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  • [WEBINAR] Indicators For Sustainable Mobility

    [WEBINAR] Indicators For Sustainable Mobility
    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 ...
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  • ITDP Announces New CEO Heather Thompson

    ITDP Announces New CEO Heather Thompson
    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 ...
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  • Bus Rapid Transit Nearly Quadruples Over Ten Years

    Bus Rapid Transit Nearly Quadruples Over Ten Years
    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 ...
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  • ITDP Releases New Study on Climate Change Ahead of UN Climate Summit

    ITDP Releases New Study on Climate Change Ahead of UN Climate Summit
    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 ...
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  • 85,000 commuters in São Paulo benefit from the new BRT Corridor

    85,000 commuters in São Paulo benefit from the new BRT Corridor
    A new bus corridor connecting the working-class municipality of Diadema to one of the new business centres of São Paulo commenced operations on the 31st of July 2010, 24 years after the project was initiated. The corridor’s 36 bus stops and 6 transfer points pass through a diverse range of urban contexts, from the popular, ...
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  • Fifth Regional Environmentally Sustainable Transport (EST) Forum produces Bangkok 2020 Declaration

    Fifth Regional Environmentally Sustainable Transport (EST) Forum produces Bangkok 2020 Declaration
    Representatives from nearly two dozen Asian national governments, along with representatives of civil society and local government, on August 24th joined in adopting the Bangkok 2020 Declaration, committing to achieving ambitious, measurable goals for environmentally sustainable transportation over the coming decade. ITDP’s founder and global policy director, Michael Replogle, helped develop and negotiate the final agreement at ...
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  • PRESS RELEASE: A Paradigm Shift toward Sustainable Transport

    PRESS RELEASE AND MEDIA ADVISORY Embargoed Until 23 August 2010 Contact:  Michael Replogle, ITDP in Bangkok +1(301)529-0351 mreplogle@itdp.org Stephanie Lotshaw, ITDP in New York +1(212)629-8001 slotshaw@itdp.org Ko Sakamoto, TRL in London +44 (0) 7827 890804 ksakamoto@trl.co.uk Experts Call For Urgent Transport Financing Changes ASAP (Bangkok, Thailand August 23, 2010) At a meeting today of top transportation and environment leaders from two dozen governments across ...
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  • A Paradigm Shift toward Sustainable Transport

    A Paradigm Shift toward Sustainable Transport
    This paper outlines key steps in financing reform: to Analyze impacts, Shift existing resources towards a sustainable direction, Add funding where resources are still lacking, and restructure pricing incentives so users Pay for the full costs of transport consumption, identifying measures to be taken by public, private, and international organizations.
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  • Buenos Aires Launches Bike-to-Work Program

    Buenos Aires Launches Bike-to-Work Program
    by Amalia Holub, ITDP Argentina The Buenos Aires city government recently initiated a bike-to-work program, its latest effort to get residents on bikes and out of their cars. With a presentation from ITDP, the government held a conference with business leaders to outline various means of encouraging their employees to commute by bicycle, as well as ...
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  • New ADB Roadmap to Reducing Transportation Carbon Emissions in Asia

    A new report, “Reducing Carbon Emissions from Transportation”, recently published by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) provides an important new roadmap to cut greenhouse gases in this sector. With this report, the ADB becomes the first multilateral development bank to estimate the carbon footprint of its transportation assistance programs. These amount to 792 million tons for ...
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  • Guangzhou BRT and ITDP in the New York Times

    The recently opened Guangzhou bus rapid transit (BRT) system was featured in the New York Times, with comment from Karl Fjellstrom, Vice Director who runs the ITDP China headquarters based in Guangzhou, China. Reporter Saquib Rahim asks, “As the world hurtles toward 2 billion cars, an increasingly important issue for the climate will be this: How will ...
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  • New Video Debuts on ITDP’s Work Worldwide

    A new video on the work of the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy’s international projects debuted online. The video features projects ITDP has worked on in Guangzhou, China; Johannesburg, South Africa; and Mexico City. Watch the video below or watch it here.   
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  • Our Cities Ourselves Featured on WNYC

    ITDP’s Our Cities Ourselves program was recently featured on WNYC radio. The piece examines architect Michael Sorkin’s proposal for lower Manhattan at the site of the Brooklyn Bridge anchorage. Our Cities Ourselves opens Thursday, June 24 at AIA Center for Architecture in New York. The exhibition asks architects from ten cities – New York, Rio de ...
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  • ITDP Testfies in Support of National Infrastructure Fund

    ITDP’s global policy director and founder, Michael Replogle, joined Pennsylvania Governor Rendell, Los Angeles Mayor Villaraigosa, and Representatives DeLauro (D-CT), DeFazio (D-OR), and Lipinski (D-IL), in testifying before a U.S. House Ways and Means subcommittee hearing on infrastructure banks on May 13, 2010. Creating a National Infrastructure Bank, as proposed in H.R.2421, or a National ...
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