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Resilience in urban transport: what have we learned from Super Storm Sandy...
Photo: Stefan Georgi/Flickr Back in 2012, a storm surge triggered by Super Storm Sandy caused extensive damage across the New York City (NYC)-New Jersey (NJ) Metropolitan Area, and wreaked havoc on...
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Também disponível em: Português Worldwide, e-commerce has experienced explosive growth over the past decade, including in developing countries. The 2015 Global Retail E-Commerce Index ranks several of...
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In the Pacific, climate change means trying to expect the unexpected
I was reflecting on the saying that “ignorance is bliss” as our plane was landing in Tuvalu, a small island nation in the South Pacific. We had been advised that portions of the recent runway...
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Gender equality hits the highway in Northern Brazil
Young women, some still girls, await long-haul truck drivers that stop by a gas station in the State of Tocantins, located in the North region of Brazil. Here, impoverished women and girls look to get...
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Urban transport: Lagos shows Africa the way forward (again)
Photo: Ben Eijbergen With a metropolitan population approaching 23 million, Lagos is the economic engine of Nigeria and one of the largest cities on the African continent. Rapid growth, unfortunately,...
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What El Niño has taught us about infrastructure resilience
Also available in: Español Photo: Ministerio de Defensa del Perú/Flickr The rains in northern Peru have been 10 times stronger than usual this year, leading to floods, landslides and a declaration of a...
View ArticleIn India, this transport engineer is racing toward the future… with German...
Harsh, a civil engineer from Surendranagar, the western State of Gujarat in India, proudly has a collection of supercars recently delivered from Germany. They are all brand new with sleek designs,...
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Climate and disaster risk in transport: No data? No problem!
Photo: Beccacantpark/Flickr Development professionals often complain about the absence of good-quality data in disaster-prone areas, which limits their ability to inform projects through quantitative...
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The road to resilience: sharing technical knowledge on transport across borders
Photo: Sinkdd/Flickr For many countries, damages and losses related to transport are a significant proportion of the economic impacts of disasters, often more than destruction to housing and...
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Preparing for the future of logistics - the Singapore way
Photo: Sarah Starkweather/Flickr The government of Singapore recently outlined its vision for the country's future, describing how different sectors could harness technology, innovation and...
View ArticleWomen on the march! Two decades of gender inclusion in rural roads in Peru
Also available in: Español Women maintaining roads? As their job? Until recently, the idea was pretty much unfathomable in many countries. But in Peru, it isn’t. Since 2001, the Peruvian government...
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Motorization and its discontents
Photo: Sarah Farat/World Bank They say a picture is worth a thousand words. While visiting the World Bank library the other day, I was struck by how many development publications featured pictures of...
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Sustainable mobility: can the world speak with one voice?
The transport sector is changing at breakneck speed. By 2030, global passenger traffic is set to rise by 50%, and freight volume by 70%. By 2050, we will have twice as many vehicles on the road,...
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Climate is changing… So the way we manage roads needs to change as well
Photo: Christopher R. Bennett/World Bank Few things are more depressing than seeing the damage caused by cyclones on transport infrastructure. Especially when it is a causeway that was only formally...
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Preparing transport for an uncertain climate future: I don’t have a crystal...
Photo: Alex Wynter/Flickr In 2015, severe floods washed away a series of bridges in Mozambique’s Nampula province, leaving several small villages completely isolated. Breslau, a local engineer and one...
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When cities forget about pedestrians, big data and technology can serve as a...
Photo: Lazyllama/Shutterstock Paraisópolis, a nationally famous slum area in São Paulo, Brazil, is one of those bustling communities where everything happens. Despite being located in the middle of...
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Are hybrid and electric buses viable just yet?
Photo: Volvo Buses/Buses Fan Hybrid and electric buses may be the future of public transport. But today, they are costlier than their diesel equivalents. Therefore, their implementation requires that...
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Beyond ribbon-cutting: measuring the real impact of transport projects
Photo: World Bank/Flickr Development practitioners often rely on Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) performance indicators to assess the results of a transport project. Collecting indicators before,...
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Are roads and highways the Achilles Heel of Brazil?
Also available in: Português Photo: Ricardo Giaviti/Flickr Over the past three years and a half, our team has been working on a transport project with the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The project...
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The “plastic bridge”: a low-cost, high-impact solution to address climate risk
Photo: Anthony Doudt/Flickr Bridges are critical links in the transport network. In their position across waterways, they are exposed to the full effects of flooding and landslides, and are often the...
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