opportunity to hear from others and to learn the best practices so that we can modify, and take it to adapt for our own use. 6 Today, as I said, we have a gathering of 7 urban think tanks from across Asia. While we may come from different cities, we all share the same desire to make our – cities more liveable and sustainable. I do believe that many of the challenges we face are common challenges as well. 7 MeTTA hopefully will be one of the valuable platforms that all of you will continue to come back and use to share ideas and good practices. Enhancing urban mobility for liveable cities 8 The theme for this year’s forum is Mobility Systems And Solutions”. “Megacity I think it reflects the recognition that urban mobility is one of the perennial challenges that all megacities face. It is quite easy to see in many megacities, congested roads, traffic congestion, air pollution, and noise pollution that come with heavily used transport system. So in high density cities, we not only have to find efficient solutions to allow large numbers of people to move around the city, but also we need to ensure that these mobility systems that we create, these solutions that we come up with, complement the urban environment that we live in and is also in line with our lifestyles we choose to live as well, so that while we build a mobility system, we also make the city more liveable.
opportunity to hear from others and to learn the best practices so that we can modify, and take it to adapt for our own use. 6 Today, as I said, we have a gathering of 7 urban think tanks from across Asia. While we may come from different cities, we all share the same desire – to make our cities more liveable and sustainable. I do believe that many of the challenges we face are common challenges as well. 7 MeTTA hopefully will be one of the valuable platforms that all of you will continue to come back and use to share ideas and good practices. Enhancing urban mobility for liveable cities 8 The theme for this year’s forum is “Megacity Mobility Systems And Solutions”. I think it reflects the recognition that urban mobility is one of the perennial challenges that all megacities face. It is quite easy to see in many megacities, congested roads, traffic congestion, air pollution, and noise pollution that come with heavily used transport system. So in high density cities, we not only have to find efficient solutions to allow large numbers of people to move around the city, but also we need to ensure that these mobility systems that we create, these solutions that we come up with, complement the urban environment that we live in and is also in line with our lifestyles we choose to live as well, so that while we build a mobility system, we also make the city more liveable.