Networking for Sustainable Transport

Author: Brandon Keim
Stanford Social Innovation Review, Fall 2011
Topics: Global Issues, Social Innovations, Environment
Cover Image: Fall 2011

Metrobus’s dedicated lanes cut travel times in half on Mexico City’s longest and most crowded street. (Photo courtesy of EMBARQ) Most brand-new organizations start with small projects and then work their way up. But EMBARQ, a network of sustainable transportation experts founded in 2002 by energy and transportation maven Lee Schipper, went right to the top. Its debut project was in Mexico City, megalopolis home to 18 million people and a flagship example of urbanization’s problems.

As of 1992, Mexico City had the world’s dirtiest air—and that was before its automobile boom. Between 1996 and 2006, the nation’s vehicle fleet nearly tripled to 21 million. Nearly a third of those cars could be found ... Read more

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