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07/20

BLOG: Towards a Better Normal: Philippine Government reorganises EDSA main road – Bus Service Modernisation

The Philippine government has for years been studying options to improve people movement along the EDSA,...
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06/20

BLOG: Walking through the crisis: Sustainable mobility responses to COVID-19

“Public transport is not just mass transit, because mass transit cannot answer all the demands for...
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05/20

Digital Applications and their Influence on Mobility in Kenya

“The service is super!” says Rachel Kamau, as she waits for her ride-hailed minivan. Over the...
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05/20

New Tool: The MobiliseYourCity Emissions Calculator

The MobiliseYourCity Emissions Calculator supports cities and countries in calculating GHG emissions in transport as well...
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04/20

MobiliseYourCity Model Terms of Reference

MobiliseYourCity has developed Model Terms of Reference for the development of NUMPs includes the objectives, scope,...
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10/19

Webinar: Methodologies for Baselines and Monitoring in the Transport Sector

We are pleased to invite you to participate in the final episode of our joint webinar of...
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12/19

Exchanging Know-How on how to change Transport in Indonesia

On November 27th, a group of officials from the Government of Indonesia visited the GIZ Headquarters...
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03/20

Creating Confidence in the Feasibility of Changing Transport

With the aim of highlighting the importance of transport to limit global warming, the Transport and...
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03/20

Curridabat and Montes de Oca seek to become Model Cities for Urban Cycling

San José, Costa Rica, February 12, 2020. With support of the Euroclima+ programme, the Costa Rican...
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03/20

MoU between UITP and GIZ to take action towards climate-friendly public transport

GIZ is proud to announce it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to advance sustainable urban mobility...
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03/20

Picking Berlin and London’s Brains to design the Bangkok Clean Air Zone

Bangkok year-round suffers from severe air pollution (PM2.5 emissions), 72% of which being caused by the...
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02/20

A brushstroke for better mobility

Green, blue, orange – in November 2019, pedestrians, cyclists and particularly drivers in Costa Rica’s Greater...
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11/19

“I wait for it. I don’t ride the old Jeepneys.” – Modernizing the Jeepney Sector

Maylin Tuano stopped riding old Jeepneys, the most dominant form of public transport, and started to...
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12/19

New Online Training Programme: Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs)

The EUROCLIMA+ Urban Mobility Component Community of Practice has launched the blended-learning course for practitioners in...
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10/19

A Bike Changes Your Life in Every Way

How do women move around in Latin American cities? Lina Esperanza Mendoza bets on the bicycle...
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10/19

Ambato strengthens its Commitment to Sustainable Mobility

With the purpose of reversing the trend of intensive vehicle use, greenhouse gas emissions and rapid...
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09/20

Content Overview SUMP Toolkit

General Information and Outreach SUMP Guidelines 2.0 (pt) MobiliseYourCity: SUMP Factsheet (pt) Sustainable Urban Mobility...
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09/20

Examples: SUMP Model Terms of Reference

Examples of Model Terms of Reference for SUMPs are available upon request. Please contact the MobiliseYourCity...
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09/20

SUMP Model Terms of Reference

This document constitutes the official model of Terms of Reference for the development of a Sustainable...
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09/20

COVID 19 SUMP Practitioners Guide

Name of the Document: COVID-19 SUMP Practitioner Briefing Organization: European Commission – Directorate-General for Mobility...
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09/20

Examples on National and Regional SUMP Guidance

The compact guidelines of MobiliseYourCity SUMPs are hands-on, illustrative and synthetic. They support local authorities and...
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09/20

SUMP Guidelines 2.0

This is Europe’s major strategic planning instrument for authorities to develop and implement a long-term sustainable...
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09/20

SWOT Analysis

A SWOT analysis helps summarize and identify the most salient points identified during a previous assessment...
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05/20

Content Overview NUMP Toolkit

General Information Highlights the relevance of sustainable urban mobility from a societal point of view, introduces...
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08/20

User Manual for the MYC Emissions Calculator

This user guide provides an overview of the background, methodology and design of the MobiliseYourCity Emisisons...
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09/19

International Tender on three E-Buses for Costa Rica

GIZ will purchase three battery electric buses and the charging infrastructure for a pilot project in...
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09/19

Shaping Thailand’s Clean Mobility Programme

In Bangkok, transport contributes more than 50% to PM2.5 emissions and is one of the main...
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06/19

Cycling for a Low Carbon Development

Its a fact that the bicycle helps to enforce a more equal social development and that...
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06/19

Climate Finance is Key to Accelerate Action

Timely finance for the implementation of climate actions is both the key and the challenge to...
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05/19

“At its essence, the MobiliseYourCity Partnership connects!”

