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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 MoreBRT, Rail, and NYC: A Conversation With Walter Hook (Part 1)
February 24, 2009
Perhaps no one knows the ins and outs of BRT better than Walter Hook (right). As director of the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy, Hook has advised cities on four continents about BRT implementation, including Jakarta’s seven-corridor network, the first full-fledged BRT system in Asia. Streetsblog caught up with Hook—in between trips to Cape Town ...Read MoreEnrique Peñalosa Brings Inspiration to Boston
February 20, 2009
Streetfilms’ Robin Urban Smith hopped a bus to Boston to hear world renowned urban strategist and champion of the livable streets movement, Enrique Peñalosa speak at the Boston Public Library. According to our friends at the LivableStreets Alliance, who organized his four day visit, more than 1,000 Bostonians attended the various events planned in his ...Read MoreReports of Vélib’s Demise Greatly Exaggerated
February 12, 2009
If you’ve read this BBC story currently making the rounds, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Vélib, Paris’s wildly popular bike-share system, has suddenly been afflicted by an epidemic of theft and vandalism that threatens its very existence. Vélib bikes have been “torched,” strung up from lamp-posts, and smuggled across borders, the Beeb reports in alarmist tones. ...Read MoreVersão impressa do Manual de BRT disponível do Ministerio das Cidades (Brasil) [in Portuguese]
February 11, 2009
Se você esta no Brasil e quiser receber uma copia do Manual, basta preencher o formulário disponível no seguinte site do Ministério das Cidades: Manual de BRT: Guia de Planejamento A versão em lingua portuguesa do “Manual de BRT,” publicado pelo Ministerio das Cidades em cooperação com o ITDP, foi lançado dia 11 de Fevereiro 2009 no ...Read MoreEnrique Peñalosa: An Urban Innovator Draws A Crowd
February 9, 2009
These were the words that kicked off the lecture/presentation/self-help seminar by Enrique Peñalosa, former Mayor of Bogotá, Colombia, last Thursday night at the Boston Public Library. The quote was unattributed, but the idea of happiness formed the nucleus of Mr. Peñalosa’s philosophy of people-centered urbanism. Using photos and examples of projects in cities around the ...Read MoreImpressions Of Enrique Peñalosa Event in Boston Public Library
February 6, 2009
In what ended up being standing room only seating, Enrique Peñalosa gave a stirring speech last night at the Boston Public Library. Over the course of a three hour period he kept the large audience enraptured to hear about his philosophy on urban planning, and his stories of Bogota, and other cities and what they ...Read MoreIf Bogota Can Do It, Surely We Can
January 31, 2009
Till a few years ago, Bogota, the capital of Colombia (a Latin American country that has been the scene of much civil unrest for over half a century), and its nearly seven million inhabitants had a quality of life no better than that of large sections of the lower middle class and the poor in ...Read MoreMetrobus Project In Istanbul Wins A USA Award
January 30, 2009
The Metrobus project of the Istanbul administration authority was recently given an award during the presentation of the Sustainable Transport Awards in Washington D.C. This award is presented to projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve the quality of life in the inner areas of major cities worldwide. The Mercedes-Benz CapaCity impressively demonstrates the attractiveness ...Read MoreArquitectura y Urbanismo (in Spanish)
January 30, 2009
Moverse es uno de los temas que constituyen, estructuran y hablan del estado de las ciudades. En Guadalajara evidentemente cojeamos desde hace tiempo en asuntos de movilidad. Como ejemplo: el parque vehicular se duplicó en siete años, de 700 mil que había en 2000, para 2008 eran un millón 600 mil. La desproporcionada inversión en ...Read MoreMetrobus-Projekt Istanbul mit Amerikanischem Award Ausgezeichnet (in German)
January 30, 2009
(Stuttgart, Germany) – Das Metrobus-Projekt der Stadtverwaltung Istanbul wurde kürzlich bei der Verleihung des Sustainable Transport Awards in Washington D.C. mit einem Preis ausgezeichnet. Dieser Preis wird Projekten verliehen, die Treibhausgase reduzieren und die Lebensqualität in Innenstädten von großen Metropolen weltweit verbessern. In der Begründung hob die Jury hervor, dass Istanbul mit dem 2007 in Betrieb ...Read More