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TRANSPORT: INITIATIVES FOR INDIA
RALPH GAKENHEIMERPROFESSOR EMERITUS
Dept. Urban Studies and PlanningMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Smart, Secure and Sustainable Cities—India, July 2015
UMTAs: Unified Metropolitan Transport Authorities, of India
• A very substantial part of the growth of world population, especially urban populations, in the coming years is going to be in India. So a great deal of resource conservation can be achieved by the wise guidance of urban growth by smart cities. And the tools for a great deal of that will be in refinement of the future of urban transportation.
• We live in cities where individual components of the transportation systems have been created at different times in the city’s history, different links to political and financial support and different companion technologies. This has produced current misfits between individual modes and their appropriate roles in the overall systems.
UMTAs: Unified Metropolitan Transport Authorities
• These problems are apparent in the effort to create Unified Metropolitan Transport Authorities (UMTAs) to harmonize city transport development. As they have attempted to unify operations of the various modes and functions that need to be harmonized they encounter problems as reported in papers that evaluate the performance of the UMTAs Yet it is very important to harmonize the modes. UMTAs and their potential roles are a unique Indian contribution to help unify transport networks and create important urban efficiencies.
UMTAs: Unified Metropolitan Transport Authorities
• I refer to the effects of public transport on the spatial location of travel demand, the accommodation of demand by new BRT, the management of access by pedestrians, bicycles and other light vehicles, consequences of driverless vehicles (sure to be on the streets everywhere in the near future), and agile replacement of trips by communications modes.
• Such a plan as this needs to begin with groups for intergovernmental invention and eventually persuade governments and their agencies of the values of their proposals. The idea is uncomfortable because I seem to be just magnifying the UMTA concept
UMTAs: Unified Metropolitan Transport Authorities
--If successful, UMTAs could become very important sources of innovation and unified metropolitan action
--but they are struggling on account of different agency and governmental origins of powers and responsibilities.
--UMTA internal agreement on overall policy (even leaving some independent interpretations) would be an important attainment.
--Success in creating agreement on basic policy might lead to widespread adoption of this framework
Medellín, Colombia
Basic Advantages
of teleferics, cable cars, aerial tramways,metro cables, ropeways…
--Mobilize hillside dwellers (very important)--Overcome lack of corridor space, avoid land acquisition--Alleviate congestion--Reduce energy use--Shorten trip distances--Short construction time, and cost--Significantly reduce operating and maintenance costs
Teleferico Bicentenario, Stgo
Basic Disadvantages
• Capacity is limited (10 passengers per car), speeds and capacities are small (3000 passengers an hour)
• But this will be overcome:Current systems mostly provided by skiilift
designers. Demand will revise this limitation.
Proposal for Land Development Corridors
Green Transit Corridors
Seoul, Korea
Locating Soacha in Bogotá
Source: GPU Asociados a Transporte
Urban Corridor Design: Proposal for Soacha
Source: GPU Asociados a Transporte
2001
Image Courtesy PLAZA
2007
Rail: High Speed & Conventional
Airport
AutoVia: Madrid
AutoVia: Barcelona
AutoVia: Valencia
Inditex (Zara) DC
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2012
Inditex (Zara) DC
Shopping Center
Intermodal Terminal
ZLC
PLAZA (Platforma Logistica de Zaragoza)
Size: 13 Million m2
Number of companies: 350
People employed: 12.000
Caladero DC
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Plaza: The Market Area
Thanks for your attention.
Ralph [email protected] Studies and PlanningMassachusetts Institute of Technology