Since April 2019 Sasank Vemuri has followed Markus Delfs in the position of Secretariat Coordinator for...
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04/19

Build Stronger Partnerships for Successful E-Busses

In urban areas worldwide, the concerns over air quality, noise and greenhouse gas emissions are growing....
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04/20

Bottom-Up GHG inventory and MRV of measures

This tool explores the synergies between bottom-up inventories and the MRV of policies and actions in...
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04/20

Training Materials: Cycling and Non-Motorised Transport

This tool provides a list of training measures on NUMP-related topics by various well-reputed, non-for-profit providers...
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04/20

Templates for MoU

Examples of previous MoUs / cooperation agreements between MobiliseYourCity implementation partners and partner countries for the...
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04/20

Training Materials: Gender

This tool provides a list of training measures on NUMP-related topics by various well-reputed, non-for-profit providers...
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04/20

Training Providers

This tool provides a list of various well-reputed, non-for-profit providers of training measures on NUMP-related topics....
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03/19

BLOG: Change Has Come for the Philippine Jeepneys

In the Philippines, Jeepneys (approximately 200,000 nationwide) are the most dominant form of public transport, accounting...
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05/18

A Glimpse into Germany’s Transport Sector

“He who plants roads will harvest traffic” said Thilo Becker in his introductory talk on transport...
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03/19

Where Convenience of People Matters Most

Walking is the most common form of mobility and is generally how all trips start and...
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02/19

Guadalajara and the European Union cooperate on sustainable mobility

Two projects of the Urban Mobility Component of EUROCLIMA+ are currently being implemented in the Metropolitan...
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01/19

Creation of a single Transport Authority for the metropolitan area of Lima and Callao

With the aim of reordering and integrating the urban public transport system of Lima and Callao,...
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12/18

How the Philippines Are Modernising Their Bus Services

Public transport in the Philippines is dominated by informal, poorly maintained buses and jeepneys (which started...
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12/18

New and Improved Data on Road Transport in Kenya

Kenya is one of the first countries in the entire region of East and Central Africa...
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11/18

Why Aspire to Buy More Cars?

When I meet with friends to “catch up” or interact with colleagues the topic of using...
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11/18

Strengthening Commitments and Synergising Actions Across Indonesian Ministries

The NAMA Support Project SUTRI NAMA and its component INDOBUS held its first Steering Committee Meeting...
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12/18

Best Practices for Urban Mobility Planning

Many cities face major challenges due to the negative impact of increasing motorization and fast urban...
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06/18

Connecting Transport Colleagues from around the Globe

The second Changing Transport Week is coming up 24 – 28 September 2018! The one-week conference in Berlin fosters...
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09/18

We Don’t Need a Revolution – We Need Collaboration!

200 transport experts from 20 countries, highlighted the importance and need to change transport to limit global warming....
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07/18

A New Initiative to Electrify Public Transport Launched in Costa Rica

“For Costa Rica it is fundamental to generate a transformational change in transportation, to not only...
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07/17

Binding Design Standards for Cycling Infrastructure in Lima approved/Municipalidad de Lima aprueba nuevos estándares para ciclo-infraestructura

With the resolution N° 311-2017, the Metropolitan Municipality of Lima, the Peruvian capital city has adopted...
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06/18

Active Transport and Travel Demand Management

Between 2014 and 2016 TRANSfer supported the Colombian Government in the design of a NAMA on...
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06/18

Modernizing Public Transport in the Philippines

Modernizing Public Transport in the Philippines: The Jeepney+ NAMA The Public Utility Vehicle Modernization (PUVM) Program...
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04/18

Changing Transport in Thailand!

When arriving in Thailand it is next to impossible to avoid the topics of transport and...
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05/18

EUROCLIMA+ Urban Mobility Reveals 19 New Projects in Latin America

The reduction of GHG emissions in the transport sector is central for achieving the Paris Agreement’s...
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09/17

Reverse Innovation in Urban Mobility

Air pollution, noise and a lack of space – German municipalities are looking for ways to...
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04/20

NDC Transport Initiative for Asia (NDC-TIA)

Supporting the development of climate-friendly transport policies at national, provincial and municipal level
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04/18

SUTRI NAMA and INDOBUS Projects Kick-off in Indonesia

The implementation agreement for the SUTRI NAMA and INDOBUS has been signed by the General Secretary...
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04/18

EUROCLIMA+

The EUROCLIMA+ programme promotes environmentally sustainable and climate-resilient development in 18 Latin American countries.
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01/18

MobiliseYourCity Partnership

Accelerating the transition of sustainable urban mobility
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06/18

MiTransporte

Mitigating emissions from the transport sector in Costa Rica
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03/20

Sino-German Cooperation on Low Carbon Transport

Enhancing dialogue and implementation of long-term mitigation strategies to promote low carbon transport in China
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02/18

Further Projects

More transport & climate change projects
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04/18

Public Transport Modernization Expo in the Philippines

The PUV Modernization Program is “a transformational large-scale initiative and flagship project of President Duterte’s administration,...
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08/17

