On July 19, 2017, a court in Nairobi, Kenya, sentenced three men to life in prison for stripping, robbing, and violently sexually assaulting a female commuter on a public bus. The incident, which took place in 2014, rose to national attention because the men were bold enough to film themselves and post the video online….
Author: Maeve Power
Pune is a flourishing green city of 6.5 million people in the western state of Maharashtra, a few hours from Mumbai. Since 2007, the city has set ambitious goals for a sustainable future, and 10 years out, there are big on-the-ground changes. In 2016, Pune was selected as one of 20 “Lighthouse Cities” under the…
The following is an edited version of a live talk given by ITDP Brazil Country Director Clarisse Cunha Linke at the Velo-city global cycling summit in Arnhem-Nijmegen, the Netherlands, in June 2017. I saw more pregnant and elderly women on bikes in Holland in five days than I had seen in my entire life. At…
by Onésimo Flores Dewey and Santiago Fernández Reyes The Mexican City of Guadalajara has built subway lines before, but the line currently under construction is significantly different. This time, the city has a strategy to leverage investments in transit to repopulate the city’s core and promote multimodality. The new subway runs underground Avenida Alcalde, a…
Webinar Recording YouTube Link Presentation Slides Freight and Environmental Justice About the Webinar The movement of goods is essential to urban life, but also generates many problems. Trucks emit pollution and noise; warehouses and intermodal facilities attract concentrations of trucks and trains. Research shows that poor and minority populations are more impacted by freight-related…
About the Webinar With the arrival of private dockless companies that claim to provide bikeshare profitably (that is, without subsidy), the potential of bikeshare as a viable and rapidly scalable transportation option is being realized in cities around the world and barriers to urban cycling are diminishing. However, unregulated dockless bikeshare systems have generated…
Webinar Video Webinar Presentation Pedestrians First Presentation Slides About the Webinar This webinar highlighted Pedestrians First, ITDP’s newest tool for measuring walkability. The tool, which draws on the expertise from our field staff around the world, measures walkability at three scales and can be used in any city in the world. Since walking is…
The Boston area is preparing for exciting new improvements to its bus service in 2018, so much that #YearoftheBus has become popular on social media and local television has taken an interest in covering the progress. In addition to the three local bus pilots that ITDP is supporting, the local transit authority (the MBTA) and…
ITDP, together with an international committee of development and transport experts, invites you to nominate your city for the Annual Sustainable Transport Award. Nominations are now open and will be accepted online at staward.org until April 13, 2018. Since 2005, the Sustainable Transport Award has recognized profound leadership and vision in sustainable transportation and urban…