China Wuhan Second Urban Transport

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The development objective of the Wuhan Second Urban Transport Project for China is to assist the municipality of Wuhan to enhance mobility for passenger trips within and to the central area of Wuhan in an environmentally sustainable, integrated, and safe manner. There are five components to the project. The first component of the project is public transport. This component improvements including: (i) strengthening public transport route rationalization and operations, including providing on-street priority to buses on key selected road corridors in Wuhan municipality; and (ii) construction of public transport transfer terminals/interchanges to facilitate transfer from private to public transport modes and park and ride for non-motorized vehicles and cars. The second component of the project is road safety. This component improve traffic management, safety and mobility through, inter alia, traffic enforcement, education campaigns and engineering measures including installation of additional traffic signals for vehicles, and mid-block traffic signals for pedestrians, facilities for pedestrians and cyclists, and signs and markings in selected road corridors and the area within the Second Ring Road. The third component of the project is road improvement. This component carries out rehabilitation, upgrading, and construction of three key links of the urban road network of Wuhan municipality. The fourth component of the project is travel demand management. This component carries out a program for improving travel demand management through, inter alia, procuring equipment, and carrying out studies, training, and capacity building measures for the agency managing Wuhan's roads and bridges. The fifth component of the project is institutional development and capacity building. This component carries out of studies and a comprehensive plan for strengthening the institutional capacity of Wuhan municipality in developing an urban transport strategy, with particular focus on non-motorized transport, public transport integration, and transport issues related to urban-rural integration.