About A decade ago, Santiago, Chile, received the 2017 Sustainable Transport Award for its widespread improvements to urban space, cycling networks, and public transport service. This progress in urban mobility has continued — in 2026, Santiago’s public bus fleet includes more than 4,400 electric buses, accounting for approximately half of all the electric buses in…
Location: South America
About Since 2024, Salvador, Brazil has emerged as a leader in sustainable and inclusive public transport, focusing on high-quality and electric BRT centered on the BRT Salvador system. The city inaugurated a new 7-kilometer BRT corridor, bringing the system’s service area to 12-kilometers along two corridors with multiple lines. This expansion further integrates modern station…
About This publication from ITDP and UC Davis, supported by the FIA Foundation, presents a first of its kind global and country-level analysis of how growing vehicle sizes are shaping urban passenger transport — and what that means for road safety, energy use, battery demand, and greenhouse gas emissions. Focusing on Brazil, China, India, Indonesia,…
About Addressing the climate crisis will require rapid, sustained transformation in every country and every sector of industrial activity. In The Compact City Scenario – Electrified report, researchers from ITDP and the University of California, Davis (with support from the ClimateWorks Foundation) modeled the global changes that will be necessary to decarbonize urban passenger transport. The…
About this Edition The BRT Standard (BRTStandard.org) is both a framework for understanding BRT and an evaluation tool for BRT corridors based on international best practices. BRT experts have evaluated the elements that receive points in the BRT Standard in a wide variety of contexts. When present, these elements result in consistently improved system performance…
The 2023 issue of the Sustainable Transport Magazine has been re-designed and re-imagined, offering readers a dynamic, in-depth look at the challenges and opportunities to sustainable urban mobility in today’s world. From issues of gender and race to the power of transport digitalization, to the impacts of human-centered design, the content in Issue No. 35…
About In the years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, many cities and countries have taken action to position and promote active mobility—cycling and walking—as transport modes. Demand for active mobility during the pandemic skyrocketed, and cities and governments responded by making more space on streets, providing free access to bikeshare systems, and allocating…