NON MOTORIZED TRANSPORT IN MEXICO CITY

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• NON MOTORIZED TRANSPORT IN MEXICO CITY

BAQ, YOGYAKARTA, 12/15/2006 Bernardo Baranda
Sepúlveda bbaranda_at_itdp.org
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CONTENTS

• Overview of some Transport data in Mexico City
• Some NMT Principles Examples
• Results of the Itinerant Traffic Safety
  Laboratory Project

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Mexico City and the Metropolitan Area
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Population and Area Growth of Mexico City

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Growth of the Metropolitan Area of Mexico City
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MAIN PROBLEMS RELATED TO URBAN TRANSPORT
BAD AIR QUALITY
LOW QUALITY PUBLIC TRANSPORT
DIFFICULTIES FOR THE MOST VULNERABLE
(Pedestrians, Cyclists, Children, Elder, etc...)
PROBLEMS OF URBAN TRANSPORT
ACCIDENTS
RAPID MOTORIZATION
CONGESTION
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BAD AIR QUALITY
2.5 millons of tons de pollutans to the air each
year of which 84 are generated by the transport
system
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BAD AIR QUALITY

• The bad air quality in the Metropolitan Area of
  Mexico City accelerates the death of aproximately
  4,000 persons each year according to the Public
  Health National Institute.

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CONGESTION

• The average travel time spent daily is around 3
  hours

• The cost due to congestions and accidents has
  been estimated around 11,000 million USD each
  year

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BAD QUALITY PUBLIC TRANSPORT

• Too many vehicles
• Competition for passengers and the space
• Low capacity units
• Lack of professional organizations to provide
  the service
• Little or non-existant regulation from the
  government

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Car ownership growth in Mexico City
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MEXICO CITY (2000) A LOT OF AUTOMOBILES MOVE
RELATEVELY FEW PEOPLE
MODAL DISTRIBUTION
No. de viajes-persona día
No. De vehículos


Tipo de vehículo
Taxis, combis y microbuses Autobuses Urbanos y
suburbanos Metro Vehículos eléctricos Motos,
bicicletas y otros Automóviles Subtotal
3.6
134,770
52.0
17222,000
3643,000
11.0
19,446
6.6
83.5
5961,000
18.0
2,601
0.7
331,000
344
1.0
2.3
497,000
1.5
84,805
3461,731
93.4
5466,000
3703,697
Vehículos de carga
386,008
33120,000
T O T A L
4 089,705
Fuente SETRAVI
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SOME NMT PRINCIPLES

• Improvements of NMT is not a luxury but an
  investment to the health and equity of the cities
  (pedestrians, cyclists, children, elder, people
  with disabilities, etc)
• The quality of the public space and the mass
  transit systems is directed related to how people
  have access and are able to move around them
• Many times the details are forgotten or made
  deficient and that makes all the difference.

Traffic Death Facts 1,170,694 people died from
road traffic injuries worldwide in 1998 Of those
deaths, 88 were in developing countries Worldwid
e, up to two-thirds to traffic accident injuries
are suffered by pedestrians In developing
countries, the injury rates of pedestrians and
cyclists are much higher In developing
countries, traffic accidents are the second
leading cause of death among young people
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Infrastructure for wheel chairs?
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Evolution to measure success

• Focus on accesibility
• Focus on mobility
• Traditional Focus of urban transport

• Multimodal level of service, accesibility level,
  costs or impacts per person-trip
• Kilometers por passenger Person-trips levels of
  service of Public Transport costs or impacts per
  passenger-km
• Vehicle speeds Level of services of roads, costs
  and impacts per vehicle

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Adapted from Paul Barter Todd Littman
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SOME SIMPLE MEASURES

• Reduce the time/length of exposition
• Quality infrastructure for sidewalks, cyclepaths,
  ramps and in general public space (i.e. gt 2 mts
  width, direct, continious, uniform, attractive,
  8.3 lt etc)
• Infraestructure can educate

FUENTEBONAMONI,1990
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ARE WE CREATING CITIES FOR PEOPLE OR FOR CARS?
Av. Baja California y Av. Nuevo Leon
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NO COMMMENTS...
Av. Baja California y Av. Nuevo Leon
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DIFICULTADES PARA LOS PEATONES
Av. Baja California y Av. Nuevo Leon
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ROCKET SCIENCE SOLUTION LEADING PEDESTRIAN
INTERVAL IN THE TRAFFIC LIGHTS (ALL RED FOR 3-7
SECONDS)
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PROPUESTA MANACAR
Done by Michael King (ITDP) Bernardo Baranda
(CTS), Feb. 2005
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CYCLEPATH IN MEXICO CITY

• 90 Kms in the former railroad

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CYCLEPATH IN MEXICO CITY
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EXAMPLE OF A SUCESSFUL LOW-COST MEASURE

• Bicycle Access to the Metro
• Problem Only on Sundays

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Master Plan of a Bicycle Path Network in Benito
Juarez Municipality
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SECTION TYPE

• Take away the parking lane
• Estimated 20,000 daily trips made currently on
  Bicycle in the Municipality

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BENITO JUAREZ BICYCLE PATH NETWORK PROJECT

• 36 Kms Total Network (12 kms the 1st phase)
• Bi-Directional 3.00 meters wide
• 1.1 USD Million total cost 1st phase (including
  improvements to sidewalks, lighting, buffer with
  vegetation, traffic calming devices, etc...)

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ITINERANT TRAFFIC SAFETY LABORATORY
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OBJECTIVES

• Improvements of the Public Space
• Raise Traffic Safety Education
• Promote activities and integration in the street
• Directed mainly to students of public schools
• in low income areas in Mexico City

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ELABORATED BY 3 NGOs
Con el apoyo financiero de
FINANTIAL SUPPORT FROM
AWARDED 20K USD IN CONTEST OF MICROPROJECTS
YOUNG PEOPLE FOR A POVERTY FREE MEXICO 2005
WORLD BANK
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STRUCTURE

• Law
• Donours
• Logistics

• MNT
• Infrastructure
• Guidelines

• Traffic Safety
• Programs
• Educations

PROJECT MANAGER ULISES TORRES SÁNCHEZ

• Key Actors
• School Directors
• Parents and Community
• Police, Municipality, Transport Ministry
• Donours
• Press

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How did we apply it?

• Locate a public school in a low income area with
  traffic conflicts.
• Convince the director of the school and we apply
  the project during 2 weeks
• With the community participation we improve some
  of the infrastructure (sidewalks, signs,
  vegetation, etc...) and we give the traffic
  safety courses
• We finish with an event in the street
• Evaluate and proceed to next school

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RESULTS
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SOME CONCLUSIONS

• The colisions between cars and pedestrians were
  drasticaly reduced at the crossing were the
  traffic light was put (4 in the first 10 months
  vs 0 since then)
• The infratstructure built is still there despite
  being areas with high vandalism. Perhaps it has
  to do with the involvement of the community from
  the beginning
• Children and press relate and get excited with a
  figure like Captain Street
• It is necessary to systemize better the
  evaluation methods of the different aspects of
  this project
• 3 NGOs cannot fill the lack of Traffic Safety
  Educaction in Mexico City. It is necessary to
  undertake a comprehensive program that involves
  all the different actors (community, public and
  private sector, civil society, academics, etc...)

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GRACIAS! TERIMA KASIH!