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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 Argentina Calls on Buenos Aires to Improve Transit in Response to Subway Strike
August 15, 2012
By Andrés Fingeret, ITDP Argentina Director On Tuesday, subways finally began rolling again in Buenos Aires after a massive, 10-day strike that had over a million commuters waiting, sometimes hours, for overcrowded buses. The suspension of the strike is part of a tentative deal by union leaders. The system’s operator, Metrovias, has agreed to a smaller ...Read MoreAs London Passes the Torch, Rio Looks to BRT in Plans for 2016 Games
August 14, 2012
By Anna Bray Sharpin, ITDP Brazil On Sunday the world watched as London’s Mayor Boris Johnson handed over the Olympic flag to IOC President Jacques Rogge who then presented it to Rio Mayor Eduardo Paes in one of the centerpiece moments of the 2012 Olympics Closing Ceremony. The following eight minutes of “mini carnival” gave us ...Read MoreTransport Emissions Evaluation Model for Projects (TEEMP)
August 6, 2012
TEEMP is a suite of excel-based, free-of-charge, suite of spreadsheet models and methods that can be used to evaluate the greenhouse gas (GHG), air pollution, and other impacts of many types of transportation projects. Download the Model Source: CAI-Asia and ITDP Last updated: April 2015 Download the Manual Source: CAI-Asia and ITDP Download the Revision Memo Source: CAI-Asia and ITDP Published: April 2015 The TEEMP ...Read MorePre-feasibility study for sustainable transport interventions in Ranchi
August 1, 2012
An important regional hub in eastern India, Ranchi has historically been a cycling and walking-centric city with narrow streets and dense urban fabric. But with its outward expansion, there is higher demand for mobility and increased use of motorized transport, leading to congestion & safety issues. Thus this report looks at identifying existing travel demand ...Read MoreEcoparq, Mexico City’s On-Street Parking Reform
July 26, 2012
by Michael Kodransky, ITDP Mexico City has enacted on-street parking reform for the first time in years. In April this year, the City’s Polanco district, an upmarket residential neighborhood, completed implementation of a new parking management system, introducing 426 multispace meters to streets where parking had previously been free. The new system is branded ecoParq underscoring the ...Read MoreRockefeller Foundation Gives Official Endorsement to The BRT Standard
June 23, 2012
ITDP is pleased to announce The Rockefeller Foundation’s endorsement of The BRT Standard, ITDP’s bus rapid transit scoring and certification system. This endorsement will be enormously helpful as ITDP seeks to set an internationally recognized standard for what constitutes best practice in BRT, and works to achieve a gold-standard corridor in the US. Currently in its ...Read MoreITDP and Ford Foundation Close Out Mobilidade + Speaker Series at Rio+20
June 22, 2012
On Thursday at the Ford Foundation’s Rio+20 tent, ITDP held the closing ceremony for Mobilidade+, the innovative series that broadened the debate on sustainable urban mobility by considering how mobility affects our daily lives in ways we might never have imagined. Themes discussed over the course of the series included aspects of daily life like courtesy, ...Read MoreWorld’s Largest Development Banks pledge $175 Billion for the Creation of More Sustainable Transport
June 20, 2012
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL (20 June, 2012)—The eight largest multilateral development banks (MDBs) announced today that they will invest US$175 billion to finance more sustainable transportation systems over the coming decade, boosting equitable economic development and protecting the environment and public health across the developing world. The pledge by the Asian Development Bank, the World ...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 More