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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 MoreChallenges and Opportunities for Gender-Equitable Transport in Cairo, Egypt
May 22, 2023
ITDP Africa, in partnership with the New Urban Communities Authority (NUCA), UN Women, and UN-Habitat, recently undertook a comprehensive study to understand the challenges that women and girls face while using the public transport system in greater Cairo, Egypt. In addition, these partners looked specifically at gender-sensitive design scenarios for a planned bus rapid ...Read MoreTo Tackle Staffing Shortages, Boston’s Bus System Can Learn From These Global Cities
May 19, 2023
US cities need practical, creative solutions to improve its faltering public transit systems. In the Greater Boston area in particular, where ITDP US has been working to advance Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) and sustainable transport with agencies like the MBTA, workforce challenges are especially evident and have far-reaching implications. There exist real-world models in cities ...Read MoreA New Approach to Modeling Commutes and Access in Our Cities
May 10, 2023
In All Possible Commutes: How Micromobility and Realistic Car Travel Times Impact Accessibility Analysis, a new paper from the New Urban Mobility Alliance (NUMO) produced with support from Transport for Cairo and ITDP, the authors propose that micromobility, considered realistically, makes a major difference in people’s access to their cities.Read MoreBogotá, Colombia’s Approach to Safe, Sustainable, and Accessible Transport
May 8, 2023
As with many global cities, the disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic has led Bogotá to rethink its approach to sustainable mobility, improve access and safety on its streets, and expand critical cycling and pedestrian networks. In a city where nearly a fifth of residents own private vehicles and congestion is persistent, the pandemic allowed Bogotá ...Read MoreIdeamos: How Innovation and Collaboration Can Transform Urban Mobility in Mexico
May 1, 2023
ITDP Mexico launched the Ideamos program in 2020 to pilot innovative ideas for improving the future of Mexico’s cities through sustainable, inclusive mobility that promotes the right of people to move safely in urban spaces.Read MoreConectar Queimados: Transit Oriented Revitalization in Rio de Janeiro
April 21, 2023
In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, one neighborhood urban revitalization plan is seeking to leverage the principles of Transit Oriented Development (TOD) to implement more compact, integrated, and inclusive development efforts. Conectar Queimados is a project led by the Rio de Janeiro State Government and local transport agencies.Read MoreU.S. Working Group Calls on White House to Strengthen Guidance on Transport Emissions
April 12, 2023
Earlier this year, in January 2023, the Biden Administration’s White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) released updated Guidance on Consideration of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Climate Change to “help Federal agencies better assess and disclose climate impacts as they conduct environmental reviews, delivering more certainty and efficiency in the permitting process for clean energy ...Read MoreReshaping Mexico’s Approach to Housing and Urban Sprawl
April 3, 2023
A common sight on the outskirts of many of Mexico’s cities is thousands of small, single-family houses sitting isolated inside gated communities. Often disjointed and disconnected, these housing developments stretch for kilometers and, until recently, extended into rural and undeveloped lands as well. For the last few decades, these types of developments have been a ...Read MoreWhy Trans and Queer Visibility on Public Transport Matters
March 29, 2023
There are two transgender holidays. The International Transgender Day of Remembrance is honored every November 20th. It is a memorial. Practically every member of the transgender, nonbinary, and genderqueer community, myself included, knows a friend or lover who has died before their time, as is statistically likely, a victim of injustice, of hate crime or ...Read MoreHow ITDP India is ‘Gamifying’ Urban Transport Planning
March 23, 2023
In 2020, ITDP India launched two national programmes with the Government of India’s Smart Cities Mission — the India Cycles4Change and Streets4People Challenges — aimed at building the capacity of officials from over 100 cities to create healthier, safer and more inclusive Streets. Through these programmes, ITDP India has developed over 100 toolkits and conducted over 35 ...Read More