The document summarizes the Leaders in Urban Transport Planning capacity building initiative presented by O.P. Agarwal at the SIBRT conference. The program aims to [1] create a pool of leaders to address urban mobility comprehensively, [2] build capacity at local training institutes, and [3] create reference materials. It involves [2] self-study, [2] a one-week training, [3] a local project with mentoring, and [4] exposure visits. Over 430 participants from over 50 countries have completed the program so far. The World Bank leads program design and quality assurance while partners deliver the trainings and cover costs through fees.

1. O.P. Agarwal
World Bank
Presented at the SIBRT conference,
Belo Horizonte - 6th June, 2013
Leaders in Urban Transport
Planning: A Capacity
Building Initiative

2. Presentation Outline
• The Problem
• Objective
• Program Design
• Current status
• Moving ahead
• Short film
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4. • Urban population of developing countries
projected to double in the next 25 years
• Emerging land use patterns that encourage
motorization
• Increasing income – increasing motorization
• Dominance of the motor cycle in most
developing countries
• Construction focused efforts dominate -
Inadequate attention to holistic planning
What makes it difficult
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5. Growth of Vehicles to Population (1981-
2001) – Major Indian Cities
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Population Vehicles Veh/Popln
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6. Urban
Transport
Land
use
Economics
Politics
Behavior
Sociology
Livelihoods
Gender
Disability
Engineering
Finance
Environment
Affordability
Technology
Health
Complexity of Urban Transport
Needs a comprehensive approach

7. Capacity Gap
FinancialAnalysts
PublicPolicy
specialists
Economists
TransportPlanners
UrbanPlanners
Environmental
Engineers
SocialScientists
Leaders

8. Objective
• Create a pool of leaders/change agents to
look at Urban Mobility in a holistic and
comprehensive manner
• Create capacity in local training institutes
• Create high quality toolkits (“how to”
guides) and reference material for the
practice
• Create a platform for South-South
information exchange
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9. Target group
• Key national, provincial and city level
decision makers
• Potential faculty for local programs
• Bank staff and staff of partner agencies
working on urban transport
• Staff of civil society organizations working
on urban transport
• Staff of local consultants (at their cost)
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10. Target group has special needs
• They switch off with too
much lecturing
• “You don’t know our
situation”
• Prefer learning by doing
and seeing
• Prefer learning at a
slower pace – not
information overload
• Yet, they can not be out
for too long
Therefore traditional
methods need revision
• Self learning material to be
sent in advance
• Face to face event to focus on
action learning
– Case studies
– Peer discussions
– Group work/Games
• Learning by doing
– Locally relevant project work
– Mentoring support and high
quality reference material
• Exposure to “Best Practices”
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11. Proposed 4 phase structure
I. Self learning
II. One week face to face
learning program
III. Work on a locally relevant
project at duty location
IV. Exposure visit s/ InternshipAssignments
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Evaluation
Focus on
comprehensive
planning

12. Local
Context
Global
Expertise
International
Best
Practices

13. Self - Study material
• Is made available in advance
• 24 modules – grouped into 7 thematic clusters
• Easy to read and non-technical language –
decision makers do not necessarily come from a
technical background
• 1 hour a day over 24 days
• Also being put together in an eLearning format
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14. Face to face component
• One week duration
• Deepen understanding of issues through action
learning
– Case studies
– Problem solving and group exercises
– Role play / other games
– Site visits
• Minimal lectures
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15. Locally Relevant Project work
• Project to be finalized during face to face
event
• Should meet a specific city need
• Mentoring arrangement
• Should result in several professionally
prepared projects for the city
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16. Exposure visits
• International exposure visits to places
exemplifying best practices
• Towards the latter part of project work
phase
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17. Implementation arrangements
• A core team of World Bank staff is leading the
effort
• Range of partner institutes are delivering
individual offerings – LTA Academy, CEPT
University, AFD, KOTI, Embarq
• Bank’s focus is to structure the program and
get it started – slowly limit its role to support
quality assurance, faculty development and
new learning material development
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18. Role of partners
• Arrange all local logistics
• Market the program, along with the World Bank
team
• Support the World Bank with contextualizing
design to local needs
• Partnering in providing faculty resources
• Incur expenses in organizing the offering and
collect fees to meet expenses

19. Financing
• Upfront material development financed by
the World Bank
• Individual offerings paid for through
participant fees
• Fees come from a variety of sources
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20. Offerings completed and upcoming
Location Date # Participants # countries Language
Lagos June 2011 65 10 English
Singapore Jan 2012 66 13 English
Marseille June 2012 30 9 French
Fuzhou June 2012 35 1 Chinese
Ahmedabad July 2012 35 1 English
Beijing Sept 2012 30 1 Chinese
Seoul Oct 2012 25 7 English
Buenos Aires Nov 2012 16 5 Spanish
Singapore Jan 2013 30 7 English
Mexico May 2013 70 4 Spanish
Marseille June 2013 30 French
Ahmedabad Aug 2013 English
Seoul Oct 2013 English
Singapore Jan 2014 English
An alumni of over 430 participants so far

22. Some snapshots

23. Moving ahead
• Will continue to offer additional programs
• Looking to develop more national level programs
on India model
• Looking for new partners