The project has started since 2015 under the corporation between Ranong Town Municipality and important associate organizations including Cyclist's Federation (of upper south of Thailand), Thai Health Promotion Foundation, Thailand Walking and Cycling Institute Foundation, PTT Exploration and Production Public Company Limited (PTTEP), King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, and Silpakorn University Phetchaburi IT Campus. The objective of the project is to create local actions to drive walk and bike culture in the city concretely. The obvious results in operating the project are as follows:
• Signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with associate organizations to drive Ranong Town to become Walk and Bike Friendly City.
• Drafted the action plan, detailed plans, and performance indicators of city/ community/ school that supported walk and bike in daily life and operations of community and school as follows:
• Ranong Kindergarten: The school runs from kindergarten through primary level and has about 1,100 students. The problem of this school is the traffic jam during rush hour both in the morning and afternoon because of school picking up and dropping off students at school. The project helped to solve this problem by designing walking route around the school and adjusting school's landscape to support walk and ride. Moreover, the traffic management was implemented having by one-way system during rush hour and the parking space for cars and motorbikes were organized properly.
• Community has developed many project initiatives such as Walk and Bike in Daily Life project, promoting the use of environmentally-friendly materials in markets, preserving trees and improving landscape in the area of Raksa Warin Hot Spring and Rattanarangsan Palace to be beautiful and pleasant for walk and ride. In the future, the municipality aims at increasing number of people who walk and/or ride at least 15%. Eventhough, the impact of this action is small in term of emission reduction and job creation but it will help to shift the life style of the people toward sustainable mobility.
The project has started since 2015 under the corporation between Ranong Town Municipality and important associate organizations including Cyclist's Federation (of upper south of Thailand), Thai Health Promotion Foundation, Thailand Walking and Cycling Institute Foundation, PTT Exploration and Production Public Company Limited (PTTEP), King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, and Silpakorn University Phetchaburi IT Campus. The objective of the project is to create local actions to drive walk and bike culture in the city concretely. The obvious results in operating the project are as follows:
• Signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with associate organizations to drive Ranong Town to become Walk and Bike Friendly City.
• Drafted the action plan, detailed plans, and performance indicators of city/ community/ school that supported walk and bike in daily life and operations of community and school as follows:
• Ranong Kindergarten: The school runs from kindergarten through primary level and has about 1,100 students. The problem of this school is the traffic jam during rush hour both in the morning and afternoon because of school picking up and dropping off students at school. The project helped to solve this problem by designing walking route around the school and adjusting school's landscape to support walk and ride. Moreover, the traffic management was implemented having by one-way system during rush hour and the parking space for cars and motorbikes were organized properly.
• Community has developed many project initiatives such as Walk and Bike in Daily Life project, promoting the use of environmentally-friendly materials in markets, preserving trees and improving landscape in the area of Raksa Warin Hot Spring and Rattanarangsan Palace to be beautiful and pleasant for walk and ride. In the future, the municipality aims at increasing number of people who walk and/or ride at least 15%. Eventhough, the impact of this action is small in term of emission reduction and job creation but it will help to shift the life style of the people toward sustainable mobility.
