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AIR QUALITY IN URBAN CENTERS Air quality in Brazilian cities was a focal point of WRI Brasil activities throughout 2018. The team developed and tested a tool to gauge the impact of air pollution on Brazilian populational health and the economy. The tool provides insight into potential savings in terms of public spending on health based on changing city buses such as replacing diesel-powered fleets with low-carbon vehicles. This calculation demonstrates the costs and returns on public investment in replacing bus fleets and can aid decision making by public administrators. The tool, which should be launched in early 2020, was initially prepared for four specific cities: Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Belo Horizonte and Niterói. In São Paulo, WRI Brasil hosted a seminar on Air Quality in urban centers, bringing together specialists and leaders to debate air quality policies for Brazilian cities. Also in the São Paulo capital, in partnership with the City Hall, WRI Brasil tested low-cost sensors able to gauge air conditions. In the cities of São Paulo, Belo Horizonte and Rio de Janeiro, through joint efforts involving city administration we assisted in disseminating the concept of Clean Mobility Zones, including the development of an action plan to implement these areas in Brazilian cities. ROAD SAFETY IN FORTALEZA AND SÃO PAULO With the support of Bloomberg Philanthropies, in 2018 WRI Brasil continued its efforts in the cities of Fortaleza and São Paulo to improve road safety. In Fortaleza, the capital of Ceará (Northeast Brazil), two avenues with the highest rates of death and accidents in the city (Osório de Paiva and Leste-Oeste) were the target of a series of road safety interventions: the reduction of speed limits from 60 km/h to 50 km/h, new traffic lights and signage for pedestrians, the implementation of cycling lanes and dedicated bus lanes, among others. Along Leste-Oeste Avenue, the changes led to a 41% drop in the number of accident-related injuries and accidents involving pedestrians fell by 83%. Fortaleza also relied on the support of WRI Brasil to permanently implement a calm traffic area in the neighborhood of Cidade 2000 - which was approved by 93% of the local community (the initiative also included the support of NACTO National Association of City Transportation Officials); to improve the safety of the Bezerra de Menezes corridor, the city's first BRT system; to offer safe driving capacity-building for bus companies; and to implement a data collection tool that tallies traffic accidents and provides deeper insight into the causes of accidents, which then allows for more accurate plans to be developed. In São Paulo, throughout 2018, WRI Brasil supported the city in the development of its Road Safety Plan, which adopted the Safe Systems approach, developed by WRI. Following a recommendation by WRI Brasil, the city also removed a bus lane running opposite to the flow in the Brás reduced speed zone, prone to a high pedestrian accident rate. In the Santana neighborhood, two temporary road safety interventions implemented with the support of WRI Brasil and NACTO, involving two critical intersections, were made permanent. Based further on WRI Brasil's technical recommendations, São Paulo improved cycling lane infrastructure at the intersection of two busy avenues in the central area. IN THE MEDIA G1 GI Brasil precisa resgatar tradição de Inovação em mobilidade urbana GLOBONEWS Estadão | Brazil needs to rescue tradition of innovation in urban mobility 國 LEIA Menos de 6% das cidades brasileiras têm plano de mobilidade Globo News | Less than 6% of Brazilian cities have urban mobility plans FOLHA DE SPALLO Startups testam projetos de mobilidade em 5 cidades LEIA Folha de S. Paulo | Startups test urban mobility projects in 5 cities LEIA EM MOVIMENTO Grandes cidades brasileiras planejam o futuro da mobilidade G1 | Big Brazilian cities plan the future of mobility - LEIA 42 WRIbrasil.org.br WRI BRASIL 2018 ANNUAL REPORT 43
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