Cities worldwide are demonstrating innovation in transport planning by integrating bike, BRT and metro systems, with Guangzhou in China announced as winner of the 2011 Sustainable Transport Award. Guangzhou’s new world-class BRT system integrates with bike lanes, bike share and metro stations, raising the bar for all cities. Walter Hook, Executive Director of the Institute…
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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…
Polly Trottenberg, Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy, US Department of Transportation, will deliver the keynote address at the 2011 Sustainable Transport Award ceremony on Monday, January 24th. Her presence underlines the growing importance of the award, as more and more cities worldwide demonstrate innovation in transport planning and delivery. Enrique Peñalosa, President of ITDP and…
A manual for calculating greenhouse gas (GHG) benefits for GEF transportation projects was presented by the Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (STAP) of the Global Environmental Facility (GEF) at the 39th GEF Council in November 2010 (GEF/C.39/Inf.16) and has now been posted on the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) website. This is a work prepared…
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…
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…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19TH 2011 Media enquiries: Michael Kodransky 646 380 2346 [email protected] Dani Simons 646-380-2348 [email protected] or Stephanie Lotshaw 310 567 3484 [email protected] EUROPEAN PARKING U-TURN REAPS REWARDS: IDEAS FOR THE REST OF THE WORLD European cities lead the way in influencing travel behavior through parking reforms January 19, 2011, NYC: European cities are reaping the rewards…
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…
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…