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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 MoreRegister now for Online Course: Sustainable Urban Mobility in Developing Countries
October 1, 2011
The Local Development Program of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), in partnership with GIZ, the German Technical Cooperation, is launching a new session of the e-learning course Sustainable Urban Mobility in Developing Countries, from 14 November 2011 to 2 March 2012. Based on material jointly developed by GIZ and UNITAR, the course ...Read MoreITDP & Secovi-SP bring mobility and urbanism experts to Secovi’s annual meeting in São Paulo
September 29, 2011
ITDP partnered with the Brazilian real estate industry union Secovi-SP (an Urban Land Institute affiliate) to put on an “International Urban Forum” during Secovi’s annual meeting in São Paulo on the 20th of September. The forum bought together over 10 international experts on 5 different panels to discuss the theme “Mobility and Urbanism: Integrating planning, ...Read MoreOur Cities Ourselves opens in Ahmedabad
September 28, 2011
ITDP’s Our Cities Ourselves exhibition opened at the Kanoria Centre for Arts on September 20, 2011. The opening featured distinguished speakers including Shri Asit Vora Mayor, Ahmedabad; Shri I. P. Gautam, Principal Secretary, Urban Development, Government of Gujarat; Shri G. Mahapatra, Commissioner, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) and Mr. Sam Miller, Director, Media Development, BBC World Service Trust ...Read MoreEurope’s Vibrant New Low Car(bon) Communities
September 22, 2011
ITDP has issued a new report that examines eight new developments across Europe and finds that the design and policy measures these developments have employed to limit car use are working. These developments have lower rates of car ownership and car mode share, and higher rates of bicycling, walking and transit use than comparable areas ...Read MoreEurope’s Vibrant New Low Car(bon) Communities
September 22, 2011
Moving is a time to reevaluate the stuff you own. Boxes of family photos? Coming. That ratty old couch? Not coming. But what if you could leave something even bigger behind? Like your car? New developments are often associated with sprawl and more driving. But eight communities across Europe demonstrate there is a different model. ...Read MoreOur Cities Ourselves: Eight Principles for Transport in Urban Life
September 20, 2011
The Institute for Transportation and Development Policy has developed eight principles designed to create more sustainable cities that produce less carbon emissions. Our Cities Ourselves: 8 Principles for Transport in Urban Life shows how cities from New York to Nairobi can meet the challenges of rapid population growth and climate change while improving their competitiveness. The ...Read MorePhotos from ITDP’s Parking Day Events
September 19, 2011
This year all of ITDP’s field offices participated in Park(ing) Day, or supported a local non-governmental organization that organized an event. Here are some photos of our Park(ing) Day events! View more photos of the Parking Day Events here. See more on our facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ITDP.orgRead MoreITDP Celebrates Park(ing) Day
September 15, 2011
For the past six years on September 16th advocates, planners, bureaucrats and artists have joined forces to create mini pop-up parks in curbside spaces, generally reserved for cars. All this is part of a global movement called “Park(ing) Day” which uses these fun new public spaces to call attention to what is ordinarily a touchy ...Read MoreRajkot Municipal Corporation to develop parking policy
September 14, 2011
Sep 21, 2011 Recognizing the critical importance of parking management as part of a holistic effort to promote sustainable transport, the Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) has initiated the process of developing a parking policy for the city. Rajkot’s problems relating to parking policy and other traffic and transport issues were discussed at a workshop organized by ...Read MoreOur Cities Ourselves: Principles for Transport in Urban Life
August 29, 2011
Livable today, sustainable for the future. The principles outlined here will help cities significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions while improving the quality of life. Citizens of the world do not want to sit in bumper-to-bumper traffic. They do not want to walk in mud, not feel threatened on a simple bike ride to work. They want to be in citites ...Read More