Training Documents on Sustainable Urban Transport topics

To complement the Sourcebook modules, GTZ has also developed training material in longer and more detailed documents, where steps for planning and how to develop different urban transport strategies are explained. As with Sourcebook modules, authors are respected professionals with extensive experience in each topic. Below is a short description of the existent training materials.

This document is designed to describe the characteristics of bus systems in the cities of developing countries, together with prescriptions for reform and case studies.

The document will be of interest to government decision-makers, transport professionals, students of transport and consultants.

The document also addresses bus policy issues in the ‘second world’, the former socialist countries. Here the constraints are different. The transport infrastructure is good, but often comprises high capital cost electric tram and trolleybus systems. Population density is too low to enable cost-recovery, while affordability of fares is low.

Cycling-inclusive Policy Development: A Handbook by GTZ and Interface for Cycling Expertise (I-Ce, Netherlands)

GTZ SUTP and the Interface for Cycling Expertise (I-Ce) have joined efforts and developed a training document titled "Cycling-inclusive Policy Development: A Handbook". This handbook provides detailed information on how to develop cycling-friendly policies and facilities. It can help planners, engineers, community leaders or advocates to enrich their own ideas about the future traffic and transport system where you live and work.  

Lloyd Wright was the author of this training course document. This document serves as a course manual for conducting training on choosing between mass transit options in developing cities. The document starts with the basic details of a Mass transit, its importance and how a city can benefit from various kinds of mass transit systems. This provides tools for planners and decision makers so they can carefully reflect on their available options for their cities and thus, selecting and developing the most sustainable mass transit system for their specific case. 

This training course documents discusses an inherent aspect of an integrated transport system that is most times neglected: non-motorised transport (NMT). The document explains the importance of NMT in a city and explains design details of planning for pedestrians and bicycles. This training course document provides planners and decision-makers with the tools to develop people-friendly transport systems in their respective cities.  

This document focuses on the importance of awareness and the necessary tools to initiate a change in the behaviour of the stakeholders for a sustainable transport system. Further, the document explains the various surveying methods for proper data collection. These tools will help planners and professionals in charge of communication of transport projects to diffuse information regarding new transport projects or initiatives to change travel behaviour of citizens.  

Transportation Demand Management by Andrea Broaddus, Todd Litman and Gopinath Menon

Increased economic growth, coupled with a resulting increase in motorisation in recent years, has created greater congestion than has ever been seen in the world. Solutions to these problems are possible through improvement of conditions of public transport and conditions for pedestrians and bicycle users, and also in the implementation of measures which promote a rational use of the automobile.

In that sense, Transportation Demand Management (TDM) aims to maximize the efficiency of the urban transport system using a wide range of measures, including Congestion Pricing, Public Transport Improvement, Promoting Non-motorised Transport, Fuel Taxation and Parking Management. This document presents an overview on international practices, approaches and supports the design of a TDM strategy.