Archives: Assignments

Assignment:

Taking off from Iloilo City’s pitch for a Complete Street Pilot, create a design proposal featuring street renders of actual roads for different road types (national road, local road, barangay road)

Instructions/Comments:

Incorporate the following points and principles in the design:

• Walking and cycling as a priority: wider sidewalks, protected bike lanes. Design interventions for wide and narrow roads where walking and cycling can be made more convenient and comfortable, while limiting speed for cars
• Improvement of transit stops for better accessibility to key establishments (Transit stop design suitable for the tropics and Proposed locations of major transit stops)
• Integration of bike parking, wayfinding, and end-of-trip facilities that the city government and private establishments can adopt
• Improvement of tree cover for urban heat island effect mitigation
• Introduction of road diet interventions to discourage speeding
• Shared street designs where open/car-free streets are feasible and where street furniture can be integrated

Assignment:

Conceptualize a social marketing plan focusing on the following:

• Modal shift to walking and cycling
• Promotion of Open (car-free) Streets in barangays

Instructions/Comments:

Outline campaign goals, target audience, key messages, and a step-by-step guide to execution which could be handed off to the project staff or local partners to implement. This can come in the form of a toolkit (for Open Streets) or an inception plan for an advocacy campaign promoting sustainable transport that can be scaled and further developed by the project team

Assignment:

Visual and written documentation of findings and designs

Assignment:

Elaborate a CITY Mobility Profile to the following locations: IloIlo city, Iliolio Province and Cagayan de Oro city, Misamis Oriental Province

Instructions/Comments:

Consider the aspects: Policy, Technology and Key players
– Check the availability of local and national mobility plan (Comprehensive urban mobility plan /Sustainable urban mobility plan) and highlight the priority aspects for the respective cities
– Mobility challenges and current actions to address the challenges
– Key players on implementing active mobility, public transport services, EV

Assignment:

Elaborate a CITY Mobility Profile to the following locations: Calapan, Oriental Mindoro and Naga city, Camarines Sur Province

Instructions/Comments:

Consider the aspects: Policy, Technology and Key players
– Check the availability of local and national mobility plan (Comprehensive urban mobility plan /Sustainable urban mobility plan) and highlight the priority aspects for the respective cities
– Mobility challenges and current actions to address the challenges
– Key players on implementing active mobility, public transport services, EV

Assignment:

Research case studies on the following topics: Active mobility, Public transport services (+ public transport electrification) and Light electric vehicles (particularly for last-mile services)

Instructions/Comments:

Collect and highlight interventions that are transferable to the case in cities in the Philippines

Assignment:

Visual and written documentation of findings and designs

Assignment:

Visual and written documentation of findings and designs

Assignment:

Visual and written documentation of findings and designs

Assignment:

Taking off from Iloilo City’s pitch for a Complete Street Pilot, create a design proposal featuring street renders of actual roads for different road types (national road, local road, barangay road)

Instructions/Comments:

Incorporate the following points and principles in the design:

• Walking and cycling as a priority: wider sidewalks, protected bike lanes. Design interventions for wide and narrow roads where walking and cycling can be made more convenient and comfortable, while limiting speed for cars
• Improvement of transit stops for better accessibility to key establishments (Transit stop design suitable for the tropics and Proposed locations of major transit stops)
• Integration of bike parking, wayfinding, and end-of-trip facilities that the city government and private establishments can adopt
• Improvement of tree cover for urban heat island effect mitigation
• Introduction of road diet interventions to discourage speeding
• Shared street designs where open/car-free streets are feasible and where street furniture can be integrated