This 4 year (March 2016 to February 2020) project by Switch Asia aimed at promoting sustainable lifestyles and poverty reduction while reducing CO2 emissions and air pollution in India. The project fostered the scaling up of a replicable and integrated model of sustainable auto-rickshaw transport, based on clean technologies in the Cities of Bangalore and Chennai.

How the United States addresses emissions from the transportation sector will largely determine if the country can meet its climate targets. In this post, WRI unpacks some of the factors driving the transportation sector and examine the differences among the states in emission trends and policy.

Coronavirus pandemic lockdowns are also putting an incredible strain on public transit systems worldwide. This blog post by the World Resources Institute (WRI) provides five ways governments, development banks and agencies can make public transport an integral part of stimulus packages for economic recovery.

The World Resources Institute (WRI) organised a webinar on Testing and Accreditation Status of Electric Vehicles in India on November 11, 2019, as a part of the project, "Electric mobility Forum" launched by the vice president of India in 2019. The speaker Anand Deshpande, Sr. Deputy Director, ARAI (Pune), talked about the clean disruptions of energy and transportation and shared a broad outlook of EV global scenario while highlighting the Indian New EV program and Electric Vehicle standardization in India.

The World Resources Institute (WRI) organised a webinar on Understanding Batteries for Electric Vehicles (EV): Technology and Performance Aspects on August 30, 2019, as a part of the project, "Electric mobility Forum" launched by the vice president of India in 2019. The speaker Dr. Parveen Kumar, WRI (India), shared his views on why the shift is necessary from ICE vehicles to electric vehicles and what are the things that one needs to keep in mind while choosing one.

This presentation by Agora Verkehrswende talks about the future package of the130 bn Euro German recovery and relief programme highlighting the following: 1. Supporting the demand for electric and efficient vehicles 2. Supporting the supply of e-mobility and mobility services 3. Support for public transport and infrastructure

In this presentation, the Agora Verkehrswende proposed a recovery programme for targeted growth and investment in Germany containing over 50 dual-benefit measures. The presentation focuses on these mechanisms and illustrates them mainly with examples from Agora's proposal for Germany.

This presentation by Adam Cohen, Researcher, University of California, Berkeley, provides an overview of the Shared Mobility, Trends, and Indicators to Watch, Shared Mobility Growth and Industry Benchmarks, Shared Mobility and Public Transportation and Integrated Mobility and Emerging Technologies.

This presentation by the International Transport Forum (ITF) explains the car and road congestion through a microscopic approach; car, accessibility and land use through a macroscopic approach and regulation of urban mobility toward coherent policy packages. 

This presentation by François Cuenot, Vehicle Regulations and Transport Innovation Section, Mechanical Engineer (Secretary of the Working Party on Pollution and Energy, GRPE) elaborates the activities, scope and organization of WP.29 (Working Party 29) along with the tools of WP.29.