Transport Overview - World Bank Group
2024年10月17日 · The transport sector is essential to reducing poverty and building prosperity: transport gives access to jobs, education and healthcare; it connects goods and services to markets and is a key driver of growth; finally, lowering the carbon footprint of the sector is crucial to tackle climate change. The World Bank works with client countries to provide safe, clean …
Closing Gender Gaps in Transport - World Bank Group
2024年3月7日 · Women and men have different mobility patterns and experience different risks when using public transport. No matter where you look, data from the ground consistently shows that the barriers affecting people’s mobility—accessibility, availability, affordability, acceptability, safety and security—disproportionally impact women.
Air Transport - World Bank Group
Air transport is an important enabler to achieving economic growth and development. Air transport facilitates integration into the global economy and provides vital connectivity on a national, regional, and international scale. It helps generate trade, …
India Transportation - World Bank Group
2011年9月23日 · • The railways are facing severe capacity constraints. All the country’s high-density rail corridors face severe capacity constraints. Also, freight transportation costs by rail are much higher than in most countries as freight tariffs in India have been kept high to subsidize passenger traffic. • Urban centers are severely congested.
With Bus Rapid Transit, African Cities Are Riding Toward a Better …
2022年11月29日 · In Africa, a growing number of countries are investing in Bus Rapid Transit systems (BRT), which generally run on dedicated lanes and can carry large volumes of passengers quickly and efficiently. In the face of rapid urbanization, these new transit systems can be an effective way to keep African cities moving while reducing the carbon footprint of transport.
Infrastructure Overview - World Bank Group
2024年10月17日 · Scaling-up cooperation in digital development, smart transportation and clean energy by convening other World Bank Group institutions, international development agencies, private sector entities and NGOs to deliver solutions. Building knowledge and capacity through academic partnerships such as the #Infra4Dev conferences.
Making Way for Women in Transport and Logistics: Promising …
2023年1月30日 · On average, women make up only 23 percent of employees in the transport, storage, and communication sector across the Europe and Central Asia region—with many engaged in low-paying jobs, often among administration, sales, catering, and cleaning, while men dominate engineering, driving and managerial roles.
Transport - World Bank Group
With 189 member countries, staff from more than 170 countries, and offices in over 130 locations, the World Bank Group is a unique global partnership: five institutions working for sustainable solutions that reduce poverty and build shared prosperity in developing countries.
Investing in Public Transit Systems Can Empower Workers and …
2022年10月31日 · Rapid urbanization in low- and middle-income countries has led to economic growth, but also brings significant challenges like congestion and the proliferation of informal housing. New research shows that investments in urban transportation benefit workers not only through reductions in commute times, but through broader ripple effects in the economy like …
How ICTs Can Help Transport Systems Evolve - World Bank Group
2015年5月14日 · ICTs converge with mobile networks to move conventional transportation into the next generation of transport systems and services, where the traditional three major entities of transportation – transport facility, transport mode and humans – are to be connected systematically in order to provide real-time information exchange amongst all of ...