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[/panel][WEBINAR] Indicators For Sustainable Mobility
January 14, 2019
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Wednesday, January 30, 2019 12pm EST Webinar Recording More on the Indicators Indicators for Sustainable Mobility Presentation As Climate Change Escalates, US Cities Fail to Provide Car Alternatives About the Webinar As cities seek to improve their transportation systems to make them more sustainable, equitable, and useful for people, it is critical that they first understand how their system performs. To that ...Read MoreITDP Announces New CEO Heather Thompson
September 19, 2018
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Heather Thompson as our new chief executive officer. Ms. Thompson, who has been serving in the role of interim CEO since February, was selected by the ITDP board of directors after an extensive, international search. Her transition to permanent CEO is ongoing, and will be effective October ...Read MoreBus Rapid Transit Nearly Quadruples Over Ten Years
November 17, 2014
Bus rapid transit has grown by 383 percent in the last ten years, according to new data released by ITDP. As cities around the world discover the benefits and cost effectiveness of BRT, they have built hundreds of systems across dozens of countries that qualify as true BRT. A new interactive map shows a comprehesive ...Read MoreITDP Releases New Study on Climate Change Ahead of UN Climate Summit
September 17, 2014
As world leaders gather for the United Nations Secretary-General’s Climate Summit on September 23rd, ITDP and the University of California, Davis, have released a new report on the impact of transportation emissions on our climate future. According to the new study, more than USD$100 trillion in cumulative public and private spending could be saved, and ...Read MoreCity Wants Less Cars, More Days (Jakarta)
April 23, 2009
The city administration has expanded its controversial car-free day program from just once a month to twice monthly. The Jakarta Environmental Management Board, or BPLHD, announced on Thursday that it had scaled back the ban on vehicles on the main Jalan Sudirman-Jalan Thamrin thoroughfare during the last Sunday of every month, but would now bar traffic ...Read MoreZuma Already Tastes Challenges of Presidency as South Africa Votes
April 23, 2009
Jacob Zuma’s ride to South Africa’s presidency may be smooth. Retaining the support and admiration of his fanatical following while in office, however, will certainly not be as easy. And Mr Zuma is already having a taste of the Herculean challenges that could be awaiting him, while at the helm. Striking a balance between protecting the existing ...Read MoreActivist Says Jakarta’s Current Vehicle Growth Leads to Transportation Failure
April 22, 2009
If the vehicle growth rate in Jakarta continues to hover around tens of percent annually without any breakthrough in transportation and traffic management, the city will be paralyzed by total gridlock by 2014, a nongovernmental organization said Wednesday. “Total traffic failure is an unbearable risk caused by the city’s failure in transportation and traffic management,” the ...Read MoreChangwon is Bicycle Mecca (Korea)
April 22, 2009
The industrial city of Changwon in South Gyeonsang Province is grabbing headlines for leading the country’s new focus on implementing various bike-friendly policies. According to city officials, Changwon has recently introduced a series of new incentives for promoting the use of bicycles as everyday means of transportation and physical exercise. In particular, the city with a population ...Read MoreEnrique Peñalosa Challenges Boston to Create Safe Streets for All
April 22, 2009
In February this year, Enrique Peñalosa, former mayor of Bogotá, visited Boston to speak about transforming the city into a world-class model of urban happiness and sustainable transportation. At numerous events attended by over 1,000 people, Peñalosa asked people to imagine their city as one where citizens feel safe and happy. He challenged the people ...Read MoreLow Cost Car Soon To Join Gridlock on World Streets
April 21, 2009
The world’s cheapest automobile, known as the Tata Nano, debuted at the Delhi auto show in late March with the promise of bringing greater mobility independence to scores of families. Millions of new vehicles are expected to compete for space on the already congested road network in India. Sustainable transport advocates are watching closely to ...Read MoreSouth Africa: BRT Operations Put On Hold
April 21, 2009
Johannesburg — Operation issues around the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system will be put on hold pending further consultations, says the Department of Transport. “The summit has resolved that the issues around the operations of the BRT, be put on hold until further consultations,” departmental spokesperson Collen Msibi told BuaNews. However, he dismissed media reports that the ...Read MorePresident Okays Rs140b Projects for Karachi
April 21, 2009
President Asif Ali Zardari has approved three mega development projects for Karachi worth more than Rs 140 billion and also approved highways and irrigation and drainage projects for interior of Sindh. Presiding over a high-level meeting on the development projects in Sindh including Karachi at Bilawal House here on Monday, the President approved Shaheed Benazir ...Read MoreNew York Times Misses the Bus in Guangzhou
April 21, 2009
Guangzhou will have more than 200 kilometers (124 miles) of mostly-underground metro by late 2010. Yet the highest capacity mass transit line in terms of peak passenger flows will not be a subway, but rather the first line of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system, currently under construction. At $6 million per kilometer (about $9.7 million ...Read MoreTaxi Council: Bus Rapid Transit System Must Stop Completely
April 20, 2009
The bus rapid transit (BRT) system must be stopped completely, South African National Taxi Council president Andrew Mthembu said on Monday. “We are appealing and pleading … for us to meaningfully engage with this , let this thing come to a halt completely,” he told the taxi industry’s BRT Summit at Gallagher Estate in Midrand. “We are ...Read More