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[WEBINAR] Indicators For Sustainable Mobility
January 14, 2019
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 Celebrates Cleveland’s HealthLine as Best Practice for US BRT
April 18, 2013
On Tuesday, ITDP CEO Walter Hook and US Director Annie Weinstock presented awards to Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson and Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority Joe Calabrese in honor of the Cleveland HealthLine, which ITDP ranked as the highest-quality corridor in the US and Canada. The BRT Standard, a best-practice guide for bus rapid transit systems that ...Read MoreITDP to Improve Mobility Policy in Brazil with Support from Prosperity Fund UK
April 12, 2013
ITDP is excited to announce that ITDP Brazil has officially received funding from Prosperity Fund UK, the government of the United Kingdom’s fund to tackle climate change, strengthen energy security, and promote an open global economy in key emerging economies. ITDP Brazil has received a grant from the fund to carry out a two year nationwide ...Read MoreGauging Transportation Needs in Nashik, India
April 2, 2013
In early March, ITDP joined Clean Air Initiative-Asia to implement a rapid mobility assessment tool in Nashik, a city in western India about 150km northeast of Mumbai. The project, funded by UN-Habitat, seeks to create a quick and inexpensive way to gauge transportation needs in cities with little existing data. After reviewing existing data collection ...Read MoreVida e morte das rodovias urbanas
April 1, 2013
As cidades são para os seres humanos, enquanto as vias expressas servem para movimentar os veículos. As cidades são centros de cultura e comércio que dependem do investimento privado. O enorme investimento público em vias expressas, feito no último século, reduziu a capacidade das cidades para conectar as pessoas entre si e estimular a cultura e o comércio. Apesar deste estudo ser sobre as ...Read MoreGetting Parking Right in Jakarta’s Pasar Baru
March 25, 2013
In early 2013, the head of the Jakarta Transportation Agency announced that parking would be better managed in Pasar Baru—a popular, historic shopping area that draws hundreds of local and regional customers each week. Parking in Pasar Baru is everywhere: along curbsides, on sidewalks, perpendicular to streets and in scattered in setbacks. Motorbikes outpace private ...Read MoreTransit Oriented Development Workshop Posters
March 19, 2013
These posters were made for a workshop on Transit Oriented Development in India in March 2013, and are illustrations of ITDP’s Eight Principles for Transport in Urban Life. They include photos and descriptions of the various objectives and metrics of the eight principles, such as Walk, Cycle, Connect, and Transit. Download this poster series Source: ITDPRead MoreEverything is Everywhere: Land Use in India
March 12, 2013
Indian streets are a messy mix of people, cyclists, rickshaws, taxis, cars, buses, even the occasional cow. But within this mess is the vibrancy and fluidity of street life, like a tasty street soup where seemingly unlikely things come together and strange things might be bobbing around. Land use is India is similarly messy and ...Read MoreIntroducing The BRT Standard 2013
March 11, 2013
The Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) today released the first comprehensive BRT Standard, a defining and scoring designation for bus rapid transit (BRT) systems around the world. Similar to the LEED designation for green buildings, BRT corridors may achieve a basic BRT, bronze, silver or gold designation. As a joint effort by the world’s ...Read MoreTransit-Oriented Development in Pimpri Chinchwad
March 7, 2013
by C. Ranga Rohini, ITDP India With an urbanization rate of over 40 percent in the Indian state of Maharashtra, planning authorities and public transport operators face the increased responsibility of providing efficient transport systems while improving the quality of urban life. Pimpri Chinchwad, one of the state’s fastest growing cities, is set to open the ...Read MoreUN Recognizes New Action Network on Sustainable Transport
March 4, 2013
This week, the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) recognized the growing significance of sustainable transport as a key building block of sustainable development by designating a new Action Network on Sustainable Transport. This is ninth Action Network to be recognized by UN DESA. These are action-oriented communities where stakeholders collaborate ...Read More