ITDP staff, including Executive Director Dr. Walter Hook, Michael Replogle, Global Policy Director and Founder, and John Ernst, Vice Director, South East Asia have contributed chapters to Urban Transport in the Developing World: A Handbook of Policy and Practice. This twenty chapter guide provides “a broad set of perspectives on the plight, possibilities and opportunities of…
Year: 2011
An on-street parking spot is a veritable Holy Grail for drivers in bustling business districts. Metered rates are usually much cheaper than off-street garages—making the time wasted circling looking for a curbside spot well worth drivers’ time. And shoppers often compete for space with shopkeepers who arrive early and can monopolize prime parking all day…
Guangzhou won the Sustainable Transportation Award this year for its transportation innovations, including a new Bus Rapid Transit system that goes beyond “gold standard” BRT features such as dedicated running ways, pre-board fare collection and at-level platform boarding and provides direct service buses, stations and a fare system that is fully…
Kunming is the capital and largest city of Yunnan Province in Southwestern China. In many ways it is typical of other similarly sized cities in China. Car ownership has increased by more than 100% between 2005-2009. But still only 17% of residents own cars. According to the Kunming Urban Transportation Institute 30% of residents still…
In the mid-20th century, many American cities started to require a certain number of parking spaces be built any time a new commercial or residential development was created. The assumption was, more people would equal more cars, in a consistent ratio over time, and therefore space must be provided for both side by side. But…
March 23, 2011 Earlier this week the Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with an international organization Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP). The MoU will be in effect for two years, and it calls for ITDP to provide the RMC with technical assistance to improve the city’s overall environment,…
Boulder, an American city of roughly 100,000 people about 30 miles from Denver in Colorado, became a trail blazer in 1970 by creating a Parking Benefits District (PBD), which channels money from curbside parking meters and off-street garage fees into streetscape improvements. Today the program generates over $1 million in annual revenue. Parking fees also…
This spring ITDP brought the Our Cities Ourselves exhibition to South Africa. OCO is a valuable tool helping inspire the public, media and key decision makers to reimagine what their cities could look like with better transportation and better urban planning. Cape Town, which is currently host to OCO, is an example of a city that’s making…
Hamburg, Portland and Zurich are often cited in livability surveys as having high quality urban environments with citizens enjoying near mythical quality of life. All of them have instituted parking caps, sealing the existing public parking supply. Hamburg and Portland have had these caps in place since the mid-70s. Zurich’s parking cap came later, in…