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High-speed rail in Chinese Taipei: smart transport in energyChinese Taipei - Taiwan High-Speed Rail (THSR) was the biggest economy-wide infrastructure investment in Chinese Taipei, a capital cost of $17 billion for 214-mile distance through BOT (build, operate, and transfer) using this method for infrastructure de
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Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway Land Value CaptureHong Kong, China - 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
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Climate Cardthe Republic of Korea - The Seoul Metropolitan Government has been striving to expand eco-friendly transportation infrastructure, exemplified by the introduction of the nation’s first “Integrated Public Transport Fare System” in 2004. However, following
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Transit-Oriented Development Policies in Seoulthe Republic of Korea, United States - The presentation ‘Introduction of Transit-Oriented Development Policies in some cities ~TOD in Seoul~’ was delivered by Preesan Rakwatin, Naoki Watanabe, and Takahiro Yonemura. The presentation also focuses briefly o
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Energy-efficient Transit Initiatives in Seoulthe Republic of Korea - In 2008, Seoul’s mayor, Oh Se-Hoon, announced that he was determined to make Seoul one of the world’s greenest metropolitan centres and an example to the C40 – formely the Large Cities Climate Leadership Group – of which Seoul is a
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Sustainable Urban Mobility BenchmarkingNew Zealand - A Sustainable Urban Mobility (SUM) benchmarking process can be used as an effective tool towards driving impactful change. The desired outcomes include assumptions to evidence, hidden data to a full, simplistic to deep understanding, individ
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Sound transportation planning in SingaporeSingapore - Integration of transportation planning into land use planning is a precondition for establishing a sustainable transportation system. Singapore has been doing this since the 1970s. This integration of land use and transport planning in the cit
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2011 Climate Action Strategy for Transportation SystemUnited States - In 2007, San Francisco voters passed Proposition A and directed the SFMTA to “develop and implement strategies for substantially reducing” transportation sector carbon emissions. The 2011 CAS meets the 2007 directive by proposing six GHG m
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Brisbane Busway NetworkAustralia - Like other cities in developed countries, Brisbane experienced a rapid decline in public transportation usage in the post war period. Despite an extensive rail network, the proportion of public transport trips in the city declined from roughl
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CURB: Climate Action for Urban SustainabilityDuring Climate Week NYC in September 2016, the World Bank, together with C40 Cities, the Compact of Mayors, and other partners, launched a new planning tool called “CURB: Climate Action for Urban Sustainability,” which can help address some of these issue
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Clean Energy Solutions Center“The Clean Energy Solutions Center helps governments design and adopt policies and programs that support the deployment of clean energy technologies.
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York VivaCanada - YRT/Viva offers local and rapid transit services in all nine York Region municipalities. More than 120 routes keep residents connected within the Region, along with connecting services in the City of Toronto and the Region of Peel. In addition, M