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[/panel]What Brazil Needs to Do to Improve Its Regulation of Public Transport
October 24, 2024
Comprehensive and considered public transport regulation is essential to ensuring the quality, accessibility, and sustainability of bus systems, especially in large metropolitan areas in developing regions where public transport is most people’s primary means of mobility. In a nation like Brazil especially, where over 180 million people live in urban areas, a robust approach to ...Read MoreThis Indian City Proves Walkable Infrastructure Has Big Climate and Health Benefits
September 9, 2024
Between 2013 and 2019, the city of Chennai, India designed and built footpaths on more than 100 kilometers of streets. Using data collected in 2019, ITDP’s studies found that between 9% and 29% of people walking on the improved footpaths would have used a private motorized mode if the footpaths had not been improved. As ...Read MoreVisualizing Urban Accessibility in Mexico and Beyond
August 6, 2024
As part of ITDP Mexico’s Ideamos program, which focused on implementing innovative mobility-related pilot projects, a data-driven visualizer tool was developed to highlight accessibility in Mexican cities. This Visualizador de Accesibilidad Urbana (Urban Accessibility Visualizer) began as an interactive tool to facilitate the analysis of urban accessibility in key Mexican cities. It displays integrated information on ...Read MoreOur Cities Need More People Near Frequent and Rapid Public Transport
July 24, 2024
Traditionally, the quality and reach of a city’s public transport system is measured in number of kilometers, number of stops, ridership, or speed. These metrics can certainly show planners and policymakers a lot about the progress of their urban infrastructure. However, these metrics do not fully account for the fundamental purpose of public transport — ...Read More3 Guides for Safe, Efficient, and Sustainable Urban Mobility in Brazil
July 9, 2024
Managing public transport data, electrifying buses and reducing traffic deaths are policies capable of significantly improving the quality of life in cities and making mobility more equitable for everyone. In Brazil’s cities especially, issues of access, inequality, and race and gender play a significant role in urban transport systems and have significant impacts on millions ...Read MorePutting ITDP’s BRT Climate Impact Calculator Into Practice
June 12, 2024
The team used a new ITDP tool, which is now publicly available: the BRT Simple Calculator of Project Effects (SCOPE). This user-friendly Excel spreadsheet predicts the climate and air quality impacts of adding or upgrading a BRT corridor, providing key evidence for planners and decision-makers looking to make the case for investing in BRT. The ...Read MoreHow Does Cycling Infrastructure in These Global Cities Measure Up?
June 11, 2024
In 2021, ITDP launched the Cycling Cities campaign, building off of momentum around cycling that emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic. During the pandemic, many cities swiftly responded to changing mobility needs by setting up temporary cycle lanes, designating reduced-traffic streets, and facilitating access to bicycles through reduced-fare or free bikeshare programs. In the years since, ...Read MoreThe Power of People Near Protected Bikelanes
June 3, 2024
In celebration of World Bicycle Day, ITDP is delving into what it means to measure People Near Protected Bikelanes and what this measurement means for urban accessibility.For years, cities and governments have focused on length or number of kilometers as a measure of how comprehensive or impactful their cycling infrastructure is. With the debut of the ...Read MoreIn What Cities are People Safest from Highways, and Why Does It Matter?
May 15, 2024
It is no secret that grade-separated highways can cause a lot of harm in cities. They exacerbate air pollution, divide neighborhoods, and increase the risk of road injuries and deaths. The closer people live to large highways and roads, the more susceptible they are to these hazards and, oftentimes, these are already low-income or marginalized ...Read MoreWhat Digitalization Means for Transport
March 1, 2024
Digital technology is especially valuable for informal public transport, the unregulated or semi-regulated services that carry so much travel in many of the world’s regions. Digitalization will not solve problems by itself—it must be part of a coherent strategy supported by local expertise and political will. However, it is a catalyst for moving informal transport ...Read More