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Session #2: Case Studies in Improving and Decarbonizing Popular Transportation

DOWNLOAD: Mexico City’s “Movilidad de Barrio” (Neighborhood Mobility) Strategies - with Fernanda Rivera, Director General of Transportation at the Mobility Secretariat of Mexico City (SEMOVI);
DOWNLOAD: Informal and Shared Mobility (ISM) in India: Linking Research and Policy Actions - with Dr. Rutul Joshi, Sr. Associate Professor, CEPT University;
DOWNLOAD: Financing the Electrification of Paratransit Modes: A 3-Wheeler Case Study from India - with Mansha Sehgal, Transport Specialist at the World Bank, and Chaitanya Kanuri, Associate Director for Electric Mobility at WRI India;
DOWNLOAD: The Senegal Bus Renewal Scheme: From 2005 to Today - with Simon Saddier, Urban Mobility Pillar Lead for the African Transport Policy Program (SSATP)

Session #3: Expanding Data and Tech for Finance and Climate in Popular Transportation

Data and Planning for the Eventual Electrification of Sub-Saharan Africa’s Popular Transport - with Thinus Booysen, Professor in Engineering and Research Chair in the Internet of Things, Director of the MTN Mobile Intelligence Lab at Stellenbosch University;
Advancing Emissions and Road Safety Data Collection in Lusaka, Zambia - with Mohamed Hegazy, Director and Co-founder of Transport for Cairo (TfC), and Tolga İmamoğlu, Senior Manager at WRI Türkiye;
Measuring the impacts of Decarbonisation Policies - with Stephen Perkins, Head of Research and Policy Analysis at International Transport Forum (ITF); and,
Data Collection & Reporting Protocol for Informal and Shared Mobility (DCRP-ISM)- with Benjamin de la Peña, CEO of Shared-Use Mobility Center (SUMC) and Chair of Global Network for Popular Transportation (GNPT)

Data Collection Efforts in Shared Mobility and Informal Transportation

As part of its newly-launched Informal and Shared Mobility in Low and Middle-Income Countries program, the Volvo Research and Educational Foundations (VREF) commissioned Agile City Partners (ACP) to conduct a rapid scan of mobility data collection efforts in informal transportation and shared mobility around the world. In this session, ACP presents an overview of their findings, including the key initiatives, projects, or platforms currently in place to collect data. What is important to know about informal transportation, and how might we improve data in this sector?

Digitalizing Informal Transport in the Global South

Our colleague Andrea San Gil León was the lead panelist at Trufi Association’s recent webinar on Digitalizing Informal Transport in the Global South.
The webinar presented how to generate digital tools that enable the mapping of every type of transport network – including informal transport – and tap the power of local communities. Also addressed are the benefits of digitizing Public Transport networks and providing the citizens with a reliable Trip Planner app in the Global South.

Session #1: On Practice - Weaving Networks

Lessons from Bogota’s SITP | Felipe Ramirez, Urban Mobility Director, World Resources Institute
Lessons from fleet renewal in Sub-Saharan Africa | Fatima Arroyo-Arroyo, Infrastructure Program Leader, The World Bank
Lessons learned from South East Asia (by video) | Dr. Apiwat Ratanawaraha, Associate Director, Chulalongkorn University Transportation Institute
Lessons from Lagos | Abimbola Akinajo, Managing Director, Lagos Metropolitan Area Transportation Authority

Session #2: On Knowledge and Tools - Street Smarts World Cafe

Political Economy of Paratransit | Ana Waksberg Guerrini, Global Co-Lead for Urban Mobility, World Bank

Summary of Key Insights from PRISM | Jacqueline Klopp, Director, Center for Sustainable Urban Development, Columbia Climate School; Principal Investigator, PRISM
Unlocking Better Work Conditions through Labor Impact Assessments | Alana Dave, Director of Urban Transport, International Transport Workers’ Federation
NDC Template for Popular Transportation - Mohamed Hegazy, TfC
Changing the Narratives on the Role of 2W & 3W in Global South - Andrea San Gil, GNPT
The Transport Data Commons Initiative - Holger Dalkmann, VREF
The Political Economy of EV Transitions - Gaurav Mittal, Oxford TSU
Motorcycle-taxi data and solutions for the sector - Tom Courtright, Lubyanza
How BasiGo made Electric Buses the Preferred Option for Private bus owners in Africa - Jit Bhattacharya, Co-Founder and CEO, BasiGo

Session #3: On Resources - Keys and Bridges Roundtable

Financing Urban Mobility: the Place of Paratransit, Simon Saddier, Urban Mobility Pillar Lead, SSATP
Lessons and Innovations in SME Finance Infrastructure: A Global Perspective - Matthew Saal, Digital Financial Services, International Finance Corporation

Digitalizing Informal Transport in the Global South

Planning and decision-making need to be more inclusive, says Agile City Partners Co-Founder Andrea San Gil León at #ITF22
Informal transport in the global south, providing the majority of transport in some cases, is usually provided by individuals. They are facing the digitalisation gap which is creating vacuums.

International Mobility Data Summit

GNPT Chair, Benjie de la Peña, was a virtual panelist at the International Mobility Data Summit in Montreal (June 2022). He presented framing remarks for the panel on “Digital Transport for the World: GTFS and Informal Transportation.”
In his framing remarks, he posed three questions technologists should seriously consider as they work on digitizing mobility data from informal transportation: Whose goals? Whose good? Whose problem?