Comprehensive Technical Guidelines for Lima’s Cycling Infrastructure

Even though Lima is described as having good geographic and climatic conditions for cycling, commutes by...
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04/20

EUROCLIMA+ Webinars: Financing

This tool includes a series of webinars held by Euroclima+ on several cross cutting topics in...
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04/20

Status Quo Case Studies and Good Practices

This compilation of documents offers various examples of final reports and case studies on the status...
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05/20

Policy Options to Promote Sustainable Fleet Managment

This document by the EU Recodrive project is aiming at policy makers at all levels that...
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04/20

Overview of Financing Options/Sources

These studies give an overview of possible financial mechanisms and design elements to take into consideration...
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04/20

MYC NUMP Factsheet

MYC’s NUMP Factsheet provides a compact definition of NUMPs and highlights their importance in supporting and...
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04/20

MobiliseYourCity Monitoring & reporting approach for GHG emissions

This publication sets out the GHG monitoring and reporting principles for the MobiliseYourCity Partnership. A focus...
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04/20

Examples of Real World NUMPs

This Tool offers a selection of several national approaches towards sustainable urban mobility from around the...
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04/20

Stakeholder Mapping

The Stakeholder Map helps identify and visualise the relevant stakeholders and their relationships, thereby facilitating a...
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04/20

CBA Methode

This tool presents guidance on how to conduct a Cost-Benefit-Analysis by explaining concepts and describing methodologies....
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04/20

How to Ensure Target Group Specific Communication

No one-size-fits-all: The same information may be communicated in different ways via different channels to reach...
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04/20

EUROCLIMA+ Webinars: Mobility and Road Security Management

This tool includes a series of webinars held by Euroclima+ on several cross cutting topics in...
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04/20

EUROCLIMA+ Webinars: MRV

This tool includes a series of webinars held by Euroclima+ on several cross cutting topics in...
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04/20

EUROCLIMA+ Webinars: Gender

This tool includes a series of webinars held by Euroclima+ on several cross cutting topics in...
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01/20

Study Tourguides

Study Tours are multi-day field trips that aim to provide learning experiences for political decision-makers from...
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03/20

C40 Online Seminars

Many Latin American countries have deployed zero-emission buses in various cities. The successful transition of urban...
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02/20

Overview Trainings

Work in progress.
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04/20

Capacity Development Strategies

Capacity Development Plan for an Electric Bus Corridor in Mexico City The Capacity Development Plan by...
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01/20

UITP Electric Bus Training

Work in progress.
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01/20

Environmental Impact Assessment Tool

The Costs and Emissions Appraisal Tool for Transit Buses by the World Resources Institute (WRI) is...
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02/20

Best Practice MRV

Work in progress. C40 Study on Air Pollution in Mexico City (in Spanish) This study by...
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03/20

MRV Overview

Work in progress.
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01/20

Terms of Reference for Financial Analysis Bus Technologies

This chapter includes several model Terms of Reference (ToR) specifically designed for Projects on Bus Fleet...
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02/20

Model Financial and Economic Impact Analysis

Work in progress. GIZ tool forthcoming. Cost-Benefit Analysis for Eje 8 Sur, Mexico City This...
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03/20

Best Practice Financing

Two reports on financing mechanisms from the Philippines and from Brazil show best practice examples. In...
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01/20

Barrier Analysis

Local barriers can prevent transit agencies from successfully renewing their bus fleets. Therefore, it is key...
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01/20

Transport Service Contract

Work in progress.
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02/20

Options for Operational Models

New business models for electric bus deployment in Latin America Although the procurement costs of electric...
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03/20

Guidance on (Pool) Tendering

Work in progress.
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04/20

Technology Evaluation Tool

Work in progress.
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05/20

Technology Risk Categories

This assessment reviewed programmes from Colombia, Costa Rica, Pakistan, and the Philippines, with the aim of...
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01/20

Process Steps of Bus Fleet Renewal Projects

Project managers of bus fleet modernization programs need a structured plan that breaks down the program...
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03/20

Project Presentations

Work in progress. The TRANSfer project has developed exemplary project proposals from the Philippines and...
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04/20

Standard Indicators

Work in progress.
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05/20

Setting Up a Steering Structure

Bus fleet renewal projects need a clear steering structure and suitable organisational structures. We include here...
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06/20

Stakeholder Engagement

The identification and involvement of important stakeholders and actors for busfleet renewals is crucial for the...
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05/20

European Case Studies

Organizations and local governments in various European countries and cities have launched and successfully implemented bus...
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06/20

GIZ Case Studies

Organizations and governments in various countries have launched and successfully implemented programs to modernize public transport...
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08/20

Technology Overview

Work in progress.
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07/20

Guidance Document Sector Transformation

A reform of the bus sector changes the way bus services are planned, procured, monitored and...
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08/20

Content Overview Bus Fleet Renewal Toolkit

This content overview helps you nagivate through this toolkit. Note that many of the posts listed...
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