Publications

The Compact City Scenario – Electrified
Published by: ITDP
For the urban transportation sector the path to keeping below 1.5°C global warming involves both compact cities developed for walking, cycling and public transit, as well as a strategic transition to electrified vehicles. This report argues that both policy approaches implemented in unision is the ideal approach to mitigating climate change while improving quality of life in cities.

The Resilient City – Chapter Excerpt from Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Car in our Lives
Published by: Melissa Bruntlett
Transport networks need to be resilient to the environmental and social stresses – i.e., extreme weather, pandemics, resource scarcity – in order to ensure that people maintain access to school, employment, care, and other amentities. A just transition must include resilient walking, cycling, and public transport networks that benefit all citizens regardless of income, age, and ability.

The Prosperous City – Chapter Excerpt from Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Car in our Lives
Published by: Melissa Bruntlett
Just access means that regardless of location and income, all residents have equitable access to transport networks to reach education and employment opportunities. This includes a connection of walking and cycling networks with frequents and reliable public transport (buses, trams, trains, ride-hailing, etc.).

Streets for Walking and Cycling – Desiging for safety, accessibility and comfort in African cities
Published by: UN-Habitat
Streets for Walking & Cycling is a guide that emphasizes designing for safety, accessibility, and comfort in African cities, developed by ITDP Africa in partnership with UN-Habitat.

Walking and cycling in Africa – Evidence and good practice to inspire action
Published by: UN-Habitat
This report is a first attempt at gathering, analysing and presenting data to demonstrate the everyday reality for the one billion people in Africa who walk and cycle every day. It baselines conditions in all 54 African countries using existing data sources interpreted through a walking and cycling lens and highlights inspiring best practices. It emphasizes that making the life of people who walk and cycle in African countries safer, healthier and more comfortable needs to be a core priority if we are to ensure healthier and more equitable low carbon cities.

A just transition for Urban Transport Workers
Published by: ITF
Briefing describes the 10-point framework for a just transition in urban transport. It incorporates the voices of workers who put forward the proposals.

“Transforming Bole Road in Addis Ababa to Improve Safety and Accessibility”
Published by: WRI
“WRI is helping Addis redesign its streets to improve safety and accessibility, particularly for vulnerable road users. Such improvements are also fundamental to encouraging active, low-emission mobility and to fostering an environment of steady foot and cycling traffic that is conducive for local businesses. This artcle demonstrates the power of people-oriented intervention to increase mobility access.”

“How Dockless Bike Sharing Changes Lives: An Analysis of Chinese Cities”
Published by: WRI
“This study finds that, with effective management and safe infrastructure, dockless bike-share systems can be an excellent last-mile urban mobility solution that enhances connectivity to public transit, reduces carbon emissions by replacing motorized trips, and improves public health by preventing thousands of premature deaths.”

Electric ride-hailing charging infrastructure: Needs assessment and equitable siting in Houston
Published by: ICCT
Along with transportation electrification, the reach and use of ride-hailing services have greatly expanded in major urban areas in the United States and globally. As ride-hailing continues to grow to be an important pillar of the mobility ecosystem, such fleets raise questions related to their environmental and mobility impacts, and electrification offers an opportunity to eliminate the vehicles’ local emissions.

ENSURING EQUITABLE ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING INFRASTRUCTURE DEPLOYMENT IN LOS ANGELES
Published by: ICCT
High upfront costs and the lack of charging infrastructure are some of the key concerns that can hinder equitable electric vehicle (EV) access. Survey data have shown that most EV buyers and those considering purchasing an EV generally have higher income and own single-family houses where it is possible to install home charging. Policies to address barriers, including the continuation and improvement of vehicle and infrastructure incentives for disadvantaged communities, will be key in making EVs affordable and convenient. They will also expand EV access to the mass majority of consumers beyond the early adopters.

Inclusive Transit Oriented Development in Eastern Africa: A Guide to Local Development Planning
Published by: IMC
Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) is an approach to urban development that brings people services and activities together with quality public transport supported by walking and cycling that enables shorter trips better lifestyles and more efficient use of city resources. In their latest research for HVT the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) has developed a guidance toolkit of inclusive TOD as part of local area planning in Eastern Africa.

Using Creative Participatory Approaches for Inclusive Climate Resilient Transport in Africa: Guidelines for Practitioners
Published by: IMC
This guide summarises key concepts around transport inclusion, participation, and climate change. It introduces selected creative methods that can give a voice to disadvantaged groups. It also provides practical step-by-step information on how and when to use the various methods, supported by inspiring case studies from Africa and around the world.

