WRI and FedEx are celebrating a decade of collaboration and accomplishments by means of the Mobility and Accessibility Program (MAP).

In 2010, WRI Ross Middle for Sustainable Cities and FedEx partnered to create what’s now MAP, with a objective to assist remodel main public transportation techniques the world over, making them safer, extra environment friendly and extra sustainable for hundreds of thousands of customers.

As megacities from Mexico Metropolis to Beijing deal with intense congestion, air pollution and sprawl, our work to learn folks and the local weather is driving constructive change: lowering carbon emissions, rising pedestrian and street security, and delivering extra dependable, reasonably priced service. Mobility challenges are tackled with the Keep away from-Shift-Enhance strategy: first, prioritize avoiding pointless journeys; then, shift to extra sustainable transport modes; and at last, enhance effectivity and efficiency of all modes.

Mass transport providers are vital to offering higher mobility and accessibility, serving to folks make the most of alternatives in jobs, schooling and {the marketplace}, constructing extra equitable societies and extra productive native economies. By offering important knowledge and evaluation, convening stakeholders and nurturing native networks, MAP is catalyzing enhancements within the high quality of public transportation in Brazil, India, China and Mexico.

Our international collaboration over the previous decade has improved transportation techniques throughout almost 70 cities and three continents, instantly impacting 18 million folks and stopping over 1 million metric tons of carbon emissions.

• In Brazil, the place buses account for nearly 90% of all public transport use, the MAP QualiÔnibus group has targeted on boosting ridership, rising income, increasing social fairness and extra lately, serving to public transportation recuperate after ridership dropped because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Knowledgeable by FedEx-inspired buyer surveys, metropolis governments are higher in a position to pinpoint alternatives to enhance service in areas that riders prioritize, reminiscent of improved bus fast transit (BRT) lanes, funding bus shelter upgrades with promoting, and rising safety presence at stops and on buses.
• In China, MAP began with a concentrate on electrification of buses, with extraordinary outcomes. After simply three years of collaboration, Shenzhen electrified 100% of its bus fleet and launched a brand new BRT system to offer quicker, cheaper and extra environment friendly providers to a mean 3.1 day by day riders. Different tasks, reminiscent of Mobility as a Service (MaaS) pilots in Beijing and Guangzhou are linking shared mobility (car- and bike-sharing) and mass transport in journey planning, incentivizing customers to make sustainable transportation selections by means of comfort and reductions.
• In India, the city inhabitants is anticipated to achieve 540 million by 2025, requiring 130,000 further buses to accommodate this progress. Bus Karo, now energetic in 63 cities, is an ongoing challenge with transit professionals to broaden transit knowledge assortment, leverage the information for improved transit operation, and improve fairness and accessibility. Bus Karo additionally launched a contest for younger entrepreneurs in 2018, offering assist and funding to a few successful tasks, together with changing diesel engines to electrical, putting in tailpipe filters to scale back native air pollution and establishing a brand new bus line with a web-based reservation system.
• In Mexico, MAP has offered steering on 10 new BRT corridors and reshaped the bus system in Mexico Metropolis to chop journey time in half and effectively transport 1.5 million passengers day by day. Past the capital metropolis, MAP has offered steering on the nationwide degree to create a brand new technical and monetary Help Program for Mass Transportation (PROTRAM), set up nationwide street security and public transport insurance policies, and suggest a Nationwide Public Transport Coverage to tell administration and operation of networks throughout the nation.

With continued partnership and collaboration, MAP and FedEx stay up for one other decade of success although leveraging innovation, using analysis and knowledge, and reworking public transport techniques to serve folks equitably and safe a sustainable future.

Be taught extra about our partnership and outcomes right here.

Initially revealed on the World Sources Institute weblog.

Associated: WRI Ross Middle for Sustainable Cities

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