EMBARQ: The WRI Center for Sustainable Transport

Since 2002, the EMBARQ Network has grown to include five Centers for Sustainable Transport, located in Mexico, Brazil, India, Turkey and the Andean Region, that work together with local transport authorities to reduce pollution, improve public health, and create safe, accessible and attractive urban public spaces. The network employs more than 60 experts in fields ranging from architecture to air quality management; geography to journalism; and sociology to civil and transport engineering.

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 quality and cost effectiveness of urban transport;
• Improve public health; Improve accessibility, traffic safety, and public security;
• Improve quality of urban public spaces and access to city benefits for all income classes;
• Increase competitiveness of the city, reduced cost of doing business, and the cost of getting to work;
• Increase opportunity for sustainable mobility businesses.