Buses and coaches to help achieve MDGs

As published in the official MDG review October 2010, achieving the objective of Smart Move (doubling the use of bus and coach transport worldwide in the next decade), can help achieve 5 out of 8 Millenium Development Goals, namely: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, achieve universal primary education, improve maternal health and combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases, by providing affordable access to work and other economic opportunities as well as education and healthcare, and ensure environmental sustainability by reducing congestion and pollution induced by people’s increasing mobility.