Park(ing) Day offers a chance for people to transform their streets. Parking reform offers cities a way to balance space for people and cars in the long-term. Since 2005, Park(ing) Day has been challenging citizens everywhere to convert curbside parking into temporary pop-up parks and more. This raises public awareness about issues ITDP has long…
TEEMP is a suite of excel-based, free-of-charge, suite of spreadsheet models and methods that can be used to evaluate the greenhouse gas (GHG), air pollution, and other impacts of many types of transportation projects. Download the Model Source: CAI-Asia and ITDP Last updated: April 2015 Download the Manual Source: CAI-Asia and ITDP Download the Revision Memo…
A new release of the free-of-charge rapid response tool suite, the Transport Emissions Evaluation Models for Projects (TEEMP), is now available online to support transport project evaluation. The new release has enhanced features especially for BRT planning and analysis. Across the developing world, city leaders and professionals are advancing Bus Rapid Transit as one of the most…
From integrated transit systems to innovative parking solutions – all of the 2012 Sustainable Transport Award-nominated cities are exemplars in implementing integrated transport solutions. Over the next week, we will cover profiles of the nominated cities – Medellín, San Francisco, Cape Town, and Buenos Aires – culminating in the presentation of the Sustainable Transport Award…
Letter from the CEO: Strange Weather, Changing Streets, Stormy Relations • Tehran’s Transport Turnaround • Buenos Aires Tangos Towards Sustainability • Going for the Gold: Introducing the BRT Standard • Finding Atlantis: Cape Town Reconnects • Parking: A Bad Romance • SFpark: San Francisco Knows How to Park It • Our Cities Ourselves Goes Global…
Letter from the CEO: Strange Weather, Changing Streets, Stormy Relations • Tehran’s Transport Turnaround • Buenos Aires Tangos Towards Sustainability • Going for the Gold: Introducing the BRT Standard • Finding Atlantis: Cape Town Reconnects • Parking: A Bad Romance • SFpark: San Francisco Knows How to Park It • Our Cities Ourselves Goes Global…
The Local Development Program of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), in partnership with GIZ, the German Technical Cooperation, is launching a new session of the e-learning course Sustainable Urban Mobility in Developing Countries, from 14 November 2011 to 2 March 2012. Based on material jointly developed by GIZ and UNITAR, the…
This June, transportation and environment ministers and senior delegates from 11 Latin-American countries met for the first ever Sustainable Transport Forum for Latin America (FTS) in Bogotá, Colombia. The forum’s participants adopted the “Bogotá Declaration for Sustainable Transport.” This document contains voluntary agreements for regional coordination and cooperation between these countries and the Inter-American Development…
June 21, 2011 Plenary: How to Leverage Private Investment for Public Benefit: The Role of Public Private Partnership in BRT Systems Moderator: Walter Hook,CEO, ITDP Speakers : Javier Garcia Bejos, General Director, COMURSA, Private Investment in Transport Infrastructure Fernando Escallon, President, Escallon Morales & Associates, Transmilenio: A Story of Success and Evolution Edgar Enrique Sandoval, Director, Sigma…