Paratransit capacity building and fleet renewal programs in the Latin America and Africa regions

8:30

Registration

9:00

Welcome

Esther Real, Director of the Barcelona School of Civil Engineering

Sergio Oliete, Head of Unit - Sustainable Transport and Urban Development

9:15

Presentation of the Workshop objectives and content

Mustapha Benmaamar, Program Manager, Africa Transport Policy Program, SSATP

9:30

Paratransit capacity building and fleet renewal programs in Latin America and Africa

This session will include short presentations of relevant experiences from Latin American and African cities to professionalize informal transport, drawing on important lessons learned in the areas of sustaining reforms over time (e.g. impact of commercial financing, bus operators’ corporate governance…), access to financing for bus renewal and working capital, as well as the role of government. The presentations of the case studies will be followed by a panel discussion that delves deeper into the current challenges and opportunities associated with informal and semi-formal transit capacity building programs.

Paratransit and fleet renewal programs in Africa region (experiences of Dakar, Cape Town, Kigali, Kampala, Freetown, Maputo, Nairobi, Accra and Antananarivo),

Presenter 1 : Fatima Arroyo-Arroyo, World Bank, Sr. Urban Transport Specialist – World Bank and co-Pillar Leader Urban Mobility – SSATP

Paratransit and fleet renewal programs in the Latin America region.

Presenter 2: Abel López, Senior Transport Specialist, World Bank

Panel

Moderator: Eléonore François-Jacobs, Partnerships and Outreach manager, MobiliseYourCity

11:00

Coffee break

11:20

Public transport sector integration

This session will present and discuss public transport system integration and paratransit sector reforms based on good practices global experience, including from Latin America. This could cover experiences in developing paratransit integration strategies including public transport planning, public transport network design, and operation and tariff integration.

Global lessons from multi-modal public transport system integration (physical, operational, tariff) and sector reforms

Presenter: Leonardo Canon Rubiano, Senior Transport Specialist, World Bank

Panel

Moderator: Alejandro Ceballos, Urban Mobility Technical Advisor, Euroclima

12:50

Lunch

13:45

Strategies to accelerate electric mobility

This session will present the findings of a recent reports on the economics of e-mobility in the global south including the Sahel region and discuss the challenges and opportunities of e-vehicles uptake including 2/3 Wheelers,

e-buses, and energy/charging infrastructure. A panel of representatives from the Africa and Latin America regions will present their perspective and discuss their respective experiences.

Presenter 1: Georges Darido, Global Lead for Urban Mobility, World Bank. Presenter 2: Expert Academic. Miquel Estrada, Barcelona School of Civil Engineering.

Panel

Moderator: Gibet Camos Daurella, Senior Clean Urban Transport Specialist, EIB

15:15

Closure

Sergio Oliete, Head of Unit - Sustainable Transport and Urban Development