Sustainable Transport Project for Egypt

The project goal is to reduce the growth of the energy consumption and the related greenhouse gas emissions of the transport sector in Egypt, while simultaneously mitigating the local environmental and other problems of increasing traffic such as deteriorated urban air quality and congestion. This is to be achieved by increasing or sustaining the modal share of greenhouse gas emission reducing public and non-motorized transportation options, discouraging the use of private cars and facilitating freight transportation by more energy efficient truck operations and increasing the share of cargo transported on rail and inland waterways.

The project objective is to create an enabling policy and institutional environment and to leverage financial resources for the sustainable transport sector development, including public-private partnerships. The STP is envisaged to achieve this by working with the following sustainable transport concepts:

1) initiating the concept for the development of new, integrated high quality public transport services for Greater Cairo and its satellite cities (to exert shift from car use) and facilitating its effective replication;

2) promoting non-motorized transport in medium sized provincial cities;

3) introducing new traffic demand management measures, with an objective to gradually scale them up over the time;

4) improving the energy efficiency of freight transport; and

5) enhancing the awareness and capacity and strengthening the institutional basis to promote sustainable transport during and after the project in general.