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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 MoreNota Técnica – Proyecto de movilidad ciclista en Calzada Independencia, Guadalajara
May 8, 2008
El presente documento se elabora con base en lo conversado en la reunión del 8 de mayo del presente, entre funcionarios de la Dirección de Planeación, Dirección de Obras Públicas y la Dirección de Vinculación Política del Municipio de Guadalajara; OCOIT, CEIT, SEDEUR del Gobierno del Estado de Jalisco; la empresa proyectista; el Colectivo Ecologista Jalisco y el ITDP. El ...Read MoreWhen an elite minority manipulates
May 5, 2008
I drove to Islamabad the other day. The first thing that I noticed were the brand new avenues that cut through the city. As I drove up Agha Shahi Avenue, I noticed the high-quality construction work on the road. The next thing I noticed were the large number of people trying to cross the avenue ...Read MoreWalter Hook’s Interview on the WNYC Brian Lehrer Show (10.7 MB)
May 2, 2008
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May 1, 2008
It’s one of the most controversial infrastructure projects in the country but for all those who said that the Delhi Bus Corridor system was an out and out failure, here is a reality check. A poll conducted by NDTV shows that there is a sharp divide in opinion on the success of the project between those ...Read MoreRecomendaciones para áreas de resguardo de bicicletas en estaciones de trolebús en Eje Central
April 30, 2008
El diseño, ubicación y funcionamiento debe ser congruente con el resto de la red. El diseño debe ser el mismo que el que se está impulsando en otros proyectos, específicamente el de la ciclovía Auditorio-Scotiabank: se debe promover la homogeneidad de la imagen en la Ciudad. La implantación de un sistema público de bicicletas compartidas en la Ciudad estará íntimamente ...Read MoreAMC in learning mode after Delhi BRTS problems
April 29, 2008
Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation has decided to study the fall out of the Delhi Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) project after plethora of problems associated with Delhi project. Municipal Commissioner I P Gautam said that a three member committee has been appointed to study the Delhi project. He, however, does not want to dub this committee as ...Read MoreAfter BRT fiasco in Delhi, AMC treads cautiously on corridor
April 29, 2008
The bus rapid transit system (BRTS) had promised to change the face of Delhi for the better, but when the corridor was made operational it caused major traffic chaos in the southern part of the national capital. The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation has pressed the panic button and decided to learn lessons from it before implementing ...Read MoreHow Paris is Beating Traffic Without Congestion Pricing
April 22, 2008
Biking by the Seine during car-free hours on the Georges Pompidou Expressway. The mayor of a global metropolis, elected to his first term in 2001, set out to reduce driving and promote greener modes of transportation in his city. Congestion pricing turned out to be unfeasible, because influential political forces in the suburbs believed, rightly or ...Read MoreBuses Bloom in the Bronx (and Beyond)
April 21, 2008
Bx12 Select buses greeted attendees of the “Buses in the Boroughs” symposium Tuesday morning. With spring colors and fragrance in full bloom at the New York Botanical Garden Tuesday morning, TSTC along with Transportation Alternatives, the Straphangers Campaign, and the Pratt Center for Community Development hosted a symposium on bus rapid transit to showcase how this ...Read MoreA Transit Miracle on 34th Street
April 17, 2008
NYC DOT is proposing to turn Manhattan’s 34th Street into a river-to-river “transitway.” In what she half-jokingly called “probably the first-ever co-presentation” between their two agencies, Department of Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan stood with New York City Transit President Howard Roberts earlier this week to unveil the city’s current Bus Rapid Transit program in its entirety—including ...Read More