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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 MorePRESS RELEASE: Urban Happiness with Enrique Peñalosa!
January 23, 2009
Thursday, February 5, 6:30 pm @ Boston Public Library, Copley Square, Rabb Lecture Hall Hosted by LivableStreets Alliance Free and open to the public! FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: Jackie Douglas (617) 621-1746 jackie@livablestreets.info www.livablestreets.info Enrique Peñalosa is a special guest speaker in the StreetTalk lecture series hosted by LivableStreets Alliance. An accomplished public official, economist and administrator, Enrique Peñalosa completed ...Read MoreInician Elaboración de Plan de Movilidad No Motorizada (in Spanish)
January 22, 2009
Guadalajara, Mexico – Se anunció el inicio de la elaboración del Plan de Movilidad no Motorizada de la Zona Metropolitana de Guadalajara, en el que se incluirán los seis municipios de la Zona Metropolitana de Guadalajara. El plan incluye la realización de una red para bicicletas y el rescate de espacios públicos para el peatón y ...Read MorePremios Para Las Ciudades Que Fomentan El Transporte Sostenible (in Spanish)
January 22, 2009
Los premios, llamados “Sustainable Transport Award”, son otorgados a través del Internacional para el Transporte y el Desarrollo (ITDP). Este año ha ganado Nueva York, gracias a la transformación de 20.000 hectáreas de carreteras y párkings en carriles para bicis, lo que se ha traducido en un 35% más de usuarios de ese medio. Adicionalmente, ...Read MoreDelhi Pedals to Make a Green Point
January 19, 2009
Pedestrians swear at them and motorists look down on them. Cyclists in the city routinely feel marginalized on the roads. But there is still a certain section of people who not only strongly support good ol’ cycling that can keep one fit, but also take pride in its “green’’ nature. These are the people who on Sunday ...Read MoreTransjakarta Satisfied with Work, NGO Says Hold On
January 16, 2009
Transjakarta pledged to work toward improving their service in response to passengers’ criticisms on the deteriorating quality of the busway system. Coordinating with NGO Indonesian Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP), the busway operator held a press conference Thursday to coincide with its fifth year of service. Transjakarta’s head of Administration Department, Anton Parura, said there ...Read MorePimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation advised to go slow on BRTS plan
January 15, 2009
PUNE: With several questions being raised over the feasibility of BRTS, which is being implemented in Pune and Delhi, corporators in Pimpri-Chinchwad have now advised the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation to “go slow” on the project. The immediate concern of the corporators is two-fold, First, availability of funds for the project and, secondly, whether the civic administration has ...Read MoreNYC Wins Transit Award
January 14, 2009
NEW YORK, NY January 14, 2009 —New York has become the first U.S. city to win an international sustainable transit award. WNYC’s Andrea Bernstein has more. REPORTER: Despite failing in its signature transportation initiative this year –- congestion pricing -– New York City beat out Mexico City and Istanbul. The Institute for Transportation Development Policy cited ...Read MoreGreen City: Award for cutting emissions with bikes
January 14, 2009
New York yesterday became the first U.S. city to win the Transportation Research Board’s Sustainable Transport Award. The nonprofit, an arm of the National Research Council, gave New York the nod for reducing auto emissions by replacing road space with bike lanes, pedestrian areas and public plazas, introducing bus rapid transit and adding more hybrids ...Read MoreMilano A citta premio internazionale per Ecopass e bike sharing (in Italian)
January 14, 2009
Milano ha ricevuto una menzione speciale per l’introduzione dell’Ecopass e per l’avvio del bike sharing dalla Sustainable transport award committe, la commissione internazionale che si occupa dello sviluppo del trasporto sostenibile Lo rende noto la stessa amministrazione comunale che spiega che l’organismo, riunitosi nella serata di ieri a Washington, ha riconosciuto a Milano il forte ...Read MoreLas Mejores Prácticas En El Mundo Para Un Transporte Sostenible (in Spanish)
January 14, 2009
El autobús BTR de Estambul, las restricciones de tráfico de Pekín, el Ecopass de Milán, la construcción de carriles bici de Nueva York o la expansión del metrobus de México D.F. son algunas de las prácticas que han llevado a estas cinco ciudades a optar por el ‘Sustainable Transport Award’, el premio de transporte sostenible ...Read More