Solving Traffic Congestion in Metro Manila

ADB Operations A partnership of 67 countries 42 client countries 28 offices worldwide

Financing in 2014$22.93 billion

Main Instruments• Loans and Grants• Technical Assistance• Policy Dialogue• Equity Investments

Yichang BRT

Priority areas

1. Urban transport

2. Transport and climate change

3. Logistics and cross-border transport

4. Road safety and social sustainability

Avoid unnecessary

vehicle kilometers

Shift to the lowest-emitting

modes

Improve vehicle technology to

cleaner options

ADB has adopted the “Avoid-Shift-Improve” Framework as a core principal for project development

A fully integrated and holistic approach to sustainable urban transport

Vientiane Sustainable Urban Transport Project Bus rapid transit system Traffic control system Bicycle sharing, walkability, and modern pedicabs Parking management system Institutional development

“Induced Traffic”: Building new urban roads will increase traffic demand and make congestion worse

Traffic is like a gas…it fills all available space very quickly

Manila

Beijing built six ring roads: All are congested

Los Angeles

No city has ever solved traffic congestion by building more roads

Building more roads to combat congestion is like buying larger pants to deal with obesity!

One BRT lane moves 45,000 passengers

per hour

Each car lane moves just 2,000 passengers per hour

(7 lanes x 2,000 = 14,000 pax)

The amount of space required to move 60 persons

60 persons by car 60 persons by bicycle 60 persons by bus

Effective “active transport” design

Signage

Road markings

Physical buffer from motorized traffic

Landscaping

Quality surface materials

Color differentiation between pedestrian and bicycle areas

Fully universally accessible

Seoul

Guangzhou2,100 km of greenways developed

Greenways are linear pedestrian and cycle ways that make non-motorized connectivity possible across a city

Greenways:Iloilo City Esplanade example

Last kilometer connectivity with modernized pedicabs

An ADB initiative in several cities of South and South East Asia

Bicycle sharing is a shared-use rental service with multiple collection

and return locations across a city

Parking Levy

A fee paid on non-residential parking spaces, whether or not the space is utilized

Sydney example US$ 615 per space

per year City earns US$ 31

million per year in income

A Metro Manila parking levy of just Php. 20 per day per space would generate over Php. 15 billion per year

Cities utilize parking levies to fund public transport improvements

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Asia and the Pacific