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The Action Plan

This action plan presentation focuses on promoting economic growth in Asia through urban reform, innovative transport management, and technology implementation. Stakeholders include governments, NGOs, enterprises, and investors. The plan emphasizes livable and sustainable cities, efficient transport systems, and low-carbon fuels to reduce GHG emissions. It addresses barriers like lack of information, capital, and incentives, proposing interventions such as urban design, modal shift, and improved vehicle technology. The plan outlines long-term, medium-term, and short-term benefits with continuous monitoring.

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The Action Plan

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  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

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