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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 MoreITDP Receives Highest Rating from Charity Navigator for Seventh Year Running
April 27, 2015
Seven years in a row and counting. That’s how long ITDP has been awarded four out of four stars by Charity Navigator, the country’s largest and most-used charity evaluator, putting us in the top 2% of all charities evaluated. ITDP earned a score of 96.57 out of 100, an increase from last year’s rating. A four star ...Read MoreTransit-anchored Transformation Afoot in Vientiane, Laos
April 22, 2015
Vientiane, the capital of Lao PDR, has emerged as an influential city in Southeast Asia and one that can serve as a demonstration and inspiration for other cities. Faced with rapidly increasing motorization that threatens the appeal and functioning of the city officials and stakeholders are seeking urgent measures to improve transit, walking, and cycling ...Read MorePlanMob – Caderno de Referência para Elaboração de Plano de Mobilidade Urbana
April 20, 2015
Já está disponível para download o novo Caderno de Referência para Elaboração de Plano de Mobilidade Urbana (PlanMob). O documento tem por objetivo auxiliar as cidades na elaboração de seus planos de mobilidade. Inicialmente publicado em 2007, o caderno passou por uma cuidadosa revisão técnica do Ministério das Cidades e instituições parceiras, dentre elas o ITDP Brasil, incorporando na versão ...Read MorePlans for Karachi, Pakistan’s Red Line BRT Move Forward
April 20, 2015
Plans for Karachi’s Red Line BRT passed a new landmark recently, as the Sindh Government decided to move forward with the BRT Project and announced a timeline. The decision came after a visit from ITDP staff , as well as former Bogotá mayor and ITDP Board President, Enrique Peñalosa. Planned by ITDP with support from ...Read MoreTracking Transit in Kampala, Uganda
April 13, 2015
During the month of March, ITDP Africa was busy in Kampala, Uganda, working with a team of local university students to build the first ever map of the city’s matatu minibus routes. As in many African cities, Kampala’s matatus follow inconsistent routes, a fact which undermines reliability for passengers and prevents advanced planning around them. ...Read MoreTwo Years In — How Are the World’s Multilateral Development Banks Doing in Delivering on their $175 Billion Pledge for More Sustainable Transport?
April 10, 2015
by Michael Replogle, Managing Director for Policy and Founder, ITDP, and Cornie Huizenga, Secretary General of the Partnership on Sustainable Low Carbon Transport, both observers to the Technical Working Group of MDB Working Group on Sustainable Transport In June 2012 the eight largest multilateral development banks (MDBs) made a voluntary commitment to invest $175 billion over the coming decade ...Read MoreQue mobilidade queremos para nossa cidade?
April 6, 2015
No dia 14 de março de 2015, um grupo de representantes da sociedade civil se reuniu para promover um primeiro momento de reflexão sobre o Plano de Mobilidade Urbana Sustentável (PMUS) da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro. Este grupo discutiu e sistematizou temas centrais que devem ser contemplados no PMUS com o objetivo de melhorar ...Read MoreMenos Cajones Mas Ciudad
April 1, 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJyl0f5y7kc Hoy se construyen más espacios de estacionamientos que oficinas y viviendas en las ciudades mexicanas. Esto se refleja en la mala calidad de vida de sus ciudadanos. Ya que más cajones incentivan más viajes en auto. Además los grandes estacionamientos ocupan lugares donde podría haber parques, comercio, vivienda o servicios. La solución es que las ...Read MoreGuangzhou Exhibition Celebrates Five Years of BRT
April 1, 2015
Spring Festival, also known as Chinese New Year, marked the fifth anniversary of the opening of the Gold Standard Guangzhou BRT. When it opened, the system revolutionized bus rapid transit with its high capacity and ‘direct service’ model. Five years later, the Guangzhou BRT continues to serve 850,000 passengers daily, integrates many additional transport improvements, and ...Read MoreIstanbul’s Metrobüs Awarded BRT Standard Silver Status by ITDP and EMBARQ Partnership
April 1, 2015
* This post originally appeared on Embarq.org and is reprinted here with permission. In 2007, Istanbul added the Metrobüs bus rapid transit (BRT) system to its multimodal transport network. Initially stretching 18.2 km between the city’s Avcılar and Topkapı districts, the BRT corridor has since tripled in length to 52 km and today carries more than ...Read More