Walking is fundamental to urban life. It is a healthy and pollution-free form of mobility and recreation. Pedestrian trips account for a quarter to a third of all trips in many Indian cities. However, the poor quality of pedestrian infrastructure sends a message that pedestrians are not welcome in the urban environment. Fortunately, street design practice in India is…
Year: 2014
This inforgraphic accompanies documents such as Footpath Design and Better Streets, Better Cities, using standards from the Indian Roads Congress’ Guidelines for Pedestrian Facilities to explain best practices for footpath design in India. Download this infographic Source: ITDP India
This infographic highlights the key features of BRT essential to any BRT system. These elements ensure that BRT systems have high operating speeds and provide a good customer experience. Source: ITDP
The Bike-Share Planning Guide establishes many important metrics and principles for evaluating bike-share systems around the world. Although each city makes bike-share its own, adapting it to the local context, many of the most successful systems share certain common features. The Guide provides important standards and insights into best practices for building bike-shares, and this infographic…
This weekend, Belo Horizonte joins the growing number of cities in Brazil and around the world bringing the benefits of high-quality sustainable transit to its citizens. On March 8, the city opened the first of three planned corridors of MOVE, Belo Horizonte’s first BRT system. The new corridor runs along Avenida Cristiano Machado and follows…
If a picture is worth a thousand words, a map is worth a million. Recently released research on transit patterns in Nairobi puts the power of a map in the hands of the people and urban planners. Using data they collected, the Digital Matatus project, a collaboration between students and professors at Columbia, MIT, the University…
ITDP is proud to welcome Janette Sadik-Khan to the ITDP Board of Directors. Sadik-Khan, who served as New York City Transportation Commissioner from 2007 through 2013, will bring her strong vision and extensive experience to the Board, supporting ITDP’s mission to promote sustainable and equitable transportation worldwide. Through her current position at Bloomberg Associates,…
If you are on the West Coast, this event is for you! The 2014 Climate Ride event season opens up with the California Wine Country Ride, a four day mission driven and informative bike trip that will be taking off from San Francisco on May 17th and finishing in Sacramento, CA on May 20th. Leaving from the City…
A Prefeitura lançou em janeiro de 2014 uma consulta pública para a concessão de estacionamento em vias públicas, que será implementada ainda este ano. Previsto para entrar em operação no segundo semestre de 2014, o novo sistema fará uso de parquímetros nas regiões do Centro, Zona Sul, Norte e Oeste, e pretende estimular a rotatividade…