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[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 MoreDar Rapid Transit Project Awaited Anxiously (Dar es Salaam)
April 3, 2009
To the residents of Dar City, the news that the Rapid Transit project will be operational by November next year is welcome indeed. The BRT project is welcome news because the majority of Dar es Salaam public and industrial workers travel to their work places by buses. At peak hours, the motorized traffic is extremely slow haunted ...Read MoreITDP Indonesia Letter to the Editor in Jakarta Post
April 2, 2009
First, many thanks to The Jakarta Post for its enduring support of the Transjakarta Busway network. Its articles have become an instrumental in informing both international and domestic readers as to Transjakarta’s development. In your Tuesday, March 24 article titled “Transjakarta urged to run corridor 9, 10,” on paragraph 9, it was written that, “Damantoro, from ...Read MoreUDM And IFP Worried For Taxi Industry
April 1, 2009
Taxi drivers are a large voting constituency and the issue of an inefficient public transport system riles voters in South Africa. Little wonder then that two political parties have come out saying they share the concerns of the taxi industry. The United Democratic Movement (UDM) said it is opposed to the imposition of ANC ideas that are ...Read MoreBicycle Ambulances Ease Plight of Rural Communities (Namibia)
March 31, 2009
WINDHOEK – Bicycle Empowerment Network (BEN) Namibia has enlarged the territory for bicycle ambulances to neighbouring countries. This has opened up a market for the bicycle ambulances, which calls for its local manufacture, according to BEN Namibia Managing Director, Michael Linke. BEN Namibia has had a lot of interest from other countries looking for the designs ...Read MorePune’s Traffic Woes, Infrastructure Will Be Top Priority
March 31, 2009
PUNE: Resolving the city’s traffic and transportation problems will be top priority for next two years with main focus on implementation of the metro rail project, MP Suresh Kalmadi said on Monday. Kalmadi visited The Times of India office on Monday and shared his views on the forthcoming elections and the city’s infrastructure development plan. “We are trying ...Read MoreCyclists in City Ask For More Pedal (India)
March 29, 2009
MUMBAI: Why are bicycles, which don’t pollute, take up little space, are cheap and have virtually no maintenance cost, not a popular mode of travel in Mumbai? According to activists and cycling enthusiasts, the reasons are a mindset that favours motorised vehicles and a lack of infrastructure to promote cycling in the city. These were the two ...Read MoreNational Taxi Council to Be Probed (South Africa)
March 28, 2009
The Department of Transport will probe the allocation of R2 million given to the South African National Taxi Council (Santaco) the Saturday Star reported today. The department gave the council the funds in order to host national road shows to explain the Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) system to it’s members. According to the report, this was based ...Read MoreTalks on IRT Run Into a Brick Wall (Cape Town)
March 27, 2009
A communication breakdown between the City of Cape Town and the South African National Taxi Council (Santaco) has crippled the consultation process around the Integrated Rapid Transport (IRT) system, with both parties admitting that talks may have run into a brick wall. Santaco said it was not consulted during the formulation of the project and that ...Read MoreBus Supplier Lowers its 2009 Sales Forecast as BRT Tenders Run Late in South Africa
March 27, 2009
Mercedes-Benz South Africa (MBSA) bus and coach divisional manager Jan Aichinger has lowered his forecast for the 2009 bus market from the 3 000 units he expected last year, to between 1 700 and 2 000 units. “The tenders for the various bus rapid transit (BRT) systems and government’s 2010 FIFA World Cup tender are running ...Read More‘Taxis’ Spark Road Rage in South Africa
March 26, 2009
Reporting from Johannesburg, South Africa—“Suddenly a pair of bright headlights appeared around a corner. It was a taxi speeding directly towards us, on our side of the road.” Michelle Strydom, on the Facebook group Genoeg is Genoeg (Enough is Enough, in Afrikaans) “He collided with us head-on with such force that it shot his windscreen and ...Read More