Transforming Mobility in our Cities

David Baker Cadman

President

ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability

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Urban areas hold the future of our planet

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Automobile dependence has costs

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Economic Loss

• Annual Loss of GDP 100 Bn

€ or 1% of GDP

• ¼ Emission are from

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• Annual Congestion cost in

Asia is 2 – 5% of GDP

• 80% of pollution is from

urban transport

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Purpose of cities: for people !P

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Cities are places for

people to dwell

not for automobiles

Photo:Ranjith Parvathapuram, ICLEI

Decisions our city

leaders make

define the future

of our cities

ICLEI supports..

…socially inclusive, environmentally

sustainable, economically feasible urban

mobility.

EcoMobility

EcoMobility Alliance• Is a select group of ambitious cities that have achieved excellent results in certain areas of sustainable mobility

• Aims to reach similar results in other EcoMobility fields as a way to increase their share of non-motorised or public transport

• Vision of vibrant cities where citizens and organisations can access goods, services, and information in a sustainableway

• ServiceOriented Structure

• Collective Learning Exercises

• Peer-to-Peer Exchanges

• Joint Program of Activities

• Cities help each other to reach self-set goals

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The Result

Other areasEcoMobility team at ICLEI also works on

the topics like

• Mobility and Health

• Measuring transport performance in

cities

• Benchmarking urban mobility

• Capacity building of local government

officials

• Low Carbon Urban Mobility plans

Shifting to EcoMobility is

possible Through

• Strong and determined leadership

• Able technical support

• Increased awareness of policy makers and public

• Support from like-minded counterparts

You are invited!

More information: worldcongress2015.iclei.org

Members – 53 Ahmedabad

Bhavnagar

Bhopal

Bhubaneshwar

Chandrapur

Coimbatore

North Delhi

Gandhinagar

Guntur

Gurgaon

Guwahati

Gwalior

Howrah

Hyderabad

Jabalpur

Jamnagar

Kalyan Dombivli

Kolhapur

Kolkata

Kota

Madurai

Mumbai

Mysore

Nagpur

Pune

Rajahmundry

Rajkot

Salem

Shimla

Surat

Tenali

Thane

Tiruchirapally

Tirupati

Vadodara

Vijayawada

Vishakhapatnam

AIILSG

Matale

Kandy

Kurunegala

MUAN

Kathmandu

Pokhara

Lalitpur

Hetauda

Rajshahi

Dhaka

Barisal

Phuentsholing

Thimphu

India

Bangladesh Bhutan

Nepal

Sri LankaMaldivesMale

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