Objectives

EMBARQ's goal is simple: make cities around the world better places to live. By focusing on transport, which affects everything from prosperity to pollution, EMBARQ's work yields social environmental, and economic benefits:

Reduce
fuel use, air pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions;

Improve
public health;

Improve
quality and cost effectiveness of urban transport;

Improve
accessibility, traffic safety, and public security;

Improve
quality of public spaces and access to city benefits for all income classes;

Increase
competitiveness of the city, reduce the cost of doing business, and the cost of getting to work;

Increase
opportunity for sustainable mobility businesses.

How We Meet Our Objectives:

  • Catalyze and help implement high quality sustainable urban mobility solutions - Bus Systems, Bus Rapid Transit Systems and Active Transport (Cycling and Walking), in select cities of India by stakeholder facilitation and providing technical expertise;
  • Provide urban mobility solutions, by bringing in international best practices and localizing them to solve India specific problems;
  • Capacity building of the various key functionaries of Bus Systems, the Bus Rapid Transit Systems and Active Transport;
  • Help in bridging funding gaps by providing guidance on resource mobilization strategies;
  • Share the Indian experience in select cities to create awareness on cost effective, environmental friendly urban mobility solutions.