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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 MoreDo New Developments Meet the Standard? Putting the TOD Standard Into Action
January 13, 2014
With the release of the TOD Standard 2.0 in November 2013, ITDP updated the guidelines and metrics for best practices in transport oriented development and kicked off the process of applying the new scorecard to urban development. The TOD Standard is an assessment, recognition and policy tool focused on integrating sustainable transport and land use ...Read MoreTraffic Jam (Ahmedabad, India)
January 10, 2014
Traffic Jam is a film to promote public transport. Around the world, private car ownership is not only a growing a source of greenhouse gas emissions, but is also leading to increased traffic congestion, air pollution, and mounting social disparities, particularly in cities. ITDP strongly believes that safe, modern, and efficient public transport can help ...Read MoreTop Chinese Leaders Receive Recommendations on Green Urban Transport
January 10, 2014
Hazardous levels of air pollution, severe traffic congestion, and urbanization are daily topics of conversation across China, boosting interest in a new report to which ITDP contributed. Top China government officials, including the Premier Li Keqiang and the State Council, were pleased to receive the findings of a 9-month joint European Commission-Government of China study on Green ...Read MoreCar Share Fact Sheet
January 9, 2014
Car sharing is a model of car rental, available in over 1000 cities in many nations, where people rent cars for short periods of time, often by the hour. They are attractive to customers who need only occasional use of a vehicle, as well as others who would like occasional access to a vehicle of a different type ...Read MoreITDP Brazil Report Recommends Changes to Planned BRT Stations in Rio
January 9, 2014
The culmination of a site visit, focused working group and continued analysis, ITDP Brazil recently released a report recommending several changes to a BRT station planned for the Bonsucesso neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro. The report draws on input from city officials and planners, recommending changes to the station’s name, location, and design. As the ...Read MoreMaximizing the Effectiveness of the GEF Sustainable Transport Portfolio
January 7, 2014
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) is a small but critical source of climate finance and has built an investment portfolio that addresses emissions from the transport sector in developing and transitioning countries. The GEF has invested more than $3.6 billion in mitigating climate change since its inception. Unfortunately, there has been consistent under-investment in the ...Read MoreMitigation Strategies and Accounting Methods for Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Transportation
January 7, 2014
Rising incomes in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) portend rising use of motor vehicles, with attendant challenges to manage traffic congestion, air pollution, energy security, and global warming, as well as growing disparities in access to opportunities between those who have cars and those who do not. International concern regarding the effects of climate ...Read MoreSLoCaT Status Report
January 7, 2014
The transformative role of transport in realizing sustainable development is well understood and was acknowledged in The Future We Want, the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) as well as the report of the Secretary General’s High Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post- 2015 Development Agenda. The Voluntary Commitments entered ...Read MoreImpact Analysis of Transoeste Bus Rapid Transit System in Rio de Janeiro
January 7, 2014
The Transoeste Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) line in Rio de Janeiro’s West Zone is not only an internationally recognized gold-standard BRT in and of itself, it is also the first of four major gold-standard BRT corridors to be built in the city. When all corridors are built, the city will have a network of more ...Read MoreImplementation of Parking Meters in the Hipódromo Neighborhood of Mexico City
January 7, 2014
Many of the mobility issues faced by the Hipódromo neighborhood have their roots in the movement of activity towards the west and south, and the creation of de facto economic centers previously located the city’s historic center. The movement of economic activities toward the southwest eventually turned into a corridor with an axis that flowed ...Read More