Arturo Ardila-Gomez
Position/Department/Division/Institution/Organization
Global Lead for Urban Mobility and Lead Transport Economist, World BankCountryUSACareer history
Arturo Ardila-Gomez, a Colombian national, Global Lead for Urban Mobility and Lead
Transport Economist, oversees a portfolio of projects in the Middle East and Northern Africa
Region of the World Bank, primarily in Egypt. Until recently he worked in the East Asiatransport unit where he was team leader for several projects, including the Wuhan Integrated
Transport Development Project and the new City Cluster initiative. He leads the Urban Mobility
Global Solutions Group at the Bank. He provides overall technical support to projects for all
regions in the Bank on issues such as financing, fare collection, political economy of public
transport reform, and the role of disruptive technologies. He is the author of several
peer-reviewed articles and two books, examples are Sustainable Urban Transport Financing
from the Sidewalk to the Subway and Achieving Energy Savings by Intelligent Transport
Systems in the Context of Smart Cities. His research currently focuses on sustainable urban
transport asset management, public transport reform, and on improving the quality ofmonitoring and evaluation, including indicators for transport projects. He holds a doctorate
degree in urban transportation planning and a master's degree in city planning from theMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is also a civil engineer and holds a master's
degree in economics, both from Los Andes University in Bogota.
Awards/Publications
Books:
Ardila-Gomez, Arturo; Ortegon-Sanchez, Adriana. 2016. Sustainable Urban Transport Financing from theSidewalk to the Subway: Capital, Operations, and Maintenance Financing. Washington, DC: World Bank. ©
World Bank. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/23521

Ardila, A. 1997. “Local government and decentralization: Santa Fe de Bogotá, 1995-1997.” Secretaria deGobierno, Alcaldia Mayor de Bogotá. Bogotá, Colombia.

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Chen, Yang; Ardila Gomez, Arturo; Frame, Gladys. 2017. “Achieving energy savings by intelligent transportation
systems investments in the context of smart cities.” Transportation Research Part D Transport andEnvironment 54:381-396 DOI 10.1016/j.trd.2017.06.008

Chen, Yang; Ardila Gomez, Arturo; Frame, Gladys; 2016. “Achieving energy savings by intelligent
transportation systems investments in the context of smart cities.” Washington, DC: World Bank.
http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/913411469712967718/Achieving-energy-savings-by-intelligent-tr
ansportation-systems-investments-in-the-context-of-smart-cities.

Ardila, A. 2008. “The Limitation of Competition in and For the Market in Public Transportation in Developing
Countries: Lessons from Latin American Cities.” Transportation Research Record, Journal of theTransportation Research Board. No. 2048, pp. 8-15.

Ardila, A. 2007. “How Bogotá’s Public Transportation Past is Haunting its Future.” Transportation Research Record,
Journal of the Transportation Research Board. No. 2038. Pp. 9-15.

Areas of expertise
1. Urban public transport
2. Reform of urban public transport
3. Urban transport financing
4. Urban transport asset management
5. Monitoring and evaluation

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