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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 MoreITDP Recommends Design Improvements to Cidade do Samba
June 19, 2012
On Sunday June 17th at the Humanidade Forum at Rio+20, ITDP’s Technical Director, Luc Nadal, gave a presentation assessing the plans for the redevelopment of the port area of Rio by the Principles of urban development for sustainable urban transport. Among several recommendations Luc made on reducing parking and vehicular traffic infrastructure and designing a public ...Read MoreITDP Presents on Sustainability in Port Zone Revitalization Projects in Rio
June 19, 2012
In Rio de Janeiro, an ambitious two-phase regeneration plan for the port area has been underway since 2009, and predicted to be completed in time to shine in the spotlight of Rio’s 2016 Olympic games. The project is groundbreaking for the city, as it integrates cultural, historical, environmental and infrastructure interventions. It is the largest ...Read MoreEnd Fossil Fuel Subsidies, Promote Sustainable Development
June 18, 2012
In the poorest areas around cities in the developing world, many families can’t afford cars and reliant on mass transit systems. In countries like Indonesia, public spending is much smaller on mass transit than on fuel subsidies. Fuel subsidies encourage driving, making Jakarta’s, and many other cities’, terrible traffic worse, and leave most stuck in ...Read MoreITDP Event Discusses Financing and Measurement of Sustainable Transport Goals at Rio+20
June 15, 2012
ITDP’s first official side event took place in Rio Centro, the epicenter of the Rio+20 negotiations. The event, Financing Sustainable Transportation to Support Sustainable Development, was moderated by ITDP Global Policy Director Michael Replogle, and bought together about 70 people from transportation and finance ministries from countries including Brazil, Indonesia, Namibia and Iraq. Organized by ITDP in ...Read MoreITDP’s Mobilidade+ Speaker Series Features Speakers on Youth, Waste, and Favelas
June 15, 2012
The second session of ITDP and Studio-X Rio’s public speaker series at Studio-X Rio’s headquarters continues with part two of a three-part series addressing twelve diverse concepts in relation to mobility, culture, sustainability and waste, and youth. The second session featured Cristina Mendonca, C40-CCI Director for the city of Rio, Pedro Rivera, Director of Studio ...Read MoreITDP’s Full Day Seminar on Sustainable Urban Mobility in Niterói
June 14, 2012
On Wednesday June 13th, ITDP began our official events of the 10-day Rio + 20 conference with a day-long seminar on sustainable urban mobility in the city of Niterói, located just across the harbor from Rio de Janeiro. The 2nd annual seminar, coordinated jointly with the city government of Niterói, brought together policymakers, technical and policy ...Read MoreITDP Presents Eight Principles for Sustainable Mobility at Green Nation Fest in Rio de Janeiro
June 12, 2012
Bernardo Baranda, ITDP Regional Director for Latin America, presented the organization’s 8 Principles of Sustainable Urban Mobility on June 6th at the Green Nation Fest, a “festival of environmental sustainability” in Rio de Janeiro’s Quinta da Boa Vista Park. Speaking to a crowd ranging from high school students to architects, Baranda described examples of best practices ...Read MoreRio de Janeiro Opens Transoeste, the City’s First Bus Rapid Transit Line
June 11, 2012
After years of planning and preparation, and with the world’s attention turned towards Rio in the final days before Rio+20, the city’s first of four planned BRT lines began operations on June 6th. Rio Mayor Eduardo Paes, alongside former President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, led the formal inauguration ceremony. ITDP was represented at the ...Read MoreITDP and Studio-X Rio Launch the Mobilidade+ Speaker Series
June 11, 2012
Kicking off ITDP’s busy roster of events leading up to Rio+20, the Mobilidade+ series launched on June 5th at Studio-X Rio’s headquarters. The series, organized by ITDP Brazil and Studio-X (Columbia University) in partnership with UN-Habitat, SLoCat, C40 Rio, and Transport Ativo, illustrates how urban mobility permeates diverse aspects of daily life in cities, and ...Read MoreUN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon Joins ITDP in New York to Kickoff Rio + 20
June 10, 2012
On June 8th, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Commissioner of the NYC Department of Transportation Janette Sadik-Khan, Executive Coordinator of Rio + 20, Brice Lalonde, Resident Director General of the Asian Development Bank North America Allesandro Pio and SLoCaT Deputy Director of UN-Habitat Yamina Djacta joined forces with ITDP to promote biking in the lead up ...Read More