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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 MoreWith MobiliCAMPUS, ITDP Brazil Builds the Next Generation of City Leaders
September 18, 2019
With MobiliCAMPUS, ITDP Brazil Builds the Next Generation of City LeadersRead MoreUrban Freight Will Keep Growing, but it Doesn’t Have to Look Like This
September 13, 2019
As customers of online retailers continue to purchase everything from groceries to furniture online, delivery services show no sign of abating. Is it time for freight to change? Last week, The New York Times published a devastating look at one of the ways that Amazon’s delivery practices are making our streets more dangerous places, especially for ...Read MoreWhat is the Opposite of Broken Windows?
August 20, 2019
Fortaleza, a city of 3 million in Brazil’s northeast coast, and like many other Brazilian cities, had been plagued by staggering rates of traffic fatalities. Today, the city is hailed as a best practice, having reduced traffic related injuries and deaths by a 40 percent, along with a significant increase in bikes and public transport ...Read MoreIn 2018, China’s Transit Boom Subsides, Scaling Back Growth Worldwide
July 26, 2019
In 2018, China’s Transit Boom Subsides, Scaling Back Growth WorldwideRead MoreLearning from Each Other in Fortaleza
July 18, 2019
___________ 225 Transport and Development Experts from 48 Cities in 21 Countries gathered in Fortaleza, Brazil to celebrate, study, and work to replicate the city’s high impact, low cost interventions at the 2019 MOBILIZE summit. ___________ Mayors and city officials discussed the cost of re-humanizing cities in Fortaleza, Minneapolis, and Bogotá. The panelists discussed the challenges of building ...Read MoreTransjakarta: A Study in Success
July 15, 2019
Transjakarta: A Study in SuccessRead MoreOn Mexico City’s Buses, a Little Technology Goes a Long Way
July 6, 2019
By Santiago Fernández Reyes & Gonzalo Peón Carballo, ITDP Mexico (see in Full Report in Spanish here) Over eight million people rely on public transport in the Mexico City Metropolitan Area (MCMA). Many daily commuters travel two hours each way under conditions that are generally unsafe. In 2016, there were 3,667 traffic collisions involving public transport ...Read MorePune, India Wins 2020 Sustainable Transport Award
June 27, 2019
Pune, India is a city with a population of over 3.5 million people in the central northwest state of Maharashtra located a few hours by bus from Mumbai. It is a rapidly developing city with a growing, robust economy, and fortunately, an ambitious plan to improve mobility. For years, Pune has been moving closer to ...Read MoreMOBILIZE: Fortaleza Welcomes Hundreds of Transport Experts
June 24, 2019
225 experts from 48 cities in 21 countries attended MOBILIZE Fortaleza Fortaleza (June 24, 2019) – Fortaleza, a coastal city of 2.6 million in the state of Ceará, has achieved something that cities around the world envy: a massive drop in road fatalities. That alone is an achievement, but what makes it even more impressive, is ...Read MorePreparing Cities for the Future: An Interview with MOBILIZE Keynote Speaker, Gil Peñalosa
June 20, 2019
Gil is the founder and chair of the internationally recognized Canadian non-profit organization 8 80 Cities. He is also first Ambassador of World Urban Parks. He holds an MBA from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management, where he recently was selected as one of the “100 Most Inspirational Alumni” in the school’s history. In 2015 Gil ...Read More