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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 MoreSmart Mobility and Open Data: A Global and Personal Perspective
November 20, 2017
by Oliver O’Brien, Urbanist & Researcher, University College- London Oliver O’Brien is an urbanist and researcher in quantitative geography, at University College London. His specialties include spatial analytics of bikeshare systems across the world, and visualizing socio-economic data such as population demographics. Introduction Many major cities around the world are seeing rapid population growth, resulting in increased strain on existing ...Read MoreThe BRT Planning Guide
November 16, 2017
The BRT Planning GuideRead MoreSave the Date for MOBILIZE Dar es Salaam
November 1, 2017
Here is a closer look at what a MOBILIZE conference is like. MOBILIZE Santiago 2017 Teaser from ITDP on Vimeo. June 26-28, 2018 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania MOBILIZE is the annual sustainable transport summit of the Institute for Transportation and Development (ITDP), which brings together urban transport and development practitioners alongside world-class researchers to celebrate best practices and accelerate implementation ...Read MoreGoing the Distance: The Path to Quality BRT in Connecticut
October 23, 2017
The launch of CTFastrak, the Connecticut Department of Transport’s (ConnDOT) Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) brand linking communities around Hartford, Connecticut was inspired after a study tour in 1997 to Curitiba, Brazil made by local officials. Participants in the study tour got to experience riding the world’s first BRT, built in the 1970s. First Transit representatives, who ...Read MoreShared Mobility Principles for Livable Cities
October 19, 2017
The rapid pace of technology-driven innovation from the private sector in shared transportation services, vehicles and networks is filled with both opportunity and risk. The impending advent of self-driving vehicles, for example, will have a profound impact on livelihoods, congestion and urban land use. At the same time, city streets are a finite and scarce ...Read MoreThe New, Improved, Online BRT Planning Guide
October 13, 2017
ITDP is thrilled to announce the launch of the new BRT Planning Guide, the most comprehensive resource there is for planning a bus rapid transit (BRT) system. Over seven volumes and 33 chapters, the guide provides best practices and technical assistance from planning a system to maintaining it. Beginning with an overview of BRT, the ...Read MoreIn Memoriam: Bradley Schroeder
October 11, 2017
It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of Bradley Schroeder, our friend and colleague and former ITDP staffer. He was fearless, friendly, and fun. He was a generous and big-hearted entrepreneur. Bradley helped develop one of the most innovative programs at ITDP, the California Bike program, which focused on bringing new ...Read More[EVENT] RSVP for Better Transport Makes Better Cities: Tales from the Trenches
October 4, 2017
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Read MoreGroundbreaking Road Safety Act Introduced in Mexico
September 29, 2017
On Wednesday, National Congressman Jonadab Martínez (MC-Jalisco) introduced a groundbreaking National Road Safety Act to the Chamber of Deputies, Mexico’s lower house. The law was drafted with the support of numerous NGOs, insurance companies and public officials of different levels and branches of government. Even though some important milestones have been achieved at the local ...Read MoreBRT TransOlimpica: Olympic Project Just Misses Gold BRT Standard Rating
September 27, 2017
BRT TransOlímpica was conceived to connect the Olympic arenas of Barra da Tijuca and Deodoro. It also offers a new cross connection in the West Zone of the city. One of the most recent additions to Rio de Janeiro’s public transit system, the BRT TransOlímpica, offers great service to 25,000 people/day who were previously underserved. Building ...Read More