A team of UP Mindanao students won the Visioning Contest for Sustainable Urban Transport for Davao City last May 4.
The UP Davao STEPP Team is composed of BS Architecture (BSA) students April Gabayan, Mykel Edrian Barcena, Rochelle Rhema Caballo, Murielle June Yucamco and Arturo Ravelo III.
Another team of BSA students was a finalist in the contest. Team ECOH-TRANS DAVAO consists of Jessamine Kuh Fortuna and Kimberly Bonghanoy.
The winning entry reads, “The main vision of our team (STEPP) is to create a HIERARCHICAL APPROACH to the overall transportation system of Davao City. First level comprises walkable spaces and bicycle lanes; the second level suggests district-wide routed jeepneys; while the third and larger level includes Bus Rapid Transportation (BRT) System as the mass transportation system. These 3 levels of course could not work independently without the help of the fellow Dabawenyos, so this Program also proposes for stronger policy and values from the commuters. Because we owe it to ourselves to give this world, the future generation, and humanity as a whole a shot at a better, healthier and greener path towards life, and you would be surprised that all it really takes, is a single STEP.”
The contest was organized by the Sustainable Urban Transport for Davao City (SUTRAD), a project funded by the Asian Development Bank in cooperation with the City Government of Davao and the Department of Transportation and Communications.
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