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Title:

Mainstreaming Transport Co-Benefits Approach

Accession Number:

01334662

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

As more people choose to live in urban areas, cities dependent on heavy motorization continue to grow in an unsustainable manner affecting public health, environment and economy. With business as usual ways, negative externalities are daunting - an increased asthma rate from air pollution, more greenhouse gases to exacerbate climate change, longer wasted time or lost business opportunities while stuck in traffic jams, and more lost lives due to traffic accidents and road rage. A mainstreaming transport co-benefits approach aims to address problems on mobility, accessibility, road safety, air pollution and reduction of carbon emissions in a holistic manner. The general concept of a co-benefits approach is to maximize benefits through integration of multiple objectives including climate concerns in policies and projects thus reducing overall costs. The dismal performance of the transport sector in the current Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) framework is deemed to improve in the post-2012 mechanisms which will provide technology, capacity building and financial support to Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs). The Bali Action Plan stipulates that developing country parties would take NAMAs in the context of sustainable development in exchange for financial, technology and capacity building support in measurable, reportable, and verifiable manner (MRV). Can transport co-benefits be the indicators of transport NAMAs? How to quantify or MRV co-benefits? This paper explores the potential to assist developing countries in Asia on how to quantify transport co-benefits in a simplified manner given the existing data constraints. A case study on Bangkok BRT is included to show the applicability of proposed methods.

Monograph Accession #:

01329018

Report/Paper Numbers:

11-4217

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Romero, Jane
Fukuda, Atsushi
Morisugi, Hisayoshi
Zusman, Eric

Pagination:

24p

Publication Date:

2011

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 90th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2011-1-23 to 2011-1-27
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

DVD

Features:

Figures (5) ; References; Tables

Geographic Terms:

Bangkok (Thailand)

Subject Areas:

Environment; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I15: Environment; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2011 Paper #11-4217

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Feb 17 2011 6:47PM