These posters were made for a workshop on Transit Oriented Development in India in March 2013, and are illustrations of ITDP’s Eight Principles for Transport in Urban Life. They include photos and descriptions of the various objectives and metrics of the eight principles, such as Walk, Cycle, Connect, and Transit. Download this poster series Source:…
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Letter from the CEO: Superstorm Surges and Scaling Up • With New BRT, Rajkot City Adopts the Ahmedabad Model • Rio’s Transoeste: Brazil’s Romance with BRT Rekindled • Historic Revival at the Heart of Mexico City • BRT Brings Cleveland Back to Health • 8 Principles for Transport in Urban Life • At Rio+20, a…
Maintaining high quality standards and excellent customer service will be critical to the successful rollout of cycle sharing in India over the coming years. Public cycle sharing systems: A planning toolkit for Indian cities introduces the key ingredients of best practice cycle sharing systems. The toolkit draws from lessons learned from cycle sharing projects around…
Montgomery County, Maryland, has ambitious plans to build bus rapid transit (BRT)- type infrastructure throughout the County on some 160 miles of surface roads as rapidly as possible. The selection of this core network of BRT corridors, and some effort to envision what this system might look like, was assigned to a Task Force comprised of stakeholders and chaired…
An important regional hub in eastern India, Ranchi has historically been a cycling and walking-centric city with narrow streets and dense urban fabric. But with its outward expansion, there is higher demand for mobility and increased use of motorized transport, leading to congestion & safety issues. Thus this report looks at identifying existing travel demand…
To promote the discussion of sustainable transit in advance of the Rio+20 Conference, this paper provides an analysis of the role of transport as a contributor to global climate concerns and as an opportunity to reduce emissions through a shift toward sustainable transport options. In the next 20 years the world will see massive growth in demand…
An issue paper discussing the role of transport in preparation for the RIo+20 Summit. The paper discusses the benefits of an “Avoid – Shift – Improve” mentatlity, and articualtes the need for transportation to be addressed directrly by the international community, rather than as a component of other issues. Transport is a key sector for sustainable…
From the 1940s to the 1960s, U.S. cities lost population and economic investment to suburban locations. To compete, many cities built urban highways, hoping to offer motorists the same amenities they enjoyed in the suburbs. Whatever their benefits, these highways often had adverse impacts on urban communities. Many cities in Latin America, following the Unites States’…
Letter from the CEO: Strange Weather, Changing Streets, Stormy Relations • Tehran’s Transport Turnaround • Buenos Aires Tangos Towards Sustainability • Going for the Gold: Introducing the BRT Standard • Finding Atlantis: Cape Town Reconnects • Parking: A Bad Romance • SFpark: San Francisco Knows How to Park It • Our Cities Ourselves Goes Global…