ISSUES AND ACHIEVEMENTS ON TRANSPORTATION IN SANTIAGO CHILE some highlights

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ISSUES AND ACHIEVEMENTS ON TRANSPORTATION IN
SANTIAGO CHILE(some highlights)
Reducing the Impact of Vehicles on Air and
Environment Quality in Cities
Oscar Figueroa P. Universidad Católica de Chile
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PRIVATE CARS GROWTH
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THE ROLE OF RAIL MASS TRANSIT AND BUS RAPID
TRANSIT

• Priority to public transportation
• Rational use of private cars
• Enhancing non motorized transportation

Metro Network of 3 lines and 40 kms will become
in 2005 a network of 4 lines and 80 kms.
Transantiago project should launch in 2005. It
includes exclusive bus corridors, feeder
buses and zone operation
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TRANSANTIAGO
Line 2 North Line 2 South Line 5 West Línea
4 Additional 40 Kms
Trunk services (5 groups) Long and mis distances
journeys
Feeder services (10 zones) Short distance journeys
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EXCLUSIVE BUS AVENUES REVERSIBLE STREETS FOR
CARS
Bus network

• The six major axes of
• the city
• From 730 to 1000 AM
• 80 of public
• transportation services

Car roads
Average time saving for buses 14 Average time
saving for cars 43
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TRAFFIC DEMAND MANAGEMENT
Urban transport plan considers school
location, increasing supply in some zones
urban sub-centers, increasing supply of trade and
services changing residential location trends
Also, non motorized transport (two wheels) and
experiences in traffic blending
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LAND USE PLANNING
Impact mitigation on new projects Conditions on
urban expansion (infrastructure
provision) Shared financing of urban projects
Policy would insist on internalization of impacts
rather than on growth control
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INTERMODAL PASSENGER MOVEMENT
Concept of Transantiago trunk and feeder
services (one origin/destination trip one
ticket) Multivía card It includes metro and
buses
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INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS
Operation control center monitoring
operation supervision for authorities
information for users
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VEHICLE TECHNOLOGY REQUIREMENTS
Emission standard for buses Epa 98, Euro
III Unleaded gasoline for cars Diesel with 300
ppm and 50 ppm in the future