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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 MoreSustainable Transportation Award 2008 Presentation
March 3, 2008
Download this presentation Source: ITDPRead MoreBusway consortium inefficient: NGOs
February 27, 2008
The Jakarta governor says his administration is still studying whether a counterflow system along busway lanes could reduce the city’s traffic. “We will evaluate the counterflow policy but I want everything to be coordinated. All lanes should be guarded, if necessary,” Governor Fauzi Bowo said Monday morning. The counterflow proposal, which would allow the busway to ...Read MoreBuenos Aires to Implement a Vélib-style Bicycle Transit System
February 26, 2008
The Buenos Aires City Council took a positive step towards becoming a more sustainable city by approving legislation to create a public bicycle transport system. Replicating the Vélib system in Paris, which was awarded with the 2008 Sustainable Transport Award, the law establishes a city-wide bicycle rental system that also provides strategically-located bike stations. ...Read MoreOn PARK(ing) Day, People Demand More Parks, Less Parking
February 25, 2008
On September 21, 2007, people in 47 cities transformed parking spots into over 180 small parks during an annual global event called PARK(ing) Day. By thinking of metered parking spaces as short term, inexpensive leasing of the space, PARK(ing) Day takes those parking spots and turns them into public spaces. These passive places where cars ...Read MoreRoad that kills!
February 23, 2008
Officials pull out statistics to prove that the Ambedkar Nagar-Oberoi Hotel stretch has claimed 101 lives in six years. It was always a killer road and the BRT has nothing to do with it, they clarify In an amazing revelation, the Delhi Government yesterday said a total of 101 people were killed in accidents on the ...Read MoreSouth Africa seeks to formalise introduction of electronic fare collection soon
February 15, 2008
An electronic fare collection system (EFCS) for public transport modes should be formalised by the first quarter of this year, says Department of Transport director for public transport policies Ibrahim Seedat. “Our country needs a national ticketing standard with the impending roll- out of public transport systems and has to grapple with what kind of ...Read MoreFrench City Mysteriously Appears in Arabian Desert
February 14, 2008
A bit of good news about prospects for green cities comes from an unlikely place—Dubai. In itself, Dubai is perhaps the most unsustainable place on Earth, a city lavishly built with oil money where everyone’s air conditioner runs full tilt 24/7/365. That’s what’s so amazing about the recent International Herald Tribune report about plans for a ...Read MoreFrance’s innovative transport concepts fight traffic and strikes, making Paris a heaven on wheels
February 8, 2008
Americans as a whole have not traditionally looked to France as a country of innovation. But transport has been an exception to this rule, with the TGV high speed train and the Paris metro, long seen as models in their industries, as well as the Smart Car, the squat ultra-compact that debuted in France and ...Read MoreCongestion Pricing Prophet: ‘Biking Is the New Golf!’
February 4, 2008
Bobo radical: Paul Steely White in the Chelsea offices of Transportation Alternatives. “I notice when I am riding that I run a lot of red lights,” the 6-foot-2 Paul Steely White shouted over his shoulder. “The way I think of it, it is more important to watch out for pedestrians than lights, because there are a ...Read MoreThe Greening of Paris
February 3, 2008
As Asian cities demonstrate their development through an extensive network of expressways and flyovers, Paris, recipient of the World Sustainable Transportation Award, shows the way forward to making our cities more livable… On January 14, 2008, the city of Paris received The World Sustainable Transportation Award from the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy in Washington. ...Read More