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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 More“I’ll Call Army on Taxis” – Zille
March 10, 2009
TAXI operators today warned that another strike was imminent, after a threat from Cape Town Mayor Helen Zille to call in the army to clamp down on taxi associations that threatened to sow chaos on the city’s road. News of another planned strike was disclosed ahead of the National Taxi Association (NTA) meeting which was scheduled ...Read MorePedal the Planet to Safety, Say Bikers
March 9, 2009
About 60 cycling enthusiasts spent their Sunday morning exploring the heritage buildings in Lutyens’ Delhi on bicycles. The twin objectives—heritage & history and health—both of body and planet—were achieved as part of the ‘Heritage Cycling Ride’ organised by the Delhi Cycling Club. The motley group included IT sector’s workaholic young professionals, never-without-my-car company executives, short-of-time businessmen, ...Read MoreCycling Through The Heritage and History of Delhi
March 9, 2009
NEW DELHI: A heritage cycling ride was organised in the heart of the Capital by Delhi Cycling Club on Sunday. The event was supported by Open Planning Project and Institute for Transportation and Development Policy. The aim of the ride was to promote bicycle as a green, healthy and most sustainable mode of transport and help ...Read MoreBike Summit Keynotes: Change Can Only Come with Inspired Leaders (in Los Angeles)
March 9, 2009
Four very different speakers, with different backgrounds and from three different cities, traveled to Los Angeles to inspire local cyclists to bring change to our streets. While each of these leaders told different stories and had different experiences, each had a common theme: to see the change we want, we need an educated and inspired ...Read MoreNew Delhi to Cycle its Way to a Green Environment
March 7, 2009
New Delhi (Xinhua):Promoting bicycle as a green and healthy mode of transport, leaving their cars behind, New Delhi residents will, for the fourth consecutive year, be all set on a Heritage Cycling Ride on Sunday morning. The event, sponsored by Delhi Cycling Club, was started in October 2006 by Institution for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP), ...Read MoreTransJakarta Passengers Demand More Buses For Corridor 8
March 7, 2009
Passengers of the Transjakarta busway’s corridor 8, linking Lebak Bulus in South Jakarta to Harmoni in Central Jakarta, have urged the operator to procure more buses to cut down on waiting times. Tarmizi, a busway commuter, said he often had to wait very long for the bus during rush hour. “It’d be great if the operator increased ...Read MoreBRT, Rail, and NYC: A Conversation With Walter Hook (Part 4)
February 27, 2009
Streetsblog: What are the options for configuring BRT on First and Second Avenue? If a three-lane configuration is not politically feasible, what else might we end up with? Walter Hook: It would take a lot of political courage to take three lanes out of First and Second Avenue exclusively for buses, but the current plan, de facto, also ...Read MoreFinal Statement from 4th Regional Environmentally Sustainable Transport (EST) Forum in Seoul, Korea
February 27, 2009
The participants, having met in Seoul, the Republic of Korea from 24 to 26 February 2009, for the Fourth Regional EST Forum, to draw up and adopt a statement for the promotion of environmentally sustainable transport in Asia, Noting that Asia is experiencing the fastest economic growth and by mid of this century, and at the current growth rate there ...Read MoreBRT, Rail, and NYC: A Conversation With Walter Hook (Part 3)
February 26, 2009
Streetsblog: What would you say are the defining characteristics of a real BRT-level system? Walter Hook: To be called BRT, a line must be a package of physical and operational components (stations, vehicles, running ways, passenger information, services, fare collection, traffic signal priority and other Intelligent Transportation System applications) that form a permanently integrated, customer-friendly, high performance system ...Read MoreBRT, Rail, and NYC: A Conversation With Walter Hook (Part 2)
February 25, 2009
Streetsblog: What’s your evaluation of the SBS pilot route on Fordham Road? Does it qualify as BRT? Walter Hook: The Fordham Road “Select Bus Service” pilot route was a very successful bus service enhancement—including a number of BRT elements. The city is not calling it “BRT,” though, and I think that is reasonable. A rule of thumb should ...Read More