Next stop India - EMBARQ expands
EMBARQ is expanding to India. Expected results include cleaner air and shorter, less stressful commutes, in some of India’s busiest cities, starting with Indore, commercial capital of central Indian state Madhya Pradesh, and Pune, the second largest city in Maharashtra, western India.
 “We will provide the local planning and implementation team with our international experience, ensuring the project continues to meet the highest standards,” says EMBARQ new business development director and senior transport engineer Dario Hidalgo. In the last 10 years, India’s robust economic growth has propelled it onto the international scene. But transport-related problems, including traffic congestion, air pollution, traffic accidents and greenhouse gas emissions, threaten to slow growth and decrease quality of life. EMBARQ will bring to the Indian projects its experience implementing a Metrobus Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor in Mexico City, and assisting the cities of Porto Alegre in Brazil, Istanbul in Turkey, and Arequipa in Peru, in efforts to develop sustainable transport solutions. Vivek Aggarwal, executive director of Indore City Transport Services Limited (ICTS), signed a commitment to partner with EMBARQ on February 22. Then on May 19 EMBARQ signed a partnership with the Urban Mass Transit Company (UMTC) to improve the transport systems in several of India’s booming cities, beginning in Pune. EMBARQ and UMTC will cooperate in providing technical advisory service to cities in the planning, implementation and improvement of operations of urban bus systems. Click here to learn more. |
