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The provision of urban transport services oversees mostly informal private providers that lack incentives to put safety, quality and customer satisfaction on their list of priorities.
Peru’s current urban mobility produces unusually high negative externalities for citizens including poor air quality, safety concerns, gender inequality or long travel times. The age of the fleets contributes to pollution and high emissions that make Lima, Arequipa and Trujillo most polluted cities in Peru.
Safety is a major issue: Peru has the highest mortality rate in Latin America due to road accidents; in 2019, 95.7% of traffic accidents and 76.7% of the fatalities occurred in urban areas.
Safety issues disproportionately affect women without access to a vehicle, and who often face low income and hourly jobs. A study carried out in 2020 in Lima and Callao reported that three out of four women had suffered harassment on public transport.
The project facilitates the implementation of Peru’s urban mobility reform agenda by providing a technical assistance fund through a platform for the horizontal and vertical collaboration of stakeholders.
The project provides an opportunity to include international best practices (including Swiss expertise) as well as experiences of public transport users and private service provides to foster innovation with the aim to improve services.
The funds of the project are an instrument to support the Peruvian Government in implementing its national policies. It provides a framework to strengthen transversal collaboration and capabilities of the beneficiaries.
The direct beneficiaries of the Fund are the key entities in urban mobility from national to municipal level and private service providers.
The project works at the national policy level as well as in selected municipalities to improve operations of transport services. It is structured along four components, which include key stakeholders at national and municipal levels as well as public transport users and private service providers.
The project supports key sector actors in their efforts to implement urban mobility reforms in Peru by jointly developing activities and calls for proposals for municipalities, urban transport authorities, civil society organizations and private service providers, within the framework of the stewardship of the Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications and the Ministry of Housing and Basic Sanitation.
Through a multistakeholder approach, the project seeks to foster innovation and to support the upscaling of successful demonstration projects.
The quality of urban mobility in Peru is said to have improved in the following areas as a result of the project: