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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 MoreMore Haste, Less Speed for Bus Rapid Transit in SA
August 14, 2008
ABOUT five years ago, the flood of visits from politicians and managers to the world’s leading Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) cities began. Today, a conservative guess would be that between 500 and 1000 South Africans, among them cabinet ministers, provincial MECs, city mayors, members of mayoral committees, city managers, transport planners, local operators and taxi ...Read MoreThe 2009 Sustainable Transport Award Nomination Process Opens
August 1, 2008
Every year, the Sustainable Transport Award is given to a city that has had a profound impact on enhancing the sustainability and livability of its community or region through innovative transportation strategies, while lessening the impact of climate change through reduced transportation greenhouse and air pollution emissions. Click here for more information and for the on-line nomination ...Read MoreSouth Africa: Road Shows to Explain Joburg’s New Bus System
July 28, 2008
Road shows are to be held to educate taxi associations and commuters on how the transformation of the public transport system will affect them. The announcement of the road shows will be held in response to the concerns raised by the taxi association on how their businesses would be affected by Rea Vaya (We are moving) ...Read MoreCity Rickshaws Fight Ban
July 27, 2008
They are the cheapest taxis; provide rapid transit by cutting corners and ferry a hundred thousand people each day on short intra-city trips with zero emissions. Delhi’s cycle rickshaws, on roads since the 1940s, have now fallen into disrepute for their apparent reckless ways. The hitherto voiceless community of 3-lakh rickshaw-pullers is gradually gearing up for ...Read MoreHacer las ciclovías en las banquetas podría generar incidentes con los peatones (in Spanish)
July 27, 2008
Como reacción a la decisión que ha tomado el Ayuntamiento de Guadalajara para colocar sobre las banquetas las ciclovías que se comprometió a construir, diferentes organizaciones que promueven el transporte no motorizado, como GDL en Bici, realizaron una movilización por la calzada Independencia y culminaron retrazando un tramo de la ciclobanda que existe en avenida ...Read MoreÁrea peatonal en la Calzada será más corta (in Spanish)
July 23, 2008
Recuperaron un metro para banquetas, pero construirán ahí un carril para la bici de 1.20 m. Se construirá una “banqueta amigable”, es decir, sobre cada acera trazarán un carril de 1.20 metros de ancho, aunque el mínimo requerido es de 1.50 metros. Esta historia casi llega a su fin: algunos tramos de la banqueta de la ...Read MoreExceso de autos genera pérdidas millonarias (in Spanish)
July 21, 2008
La movilidad es un problema para los millones de personas que transitan en la Ciudad de México y su zona metropolitana. Según la Comisión Metropolitana de Transporte y Vialidad (Cometravi) –organismo creado por los gobiernos federal, del Edomex y del DF en 1994– al año se pierden siete mil millones de dólares por no cumplir con ...Read MoreRecaban propuestas en torno a las ciclovías (in Spanish)
July 13, 2008
El Colectivo Ecologista de Jalisco y el Instituto para la Transportación y Política de Desarrollo (ITDP, por sus siglas en inglés) realizaron la mañana de ayer un ejercicio para recoger las propuestas de quienes se transportan en bicicleta por la ciudad. Desde las 9 de la mañana los organizadores se dieron cita en el Museo de ...Read MoreCCB Realizará la Semana de la Bicicleta (in Spanish)
July 10, 2008
El viernes 18 se realizará un foro con expertos del sector público y privado provenientes de España, Santiago de Chile, México y Perú, entre otros, quienes mostrarán sus experiencias exitosas en el uso de la bicicleta como transporte alternativo. Bogotá.– Con el propósito de abrir un espacio de reflexión frente al uso de la bicicleta como ...Read MoreIt’s a Wake Up Call!!
July 8, 2008
This year’s Nobel Prize to Al Gore and Dr R K Pachauri is a wake up call to governments to get more serious about climate science, environment and sustainable development. Science can contribute powerfully to meet challenges and scientists and policy makers can work together to help solve problems of critical importance to humanity. Each of ...Read More