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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 MoreDecade of Action for Road Safety
May 5, 2011
The United Nations and World Health Organization are kicking off the Decade of Action for Road Safety this May. Learn more about the initiative or find an event near you.Read MoreOur Cities Ourselves opening gala in Buenos Aires
April 28, 2011
Last night hundreds of people gathered at the Museum of Architecture, MARQ, in Buenos Aires to celebrate the opening of the Our Cities Ourselves (Nuestras ciudades, nuestro futuro) exhibit. Guests included city government officials, students, architects, bicycle advocates, and curious passers-by coming in from the near by bike lane. Andrés Fingeret, director of ITDP Argentina, spoke to the ...Read MoreGuangzhou BRT to be Featured in Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
April 21, 2011
Guangzhou’s Bus Rapid Transit system is featured in “Design with the Other 90%: Cities,” the second in a series of themed exhibitions by the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum that demonstrate how design can address the world’s most critical issues, opens Oct. 15 at the United Nations and runs through Jan. 9, 2012. The exhibition will include over 60 ...Read MoreOur Cities Ourselves opens in Buenos Aires
April 20, 2011
Our Cities Ourselves opened today in Buenos Aires at MARQ, the Museo de Arquitectura y Diseño de la Sociedad Central de Arquitectos. The exhibition, organized jointly with the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) and MARQ, first opened in New York in June 2010 and has also been shown in Mexico City and Rio ...Read MoreITDP Mexico at Velo-City 2011
April 18, 2011
Velo-city is an annual conference that brings together over 1000 transportation leaders, experts and advocates from around the globe to discuss how to increase cycling. The 2011 event was held in Seville, Spain during the last week in March. A delegation from ITDP’s Mexico office shared their experiences and lessoned learned from the political to ...Read MoreNew Book: Urban Transport in the Developing World
April 17, 2011
ITDP staff, including Executive Director Dr. Walter Hook, Michael Replogle, Global Policy Director and Founder, and John Ernst, Vice Director, South East Asia have contributed chapters to Urban Transport in the Developing World: A Handbook of Policy and Practice. This twenty chapter guide provides “a broad set of perspectives on the plight, possibilities and opportunities of ...Read MoreCurb Appeal
April 8, 2011
An on-street parking spot is a veritable Holy Grail for drivers in bustling business districts. Metered rates are usually much cheaper than off-street garages—making the time wasted circling looking for a curbside spot well worth drivers’ time. And shoppers often compete for space with shopkeepers who arrive early and can monopolize prime parking all day ...Read MoreGet a Glimpse of Guangzhou’s BRT and Bike Share in Action
April 1, 2011
https://vimeo.com/21714344 Guangzhou won the Sustainable Transportation Award this year for its transportation innovations, including a new Bus Rapid Transit system that goes beyond “gold standard” BRT features such as dedicated running ways, pre-board fare collection and at-level platform boarding and provides direct service buses, stations and a fare system that is fully integrated with the city’s Metro and ...Read MoreThe view from Kunming
March 30, 2011
Kunming is the capital and largest city of Yunnan Province in Southwestern China. In many ways it is typical of other similarly sized cities in China. Car ownership has increased by more than 100% between 2005-2009. But still only 17% of residents own cars. According to the Kunming Urban Transportation Institute 30% of residents still ...Read MoreKicking Parking Minimums to the Curb
March 29, 2011
In the mid-20th century, many American cities started to require a certain number of parking spaces be built any time a new commercial or residential development was created. The assumption was, more people would equal more cars, in a consistent ratio over time, and therefore space must be provided for both side by side. But ...Read More