Overview

According to United Nations’ forecasts, the global urban population will increase by 1.4 bil-lion between 2010 and 2030, and by another 1.4 billion between 2030 and 2050. Asian cities will have to accommodate two thirds of the global urban growth in the next decade, and by 2050, 64.5% of Asia’s population will be urban. The extremely rapid increase of urban popu-lation in Asia leads to a high demand for urban transport and mobility.

The complex challenge of planning and managing sustainable urban mobility brought together practitioners and experts on urban transport and planning in Cebu City, Philippines, for the 3rd Asian Connective Cities Practitioners' Workshop that took place from 17 to 19 November 2015.

Representatives from the Philippines, Indonesia and Germany engaged in a lively 3-day ex-change on the varied and complex tasks of sustainably planning and managing urban mobility.

Keynotes

Keynote by Dr. Primitivo Cal, University of the Philippines:
Challenges of Urban Mobility in Asia

Keynote by Dr. Stefan Bege, Municipality of Nuremberg:
Challenges of Urban Mobility in Germany

Results

The presentations of good practices very much focused on establishing and promoting acces-sible and efficient alternatives to private transport options. The participation of civil society in developing mobility schemes was identified as a key aspect to embed at a very early stage of transport planning as well as the importance to offer affordable, safe and time-efficient public modes of transport.

After presenting their own city experiences, the participants worked on strategies to resolve concrete challenges related to their individual professional work contexts. Subsequently small groups of practitioners worked together to develop concrete action plans with a selection of action planning tools. The results of these sessions were presented to the other participants and will be reviewed and further elaborated upon return to the respective cities.

Connective Cities plans to facilitate the follow-up activities of the workshop in Cebu through networking and virtual collaboration tools that will allow participants to stay connected, link up with relevant experts and bring their action plans to the next level.