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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 MoreITDP at UN Habitat World Urban Forum
March 29, 2010
The Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) presented at two events during the biannual World Urban Forum organized by UN Habitat in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The World Urban Forum is considered the premier conference on cities. The Forum was established by the United Nations to examine one of the most pressing problems facing ...Read MoreBuenos Aires Celebrates New Northern Bikeway
March 29, 2010
by Amalia Holub, ITDP Argentina The Buenos Aires city government inaugurated its new bicycle route with much celebration. The Northern Bikeway connects Plaza Italia in the neighborhood of Palermo with the central Retiro transportation hub. A crowd of government representatives from various departments, ITDP and other non-profit organizations, and local bicycle advocates all gathered for the ...Read MoreITDP Holds Audit And Management Training For Transjakarta Operators
March 23, 2010
From BERITAJAKARTA.COM — 3/23/2010 In a bid to improve the service quality of Transjakarta or commonly known as busway, Indonesian Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) in cooperation with Transjakarta Management Body (BLU), PT Inresh Indonesia, and the Association of Indonesian Safety Expert (IAKKI) held Tuesday (3/23) an audit and training of Safety Management System ...Read MoreImproving Guadalajara’s Bicycle Networks
March 23, 2010
Institute for Transportation and Development Policy emphasizes development models that favor a more compact and competitive city From El Informador, Guadalajara, Mexico, March 22, 2010 Jesus Sanchez, transport specialist and director of non-motorized mobility initiatives comments on ways that the city of Guadalajara can improve transport for metropolitan area inhabitants with a network of bikeways and pedestrian ...Read MoreNew Life for Jakarta’s Old Town
March 23, 2010
By Ratna Yunita, ITDP Jakarta is a metropolitan city where for the last ten years development has increased very rapidly. Skyscrapers with modern architecture are found in almost every corner of the city nowadays. But there is a noble historic revitalization project underway at the historical site of Oud Batavia or Old Town. Oud Batavia is situated in the ...Read MoreBus Rapid Transit Comes to Buenos Aires
March 22, 2010
By Amalia Holub, ITDP The first BRT line in Buenos Aires will soon be running along Juan B. Justo Avenue. Construction has been completed along 60 percent of the route and operation is expected to begin before the end of the year. The Institute for Transportation and Development Policy led the process of demand analysis, calculation ...Read MoreITDP Executive Director Walter Hook on Las Vegas BRT
March 10, 2010
Walter Hook, Executive Director of the Insitute for Transportation and Development Policy, was interviewed for an article on a new bus rapid transit system opening in Las Vegas, Nevada. “Where the Rubber Meets the Road,” compares bus rapid transit to light rail and examines the benefits bus rapid transit will bring to the city of ...Read MoreITDP Founder Michael Replogle at IBM’s Smarter Transportation Forum
March 9, 2010
IBM invited ITDP Founder and Global Policy Director to speak at the Smarter Transportation forum at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C., to examine society’s need for updated transportation infrastructures on February 25, 2010. Watch the video below. Prominent leaders from government, academia and industry discussed powerful strategies and solutions to dramatically improve our ...Read MoreITDP on BRT in Buenos Aires
March 8, 2010
Andrés Fingeret, Argentina Country Director for the Institute for Transportation & Development Policy, answers some questions and explains the current status of bus rapid transit in Buenos Aires for the environmentally-focused Latin American blog, TuVerde.com. Click here to read the interview. Construction of the system stations will begin on the first corridor in just a couple of months ...Read MoreGuangzhou Opens Asia’s Highest Capacity BRT System
March 5, 2010
by Claudia Gunter, ITDP The city of Guangzhou, China, officially opened the 22.5-kilometer Guangzhou bus rapid transit system, known as GBRT, on February 21, after a ten-day test run over the Chinese New Year holiday period. The GBRT is a system of firsts: it is the first BRT to directly connect to a metro system, the ...Read More