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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 Executive Director Walter Hook on Las Vegas BRT
March 10, 2010
Walter Hook, Executive Director of the Insitute for Transportation and Development Policy, was interviewed for an article on a new bus rapid transit system opening in Las Vegas, Nevada. “Where the Rubber Meets the Road,” compares bus rapid transit to light rail and examines the benefits bus rapid transit will bring to the city of ...Read MoreITDP Founder Michael Replogle at IBM’s Smarter Transportation Forum
March 9, 2010
IBM invited ITDP Founder and Global Policy Director to speak at the Smarter Transportation forum at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C., to examine society’s need for updated transportation infrastructures on February 25, 2010. Watch the video below. Prominent leaders from government, academia and industry discussed powerful strategies and solutions to dramatically improve our ...Read MoreITDP on BRT in Buenos Aires
March 8, 2010
Andrés Fingeret, Argentina Country Director for the Institute for Transportation & Development Policy, answers some questions and explains the current status of bus rapid transit in Buenos Aires for the environmentally-focused Latin American blog, TuVerde.com. Click here to read the interview. Construction of the system stations will begin on the first corridor in just a couple of months ...Read MoreGuangzhou Opens Asia’s Highest Capacity BRT System
March 5, 2010
by Claudia Gunter, ITDP The city of Guangzhou, China, officially opened the 22.5-kilometer Guangzhou bus rapid transit system, known as GBRT, on February 21, after a ten-day test run over the Chinese New Year holiday period. The GBRT is a system of firsts: it is the first BRT to directly connect to a metro system, the ...Read MoreSaving Lives by Calming Traffic in Rio de Janeiro
March 4, 2010
By Jonas Hagen Update: Read Transporte Ativo’s blog post on Michael King’s visit here. Every pedestrian killed by motor vehicles on city streets is a result of policy decisions that favor vehicle speed over pedestrian safety. This was the message that Michael King brought to Rio de Janeiro, who led field visits and during the week of 22 ...Read MoreMexico City Launches Latin America’s Largest Public Bike-Sharing Program
February 26, 2010
by Ana Peñalosa After a year of planning, Mexico City launched its first public bike system, called Ecobici, on February 16. The system, which features 1,114 bikes and 85 stations, is part of the new Bicycle Mobility Strategy of Mexico City, which seeks to raise the number of cyclists in the city from one percent to ...Read MoreBRT Planning Guide Available in Spanish
February 25, 2010
ITDP’s Bus Rapid Transit Planning Guide is now available in Spanish. The culmination of over five years of efforts to document and improve the state of the art in cost-effective public transport solutions for cities, the BRT Guide is also available in English and in Chinese. The current edition, expanded to over 800 pages, includes contributions from a wide range of ...Read MoreU.S. Parking Policies: An Overview of Management Strategies
February 23, 2010
U.S. Parking Policies: An Overview of Management Strategies” highlights best practices in parking management in the United States. In the last decade, some municipalities have reconsidered poorly conceived parking policies to address a host of negative impacts resulting from private automobile use such as traffic congestion and climate change. Unchecked, these policies have proven to be a major barrier to ...Read MoreITDP Report Finds Greener, Cheaper Alternatives to “Free” Parking
February 23, 2010
Press Contact: Claudia Gunter, Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (646) 839-6479, cgunter@itdp.org New Report Finds Greener, Cheaper Alternatives to “Free” Parking Report Examines High Costs of Parking, Offers Sustainable, Better Practice, Alternatives for U.S. Policy Makers New York, NY, February 23, 2010—Ninety-nine percent of all U.S. driving trips end in a free parking space, but when the economic and ...Read MoreEnrique Peñalosa at Rio de Janeiro’s Climate Change Action Plan Launch
February 22, 2010
Enrique Peñalosa, former mayor of Bogotá, Colombia, and ITDP Board President, participated in the launch of Rio de Janeiro’s Climate Change Action Plan on July 27, 2009. That plan envisions an 8 % reduction in greenhouse gases by 2012, a 16 % reduction by 2014, and a 20 % reduction by 2020. Mr. Peñalosa told ...Read More