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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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  • TransJakarta Bus Rapid Transit System Technical Review

    TransJakarta Bus Rapid Transit System Technical Review
    The following report is a summary of the technical issues surrounding the implementation of the TransJakarta Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) System, scheduled to open in January 2004. It was compiled by the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy, based on numerous visits by staff and technical consultants, between October 2002 and December of 2003. It was drafted for the following ...
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  • Sustainable Transport: a Sourcebook for Developing Cities

    Sustainable Transport: a Sourcebook for Developing Cities
    The Sourcebook on Sustainable Urban Transport addresses the key areas of sustainable transport policy framework for a developing city. It is intended for policy-makers in developing cities, and their advisors. This target audience is reflected in the context, which provides policy tools appropriate for application in a range of developing cities. The Sourcebook consists of 30 modules and was ...
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  • By Bicycle, Ghana Groups Raise Awareness for World AIDS Day

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Lisa Peterson, 212-629-8001, lpeterson@itdp.org The Ghana AIDS Commission, in cooperation with UNAIDS, the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) and the Republic of Ghana’s Ministry of Health, has launched a campaign to raise public awareness about AIDS through bicycle rides.  Two rides, one through all of Ghana’s 11 regions and one through Nigeria, ...
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  • Central Europe’s New Brownfield Malls

    Thanks to the efforts of a local NGO, Vankovka, a new development in Brno, Czech Republic will preserve an historic brownfield site and incorporate community services into new mall development. The site was purchased by the city of Brno and will be developed by the German firm ECE. Next to a new shopping mall, in the ...
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  • Surabaya Toll Road Proceeds over Objections from City

    Toll road promoters received a boost in July when President Megawati suggested that eight suspended toll road projects, including the one through Surabaya, were to move forward. Since then, the Mayor and other elected leaders, who are from the same political party as the president, have felt pressure to refrain from public criticism of the ...
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  • Maracaibo Weighs Bus Service Improvements, Light Rail

    Based on the results of the Commission’s evaluation, two projects have been given new life – a light rail project developed in 1994 and a bus restructuring proposal created in 1995. Though the light rail project was never completed, the infrastructure was partially built. Work on light rail infrastructure will restart in October, while the project ...
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  • ITDP Europe – SUSTRAN Launched

    Founding members included Michael Replogle (ITDP President), Walter Hook (ITDP Executive Director), Yaakov Garb (ITDP CEE Regional Director), Jirina Jackson (ITDP CEE Program Director), Andras Lukacs (President, Clean Air Action Group, Hungary), Roelof Wittink (Director I-CE Cycling, Netherlands), Axel Friedrich (Director, MobileSource/Transport Section, German Federal Environmental Agency-UBA), Manfred Breithaupt (Senior Transport Adviser, GTZ Germany), Deike ...
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  • Pedestrianizing Asian Cities (Issue 15, 2003)

    Pedestrianizing Asian Cities (Issue 15, 2003)
    Letter from the Executive Director: US Fiddles While Oil Burns • Bus Rapid Transit Spreads to Africa and Asia • Transit Terror: The view from Jerusalem • Sao Paulo’s Bus Reform Leads to Turmoil • Access Africa Update • Iraqi Oil and the Future of OPEC • Pedestrianizing Asian Cities • Car Free Days Go ...
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  • U.S. Bill Could Eliminate Funds for Cycling, Safety and Transit

    The bill, which has passed the Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Treasury, and Independent Agencies, would cut funding in half for Amtrak, the U.S.’s intercity passenger rail system. Amtrak President David Gunn has identified $1.8 billion as the minimum funding level needed to avoid a costly shutdown ­ the bill would provide only $580 million. The bill ...
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  • Manila’s Fireflies Ride Again, Celebrating “Peace and Pedals”

    “Fireflies are very sensitive insects, and very beautiful too. They are, however, dying in Metro Manila because of pollution,” said Dinna Louise C. Dayao, a member of the Brigade. “Like them, we are dying too, albeit slowly, because of pollution. We bike to show everyone that we want clean air, now” she said. This year, Lufthansa ...
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