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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 MoreCar-free Days Transform Coimbatore, India
August 28, 2015
Coimbatore spoke loud and clear! The people have reclaimed their streets from automobiles, in the process reclaiming their quality of life. Sunday, 9 August 2015, saw over four thousand residents out bright and early for Coimbatore’s first car-free Sunday. People put DB Road and TV Swamy Road to good use, whether they were walking, cycling, ...Read MoreMexico City Joins the Vision Zero Movement
August 25, 2015
Transforming a vibrant and diverse metropolis like Mexico City is no easy task. But consistent progress, led by elected officials and citizen groups alike, is leading to impressive results. On International Pedestrian Day, Mayor Miguel Mancera (above, centered) announced a new Vision Zero policy which will improve safety and comfort for pedestrians across the city. ...Read MoreImproving Access for Guangzhou’s Urban Villages
August 24, 2015
Between the late 1980s and 2010, the city of Guangzhou doubled in population, expanding from 6 to 12 million residents. To accommodate Guangzhou’s rapid urbanization, many farmlands were transformed into urban land and used for new developments. As rural areas became dense city, with millions of migrants taking up residence in housing blocks, the ‘urban ...Read MoreA View from Osh, Kyrgyzstan
August 18, 2015
The City of Osh, in southwest Kyrgyzstan, is looking to modernize its transport system and urban development to support vibrant, livable spaces for people. Kyrgyzstan is a land locked country in Central Asia, surrounded by Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and China. As the second largest city in the country, after the capital, Bishkek, Osh has a ...Read MoreThe SDGs: A New Global Vision, and a Tool for Advocates
August 13, 2015
The evening of Sunday August 2nd representatives of 193 countries and several hundred advocates from civil society welcomed a new global vision for the future with euphoric standing ovation. The agreement, “Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, includes 17 new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for the world. Their approval represents an enormous achievement ...Read MoreClimate Bonds Initiative Directs Investment to High Quality BRT
August 11, 2015
Accessing funding for high quality BRT just got easier. This year, the Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) adopted the ITDP BRT Standard as the official criteria for certifying BRT projects as eligible for Climate Bond financing, a move that can help attract new funders to high quality projects. Now, to be eligible for the certification under ...Read MoreShow Your Support in August
August 10, 2015
Let’s empower women with transport choices – become a member or give to ITDP in August during our annual summer fundraising campaign. Nidhi Sharma is a twenty year old college student in Ranchi, India. Her freedom is limited by the fact that she has to be home before 7:30pm, when the city transport services shut down. ...Read MoreHarnessing Shared Mobility for Compact, Sustainable Cities
August 6, 2015
In the past decade, the world has seen car sharing go mainstream, bike sharing become a global trend, and hundreds of startups stake their claim to reinventing transport. The new systems, collectively known as shared mobility, reflect the rise of both the on-demand and sharing economies. These dual economic phenomena are changing the way everyone from car owners to ...Read MoreTackling Parking in Kiev, Ukraine
August 6, 2015
Parking in Kiev, Ukraine is visibly chaotic. Drivers park their cars everywhere—on the sidewalk, in crosswalks, in moving lanes, on playgrounds, in public plazas, on grass and seemingly wherever a surface space can be accessed. Though a municipal enterprise, known as KyivTransParkService (KTPS), oversees payments in officially sanctioned spaces, there is still rampant illegal parking, ...Read MoreMexican Federal Government Proposes Dedicated Funding for Sustainable Mobility
July 30, 2015
For the first time, the Mexican Ministry of Finance has proposed dedicated funding for sustainable mobility in the federal budget. Despite support in recent years at the policy level for sustainable mobility, the federal government has previously stopped short of dedicating funding for the issue. Now, in its proposal for the 2016 budget, the Ministry ...Read More