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“Transportation for A Better Life:
Smart Mobility for Now and Then”

23 August 2019, Bangkok, Thailand

4. Solutions bicycles. It is extremely crucial to complete
4.1. Classification by Stage the construction of the ecosystem for PBS
a. First stage (private lanes, parking stations, parking
Concentrating on solutions in terms of policies, spaces ...), providing tranquility for cyclists
traffic organization to create a premise for future when not traveling with motorbikes and
development. other vehicles. In addition, it is necessary to
- Solution policies: Countries with developed ensure the connection between the bicycle
public transport have policies to actively stations and the bus stations, subway
support and promote the development of stations, creating a continuous chain without
public transport. Encouragement and interrupting the journey of the participants
limitation has brought many positive effects, of the traffic, creating favorable conditions
developed the transport infrastructure, and convenience.
seamless connectivity, price subsidies ... and - Vehicle solutions: According to the
limited private vehicle development such as developed stable urban trend TOD (Transit
tax increase, parking fees and restricting Oriented Development), people gradually
individual vehicles to the central area at shift the ownership of vehicles to travel to
some particular time. Communication the form of travel services. Travel is
campaigns need to be launched to give considered as a service for daily movement,
information about traffic safety, sustainable and that trend is growing worldwide such as
transportation, etc, in order to reach many Uber, Grab, Lift, …Along with changing the
levels of people, raise their awareness and habit into public transport, applying smart
understanding of traffic’s issues, so that they applications on mobile devices such as
can gradually move to public transport in searching for services, facilities, rapid
general and public bicycles in particular. payment, combined with other means of
Moreover, there must be policies to transportation is extremely important and
encourage private enterprises to participate practical.
in projects by reducing taxation, supporting c. Third stage
related legal issues so that the PBS can After having enough conditions, measurements for
develop faster and better. smart integration, economic and financial solutions
- Solution on traffic organization: To increase for reasonale costs must be taken into consideration.
the convenience and safety for cyclists when - Economic and financial solutions: These
traveling on the road, the traffic organizing solutions are addressed with the goal of
measurements are extremely important, reducing travel costs. How travelling by
especially at intersections. It is really bicycle can be cheaper than using other
necessary to design particular signal lights vehicles with the same distance is still a
for bicycles. Priority for bicycles to move remaining question. As previous countries
ahead creates safety and does not cause have applied, there will be incentive
dangerous crossings between motor vehicles programs for registering in groups, and
and bicycles. In addition, organizing traffic managers must agree on integration to offer
in central areas such as banning motorbikes discounts or incentives when passengers use
or cars at some point to widen the space for a lot of public transport (metro, bus, river
pedestrians, bicyclists or other public bus, …) This also offers certain convenience
transport is also a way to encourage people for users for not taking too much time to
to ride bicycles. register multiple cards with complicated
b. Second stage processes.
- Focus on developing public transport 4.2. Classification by Urban type
infrastructure and PBS for a perfect bicycle 4.2.1. Central urban area
ecosystem and choosing the type of vehicle Central urban area: Based on the traffic
suitable to the characteristics of the infrastructure of each city, PBS will have different
infrastructure. development steps. They should focus on developing
- Solution on technical infrastructure: the PBS at public transport centers, nearby potential
Infrastructure plays an important role in areas, new residential areas, tourist attractions, and
facilitating the development of public creating links to develop bigger networks later.

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