GTZ-SUTP organised a training course on Non-Motorised Transport in Seoul
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As a pre-event to the 4th Regional Environmentally Sustainable
Transport (EST) Forum, GTZ-SUTP organised a training course on "Non-Motorised
Transport in Urban Areas, in Seoul, S. Korea. The event was organised on 23rd
February 2009 in cooperation with Interface for Cycling Expertise (I-Ce,
Netherlands), United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD), Korea
Transport Institute (KOTI) and Ministry of Land Transport and Maritime Affairs
(MLTM), Korea. Mr. Jeroen Buis, I-Ce was the lead trainer while Mr. Manfred
Breithaupt, GTZ's Senior Transport Advisor and SUTP Project Director, was a
co-trainer. The agenda of the course can be downloaded from here .
About 40 participants from 10 countries participated in the
course. The participants were from the countries that are engaged or will be
engaged in the National EST Strategy development with the support of UNCRD as
well as local Korean officials. The training course provided an opportunity for
policy-makers to learn various technical and policy aspects of non-motorized
transport (NMT) as an integral part of EST and urban planning and
development.
Further, Mr. Breithaupt will be participating as an
International Expert in the 4th Regional EST Forum being held in Seoul, S. Korea
between 24-26th February 2009. More information on the EST forum can be found
from here.
More information on the course can
be had by sending an email to
sutp[at]sutp.org
