Urban Mobility Resources
This resources page is a part of the “Designing Resilient Urban Mobility Systems for Climate Adaptation” project done in collobaration with Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE).
The project “Designing Resilient Urban Mobility Systems for Climate Adaptation” aims to explore Nepal’s rapidly evolving urban transport landscape, where challenges like unmanaged fossil fuel dependence, increasing traffic congestion, and fragmented public transport systems pose threats to both climate resilience and urban livability.
This guide, ‘The Tool for the Rapid Assessment of Urban Mobility in Cities with Data Scarcity (TRAM)‘, is prepared by Clean Air Asia and the Institute for Transportation and Development...
This research paper ‘Sustainable Urban Mobility Conditions in Kathmandu Valley Nepal‘ by Madhab Raj Neupane, explores the conditions necessary to achieve sustainable urban mobility (SUM)...
The report ‘Piloting Sustainable Urban Transport Index (SUTI) in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal‘ by Bhagawat Bhakta Khokhali evaluates Kathmandu’s urban transport system using ten UN-ESCAP SUTI...
Cycling in Kathmandu Valley has gone through dramatic shifts. Once a luxury reserved for elites in the early 20th century, bicycles became an affordable and essential mode of daily transport by the...
The policy brief ‘Pathways to Transport Decarbonization in Nepal‘ by Prashanta Khanal analyzes how Nepal’s rapidly growing transport sector contributes heavily to carbon emissions, air...
This paper, ‘Policy Recommendations for a Sustainable Public Road Transport System in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal‘ by Veronika Sherova, examines the urgent need for reform in Kathmandu’s...