Sustran LAC is currently looking
for organisations who would like to be a part of the initiative.
If you are part of one of them , please email Carlosfpardo(at)gmail.com
explaining your potential contributions to the network.
Member organisations
• Latin America: ITDP (Oscar Díaz)
• Colombia: Carlos F. Pardo (project coordinator)
• Brazil: UDESC - Giselle Xavier (chairperson) UDESC and Viaciclo, Transporte Ativo (Jose Lobo)
• Chile: Ciudad Viva - Lake Sagaris (Innovation urbana)
• México: CTS – Bernardo Baranda, Libre Acceso (Maria Eugenia Antunez)
• Ecuador: Biciacción - Alexandra Velasco
• Peru: FONAM
Project Coordinator:
Carlos F. Pardo
Coordinador- MERCOSUR:
Jonas Hagen
Note: The posts mentioned here are provisional.
A final decision regarding the organisational structure of Sustran
LAC will be taken during VeloMondial 2006, when the initiative has
taken a better form.
Supporting institutions
• ITDP (institutional and technical support) Oscar Diaz and Lisa Peterson
The Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) was set up in 1985, to promote environmentally sustainable and equitable transportation policies and projects worldwide. ITDP was organized by leading advocates for sustainable transport in the US who realized that the US was exporting its model of automobile dependence to developing countries and, most recently, Central and Eastern Europe. ITDP chose to focus on counteracting this development.
• Locomotives (institutional support) Roelof Wittink, Hossam Aziz
• I-ce (technical support) Roelof Wittink, Hossam Aziz
I-ce is an expertise centre with the aim to support capacity building for planning and design of cycling facilities in an urban policy context. I-ce delivers expertise to governments, expert organisations and lobby groups. I-ce facilitates the exchange of experiences and expertise and makes these applicable in a wide different context.
• IFRTD (institutional support) Ana Bravo
The International Forum for Rural Transport and Development (IFRTD) is a global network of individuals and organisations interested in rural transport issues in developing countries.
• Access Exchange International (institutional support) Tom Rickert
Access Exchange International (AEI) is a non-governmental organization promoting accessible public transport for persons with disabilities and seniors in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and eastern Europe.
• World Bank (technical support) Gerhard Menckhoff
• SUTP (technical support) Manfred Breithaupt
SUTP aims to help cities meet this challenge and achieve their sustainable transport goals, through the dissemination of information about international experience and targeted work with particular cities.
• Velomondial (institutional support) Pascal J.W. van den Noort, Oliver Hatch
Velo Mondial aims to bring all international stakeholders together to create a higher-level synergy of expert knowledge. This will support the position of bicycle planning on the agenda of local and national governments. Velo Mondial will provide an opportunity for cities to improve their support for bicycle planning in order to achieve the benefits that cycling can offer.
• Sustrans UK (institutional support)
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