Letter from the Executive Director: US Fiddles While Oil Burns • Bus Rapid Transit Spreads to Africa and Asia • Transit Terror: The view from Jerusalem • Sao Paulo’s Bus Reform Leads to Turmoil • Access Africa Update • Iraqi Oil and the Future of OPEC • Pedestrianizing Asian Cities • Car Free Days Go…
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Letter from the Executive Director: Does it make sense for China to motorize? • Africa’s Public Transit Renaissance • Greenwash and Waxing: A report on the Earth Summit and the resulting “Plan of Action” • Nowa Huta: What’s in store for the world’s largest brownfield? • The Sound of China’s Bicycle Industry? One Hand Clapping…
Legislative Tools for Preserving Town Centres and Halting the Spread of Hypermarkets and Malls Outside of Cities: Land Use Legislation and Controls of Conflicts of Interest in Land Use Decision Making Throughout Europe, the past few decades have been characterized by retail sprawl — the spread of hypermarkets and of large shopping malls outside of city centers, undermining the…
Letter from the Executive Director: Is Globalization the Enemy of Sustainable Transport?• Fighting Sprawl: Prague on the Edge • An Afribike Update: South Africans Swept Off Their Feet• Manila Makes Way for Bikeways, But for Whom? • A Breath of Fresh Air for Indonesia • Bogota: Peñalosa Lets it Ride • Zurich-Kunming Sister-City Project: Bus Rapid Transit Comes to China• Notes from Agra: Selling Modern Rickshaws • Opinion:…
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…
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…