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  • [WEBINAR] Indicators For Sustainable Mobility

    [WEBINAR] Indicators For Sustainable Mobility
    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 ...
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  • ITDP Announces New CEO Heather Thompson

    ITDP Announces New CEO Heather Thompson
    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 ...
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  • Bus Rapid Transit Nearly Quadruples Over Ten Years

    Bus Rapid Transit Nearly Quadruples Over Ten Years
    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 ...
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  • ITDP Releases New Study on Climate Change Ahead of UN Climate Summit

    ITDP Releases New Study on Climate Change Ahead of UN Climate Summit
    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 ...
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  • ecoParq

    ecoParq
    EcoParq é um sistema de parquímetros na Cidade do México, cuja primeira aplicação piloto foi no bairro de Polanco, em 2012. O sistema usa parquímetros multivagas para regular e precificar as vagas de estacionamento, substituindo o sistema informal que é comum no México e na América Latina. A intenção do ecoParq é acalmar o movimento nas ruas ao organizar ...
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  • Urban Mobility Plans: National Approaches and Local Practice

    Urban Mobility Plans: National Approaches and Local Practice
    The document reviews approaches for Urban Mobility Plans (UMP) from various countries and showcases a growing number of examples calling for a shift away from the traditional, infrastructure-oriented approach towards sustainable and people-oriented planning. Urban Mobility Plans are used as planning tool and policy instrument to guide the development of transport in urban areas and ...
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  • Almaty, Kazakhstan Explores the Benefits of TOD

    Almaty, Kazakhstan Explores the Benefits of TOD
    With transit-oriented development (TOD) catching on around the world, more and more cities are making an effort to combine transit planning and urban development. Among the cities looking to TOD as a solution is Almaty, Kazakhstan. As one of the biggest cities in Central Asia, Almaty is facing rapid motorization and increased urban sprawl. In ...
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  • Ferramenta de avaliação de inserção urbana

    Ferramenta de avaliação de inserção urbana
     A Ferramenta de Avaliação de Inserção Urbana foi desenvolvida para avaliar empreendimentos habitacionais do Programa Minha Casa Minha Vida (Faixa 1) do ponto de vista urbanístico, antes de serem aprovados e construídos. Seu objetivo é oferecer parâmetros objetivos para a avaliação da localização, integração com o entorno e desenho urbano dos empreendimentos, a fim de serem utilizados tanto pelas equipes técnicas de aprovação ...
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  • Chennai Adopts NMT Policy: A Quantum Leap Towards Safer Streets

    Chennai Adopts NMT Policy: A Quantum Leap Towards Safer Streets
    By Aswathy Dilip, ITDP India   Chennai is witnessing a transformation. Chennai Corporation (as the city government is known) is reclaiming precious road space from chaotic traffic, unregulated parking, and haphazardly placed utilities to create wide, continuous, and accessible footpaths—prioritizing people over cars. This radical approach of designing streets is a part of the Corporation’s initiative ...
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  • Taking Sustainable Transport to Scale: An Intermediary Approach

    Taking Sustainable Transport to Scale: An Intermediary Approach
    The Global Environmental Facility (GEF), a partnership for international cooperation where 183 countries work together with international institutions, civil society organizations and the private sector, to address global environmental issues, is on the verge of adopting a new pilot program that has promise to scale up sustainable transportation faster and more effectively. Since 1991, the GEF has ...
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  • Park it Right!

    Park it Right!
    In most Indian cities, parked vehicles dominate the public realm by consuming more and more of our cherished parks, plazas, streets and common spaces. Each parking space consumes from 15m2 to 30m2 , and the average motorist uses two to five different parking spaces every day. Hence, many cities are questioning the current parking policy ...
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  • BRT Standard Builds Momentum with Three New Endorsers

    BRT Standard Builds Momentum with Three New Endorsers
    At a recent meeting of the BRT Standard Institutional Endorsers, the Barr Foundation, UN Environment Programme (UNEP), and UN Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) signed on to the 2014 BRT Standard‘s vision of high-quality BRT. The BRT Standard establishes a common definition of what constitutes true BRT, allowing high quality systems to be recognized for the ...
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  • Paving the Way for Smart Cities in India

    Paving the Way for Smart Cities in India
    Adapted from an article by Christopher Kost and Jaya Bharathi Bathmaraj, from ITDP’s office in Chennai The growing traffic problems in Indian cities call for urgent and effective remedies. Yet old-school “solutions” such as flyovers, wider roads, and elevated expressways actually make matters worse. Such infrastructure may provide a short-term illusion of relief from traffic woes, ...
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  • Spreading the News: How Good Communication Builds a Great BRT

    Spreading the News: How Good Communication Builds a Great BRT
    On top of a shopping center overlooking Yiling Park in the center of Yichang, China, is a nearly 100 meter long by 10 meter high screen announcing the city’s coming BRT system. Impossible to miss, the sign keeps the benefits of the corridor front and center. The billboard is just one of the ways that ...
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