developing countries.... »