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Public transport reform in Latin America!

EMBARQ helps cities make sustainable transport a reality.!

!   Presented at the World Bank Sustainable Development Network “Transport Days” on Feb. 27, 2013!

!   Dario Hidalgo, PhD!!   Director Research and Practice!!   EMBARQ!

From “The War of the Penny”

To “Individual Commuter Pain”

Huge difficulties, e.g. Bogotá !  Congestion – 64.8 min per trip, ~ 6.96 million

hours lost per day ~ USD $3.9 billion per year

!  Air Pollution ~500 premature deaths per year

!  Road Un-safety – 500 deaths, 3,000 severely injured y 18,000 injured per year

!  Physical Inactivity – 13.5% between 18 and 64 years old are overweight

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Distribución por modos de viaje With remarkable impact on modal share and externalities

Key Component of the Strategy: Public Transport Reform

Structural change in transit provision, not just building and operating BRT corridors

Traditional Operation Transformed Operation

Individual private operators affiliated to companies with

route permits and very weak supervision by government

New private companies managing bus fleet under concession contracts and with strong supervision of

government (through new agencies)

Traditional Operation Transformed Operation

Competition in the market

(“guerra del centavo” penny war)

Competition for the market

(bidding process with priority for the existing private

operators)

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2010: Guangzhou, Hefei, Yancheng, Zaozhuang – China;!Jaipur - Índia; Bangkok - Tailândia; East London Transit

– UK; Barranquilla, Bucaramanga – Colômbia;!Ecatepec- México; Lima - Peru; Brampton – Canadá; …!

2000: Bogotá (TransMilenio),

Colombia!

1974: Curitiba!

Bogotá was a tipping point – sparked “global” transit reform!

source: BRTdata.org, January, 2013!

Six Cities in Colombia !

http://www.metroenbogota.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/transmilenio-hasta-el-aeropuerto-el-doraro.jpg

Portal Eldorado Troncal Calle 26 Terminal – Opened June 2012

Evolution of Bus Systems in México

237,000 Pax/día

497,000 Pax/día

552,000 Pax/día

814,000 Pax/día

1,114,000 Pax/día

2003 2005 2008 2009 2011

Optibus Leon, Guanajuatio Length: 26 km Fleet: 61

+Metobus Insurgentes Mexico DF Length: 46 km Fleet: 156

+ Metrobus Insurgentes Sur Length: 55 km Fleet: 216

+Macrobus Guadalajara Length: 92 km Fleet: 330

+Mexibus Mexico State Length: 128 km Fleet: 472

1,164,000 Pax/día

2012

+ Metrbus Line 4 Length: 156 km Fleet: 526

Photo:  CTS  EMBARQ  Mexico

Metrobus Line 4 – Opened April 2012

31 Cities in Brazil with BRT and Bus Corridors

Belo Horizonte, Blumenau, Brasília, Campinas, Campo Grande, Caxias do Sul, Criciúma, Curitiba, Diadema - São Paulo, Feira de Santana, Fortaleza, Goiania, Jaboatão dos Guararapes, Joinville, João Pessoa, Juiz de Fora, Londrina, Maceió, Mauá – Diadema, Natal, Niteroi, Olinda, Porto Alegre, Recife, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Santos, Sorocaba, Sumaré, São Paulo, Uberlândia

Photo: EMBARQ Brasil Transoeste Rio de Janeiro May 2012

Bus systems and busways in the world!!   daily demand per region (M pax/day)!

Latin America and the Caribbean!50 cities!153 corridors!15.76 M pax/day!

Europe!43 cities!

52 corridors!1.66 M pax/day!

Asia!26 cities!26 corridors!6.14 M pax/day!

USA and Canada!20 cities!27 corridors!0.85 M pax/day!

Africa!3 cities!3 corridors!0.24 M pax/day!

Oceania!7 cities!

7 corridors!0.33 M pax/day!

source: BRTdata.org, January, 2013!

http://www.embarq.org/en/modernizing-public-transportation

Transit reform through bus systems have been successful

!  Quality and performance are better than in the systems they replaced

!  Main achievement: travel time reduction and increased safety and reliability !  Efficiency gains - reduced

energy consumption and air pollutants and CO2 emissions

!  Reduced traffic fatalities

!  Improved urban environments

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What Went Wrong

Filename/RPS Number

• Rushed implementation – several components incomplete at launch

• Very tight financial planning – non technical user fares

• Very high occupancy levels (160 pax/bus standard for articulated buses is not accepted by the users)

• Early deterioration of infrastructure (lack of road surface reinforcement or problems in design/construction)

• Glitches in IT systems, specially fare collection

•  Insufficient user education

Common problems

The main structural problems are institutional or regulatory

!  Cash flow issues – absence of operational subsidies - financial stress

!  Expansion has proven difficult after initial corridors ! Opposition from existing operators – high cost of making the

reform possible !  Change in political leadership and local priorities – “rail debates”

!  Lack of integration with normal bus services (integrated systems are now progressing after Santiago → Bogotá, Cali, Medellin, México)

21 Fotos: D. Hidalgo 2006, 2007

Megabús – Pereira

Metrovía - Guayaquil Transantiago - Santiago

The transit to integrated public transport continues Leadership + Capacity + Funding

EMBARQ helps cities make sustainable transport a reality.!

!   Presented to the World Bank Sustainable Development Network!

!   More information at:!! EMBARQ.org!

!   Questions? Comments? Contact us at embarq@wri.org!!   Follow us on Twitter: @EMBARQnetwork!

Public transport reform in Latin America!

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