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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 MoreEquity in Transport Mega Projects: An Interview with University College London Planning Professor Harry Dimitriou
June 6, 2016
Many medium-size cities today are projected to become big cities by 2050. Given the fast pace of change and based on your evaluation of projects around the world, how can those cities deliver needed transport infrastructure that actually benefits most people? For a national development strategy to be meaningful for middle-sized cities, those cities need to ...Read MoreHow Can Africa’s Growing Cities Include All Residents?
May 23, 2016
Africa is in the midst of a big change. In twenty years, the continent’s urban population will double in size. In fifty, it will triple! African cities now face the major task of adapting to this rapid influx of urban residents. How they choose to develop could lead to two potential futures for cities, countries, ...Read MoreInterview with Geetam Tiwari: Mobility and Climate Solutions in Indian Cities
May 19, 2016
Geetam is the TRIPP Chair Associate Professor for Transport Planning at the Indian Institute of Technology (ITT) in Delhi and Alderbrastka Guest Professor for Sustainable Urban Transport at the Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden 2007-2009. She developed systems and designs that make transportation safer and more efficient, with a special focus on vulnerable road users ...Read MoreYoung Jakartans Explore Their City on TransJakarta
April 29, 2016
Site Visit Busway is a program based in Jakarta, Indonesia aimed at promoting the city and their BRT system, Transjakarta. Transjakarta started operations in 2004 and is one of the longest BRT systems in the world. As of January 2016, the ridership is 320,000 passengers per day. This program, spearheaded and executed by ITDP Indonesia staff ...Read MoreInterview with Juan Carlos Muñoz: Why Bus Rapid Transit Makes Sense for Cities
April 21, 2016
Juan Carlos Muñoz is the Director of the Bus Rapid Transit Centre of Excellence, Director of the Center for Sustainable Urban Development, and Associate Professor with the Department of Transport Engineering and Logistics at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago. He and Laurel Paget-Seekins edited the recently published book: “Restructuring Public Transport through Bus Rapid Transit”. This is his ...Read MoreITDP and TransitCenter Host Workshop in Houston
April 11, 2016
As part of ITDPs leadership and innovation program, a new year-long fellowship program for transit agency board members has been developed with TransitCenter, a U.S. foundation committed to improving urban mobility. The first cohort of transit agency board member (TABM) fellows met in Houston, Texas in March 2016 to witness and learn from Houston’s cost-neutral ...Read MoreThe Secret Ingredient: Institutional Capacity
April 1, 2016
Implementing rapid transit is a complex task. Governments not only need access to funds and debt finance to build successful rapid transit infrastructure, they must also have robust institutional capacity to plan, finance, design, build, and rapid transit. There are many examples of countries that had the money for a rapid transit project but it was ...Read MoreUsing Debt Finance to Grow Rapid Transit Infrastructure
March 23, 2016
Rapid transit infrastructure is one of the most beneficial – and costly – investments that a city can make. Governments must often invest hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars into the design, construction, and procurement of infrastructure for rapid transit projects. Meanwhile, the economic benefits, though significant, only accrue over the course of ...Read MoreShow Me the Money: How a Country Should Fund its Rapid Transit Infrastructure
March 21, 2016
In the coming weeks, a series of articles from ITDP will explore the detailed findings and implications of this research. The report offers key recommendations (see infographic), and helps cities identify tools to invest in smart, sustainable mobility. Money matters. For rapid transit, how money is collected, budgeted, and allocated are some of the most important factors in ...Read MoreHow to Fund, Finance, and Build Capacity for Sustainable Urban Mobility
March 14, 2016
The questions surrounding the sustainability of cities are no longer just what to do – many sustainable solutions have been proven effective – but increasingly, they focus on the more complicated questions of how to get it done. How to get the capital and capacity to plan, finance, and implement new urban mobility infrastructure has ...Read More