Plock, Poland, 1-4 October 2006. Urban roads and public transport services are essential for the daily lives of citizens and for the local economy, increasing in importance, as cities grow larger and travel distances to work become too long for walking. The importance of urban public transport services is unusually pronounced in the Eastern Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region.
The heritage of cities in ECA includes a predominance of public transport modes in passenger travel, based on a universal access to low-priced and good-quality transport services. The passage from central planning to market-based economies has weakened this dominance on both demand and supply sides and has threatened the service quality and the universality of access.
Main Objectives of the Workshop
Encourage knowledge-sharing between municipal and regional practitioners in the field of sustainable urban transport
Support each participant in developing a concrete action-plan to improve concrete aspects of sustainable urban transportation
Transmit technical expertise in the fields of
— financing public transport,
— fleet modernization,
— integrated transport management,
— private sector participation,
— awareness raising and multi-stakeholder consultations as well as
— sustainable modes of transport.
Partners
This workshop is organized by CIFAL Plock and UNITAR with the kind support of
the International Cooperation of the Principality of Monaco,
City of Plock,
United Nations Development Programme,
Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ),
VEOLIA Environnement as well as
FEDRE
Contact
Ms. Joanna Michalak, CIFAL Plock, +48 24 367 14 30, joanna.michalak< at >ump.pl
Ms. Bettina Kaltenhäuser, UNITAR, +41 22 917 83 44, bettina.kaltenhaeuser< at >unitar.org
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