The Action Plan

1. The Action Plan Presentation by Charles Melhuish 25 May 2006

2. The Vision • Asia has to promote economic growth • This will require: • Accelerated urban reform • Innovative transport demand management • Rapid implementation of new technology • Incorporation of low carbon-footprint fuels • Even with all these actions GHG emissions from transport will continue to grow

3. Stakeholders • National, state and provincial governments • Local city and municipal governments • NGOs and community groups • Private enterprise and investors • International development community

4. The Vision of Urban Reform and Land-use Planning • Livable and sustainable, community- and health-centric, green cities • Improve access to goods and services while minimizing the need to travel • Village concept of high-density urban planning within mega-cities • Integrating residential, business, commercial and light industrial areas • Linking villages with efficient public transport

5. The Vision of UrbanPrivate Transport • Market instruments that charge the cost of externalities to the use of private motorized transportation - Congestion, pollution, climate change and use of public infrastructure • Promote increased mobility together with a reduced demand for personal transport usage - reduce km/yr

6. The Vision of UrbanMass-Transport and NMT • Public transport systems that provide door-to-door solutions • Safe, secure, rapid and user-friendly high quality public mass-transport - Bus Rapid Transit • Pedestrian zones and walkways • Segregated cycle paths • Park-and-ride car and bike parks

7. The Vision for Freight and Long Distance Transport • Economic growth that extends the supplier and distribution chains • Efficient larger capacity, long-distance carriers • Modal shift to less-GHG-intensive transport modes (e.g.: railways) • Well-defined trucking routes with spatial and temporal truck restrictions in other zones • Fast traveler-friendly mass-transport access to well-located terminals and airports

8. The Vision for Vehicle, Engine and Fuels Technology • Vehicle energy efficiency and emissions “world-wide” standards - Zero implementation lag - Include all durability requirements - Increased Asian leadership for 2-wheelers - Promote fleet renovation • Correctly implemented and rigorously enforced vehicle inspection programs • Achieve a substantial portion of on-road transport to clean and CO2 efficient biofuels

9. Co-Benefits of Climate Change

10. Barriers • Availability of congruent and consistent knowledge of international best practices on climate change and sustainable transport • Weak empowerment and linkages in many metropolitan areas between urban and transport planning, traffic management and enforcement • Inadequate accounting tools that fail to take into consideration the true cost of the externalities of on-road transport

11. Barriers • Lack of information to the consumer of the true per-km cost of private transport • Limited access to capital • Lack of incentives to invest in better transport systems • Delay in the adoption of new technologies • Difficulties in developing an optimum investment framework for more climate friendly transport systems

12. Principal Policy Interventions • Promote urban reform and land use planning - Urban design that reduces the need to travel, requiring fewer passenger- or freight-kilometers; • Adopt integrated transportation planning - Modal shift that promotes lower fuel consumption per passenger- or freight-kilometer traveled; • Improve vehicle engines and fuel technology - Improve the energy efficiency of individual vehicles, to increase the distance traveled per unit of fuel • Introduce biofuels with lower GHG emissions • Use fiscal measures to influence travel behavior patterns

13. Policy Interventions • It is only when all these policy interventions are implemented that Asia will be able to reduce the growth in GHGs from the transport sector • Asia does not have the luxury of choice • Must be continuously monitored and updated

14. Action Planwith Long Term Benefits • Integrated urban and transport planning - Improve access to goods and services through integrated urban planning and travel demand management • Provide a substantial part of on-road transport’s fuel requirements with clean and GHG efficient biofuels

15. Action Planwith Medium Term Benefits • Reducing the fuel consumed per passenger- or freight-kilometer traveled through traffic demand management • Charge the externalities of private motorized transport • Mass-transit improvements • Nonmotorized transport • Fuel efficiency standards for new vehicles

16. Action Planwith Short Term Benefits • Improving fuel efficiency in existing vehicles - Inspection, certification and maintenance - Retrofit • Transport demand management • Fiscal measures

17. Action PlanContinuous Actions • Strengthening continually-updated shared knowledge bases and common tools to assist DMCs in optimizing their climate change decisions for urban development, transport systems and biofuels • Implement public awareness programs • Research and development • Monitor status and progress

18. Thank you.For more information, contact charles.melhuish@gmail.com