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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 MoreOptimizing Dockless Bikeshare for Cities
May 11, 2018
New technologies and innovative business models continue to transform the bikeshare landscape. Some of this has been Dockless bikeshare has already had some positive impacts, such as replacing an estimated 10% of car trips in Shenzhen, China, and increased the visibility and ubiquitousness of urban cycling in dozens of cities worldwide. Private dockless bicycle companies ...Read MoreCreating Space for Pedestrians and Cyclists in Zambian Cities
May 10, 2018
Zambia, a landlocked country in southern Africa, is home to over 16 million people. It is one of the most urbanized countries in Africa, with 44 percent of the population concentrated around a few major cities in the south-central and northwest of the country: Lusaka, the capital, and the Copperbelt Province, a major economic hub. ITDP ...Read More[WEBINAR] BRT Planning 401: Infrastructure and Design
May 4, 2018
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Tuesday, May 15, 2018 8am EST Webinar Recording YouTube Link Presentation Slides BRT Planning 401: Infrastructure and Design About the Webinar In this fourth installment of the BRT Planning Guide webinar series, author Andre Frieslaar will present on “Volume 6: Infrastructure”. In this webinar, attendees will be introduced to the various components that make up the family of BRT infrastructure. These include ...Read More#MyDressMyChoice: How Women Fought Harassment in Kenya
May 2, 2018
On July 19, 2017, a court in Nairobi, Kenya, sentenced three men to life in prison for stripping, robbing, and violently sexually assaulting a female commuter on a public bus. The incident, which took place in 2014, rose to national attention because the men were bold enough to film themselves and post the video online. ...Read MoreIn India, the City of Pune is Making Space for Transit and People
May 2, 2018
Pune is a flourishing green city of 6.5 million people in the western state of Maharashtra, a few hours from Mumbai. Since 2007, the city has set ambitious goals for a sustainable future, and 10 years out, there are big on-the-ground changes. In 2016, Pune was selected as one of 20 “Lighthouse Cities” under the ...Read MoreWhy Gender Matters
April 18, 2018
The following is an edited version of a live talk given by ITDP Brazil Country Director Clarisse Cunha Linke at the Velo-city global cycling summit in Arnhem-Nijmegen, the Netherlands, in June 2017. I saw more pregnant and elderly women on bikes in Holland in five days than I had seen in my entire life. At that ...Read MoreGetting TOD Right in Guadalajara
April 18, 2018
by Onésimo Flores Dewey and Santiago Fernández Reyes The Mexican City of Guadalajara has built subway lines before, but the line currently under construction is significantly different. This time, the city has a strategy to leverage investments in transit to repopulate the city’s core and promote multimodality. The new subway runs underground Avenida Alcalde, a historic ...Read More[WEBINAR] Freight and Environmental Justice
April 17, 2018
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Webinar Recording YouTube Link Presentation Slides Freight and Environmental Justice About the Webinar The movement of goods is essential to urban life, but also generates many problems. Trucks emit pollution and noise; warehouses and intermodal facilities attract concentrations of trucks and trains. Research shows that poor and minority populations are more impacted by freight-related pollution. At the same time, poor ...Read More[WEBINAR] Optimizing Dockless Bikeshare for Cities
March 29, 2018
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About the Webinar With the arrival of private dockless companies that claim to provide bikeshare profitably (that is, without subsidy), the potential of bikeshare as a viable and rapidly scalable transportation option is being realized in cities around the world and barriers to urban cycling are diminishing. However, unregulated dockless bikeshare systems have generated negative outcomes, ...Read More[WEBINAR] Pedestrians First: Tools For a Walkable City
March 28, 2018
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Webinar Video Webinar Presentation Pedestrians First Presentation Slides About the Webinar This webinar highlighted Pedestrians First, ITDP’s newest tool for measuring walkability. The tool, which draws on the expertise from our field staff around the world, measures walkability at three scales and can be used in any city in the world. Since walking is a part of almost every trip ...Read More