From public bike systems to BRT to integrated mass transit solutions – all of the 2011 Sustainable Transport Award-nominated cities are exemplars in implementing integrated transport solutions. Over the next week, we will cover profiles of the nominated cities – Guangzhou, León, Lima, Nantes, Tehran – culminating in the presentation of the Sustainable Transport Award…
Year: 2011
This paper is the second in a series of policy papers from ITDP on parking. The first paper, released in Spring 2010, focused on successful parking practices in U.S. cities. This paper reviews successful parking practices in European cities. Parking management is a critical and often overlooked tool for achieving a variety of social goals. For…
By Bradley Schroeder There are two ways to evaluate a conference. First is by the number of attendees; the amount of mindless masses you can get into a room who are answering emails or Skypeing with friends instead of paying attention to the guy who probably just finished his presentation 5 minutes before the session….
From public bike systems to BRT to integrated mass transit solutions – all of the 2011 Sustainable Transport Award-nominated cities are exemplars in implementing integrated transport solutions. Over the next week, we will cover profiles of the nominated cities – Guangzhou, León, Lima, Nantes, and Tehran – leading up to the presentation of the Sustainable…
The nominees for the 2011 Sustainable Transport Award span the globe, from Lima to Guangzhou, Leon to Tehran, and the winner will be announced at the Awards Ceremony on Monday, January 24th at the Hilton Washington in Washington DC, coinciding with the 2011 Transport Research Board Annual Meeting. A consistent theme across all the nominee…
The Provincial Government of DKI Jakarta opened two new corridors on Friday, 31 December 2010, the first to open since 2008. The new busways serve North-South and East-West part of Jakarta. The infrastructure for these corridors was completed 2-years ago, but the opening was delayed due to new arrangements with the bidding process. The two…