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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 MoreRajkot Teams up with ITDP for Safer, Sustainable, More Livable Streets
March 25, 2011
March 23, 2011 Earlier this week the Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with an international organization Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP). The MoU will be in effect for two years, and it calls for ITDP to provide the RMC with technical assistance to improve the city’s overall environment, mobility, ...Read MoreMaking Parking Pay
March 23, 2011
Boulder, an American city of roughly 100,000 people about 30 miles from Denver in Colorado, became a trail blazer in 1970 by creating a Parking Benefits District (PBD), which channels money from curbside parking meters and off-street garage fees into streetscape improvements. Today the program generates over $1 million in annual revenue. Parking fees also fund ...Read MoreSpotlight South Africa
March 22, 2011
This spring ITDP brought the Our Cities Ourselves exhibition to South Africa. OCO is a valuable tool helping inspire the public, media and key decision makers to reimagine what their cities could look like with better transportation and better urban planning. Cape Town, which is currently host to OCO, is an example of a city that’s making ...Read MoreCapping Parking, Raising Quality of Life
March 17, 2011
Hamburg, Portland and Zurich are often cited in livability surveys as having high quality urban environments with citizens enjoying near mythical quality of life. All of them have instituted parking caps, sealing the existing public parking supply. Hamburg and Portland have had these caps in place since the mid-70s. Zurich’s parking cap came later, in 1996, ...Read MorePutting Parking in Its Place
March 16, 2011
Want less traffic? More walkable streets? Cleaner air? Make it tougher or more expensive to find a parking spot. Donald Shoup, the parking “rockstar” has been encouraging cities to use pricing as a way to manage parking (and driving) demand for over 40 years now in the United States, and cities around the world are ...Read MoreBicycle Parking Facility Manual
March 16, 2011
Bicycle Parking Facility Manual – ASCOBIKE Mauá Model A guide to the creation of urban bicycle parking garages in the model of the bicycle parking facility created and administered by ASCOBIKE — Association of Bicycle Users of Mauá, in Mauá, Brazil, in the metropolitan region of São Paulo, the largest city in South America. Manual de bicicletários – Modelo ASCOBIKE ...Read MoreStreetfilms series: Moving Beyond the Automobile features BRT
March 8, 2011
https://vimeo.com/19806003 This week, the new Streetfilms series ‘Moving Beyond the Automobile’, covers Bus Rapid Transit and features ITDP Board President, Enrique Penalosa, and ITDP Executive Director, Walter Hook. Moving Beyond the Automobile is a ten part video series which explores solutions to the problem of automobile dependency. It’s a visual handbook that will help guide policy makers, advocacy ...Read More300 Cyclists and Surat Mayor Join the Surat Cycle Rally
March 7, 2011
March 07, 2011 On February 27 ITDP and the Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) and Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) organized the Surat Cycle Rally: Pedal for a Green Surat, supported by the Surat traffic police and Kendriya Vidyalaya. Surat MP Darshana Jardosh and Mayor Raju Desai addressed the crowd of 300 cyclists and joined ...Read MoreITDP’s Statement on Assault During Critical Mass in Porto Alegre, Brazil
February 28, 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MONDAY FEBRUARY 28 2011 Contact: Dani Simons dsimons@itdp.org The Institute for Transportation and Development Policy condemns the action of the driver who drove directly into a group of cyclists participating in a Critical Mass ride in Porto Alegre, Brazil this past Friday evening, injuring ten and sending eight to the hospital. Sadly, cyclists and pedestrians face subtler ...Read MoreNew York Commissioners travel to Joburg: We can remake cities using transport
February 28, 2011
The Johannesburg Development Agency (JDA) hosted New York City Commissioners Janette Sadik-Khan and Amanda Burden last week in a seminar titled ‘New York to Joburg: Remaking Cities using Transport’ also featuring Rehana Moosajee, Member of the Mayoral Committee responsible for Transportation and Lisa Seftel, Executive Director of the Department of Transportation in the City of ...Read More