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[/panel][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 MoreNew York Times Misses the Bus in Guangzhou
April 21, 2009
Guangzhou will have more than 200 kilometers (124 miles) of mostly-underground metro by late 2010. Yet the highest capacity mass transit line in terms of peak passenger flows will not be a subway, but rather the first line of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system, currently under construction. At $6 million per kilometer (about $9.7 million ...Read MoreTaxi Council: Bus Rapid Transit System Must Stop Completely
April 20, 2009
The bus rapid transit (BRT) system must be stopped completely, South African National Taxi Council president Andrew Mthembu said on Monday. “We are appealing and pleading … for us to meaningfully engage with this , let this thing come to a halt completely,” he told the taxi industry’s BRT Summit at Gallagher Estate in Midrand. “We are ...Read MoreSouth Africa: Taxis Want Bigger Stake in BRT System
April 14, 2009
The South African National Taxi Council, Santaco, says it will ask the government for a larger stake in the control of the Integrated Rapid Transit System. The taxi body is finalising its proposal that insists taxi operators have more ownership of practical aspects of the IRT system – also referred to as the Bus Rapid Transit ...Read MoreEx-Bogota Mayor to Return for BRT Forum
April 8, 2009
CEBU CITY, Philippines – The former mayor of Bogota, Colombia will be back in Cebu next month to discuss further Bus Rapid Transit system (BRT), which has been very effective in his country. Enrique Peñalosa will be the guest speaker for the Cebu City Bus Rapid Transit Inter-city Coordination Conference on May 9 at the Waterfront ...Read MoreMeeting To Focus On Lower Sulphur Fuels (Dar es Salaam)
April 6, 2009
The Dar Rapid Transit (Dart) is sensitising the public and decision makers on the environmental and health benefits of lower sulphur fuels. A workshop will be held on April 15 in Dar es Salaam to that discuss the topic and also discuss how to generally tackle pollution. “The project also aims at building consensus and commitment among ...Read MoreChallenging Times For Bus Rapid-Transit System (Johannesburg)
April 3, 2009
Today is perhaps the most challenging day since the Rea Vaya project was launched,” noted City of Johannesburg member of the mayoral committee for transport Rehana Moosajee, speaking at the Intelligent Transport Society South Africa’s e-Transport conference, held in Sandton last week. As she spoke, angry taxi drivers were taking to the streets in Johannesburg, in ...Read MoreDar Rapid Transit Project Awaited Anxiously (Dar es Salaam)
April 3, 2009
To the residents of Dar City, the news that the Rapid Transit project will be operational by November next year is welcome indeed. The BRT project is welcome news because the majority of Dar es Salaam public and industrial workers travel to their work places by buses. At peak hours, the motorized traffic is extremely slow haunted ...Read MoreITDP Indonesia Letter to the Editor in Jakarta Post
April 2, 2009
First, many thanks to The Jakarta Post for its enduring support of the Transjakarta Busway network. Its articles have become an instrumental in informing both international and domestic readers as to Transjakarta’s development. In your Tuesday, March 24 article titled “Transjakarta urged to run corridor 9, 10,” on paragraph 9, it was written that, “Damantoro, from ...Read MoreUDM And IFP Worried For Taxi Industry
April 1, 2009
Taxi drivers are a large voting constituency and the issue of an inefficient public transport system riles voters in South Africa. Little wonder then that two political parties have come out saying they share the concerns of the taxi industry. The United Democratic Movement (UDM) said it is opposed to the imposition of ANC ideas that are ...Read MoreBicycle Ambulances Ease Plight of Rural Communities (Namibia)
March 31, 2009
WINDHOEK – Bicycle Empowerment Network (BEN) Namibia has enlarged the territory for bicycle ambulances to neighbouring countries. This has opened up a market for the bicycle ambulances, which calls for its local manufacture, according to BEN Namibia Managing Director, Michael Linke. BEN Namibia has had a lot of interest from other countries looking for the designs ...Read More