ESCI KSP

MTR’s railway system covers 221 kilometers and is used by more than five million people each weekday. It not only performs well—trains run on schedule 99.9 percent of the time—but actually makes a profit: $1.5 billion in 2014. MTR fares are also relatively low compared with those of metro systems in other developed cities. The […]

The SmartWay Transport program was established in 2004 with the aim to improve fuel efficiency and reducing greenhouse gases and air pollution from commercial truck and rail freight transport in the United States. The program also aims to create strong market-based incentives that challenge companies shipping products, and transportation companies delivering these products to adopt […]

The FleetWise program provides a suite of tools and information resources designed to assist organisations with the investigation and adoption of fleet practices designed to improve energy efficiency, reduce GHG emissions and deliver fuel savings. The FleetWise program provides a framework for participants to benchmark their fleet operation and then provides face-to-face training and strategic […]

Location of the demonstration site Sunshine Shiaolin Village, Sunlin District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan Overview of the demonstration Sunshine Shiaolin Village is built for the relocation of the survivors of the Shiaolin disaster by Typhoon Morakot. There is abundant sunshine all year round and very good for solar power generation at the village. However, the village uses […]

EcoParq is a program of the Government of the Federal District in charge of the Authority of the Public Space, dependent of the Secretary of Urban Development and Housing, whose purpose is to improve the urban mobility and to recover the public space, through the ordinance of the parking in the public way through the […]

In 1997, the Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD) adopted an Official Community Plan bylaw for Ubc, which mandated a TDM program for UBC. In the subsequent Memorandum of Understanding between the GVRD and UBC, the university committed to three transportation targets over a five-year period. Using 1997 as a baseline, UBC agreed that it would […]

Imagine an “individualized” public transit system where reliable electric-powered bikes/scooters are available for use within walking distance in a city. In base stations, located in major public transportation nods and residential areas, after registration, members are able to swipe their Metro card to release a two-wheelers electronic vehicle (EV) from an auto locking system, fully […]