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  • [WEBINAR] Indicators For Sustainable Mobility

    [WEBINAR] Indicators For Sustainable Mobility
    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 ...
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  • ITDP Announces New CEO Heather Thompson

    ITDP Announces New CEO Heather Thompson
    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 ...
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  • Bus Rapid Transit Nearly Quadruples Over Ten Years

    Bus Rapid Transit Nearly Quadruples Over Ten Years
    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 ...
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  • ITDP Releases New Study on Climate Change Ahead of UN Climate Summit

    ITDP Releases New Study on Climate Change Ahead of UN Climate Summit
    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 ...
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  • U.S. Cities Reinventing Buses as Modern, Efficient, and Effective

    U.S. Cities Reinventing Buses as Modern, Efficient, and Effective
    A new independent study, issued by the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy rates Los Angeles, Cleveland, Las Vegas, Eugene and Pittsburgh as the nation’s leading cities for bus-based transportation because of their high-quality bus rapid transit systems (BRT). BRT combines the flexibility of buses with the speed and priority of light rail, but at ...
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  • Recapturing Global Leadership in Bus Rapid Transit: A Survey of Select U.S. Cities

    Recapturing Global Leadership in Bus Rapid Transit: A Survey of Select U.S. Cities
    The transportation system in the United States has often been dominated by a particular mode. A century ago it was rail; in the last several decades it  has been the automobile. Over time we have come to learn that while various modes have a tremendous impact on the shape of our communities, the movement of goods, ...
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  • Greenways in Guangdong

    Greenways in Guangdong
    Guangdong, China’s most populous (and also most prosperous) province has been experiencing an explosion in greenway development. An initial rollout of hundreds of kilometers of high quality bike and pedestrian pathways in 2010 in Guangzhou (the provincial capital) has laid the groundwork for even more ambitious plans. The city plans improve greenway coverage and connectivity ...
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  • Best Practices in Marketing and Branding BRT

    This week EMBARQ released a new report entitled “From Here to There: A Creative Guide to Making Public Transport the Way to Go.” According to EMBARQ the report “encourages cities and transit agencies to think critically and creatively about how to make public transport the preferred way to travel.” Distinctive marketing and branding are one of ...
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  • New Book Celebrates Cycling in Mexico City

    New Book Celebrates Cycling in Mexico City
    ITDP recently assisted Mexico City’s local bicycle advocacy group, Bicitekas, in creating a new page book that showcases the stories of 41 urban cyclists between the ages of 9 and 75. According to Ruth Pérez López, the book’s editor, the stories were collected from people from a wide range of professions and neighborhoods in Mexico ...
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  • Biking in Buenos Aires

    Buenos Aires is making it easier to ride a bicycle, with new lanes and an expansion of the city’s bike share system. The city has installed 60 km (37 miles) of new bike lanes in the busiest parts of the city, they aim to have 100 km total installed by the end of this year. The ...
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  • Pune BRT: Recreating a Vision

    Pune BRT: Recreating a Vision
    Pune, cultural capital of Maharashtra, has begun to develop a new, robust public transport system in the form of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT). The Pune metropolitan region is comprised of two municipal corporations—Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad—with a population of over five million. The twin cities face a daunting challenge: how to preserve sustainable and equitable mobility ...
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  • Bicycle Sharing Expands in Mexico City

    Bicycle Sharing Expands in Mexico City
    Mexico City’s government is planning to broadly expand ECOBICI, the city’s bicycle-sharing system, which has proved extremely popular during its first year. ECOBICI was launched in February 2010 in six central neighborhoods around the Reforma and Insurgentes corridors, which account for 40% of the city’s daily work trips. ECOBICI makes intermodal connections with the city’s ...
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  • The National Autonomous University of México Celebrates its 100th Birthday With a Bike Rally

    The National Autonomous University of México Celebrates its 100th Birthday With a Bike Rally
    This spring ITDP Mexico and UNAM co-sponsored a bike rally that brought together academics and students to celebrate the 100th birthday of this famous Mexican university. At the rally, the Dean of UNAM, Jose Narro Robles, spoke about his university’s continued commitment to promoting the use of more sustainable and equitable transport systems, and reducing private ...
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  • A Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020

    A Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020
    With nearly 1.4 million people killed each year, road traffic fatalities are a major international public health and development crisis.  This week marks the launch of the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020, a global effort led by the United Nations and the World Health Organization to save 5 million lives over a ten year period. Given the higher density ...
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