This book discusses the paradigm shift and benefits that the Mumbai Metro can bring in the public transportation scenario for millions of people in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region. Mumbai is the financial capital of India and one of the world's most densely populated cities. The Mumbai Metro will provide equal access for all to a modern, comfortable, and high-quality daily commuting transport option. It will feature safety designs (especially for the vulnerable sectors), ease traffic congestion, and reduce vehicular emissions, thereby contributing toward making Mumbai a more equitable, safer, and cleaner city.

This manual sets out how to combine road safety audits with the International Road Assessment Programme methodology in a star ratings system. This system, Star Ratings for Road Safety Audits, will help policy makers and practitioners involved in designing, upgrading, and rehabilitating roads to meet safety targets and reduce injuries from traffic accidents.

This book is a comprehensive effort to describe recent developments in tourism on the one hand, and academic trials, research, analyses and interpretations of contemporary events in this field on the other. It aims to cover the continuum from basic theoretical findings as those from general systems theory up to contemporary analyses of small local tourist destinations.

This guidance note examines the impacts of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on publicDprivate partnership (PPP) projects in Asia and the Pacific and identifies how these can be mitigated. COVID-19 is significantly affecting the development and life cycle stages of PPP projects in the region. This has led to disruptions in trade, production, and supply chains as well as sharp declines in consumption and investment. The guidance note looks at these impacts as well as the implications for contractual arrangements. It also presents governance practices that will help mitigate the risks and outlines important considerations for governments in regard to managing PPP projects for a post-pandemic recovery.

This study analyzes seaports and multimodal corridors serving landlocked countries of the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Program. It provides up-to-date information about ports and logistics developments in the region. CAREC members rely on open-sea ports of third-party countries outside borders as conduits for exports and imports. These open-sea ports are located mostly in non-CAREC countries and act as international oceanic trade nodes to connect CAREC freight across cross-border railways, highways, inland sea shipping, and on river and canal barges. The study seeks to identify areas and potential activities that will require cooperation among member countries and development partners within the framework of the CAREC Program.

This publication explains how the 11 member countries of the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Program can build safer and more competitive transport corridors for people and goods. It gives an overview of each country's road network and identifies how to better collect data to bolster road asset management systems and improve planning. Highlighting the benefits of sharing best practices, the publication offers tips on how to fine-tune performance-based road maintenance contracts. It also shows that by efficiently using budgets, countries can maintain and manage vital transport arteries to help boost sustainable development in the region.