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El transporte urbano en las mayores urbes consume alrededor de un 3½% del PIB regional, una fracción inflada por la incidencia de la congestión de tránsito. Al costo de la congestión en términos de pérdida de eficiencia económica, hay que sumarle sus consecuencias negativas para la coherencia so...

This issue of the FAL bulletin analyses transport and mobility policy in Latin America, where the lack of integrated public policies for urban mobility and the failure to take coordinated action over time make it difficult to prioritize investments and coordinate existing initiatives (both...

La presente edición del Boletín entrega un recuento de los recientes acontecimientos y tendencias en América Latina y el Caribe, en materia de transporte ferroviario, urbano y conservación vial.

Transport planning necessarily takes into account more than just the immediate time-frame. In the case of urban transport, planning needs to come up with solutions in regard to infrastructure which is expensive and may have a useful life extending over several decades. Therefore, planning must ta...

Urban transport in the largest Latin American and Caribbean cities consumes about 3.5% of regional GDP — a percentage that is inflated by the effects of traffic congestion. In addition to the costs of congestion in terms of lost economic efficiency, there are also negative consequences in terms o...

The outlook for inter-modal transport in Latin America at the end of 1999 was a complex one, fraught with uncertainties and unresolved issues. On the other hand, things came into sharper focus in the year 2000 and several major projects were launched. This annual summary focuses on three of these...

Over the past three years, talks conducted at the subregional level have led to the signing of multimodal transport agreements, and these have been implemented by Mercosur and reviewed by the Andean Community; multimodal transport is only now starting to come into its own in South America but is ...

This issue of the FAL Bulletin examines aspects of current urban transport policies in Latin America and proposes a conceptual framework for an integrated and sustainable mobility policy.

La presente edición del Boletín entrega un recuento de los recientes acontecimientos y tendencias en el sector transporte de América Latina y el Caribe, abarcando aspectos relacionados con el transporte urbano, el transporte ferroviario y la conservación vial.

La creciente utilización del comercio electrónico y la necesidad de generar soluciones eficaces a problemas como la congestión vehicular y la distribución física de mercaderías, están generando un nuevo escenario para el transporte, principalmente para el urbano. Es por ello que la incorporación ...