Urban Transport in Metropolitan Areas

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The objective of the Metropolitan Areas Urban Transport Project is to improve the quality and sustainability of urban transport systems in Argentine metropolitan areas, through the improvement of sectoral decision making frameworks and by giving priority to public transport modes in the urban transport sector. There are five components to the project, the first component being creation of a Metropolitan Transport Agency (MTA) for the Buenos Aires metropolitan area. The objective of this component is to strengthen the capacity for transportation planning and management at the metropolitan level. This component will prepare the legal, technical, financial, and institutional conditions for the creation of a MTA. The second component is the urban transport improvements in Argentina's medium size metropolitan areas. The objective of this component is to enhance the mobility conditions of selected Argentina's medium size metropolitan areas. This component addresses sectoral issues such as the underinvestment in road maintenance and road infrastructure, increased traffic congestion in urban areas, the decreasing quality of public transport service and the limited intermodal integration. The third component is the public transport access and modal integration in Buenos Aires metropolitan area. This component provides an integral strategy to improve service quality by acting simultaneously on bus-train physical integration, accessibility to stations, railway signaling improvements, and rail-road crossings. The fourth component is the sectoral training: urban transport planning master. The objective of this component is to improve academic training in urban transport. The component will design a postgraduate program (masters) in urban transport including all the component disciplines such as engineering, planning, economics, etc. Finally, the fifth component is the project management.