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

23 August 2019, Bangkok, Thailand

Step 1: Literature
One of the main objectives of this paper is to Public Transport
specifically address the policies and measures for the Measures
low-carbon transport in urban areas. In order to gain

this objective, the paper starts with reviewing the Non-Motorized Avoid Traffic

state-of-art of the low-carbon transport measures in Transport Measures
order to found theoretical background for the low-
carbon transport concept in urban areas in general
and in HCMC in particular. Individual Shift Traffic

Step 2: Current Status Motorized Vehicle
This section defines the mobility conditions
and analyzes the environment aspects of HCMC, in Intermodal Improvement

order to identify the impact of transport to Transport Measures

environment.
Step 3: Scenario Design Multimodal

The goal of scenario design is to estimate the Transport Measures
mobility impact that would reduce emissions, to
come up with policy and regulatory to overcome Fig. 2 Categorization of low-carbon transport
them. measures
Step 4: Policy suggest
As the final step, the results from step 3 are Public transport (PT) measures focus on
summarized and discussed in order to suggest some encouraging travellers to use public transport
key policies and measures. services (Alpert Speer and Partner, 1993; ITE,
Georgia IT et al., 1993; Littman, 2002)
2. Literature Review Non-motorized transport (NMT) measures
Low carbon transport measures, by using focus on reservation right-of-way, provision
Avoid-Shift-Improve approaches, can reduce sufficient facilities, information and safe
transport GHG emissions through achieving various environment for pedestrian and bicycle traffic
further planning objectives including reduced traffic (Littman, 2012; Beukes et al, 2011).
and parking congestion, public infrastructure and Individual motorized vehicle (IMV)
service cost savings, consumer savings and measures focus on optimization uses of these modes.
affordability, increased safety and security, For motorcycles, measures focus on improving
improved mobility options for non-drivers, and safety and reducing environmental impacts of the
improved public health. motorcycle. For private cars, measures emphasize on
Traffic Avoiding Measures aim to reduce the minimizing of car use (Krieslich et al., 2002;
absolutely the traffic demand in the targeted urban FGSV, 2003).
area. The generated traffic demand (number of trips) Intermodal transport measures focus on
is the main criterion to examine the traffic impact of provision and organization of intermodal facilities,
this strategy. such as park and ride facilities, and other intermodal
Traffic Shifting Measures aim to shift the transport interchange points (Kieslich et al., 2002).
traffic demand between different mode, time, Multimodal transport measures aim to have
destination, and route of the trips. The modal split, multiple impacts on improvement of all related
time distribution of demand and the change in transport modes (Berman, 1995).
Origin-Destination transport demand are the main
criteria to examine the traffic impact of this strategy. 3. Current Status
Traffic Improving Measures aim to 3.1. A Review of the Hochiminh City Mobility
increase the efficiency of the vehicle fleet and use. Private vehicles, especially motorcycle,
There are different ways to categorize low- dominate people’s trip in HCMC. Motorcycle
carbon transport measures. The reviewed literature accounts for around 80% of the trips, and private
shows that under each modal category, measures are cars takes around 10% of the mode share. Despite
grouped by characteristics of measures: being highly visible on the road, public transport
only plays a small role in catering the mobility in

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