Overview

From the 7th to the 9th of November 2017, a project workshop on the topic "Planning sustainable urban development and improvement of public transport in Trujillo" took place in Trujillo, Peru. Connective Cities organised this workshop upon the needs of the provincial city of Trujillo, which is working on public transport reforms. The aim of the workshop was to complement the planned reforms with new elements of experiences of other cities, to deepen reflections on challenges and possible solution and to plan new project activities together. Connective Cities coordinated this offer with other bilateral programmes of German development cooperation in Peru.

Keynotes

Iván Chira, PLANDET Trujillo en representación del Sr. Alcalde de Trujillo, Elidio Espinoza Quispe
Visión “Modelo Trujillo”

Germán Huerta, Gerente de Proyectos, Transportes Metropolitanos de Trujillo
Situación del Transporte Urbano en la Ciudad de Trujillo y Desafíos

Dr. Emilio Merino, Mentor SUMP, Gitec-Rupprecht
Metodología SUMP

Ricardo Tejada, Director para Latinoamérica, IVU Traffic Technologies
Herramientas para diseñar y acompañar las Relaciones Contractuales entre Municipios, Operadores y el Sistema de Recaudo

Results

During the three days of the workshop, there was an active exchange about Good Practices and ideas how to improve the public transport in the city. The joint analysis of the current situation clearly showed the current challenges with regard to public transportation. These are characterised, among others, by a multitude of small private transport companies, lack of coordination and overlap of routes, lack of bicycle paths and an oversupply of taxis. The city of Trujillo is already working on various approaches to overcome these challenges.

In the course of the subsequent exchange of experiences, the participants acquired information about selected practical experiences of public transport from Trujillo, Düsseldorf, Dresden, New York, Bogotá and Cali.  In the context of peer-to-peer-advisory sessions, the experts could successfully identify possible solutions for main challenges together. After visiting critical sites of the city during the afternoon field visit of the second day, the group was able to jointly develop two projects of priority for Trujillo on the third and final workshop day. One project is about the development of a comprehensive bus stop system. The second project aims at the recovery of public space in Trujillo with, among other things, the promotion of non-motorised transport.