The Global Transport Knowledge Partnership: One stop for global transport knowledge

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The Global Transport Knowledge PartnershipOne
stop for global transport knowledge

• Financing Transport Climate Change Projects and
  Programs
• by
• Charles M. Melhuish
• Technical Director, gTKP
• A Presentation to Financing Transport Climate
  Change Projects
• 27 November 2008, TERI, New Delhi, India

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Gaining Support from Stakeholders

• Do they understand what Climate Change is?
• Call it something else
• - Improved local air quality
• - Urban transport improvement
• - Better public transport
• - Reduced traffic congestion

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Possible Financing Sources

• Clean Development Mechanism
• Parking charges
• Congestion charges road pricing
• Business tax French example
• Fuel taxes/surcharges
• Green taxes or charges
• - fuel types fuel economy standards

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Possible Financing Sources (2)

• Fare box revenues
• Advertising
• Revenues from traffic offences
• Land development taxes
• Private sector contributions
• Loans and grants

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Management Mechanism

• Urban Transport Fund
• - similar in concept to the RMF
• Need for adequate governance structures
• Involve all stakeholders
• Managed by multisectoral Board, chaired by
  private sector?

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Remember Good Principles

• Prevention is easier than cure
• - need for better integration of land use with
  transport
• favour denser development than scattered
  development
• focus on people and quality of life
• focus on public transport and NMT

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The Global Transport Knowledge PartnershipOne
stop for global transport knowledge

• Thank you
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