The importance of urban public transport services is unusually pronounced in the Eastern Europe and Central Asia (ECA) Region. The socialist-era 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. Throughout the 1990s, a fall in economic output and average incomes, and emergence of mass poverty, has been concurrent with a rise of fortunes for some population strata. The first affected the ability to pay for public services, and the latter stimulated an increase in motorization. The subsequent recovery, where it occurred, has tended to accelerate motorization without a like relief for public transport services and the supply of urban roads.

In order to facilitate and to enhance the dialogue on sustainable urban transport, UNITAR and GTZ SUTP are happy to introduce this webpage as focal point for professionals and decision-makers in the ECA-region.

Besides this webpage GTZ SUTP and UNITAR are facilitating the continued exchange of information through a newsgroup (SUTECA). The newsgroup is open to all parties interested in sharing information, questions and concerns on a peer-to-peer basis with professionals and decision-makers in the region (more/free subscription).

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For more information on GTZ SUTP and for access to the comprehensive Sourcebook on Sustainable Urban Transport, please click here.

EU - Green Paper on urban mobility released

13 October, 2007

"Towards a new culture for urban mobility" is the title of the European Commission's new Green Paper on urban transport. It was adopted on 25 September 2007 and opens a debate on the key issues of urban mobility...

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Tallinn 2007

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Plock 2007

Event Date: 17/09/2007 | Venue: Plock/Poland | For more information : http://www.cifalplock.ump.pl/en/trainings/ztm/

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