Topic Guide – Topic guide – Participatory processes in urban mobility planning
Published by: MYC
Effective participatory processes are a precondition for a just transition. They ensure that different voices, opinions and needs are considered when planning and implementing transformation for low-carbon sustainable mobility systems.

SUMP Terms of Reference
Published by: MYC
The SUMP Model Terms of Reference are a tool to support cities all over the world to easier set the stage and develop a Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan. The proposed methodology focuses on providing mobility access, encourage citizen participation and the transformation of the paratransit sector for a just transition.

SUMP FAQs
Published by: MYC
To facilitate the transition to a more just and sustainable mobility, this document offers answers to the most common questions asked by practitioners in the global south when preparing a Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan.

“A Green Recovery Starts with Cities”
Published by: WRI
This article highlights that national governments should invest in cities to achieve emissions reduction benefits. Sustainable cities can aid in just transition and climate goals.

Global Monitor
Published by: MYC
For a transition to be just in urban mobility, cities all around the world need to both learn lessons from practical implementation of projects and share experiences in their contexts. South-south cooperation and reporting allow to take stock of the impact practitioners triggers when implementing sustainable mobility initiatives.

Cuenca 2020 – Bicycle Intersection Peer Review
Published by: TUMI/GIZ
This document is intended to guide the Municipality of Cuenca in the rollout of a more bicycle friendly city, which is part of the redesign of streets and public places for prioritizing sustainable mobility and adapting to climate change. Urgently needed for achieving a just transition in the transport sector, the individual intersections offer replicable solutions that can be partly recreated across many scenarios.

Tactical Urbanism, A Tool for Crisis Management?
Published by: TUMI/GIZ
The approach to community building using short-term, low-cost, and scalable projects intended to catalyze long-term change is called “Tactical Urbanism”. Each project type builds towards the next, using incremental steps to deliver a capital project intended to create permanent modification. As an iterative, practical concept to project delivery, it can significantly contribute to the Just Transition in the transport sector.

A safe way to school
Published by: TUMI/GIZ
Children as a very vulnerable population group need extra attention concerning a Just Transition in the Transport sector. User dialogues and engagement to ensure that the transformation towards sustainable mobility meets everyone’s personal safety is one aspect considered very important. As a step towards a safe and equal Transport transition, this book educates school children about how to behave in road traffic.

Towards more livable and safer cities (1st Edition 2016)
Published by: TUMI/GIZ
High levels of road safety are a prerequisite for the attractiveness of cycling, walking and public transport. However, the lack of road safety remains a major challenge in many urban areas. A Just transport Transition encounters the responsibility to recognize the mobility challenges of vulnerable groups. By improving the availability, reliability, and safety of mobility services, it ensures that the transformation towards sustainable mobility protects everyone.

Tshwane, South Africa: Improving access to education with bicycles
Published by: TUMI/GIZ
The City of Tshwane has a strong focus on sustainability, which is evident in its investments in public transport and non-motorized transport (NMT) to improve accessibility for all income groups in a low-carbon manner. The Shova Kalula bicycle programme is one such endeavor, providing free bicycles to learners living in outlying areas, and in turn creating new social and economic opportunities in the form of bicycle maintenance and repair shops.

iNUA #10: Open Streets: Streets for People
Published by: TUMI/GIZ
The concept of shutting down streets to motorized traffic so people can cycle, walk and enjoy safe and welcoming streets – called “Ciclovía” or “Open Streets” – is largely credited as being a catalyst for bicycle infrastructure provision. It is a great example for a Just transport Transition that promotes rethinking and reclaiming our streets towards a better urban environment.

Sustainable mobility: getting people on board
Published by: TUMI/GIZ
Walking, cycling and public transport are usually not seen as convenient as driving a car, and leaving one’s vehicle in the garage for the day implies an effort to change. Such challenges of sustainable transportation are tackled in a Just transport Transition by transforming urban infrastructures and streets, promoting compact planning and prioritizing cycling and walking as modes of transport.

