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Recent impounding directives by the Land Transportation Office (LTO) - Department of Transportation (DOTr) on e-bikes and e-trikes have sparked strong reactions from mobility advocates, including Representive Terry Ridon and several civil society transport groups, calling out unclear enforcement and outdated regulations. At the core of the debate is a widespread misclassification problem . The public and sometimes authorities loosely refer to all 2-wheeler and 3-wheeler elec

SafeTravelPH is proud to share an exciting milestone: over 7,000 kilometers of jeepney, tricycles, UV Express, and bus operations  have now been tracked through the Parasol Mobile App  in the last six months alone. That's 40-km of public transport knowledge source each day! This achievement reflects continuous research deployments, planning data collection, operations monitoring, training programs, and anti-aggressive driving initiatives conducted this year with partners and

SafeTravelPH signed Memorandum of Agreeements (MOAs) with both BISCAST and Naga City LGU last July 2025 to better bridge academic, governance, and innovation in transport planning and operations. SafeTravelPH had the opportunity to mentor BS Applied Sciences students from the Bicol State College of Applied Sciences and Technology (BISCAST) as part of their thesis research on tricycle operations in Naga City. Using the SafeTravelPH Parasol data collection mobile app and analy

After years of pursuing a nationwide modernization drive, the shift toward targeted, data-driven pilots finally acknowledges the complexity of public transport reform in the Philippines. A focused approach allows government agencies and local governments to test and refine modernization tools, improve their planning capacity, and design context-specific service models before scaling up. Since April 2025, SafeTravelPH has been presenting this same approach to the Department o

Using 54 days of telematics data from six modern jeepneys operating in Iloilo City, the study segmented trips into complete and cut units based on predefined local government reference points. From this segmentation, Cunanan and her team derived prototype operational indicators, including: Trip Completion Rate; Cut Trip Incidence; Overdwelling Frequency and Duration; EcoTrip Classification: Seasonality and Time-of-Day Patterns

The establishment of an exclusive bus lane along EDSA has been one of Metro Manila’s most significant public transport reforms in recent...