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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 MoreMonorail Companies Pressing for Contracts in Asian Cities
April 1, 2005
In the last few months, monorail companies have been heavily marketing their projects in Indonesia, China, and India. There are two main monorail manufacturers pushing projects: Hitachi of Japan and MTrans Holding of Malaysia. New monorails were built recently in Chengdu, China, and in Kuala Lumpur. In India, MetRail of Switzerland and Fraser Nash of ...Read MoreWorld Bank Says Dhaka Rickshaw Ban Should Not Go Forward
April 1, 2005
The city was poised to expand the ban to cover a total of 120 km over the next several months. While the initial proposal for the ban came out of an urban transport strategy developed under the auspices of a World Bank urban transport loan for Dhaka, after questions were raised by NGOs, the World ...Read MorePre-Feasibility Study for Bus Rapid Transit in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
March 1, 2005
Hyderabad urgently needs to develop a mass transit system protected from its increasing traffic congestion. Mass transit is needed now on three central corridors, and will eventually be needed on at least nine corridors. Bus rapid transit (BRT), metro, and monorail technologies could all provide a system with sufficient capacity and speed to improve mass transit ridership in those ...Read MoreSeoul and Sustainable Transport: Leading by Example (Issue 17, 2005)
January 1, 2005
Letter from the Executive Director: You Don’t Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows • 2005 Sustainable Transport Award Recipient: Seoul, Korea • Tapping the Market for Quality Bicycles in Africa • BRT: Poised for Take-off in China • Pedestrianization in Yogyakarta: Transforming the Malioboro One Step at a Time • More ...Read MoreBRT’s Great Leap Forward
January 1, 2005
The Bus Rapid Transit phenom-enon continues to expand rapidly across the world. Jakarta opened a ground-breaking system in January of 2004 and new systems are soon to open in a dozen cities from Latin America to Asia. Many more are in the planning process, or committed to designing their own. Never has the donor community, ...Read MoreWhat to Do About Urban Highways: Lessons from Mexico City
January 1, 2005
It has been many decades since a new urban highway like Robert Moses’ notorious Cross Bronx Expressway has been built in the US or Europe. Highways that forcibly evicted tens of thousands of disenfranchised low income minorities and expose countless others to dangerous levels of air pollution and unsafe traffic are largely a thing of ...Read MoreITDP Transport and Health Care – Senegal
January 1, 2005
A report on current situation in the health sector of Senegal and possible roles for non-motorised transport interventions. This is a preliminary study investigating the medical and structural problems with rural health care in Senegal and exploring options for improving the system. While bicycles would address many of the community’s needs, specific environmental and cultural preconditions in ...Read MoreITDP Transport and Health Care – Ghana
January 1, 2005
Like in most countries of sub-saharan Africa, child mortality, maternal death and HIV/Aids are the main medical health problems in Ghana. Health problems are commonly bigger in rural areas, where nearly 60% of the countries population is living. The data, presented is from both statistical analysis and actual information given in the high level interviews. In view of ...Read MoreInstitutional and Regulatory Options for BRT in Developing Countries
January 1, 2005
An increasing number of cities are looking at Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) as a lower cost alternative to meeting their mass transit needs. Less fully explored, however, has been the link between BRT and the implementation of transit system regulatory reforms. In a growing number of cities around the world, the introduction of a BRT system has also ...Read MoreUsing Bicycles to Save Lives
January 1, 2005
Recent experience from ITDP’s Access Africa program and other projects shows that bicycles can play an important role in reaching health-related Millennium Development Goals and poverty reduction targets. Read the full story in Sustainable Transport #16.Vision Sisters, Working Sisters in Kenya use bicycles to care for the sick.Read More