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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 MorePMC, PCMC Need to Work in Coordination while Implementing BRTS: Experts (Pune)
June 22, 2009
PUNE: Even as both Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad are planning separately for Bus Rapid Transit Systems (BRTS) in their respective cities, planning without any coordination between the two municipal corporations may eventually lead to problems and confusion for commuters. The point was driven home at a workshop on public transport planning and reforms for Pune and ...Read MoreEx-Bogota Mayor Wins Environmental Prize
June 18, 2009
The former mayor of Bogota, Enrique Penalosa, was awarded the Gothenburg Prize for Sustainable Development for his design and application of urban development in Colombia’s capital city. Penalosa’s urban development model includes more public spaces, the Transmilenio, an extensive network of cycle paths, the ‘pico y placa’ system that allows car owners only to use their ...Read MoreBus Rapid Transit — Can It Make It in NYC?
June 18, 2009
NEW YORK, NY June 18, 2009 —Say you’re standing on Second Avenue at rush hour, and you need to get downtown fast. You look uptown, at six lanes of traffic crawling along. Delivery trucks are double parked, bus drivers are waiting for a long line of passengers to board, and there is not a ...Read MoreEl MIO Ha Cumplido Con Las Expectativas en Cali [in Spanish]
June 15, 2009
Contrary to what many people thought Cali and the rest of the country, the mass transit system in the capital of Valle del Cauca, MIO, managed to overcome a series of obstacles that seemed insurmountable and began shooting. Amid much criticism Integrated Western Mass (MIO) met last June 7 100 days of operation, with projected results. According ...Read MoreBusway’s Newest Corridor Popular Despite Heavy Congestion (Jakarta)
June 11, 2009
Passenger numbers on the three-month-old Transjakarta Corridor 8, linking Lebak Bulus in South Jakarta to Grogol in West Jakarta, have increased during weekdays and weekends, despite criticisms the route was innefective. “The number of passengers is growing. I think more and more people have made the most of this route during peak hours,” a Transjakarta officer ...Read MoreSegunda Semana de la Bicicleta Irá Hasta Este Viernes en Bogotá [in Spanish]
June 10, 2009
En esta oportunidad el evento servirá para la firma de un manifiesto de la sociedad civil con propuestas para estimular el uso de la bicicleta en la ciudad. La actividad es coordinada por la Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá. Se calcula que en Bogotá ruedan 400 mil bicicletas lo que significa un estimativo de 240 mil ...Read MoreHow Lagos Was Transformed, By Fashola
June 8, 2009
The implementation of the innovative Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Lite System that ferries passengers in high-capacity buses on dedicated bus lanes has been a major accomplishment within the past couple of two years, Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola, has said. He disclosed a week ago at Aluasa at a media session that the BRT scheme, ...Read MoreBusway Project Moves Forward Despite Service Flaws in Jakarta
June 8, 2009
Jakarta is moving forward with its Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project, which includes the Transjakarta busway, although many reforms are still needed to ease congestion in the city, transportation experts said in a recent workshop. Experts from the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) said more comprehensive reforms were needed to give Jakarta a better ...Read MoreBus Rapid Transit: A Cost-Effective Mass Transit Technology
June 8, 2009
This article appears in the June 2009 issue of EM Magazine, a publication of the Air & Waste Management Association. Some of the most important technical innovations in the transportation field have nothing to do with vehicle technology or alternative fuels. Rather, they involve the way bus services are operated and infrastructure is used to optimize their speed, ...Read MoreBudaya Bertransportasi Warga Harus Diubah [in Indonesian]
June 6, 2009
Hal itu diungkap peneliti dan pemerhati transportasi dari Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) Harya Setyaka dan Tory Damantoro dalam Lokakarya Wartawan tentang bus rapid transit (BRT) yang diselenggarakan ITDP Pecenongan, Jakarta Pusat, Jumat (5/6) siang. Terkait dengan pembangunan sistem angkutan umum massal cepat berbasis bus atau BRT, Harya mengatakan, warga kota, sebagai pengguna layanan ...Read More