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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 MoreNational Taxi Council to Be Probed (South Africa)
March 28, 2009
The Department of Transport will probe the allocation of R2 million given to the South African National Taxi Council (Santaco) the Saturday Star reported today. The department gave the council the funds in order to host national road shows to explain the Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) system to it’s members. According to the report, this was based ...Read MoreTalks on IRT Run Into a Brick Wall (Cape Town)
March 27, 2009
A communication breakdown between the City of Cape Town and the South African National Taxi Council (Santaco) has crippled the consultation process around the Integrated Rapid Transport (IRT) system, with both parties admitting that talks may have run into a brick wall. Santaco said it was not consulted during the formulation of the project and that ...Read MoreBus Supplier Lowers its 2009 Sales Forecast as BRT Tenders Run Late in South Africa
March 27, 2009
Mercedes-Benz South Africa (MBSA) bus and coach divisional manager Jan Aichinger has lowered his forecast for the 2009 bus market from the 3 000 units he expected last year, to between 1 700 and 2 000 units. “The tenders for the various bus rapid transit (BRT) systems and government’s 2010 FIFA World Cup tender are running ...Read More‘Taxis’ Spark Road Rage in South Africa
March 26, 2009
Reporting from Johannesburg, South Africa—“Suddenly a pair of bright headlights appeared around a corner. It was a taxi speeding directly towards us, on our side of the road.” Michelle Strydom, on the Facebook group Genoeg is Genoeg (Enough is Enough, in Afrikaans) “He collided with us head-on with such force that it shot his windscreen and ...Read MoreTaxi Strikers Blackmail South Africa
March 25, 2009
TAXI operators have threatened to bring the entire country to a halt with a strike lasting more than a week if their demands are not met. Bus commuters were beaten and at least one bus driver was shot yesterday before angry, striking taxi drivers and their bosses handed a list of their demands to the ANC ...Read MoreLeader who transformed city from congested to ‘car free’ speaks about ‘Urban Happiness’ on April 3rd
March 25, 2009
(Boulder, Colo.) – The man who is credited with transforming Bogotá, Colombia, from a congested, deteriorated city into one filled with sidewalks, bicycle paths, pedestrian streets, parks – and even a weekly “car free” day – will give a free afternoon talk in Boulder on Friday, April 3. Enrique Peñalosa, the former mayor of Bogotá, helped ...Read MoreTaxi Drivers Call For Jeff Radebe’s Head
March 25, 2009
By noon, the throng were waiting for officials from the Department of Transport and the African National Congress and intended handing over a memorandum of their grievances. A taxi driver said that busses were going to get a special traffic lane and that taxi’s would not be included. “In a bus you only have one driver, but ...Read MoreGauteng ‘Deplores’ Taxi Violence
March 25, 2009
Discharging firearms, disrupting traffic and attacks on businesses were “completely unacceptable”, the office of Gauteng Premier Paul Mashatile said in a statement after a meeting of the executive council. “The programme to improve the transport system in Gauteng will not be delayed by these protests,” it read. “The process will go ahead as planned and as agreed ...Read MoreTaxi Drivers Threaten to ‘Cripple the Economy’
March 24, 2009
The memorandum was handed to African National Congress (ANC) Secretary General Gwede Mantashe by Ralph Jones, national spokesperson for the United Taxi Association Forum (UTAF), at Library Gardens, Johannesburg, this afternoon. It lists the industry’s grievances regarding the bus rapid transit (BRT) system. These include job losses and lack of participation in the planning process. The ...Read MoreBusway Corridor Runs Into Potholes in Jakarta
March 24, 2009
Major flaws have been revealed in the operations of the new TransJakarta busway route linking South Jakarta and West Jakarta, only a month after its opening. A lack of traffic lights and the presence of road obstacles and private motor vehicles on the route have proven to be significant potholes impeding the smooth flow of buses ...Read More