By international standards, Surabaya has an extremely high mode share of private motorized trips (predominantly motorcycle) relative to per capita incomes, despite the fact that average trip distances “as the crow flies” are extremely short. Nonmotorized trips are nonetheless a critical part of the transportation system, while collective forms of transport are much less important than in other regional…
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The Projecto de Bicicletas (Bicycle Project) was conceived in 1992 by two non-governmental organizations (NGOs) based in Mozambique: the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) and National Mozambican Association for the Development of Rural Women (AMRU). The project began after a representative from ITDP attended the inaugeration of AMRU- in which many women from the surrounding…
Letter from the Executive Director: The Automobile Industry’s ‘Special’ Relationship with Development Institutions — and the Hopes for Hydrogen • Bicycle Culture Threatened: The Struggle for Sustainability in China’s Cities • South Africa Rides Again • Women Lead Tunesian Bike Advocacy • Bulgaria and the Geopolitics of Caspian Sea Oil • Brazil Starts to Take Bicycling Seriously • Trans-Israel Highway Update: Flagship in the Doldrums • Quito Takes the…
Presentation notes for the UNEP Regional Workshop “Deals on Wheels: Sustainable Transportation Initiatives in Developing Countries”, San Salvador, July 28-30, 1999. Seventy percent of the 1.3 billion people living in poverty worldwide are women, according to the UN 1995 Human Development Report. Transport-related issues such as access to jobs, markets and social/educational facilities play an important, but underappreciated role in perpetuating…
Letter from ITDP’s Executive Director: A Climate Change in Global Transport, or “Smart Plugs?” • News Briefs • Will Joining the EU Wreck Hungarian Railroads? • SUSTRAN: Asian Transport Advocacy Takes Off • Mozambique: Roads Washed Away, Red Ink Remains • Reincarnating the Indian Cycle Rickshaw • Sao Paulo Curbing Car Use • U.S. Transport Funding Fight Ends in Pork-Fest • New Titles • Bulletin Board
Letter from the Executive Director: Organizing Pedestrians, Cyclists and Bus Passengers • Budapest Metro: Trojan Horse from European Union • Prague Threatened by Auto Mania • Managua Plans to Bike Around Transport Pitfalls • Making Bikes Work for South Africa • Tehran Clears the Air • Jakarta: A City in Crisis • The Trans-Israel Highway:…
Letter from the Executive Director: ITDP Mobilizes HABITAT • South Africa: Transportation Struggles in the Post Apartheid City • ISTEA Reauthorization: Will the Highway Lobby Steer U.S. Transport Reform Off the Road? • The Cycle Rickshaw can Save the Taj Mahal • Networks for Green Transport: Fighting for the ‘Seoul’ of Transport in Korea •…
This report follows on ITDP’s earlier report, “Counting on Cars, Counting Out People,” published in 1994. That report found significant biases in the nature of World Bank economic rate of return (ERR) analysis, which could result in the favoring of road loans over loans to alternative modes of transport. Since that time, some of the problems in their ERR…
Letter from the Executive Director: ITDP Thinks Globally, Acts Globally • Cuba: Havana Pedals Through Hard Times • Mobilizing Democracy in Haiti •Cycling Renaissance in Mexico City • Poland: Shock Therapy Short-Circuits Public Transit • Upgrading Peruvian Mountain Tracks Puts People First • News Briefs • New Titles • Bulletin Board