Streets for walking and cycling
Published by: TUMI/GIZ
Walking and cycling are healthy and pollution-free forms of mobility.  In African cities, many are dependent on these modes as their primary means of transport. The poor quality of infrastructure for active mobility, however, proclaims that non-motorized traffic is not welcome in the urban environment. A Just transition in transport is making efforts to create a safe, usable, and accessible environment for pedestrians and cyclists.

iNUA #8: Meeting the Needs of People – Walking
Published by: TUMI/GIZ
Let’s focus on walking! Walkability is the essential ingredient in an integrated, multi- and intermodal transportation system and therefore the cornerstone of any just and sustainable city. To achieve a Just Transition in the transport sector, we need to improve the concept of a walkable city, including key steps on how to make a city more walkable alongside specific actions to improve the walkability of cities.

iNUA #6: Accessible Urban Mobility
Published by: TUMI/GIZ
A Just Transport Transition implicates to promote access for all to safe, age- and gender-responsive, efficient, affordable, accessible and sustainable urban mobility systems, enabling meaningful participation in social and economic activities. That is done by integrating mobility plans into overall urban plans and promoting a wide range of transport and mobility options.

SUTP Module 5b: Urban Road Safety
Published by: TUMI/GIZ
Rapid urbanisation in developing countries presents tremendous challenges to the transport systems since cities increase the capacity of road networks, often at the expense of vulnerable road-users´ safety. Many people die and are injured unnecessarily in road crashes with the consequential social, economic and health burdens imposing heavy constraints on sustainable development. It requires a Just Transport Transition to dispel the inequal exposure to accidents.

iNUA #4: Enhancing Road Safety
Published by: TUMI/GIZ
Due to urbanisation, more people and vehicles flow into the cities, leading to more road accidents. In urban areas, especially vulnerable road users like pedestrians and cyclists are exposed to a higher risk of road accidents. We urgently need measures contributing to a Just Transport Transition in terms of higher urban road safety through implementing and enforcing policies that protect and promote safe active mobility.

iNUA #2: Solution: Cycling
Published by: TUMI/GIZ
A significant increase in accessible, safe, efficient, affordable and sustainable infrastructure for public transport as well as prioritising non-motorised options such as walking and cycling. Those are some of the big challenges considering a Just Transition in the Transport sector that have to be tackled for redesigning Streets and public places sustainably.

iNUA #1: Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans
Published by: TUMI/GIZ
This implementation guide focusses on Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans as a practical tool for identifying and shaping actions for sustainable mobility – oriented on high feasibility of implementation. They integrate well into overarching Urban Development Plans and strategies and follow an inclusive and participative approach, which is an important component of a Just Transport Transition.

Replicability Manual “Me Muevo Segura”
Published by: TUMI/GIZ
The “Me Muevo Segura” initiative implemented pilot roads and bicycle routes in Bogotá to promote changes and execute urban interventions that improve living conditions, especially for women and girls. As an iterative concept to project delivery, it can significantly contribute to the Just Transport Transition, practically empowering women in the transport sector.

Tactical Ubanism Pilot – Replicability Manual (EN)
Published by: TUMI/GIZ
The “Me Muevo Segura” initiative implemented pilot roads and bicycle routes in Bogotá to promote changes and execute urban interventions that improve living conditions, especially for women and girls. As an iterative concept to project delivery, it can significantly contribute to the Just Transport Transition, practically empowering women in the transport sector.

How to plan and develop a pedestrian and cycling network
Published by: TUMI/GIZ
Non-motorized transport (NMT) development is a crucial basis for every urban transport system. This document presents a simple, flexible and replicable approach to effectively develop a basic NMT network by designing safe, inclusive and climate-resilient infrastructure and prioritizing pedestrians and cyclists instead of motorized transport, which enables short-term achievement for a Just Transport Transition.

Windhoek, Namibia: Moving from Transport Planning to action
Published by: TUMI/GIZ
Despite a relatively small population, Windhoek is experiencing the combined effects of apartheid spatial planning and a car-oriented mobility system. As part of its Sustainable Urban Transport Master Plan, the City is now investing in high occupancy buses and non-motorized transport (NMT) infrastructure in an effort to make economic opportunities more accessible to low income citizens, and reduce the peak hour congestion, accidents, pollution and greenhouse gas emissions associated with cars.

Towards zero emissions Overview on China’s climate pathway and implications to the transport sector
Published by: NDC Transport Initiative for Asia/GIZ
A national-level climate action strategy for the transport sector that is based on emission caps needs to be developed to provide a clear low carbon development pathway for sub-national level decision-makers, the transport industry, and markets. The strategy should include pathways to a “just transition”. This is to ensure that the potentials of the transport transition for positive economic growth, innovation, and new jobs are fully explored and used and that no one is left behind – to build the needed transition on a broad fundament of social acceptance.

