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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 MoreGuangzhou BRT and ITDP in the New York Times
July 21, 2010
The recently opened Guangzhou bus rapid transit (BRT) system was featured in the New York Times, with comment from Karl Fjellstrom, Vice Director who runs the ITDP China headquarters based in Guangzhou, China. Reporter Saquib Rahim asks, “As the world hurtles toward 2 billion cars, an increasingly important issue for the climate will be this: How will ...Read MoreNew Video Debuts on ITDP’s Work Worldwide
July 21, 2010
A new video on the work of the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy’s international projects debuted online. The video features projects ITDP has worked on in Guangzhou, China; Johannesburg, South Africa; and Mexico City. Watch the video below or watch it here.Read MoreOur Cities Ourselves Featured on WNYC
June 14, 2010
ITDP’s Our Cities Ourselves program was recently featured on WNYC radio. The piece examines architect Michael Sorkin’s proposal for lower Manhattan at the site of the Brooklyn Bridge anchorage. Our Cities Ourselves opens Thursday, June 24 at AIA Center for Architecture in New York. The exhibition asks architects from ten cities – New York, Rio de ...Read MoreITDP Testfies in Support of National Infrastructure Fund
May 16, 2010
ITDP’s global policy director and founder, Michael Replogle, joined Pennsylvania Governor Rendell, Los Angeles Mayor Villaraigosa, and Representatives DeLauro (D-CT), DeFazio (D-OR), and Lipinski (D-IL), in testifying before a U.S. House Ways and Means subcommittee hearing on infrastructure banks on May 13, 2010. Creating a National Infrastructure Bank, as proposed in H.R.2421, or a National ...Read MoreSave the Date: ITDP Anniversary Benefit
May 11, 2010
Join the Institute for Transportation & Development Policy in celebrating its 25th anniversary and the opening of Our Cities Ourselves: The Future of Transportation in Urban Life. In celebration of its 25th anniversary, the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy has launched Our Cities Ourselves: The Future of Transportation in Urban Life, a cutting-edge campaign that puts forward ...Read MoreTestimony Before the Select Revenue Measures Subcommittee, U.S. House of Representatives
May 10, 2010
Testimony of Michael A. Replogle Global Policy Director and Founder, Institute for Transportation and Development Policy May 13, 2010 Before the Select Revenue Measures Subcommittee Committee on Ways and Means U.S. House of RepresentativesRead MoreITDP Marks 25th Anniversary with Global Campaign
May 6, 2010
In celebration of its 25th anniversary, the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy has launched Our Cities Ourselves: The Future of Transportation in Urban Life. Our Cities Ourselves showcases the transformative potential of designing our streets and our cities around the needs of people rather than around the needs of private cars. Ten of the world’s leading architects show ...Read MoreSustainable Mobility Moves Ahead in Belo Horizonte
May 6, 2010
By Jonas Hagen Belo Horizonte is poised to become Latin America’s next transport success story. With a mayor who has made BRT a top priority, a highly competent technical staff, and strategic support from ITDP, the city’s 2.5 million inhabitants (the sixth largest city and the third largest metropolitan region in Brazil) are likely to see ...Read MoreNew DOT Report to Congress is Important Roadmap to Cut Global Warming Pollution
April 22, 2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Claudia Gunter, ITDP: 212-629-8001, cgunter@itdp.org; Sean Crowley, EDF: 202-572-3331, scrowley@edf.org New DOT Report to Congress is Important Roadmap to Cut Global Warming Pollution, Say Environmental and Transportation Groups (Washington, DC—April 22, 2010) Environmental and transportation groups praised a just-released U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) report to Congress for laying out a new road map to curb ...Read MoreITDP Mexico Questions City’s Plan for New Urban Highways
April 20, 2010
by Ana Penalosa, ITDP Mexico On April 9, 2010, Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard announced the construction of two new urban highways within the next two years. In response, ITDP Mexico Country Director Bernardo Baranda has openly declared that the planned road project is not the solution to the mobility problems that the city faces. “The construction ...Read More