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[/panel]Our Cities Need More People Near Frequent and Rapid Public Transport
July 24, 2024
Traditionally, the quality and reach of a city’s public transport system is measured in number of kilometers, number of stops, ridership, or speed. These metrics can certainly show planners and policymakers a lot about the progress of their urban infrastructure. However, these metrics do not fully account for the fundamental purpose of public transport — ...Read More3 Guides for Safe, Efficient, and Sustainable Urban Mobility in Brazil
July 9, 2024
Managing public transport data, electrifying buses and reducing traffic deaths are policies capable of significantly improving the quality of life in cities and making mobility more equitable for everyone. In Brazil’s cities especially, issues of access, inequality, and race and gender play a significant role in urban transport systems and have significant impacts on millions ...Read MorePutting ITDP’s BRT Climate Impact Calculator Into Practice
June 12, 2024
The team used a new ITDP tool, which is now publicly available: the BRT Simple Calculator of Project Effects (SCOPE). This user-friendly Excel spreadsheet predicts the climate and air quality impacts of adding or upgrading a BRT corridor, providing key evidence for planners and decision-makers looking to make the case for investing in BRT. The ...Read MoreHow Does Cycling Infrastructure in These Global Cities Measure Up?
June 11, 2024
In 2021, ITDP launched the Cycling Cities campaign, building off of momentum around cycling that emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic. During the pandemic, many cities swiftly responded to changing mobility needs by setting up temporary cycle lanes, designating reduced-traffic streets, and facilitating access to bicycles through reduced-fare or free bikeshare programs. In the years since, ...Read MoreThe Power of People Near Protected Bikelanes
June 3, 2024
In celebration of World Bicycle Day, ITDP is delving into what it means to measure People Near Protected Bikelanes and what this measurement means for urban accessibility.For years, cities and governments have focused on length or number of kilometers as a measure of how comprehensive or impactful their cycling infrastructure is. With the debut of the ...Read MoreIn What Cities are People Safest from Highways, and Why Does It Matter?
May 15, 2024
It is no secret that grade-separated highways can cause a lot of harm in cities. They exacerbate air pollution, divide neighborhoods, and increase the risk of road injuries and deaths. The closer people live to large highways and roads, the more susceptible they are to these hazards and, oftentimes, these are already low-income or marginalized ...Read MoreWhat Digitalization Means for Transport
March 1, 2024
Digital technology is especially valuable for informal public transport, the unregulated or semi-regulated services that carry so much travel in many of the world’s regions. Digitalization will not solve problems by itself—it must be part of a coherent strategy supported by local expertise and political will. However, it is a catalyst for moving informal transport ...Read MoreHow These Two Cities Implemented Robust, Well-Connected Rapid Transit Corridors
August 17, 2023
Every year, ITDP collects and updates rapid transit data for the Rapid Transit Database, which debuted in 2021. The year 2022 witnessed a remarkable 16,000-kilometer increase in rapid transit corridors around the world. Last year was full of ambitious and successful public transport projects in cities around the world, proving that rapid transit systems could rebound ...Read MoreA New Approach to Modeling Commutes and Access in Our Cities
May 10, 2023
In All Possible Commutes: How Micromobility and Realistic Car Travel Times Impact Accessibility Analysis, a new paper from the New Urban Mobility Alliance (NUMO) produced with support from Transport for Cairo and ITDP, the authors propose that micromobility, considered realistically, makes a major difference in people’s access to their cities.Read More[WEBINAR] Indicators For Sustainable Mobility
January 14, 2019
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Wednesday, January 30, 2019 12pm EST Webinar Recording More on the Indicators Indicators for Sustainable Mobility Presentation As Climate Change Escalates, US Cities Fail to Provide Car Alternatives About the Webinar As cities seek to improve their transportation systems to make them more sustainable, equitable, and useful for people, it is critical that they first understand how their system performs. To that ...Read More