National Active Mobility Strategy with gender and differential approach – ENMA
Published by: ProMOVIS and CFF/GIZ
National Public Policy to promote active mobility in colombian cities including 16 actions, to make cities more accesible and equitable towards women, kids and elderly people while mitigating climate change effects.

Guide to planning Bike Shared Systems
Published by: ProMOVIS and CFF/GIZ
Action 10 of the National Active Mobility Strategy: A guide to evaluate the relevance of the Bike Shared Systems with lessons learnt and strategies for the planning of new systems in Colombia

Podcasts

Overcoming Transport Poverty with Dr. Giulio Mattioli
Published by: TUMI/GIZ
Vulnerable population groups lack access to safe and attractive NMT and public transport – while living further away from workplaces and opportunities. Injustice arising from this so-called “Transport Poverty” is a big challenge when considering a just transport transition. In order to provide equitable access to opportunities and contributing significantly to poverty eradication, it is necessary to examine the intersection between social inclusion and sustainable transport.

Promoting cycling in urban mobility with Jill Warren
Published by: TUMI/GIZ
One of the key dimensions of a just Transition in the transport sector is a climate-friendly and just mobility infrastructure. That requires safe, inclusive, and climate-resilient streets by prioritizing pedestrians and cyclists instead of motorized transport. From within, cycling plays an important role in the sustainable urban mobility system, which should be enhanced further.

Urban Mobility in Tirana with Anuela Ristani
Published by: TUMI/GIZ
Urban development should always be managed through Just Transition policies to create an efficient mobility system from the baseline as well as invest in green transportation. Since Tirana faced rapid, uncontrolled urbanization in the last decades, the government had to put forward solutions to face the challenges coming along with this. Taking advantage of the urban growth, they developed a sustainable mobility concept.

Investing in active mobility with Carly Gilbert-Patrick
Published by: TUMI/GIZ
The benefits of active mobility have been widely underestimated. Not only does cycling have environmental and health benefits such as improved air quality, the efficient use of public spaces and a safer and more active lifestyle. Accelerating investment in human-powered transport can also improve social and economic access while contributing to retail profitability, which is exactly what a just transport transition demands.

Curbing traffic with Melissa and Chris Bruntlett
Published by: TUMI/GIZ
Pioneering human-centered cities like Amsterdam, Copenhagen or Bogota go forward as a great example of what a just transition in the transport sector looks like. There is need to reduce private vehicle use while providing sustainable alternatives. Achieved thorough transport knowledge, policies and design principles, the Netherland´s success teaches us benefits of an equitable and accessible city, even on a psychological and sociological level.

Safe cycling as driver for sustainable mobility with James Theom
Published by: TUMI/GIZ
Cycling has become more and more popular during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. To react to this trend, TUMI developed a COVID Challenge in the city of Cuenca, which enables safe and inclusive cycling infrastructure in the city. The so-called “copenhagenization”, a design strategy which combines urban planning and design, helps with the just transport transition in making cities more accessible to cyclists and pedestrians.

Road Safety with Viktor Zagreba
Published by: TUMI/GIZ
Road-safety measures are necessary for a just transition in the transport sector. Even though city officials and planners have introduced many safety precautions throughout the last decades, we still see way too many traffic fatalities. Especially in the global south, road injury is the principal cause of death for young people.

Cycling Revolution in Bogota with Nicolas Estupinan
Published by: TUMI/GIZ
Cycling has become more and more popular during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Especially Bogotá has become famous for their bicycle friendliness since they successfully pushed cycling as a safe and healthy transport alternative. This is a perfect example for how Just Transition promotes resilience in the face of threats of climate change and external shocks like the pandemic.

Infographics

The Compact City Scenario – Electrified
Published by: ITDP
For the urban transportation sector the path to keeping below 1.5°C global warming involves both compact cities developed for walking, cycling and public transit, as well as a strategic transition to electrified vehicles. This report argues that both policy approaches implemented in unision is the ideal approach to mitigating climate change while improving quality of life in cities.

A comprehensive approach to road safety – The example of Germany
Published by: TUMI/GIZ
Achieving a Just Transition in the transport sector implies to create an attractive, sustainable transport network by transforming urban infrastructures and streets as well as prioritizing cycling and walking as modes of transport. In doing so, the availability, reliability and especially safety of mobility services must not be disregarded. That’s why we need innovative approaches to road safety.