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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 MoreEcoparq, Mexico City’s On-Street Parking Reform
July 26, 2012
by Michael Kodransky, ITDP Mexico City has enacted on-street parking reform for the first time in years. In April this year, the City’s Polanco district, an upmarket residential neighborhood, completed implementation of a new parking management system, introducing 426 multispace meters to streets where parking had previously been free. The new system is branded ecoParq underscoring the ...Read MoreRockefeller Foundation Gives Official Endorsement to The BRT Standard
June 23, 2012
ITDP is pleased to announce The Rockefeller Foundation’s endorsement of The BRT Standard, ITDP’s bus rapid transit scoring and certification system. This endorsement will be enormously helpful as ITDP seeks to set an internationally recognized standard for what constitutes best practice in BRT, and works to achieve a gold-standard corridor in the US. Currently in its ...Read MoreITDP and Ford Foundation Close Out Mobilidade + Speaker Series at Rio+20
June 22, 2012
On Thursday at the Ford Foundation’s Rio+20 tent, ITDP held the closing ceremony for Mobilidade+, the innovative series that broadened the debate on sustainable urban mobility by considering how mobility affects our daily lives in ways we might never have imagined. Themes discussed over the course of the series included aspects of daily life like courtesy, ...Read MoreWorld’s Largest Development Banks pledge $175 Billion for the Creation of More Sustainable Transport
June 20, 2012
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL (20 June, 2012)—The eight largest multilateral development banks (MDBs) announced today that they will invest US$175 billion to finance more sustainable transportation systems over the coming decade, boosting equitable economic development and protecting the environment and public health across the developing world. The pledge by the Asian Development Bank, the World ...Read MoreITDP Recommends Design Improvements to Cidade do Samba
June 19, 2012
On Sunday June 17th at the Humanidade Forum at Rio+20, ITDP’s Technical Director, Luc Nadal, gave a presentation assessing the plans for the redevelopment of the port area of Rio by the Principles of urban development for sustainable urban transport. Among several recommendations Luc made on reducing parking and vehicular traffic infrastructure and designing a public ...Read MoreITDP Presents on Sustainability in Port Zone Revitalization Projects in Rio
June 19, 2012
In Rio de Janeiro, an ambitious two-phase regeneration plan for the port area has been underway since 2009, and predicted to be completed in time to shine in the spotlight of Rio’s 2016 Olympic games. The project is groundbreaking for the city, as it integrates cultural, historical, environmental and infrastructure interventions. It is the largest ...Read MoreEnd Fossil Fuel Subsidies, Promote Sustainable Development
June 18, 2012
In the poorest areas around cities in the developing world, many families can’t afford cars and reliant on mass transit systems. In countries like Indonesia, public spending is much smaller on mass transit than on fuel subsidies. Fuel subsidies encourage driving, making Jakarta’s, and many other cities’, terrible traffic worse, and leave most stuck in ...Read MoreITDP Event Discusses Financing and Measurement of Sustainable Transport Goals at Rio+20
June 15, 2012
ITDP’s first official side event took place in Rio Centro, the epicenter of the Rio+20 negotiations. The event, Financing Sustainable Transportation to Support Sustainable Development, was moderated by ITDP Global Policy Director Michael Replogle, and bought together about 70 people from transportation and finance ministries from countries including Brazil, Indonesia, Namibia and Iraq. Organized by ITDP in ...Read MoreITDP’s Mobilidade+ Speaker Series Features Speakers on Youth, Waste, and Favelas
June 15, 2012
The second session of ITDP and Studio-X Rio’s public speaker series at Studio-X Rio’s headquarters continues with part two of a three-part series addressing twelve diverse concepts in relation to mobility, culture, sustainability and waste, and youth. The second session featured Cristina Mendonca, C40-CCI Director for the city of Rio, Pedro Rivera, Director of Studio ...Read MoreITDP’s Full Day Seminar on Sustainable Urban Mobility in Niterói
June 14, 2012
On Wednesday June 13th, ITDP began our official events of the 10-day Rio + 20 conference with a day-long seminar on sustainable urban mobility in the city of Niterói, located just across the harbor from Rio de Janeiro. The 2nd annual seminar, coordinated jointly with the city government of Niterói, brought together policymakers, technical and policy ...Read More