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  • [WEBINAR] Indicators For Sustainable Mobility

    [WEBINAR] Indicators For Sustainable Mobility
    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 ...
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  • ITDP Announces New CEO Heather Thompson

    ITDP Announces New CEO Heather Thompson
    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 ...
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  • Bus Rapid Transit Nearly Quadruples Over Ten Years

    Bus Rapid Transit Nearly Quadruples Over Ten Years
    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 ...
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  • ITDP Releases New Study on Climate Change Ahead of UN Climate Summit

    ITDP Releases New Study on Climate Change Ahead of UN Climate Summit
    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 ...
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  • What to Do About Urban Highways: Lessons from Mexico City

    It has been many decades since a new urban highway like Robert Moses’ notorious Cross Bronx Expressway has been built in the US or Europe. Highways that forcibly evicted tens of thousands of disenfranchised low income minorities and expose countless others to dangerous levels of air pollution and unsafe traffic are largely a thing of ...
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  • ITDP Transport and Health Care – Senegal

    ITDP Transport and Health Care - Senegal
    A report on current situation in the health sector of Senegal and possible roles for non-motorised transport interventions. This is a preliminary study investigating the medical and structural problems with rural health care in Senegal and exploring options for improving the system. While bicycles would address many of the community’s needs, specific environmental and cultural preconditions in ...
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  • ITDP Transport and Health Care – Ghana

    ITDP Transport and Health Care - Ghana
    Like in most countries of sub-saharan Africa, child mortality, maternal death and HIV/Aids are the main medical health problems in Ghana. Health problems are commonly bigger in rural areas, where nearly 60% of the countries population is living. The data, presented is from both statistical analysis and actual information given in the high level interviews. In view of ...
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  • Institutional and Regulatory Options for BRT in Developing Countries

    Institutional and Regulatory Options for BRT in Developing Countries
    An increasing number of cities are looking at Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) as a lower cost alternative to meeting their mass transit needs. Less fully explored, however, has been the link between BRT and the implementation of transit system regulatory reforms. In a growing number of cities around the world, the introduction of a BRT system has also ...
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  • Using Bicycles to Save Lives

    Recent experience from ITDP’s Access Africa program and other projects shows that bicycles can play an important role in reaching health-related Millennium Development Goals and poverty reduction targets.  Read the full story in Sustainable Transport #16.Vision Sisters, Working Sisters in Kenya use bicycles to care for the sick.
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  • Appraising the Social Costs and Benefits of Road Projects

    Appraising the Social Costs and Benefits of Road Projects
    The social costs and benefits of road transport have traditionally been incorporated partially into economic appraisal, partially into social impact assessments and environmental impact assessments, and sometimes are dealt with in a section identifying the project’s intended beneficiaries. This paper first evaluates current practice in terms of how these types of evaluation are conducted and relate to one another, ...
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  • Santiago de Chile: Transporte y Legislación – Una Mirada Ciudadana

    Santiago de Chile: Transporte y Legislación - Una Mirada Ciudadana
    White Papers Presented at the CEMDA/ITDP International Seminar: Toward the Reform of Transportation and Air Quality Planning—Mexico City 
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  • U.S. Transportation-Air Quality Planning: Evolution of Recent Federal Law and Its Implementation

    U.S. Transportation-Air Quality Planning: Evolution of Recent Federal Law and Its Implementation
    White Papers Presented at the CEMDA/ITDP International Seminar: Toward the Reform of Transportation and Air Quality Planning—Mexico City  This paper provides an overview of U.S. transportation and air quality planning and governance policies from 1920 to the present, with an emphasis on reform laws enacted since the mid-1960s. It scans some of the key features of relevant laws, ...
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  • Transport Policy and Assessment Procedures in the United Kingdom: Lessons for Mexico City

    Transport Policy and Assessment Procedures in the United Kingdom: Lessons for Mexico City
    White Papers Presented at the CEMDA/ITDP International Seminar: Toward the Reform of Transportation and Air Quality Planning—Mexico City This paper reviews recent changes to transport policy in the UK. This is discussed within the context of changes from policies of “predict and provide” to an integrated transport policy and the role of new knowledge on induced travel effects. ...
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  • Constructing the Trans-Israel Highway’s Inevitability

    Constructing the Trans-Israel Highway's Inevitability
    White Papers Presented at the CEMDA/ITDP International Seminar: Toward the Reform of Transportation and Air Quality Planning—Mexico City This paper discusses the role and construction of a sense of inevitability in the forwarding of large infrastructure and development projects. It suggests that the growth of the project’s inevitability- its emergence from being one contested notion amoung ...
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