从公共汽车上看的景色：更好的运输意味着更好的生活
It’s easy to get overwhelmed by the big picture when it comes to cities. They’re home to more than half the global population, produce three quarters of GDP and greenhouse gas emissions, and are still growing in nearly every respect. But cities are made up of individuals, and urban policy has real, tangible effects on their lives. That’s especially true when it comes to transportation policy.
Public transportation moves hundreds of millions of city dwellers, rich and poor, every day. It’s a lifeline that connects people to jobs, education and opportunity. When done right, it allows people to travel affordably, efficiently and with dignity, with more time for themselves and their families.
使城市运输变得更好Mobility and Accessibility Program（地图），Wri Ross中心与FedEx的八年合作。
Our success is reflected in these stories, collected from three of the cities where we work – stories from real people who have a real stake in improved transit systems.
Pablo in Mexico
五岁的帕勃罗·包蒂斯塔（Pablo Bautista）曾经讨厌早晨。他很早就醒来，他的母亲会把他捆在出租车上，他经过墨西哥市中心的45分钟骑车上学。小巴是唯一的其他选择，人满为患，破旧和危险。
2012年，墨西哥城首次亮相新的巴士快速运输线路，情况发生了变化。现在，帕勃罗的通勤与他的母亲步行七分钟，在Express线上不到半小时。费用？母亲用来支付出租车的五分之一。
Projects like Metrobus Line 4 help cities reach socio-economic and sustainable development targets; in daily life, they give residents and businesses access to more opportunities at lower costs. Line 4 carries 65,000 passengers a day, cuts travel times in half and is estimated to lower carbon emissions by 10,000 tons a year.
Suvarna在印度
Every weekday, Suvarna Reddy of Bangalore cooks, cleans and packs lunches before taking her grandson to school. Then she catches a bus to work, a journey that was once the most stressful part of her day. She cooks for three different households, and travels to the market to pick up goods.
“It used to take over 40 minutes to get from one home to another,” she recalls. “I had to wait for a long time before I got the bus, and would never get to sit. I always feared falling when I had to stand, because the buses were so old and unstable.”
2013年，班加罗尔大都会运输公司要求MAP帮助改善其公交系统，该系统每天为超过500万乘客提供服务。他们共同对高需求走廊进行了概念化，计划和实施。随着效率更高，频率增加，低票价，综合服务和近1,000辆新的低排放车辆的速度，该更新极大地提高了该市公共交通的质量和能力。
“The new buses come every 5 to 10 minutes,” says Suvarna. “I don’t have to wait a long time before I get a bus to get to any of my work places. Even when I have to go to the market, I can get a direct bus. I get there much more comfortably and a lot faster. And that gives me more time to spend with my family.”
巴西的塞利奥
CélioBouzada致力于改善巴西Belo Horizonte人民的生活。
“Belo Horizonte, like all large cities in Latin America, has serious problems with traffic – it’s congested,” says Bouzada, who serves as the president of BHTRANS, the regional transportation agency. “It’s our challenge to change the culture, to find resources, to implement new means of transit.” Every day, the agency moves more than 1.3 million people.
Beginning in 2014, BHTRANS used MAP tools to streamline bus rapid transit routes in three priority corridors. A user satisfaction survey, developed by MAP and deployed by BHTRANS a year later, showed the average 75-minute bus commute had been reduced by 30 minutes, and user satisfaction had increased by 60 percent. Now, nine other Brazilian cities have joined Belo Horizonte in a Quality of Service Benchmarking Group to track their own results and compare best practices.
Bouzada also noted that tools developed by MAP have helped his agency plan for emergency incidents, boost the skills of drivers, and host technical exchanges with other cities implementing similar BRT systems.
他说，下一步是电动巴士。“运输是造成城市污染的一半的原因。如果我们可以减少污染，那将影响儿童，成人以及老年人的健康。一个更清洁的公共交通系统，具有更快的旅行，对每个人来说都意味着一个更好的城市。”
城市是我们的现在和未来，我们都将从一个更加生产力，更健康和联系的世界中获利。对于Suvarna，Célio，Pablo和全球数百万人来说，改善移动性的好处不仅是抽象的，而且是迈向更好生活的欢迎步骤。
Stories adapted from the2017 Mobility and Accessibility Program Report。了解更多信息mobility.embarq.org。
Ani Dasguptais the Global Director of WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities.