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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 MoreBRT, Rail, and NYC: A Conversation With Walter Hook (Part 4)
February 27, 2009
Streetsblog: What are the options for configuring BRT on First and Second Avenue? If a three-lane configuration is not politically feasible, what else might we end up with? Walter Hook: It would take a lot of political courage to take three lanes out of First and Second Avenue exclusively for buses, but the current plan, de facto, also ...Read MoreFinal Statement from 4th Regional Environmentally Sustainable Transport (EST) Forum in Seoul, Korea
February 27, 2009
The participants, having met in Seoul, the Republic of Korea from 24 to 26 February 2009, for the Fourth Regional EST Forum, to draw up and adopt a statement for the promotion of environmentally sustainable transport in Asia, Noting that Asia is experiencing the fastest economic growth and by mid of this century, and at the current growth rate there ...Read MoreBRT, Rail, and NYC: A Conversation With Walter Hook (Part 3)
February 26, 2009
Streetsblog: What would you say are the defining characteristics of a real BRT-level system? Walter Hook: To be called BRT, a line must be a package of physical and operational components (stations, vehicles, running ways, passenger information, services, fare collection, traffic signal priority and other Intelligent Transportation System applications) that form a permanently integrated, customer-friendly, high performance system ...Read MoreBRT, Rail, and NYC: A Conversation With Walter Hook (Part 2)
February 25, 2009
Streetsblog: What’s your evaluation of the SBS pilot route on Fordham Road? Does it qualify as BRT? Walter Hook: The Fordham Road “Select Bus Service” pilot route was a very successful bus service enhancement—including a number of BRT elements. The city is not calling it “BRT,” though, and I think that is reasonable. A rule of thumb should ...Read MoreBRT, Rail, and NYC: A Conversation With Walter Hook (Part 1)
February 24, 2009
Perhaps no one knows the ins and outs of BRT better than Walter Hook (right). As director of the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy, Hook has advised cities on four continents about BRT implementation, including Jakarta’s seven-corridor network, the first full-fledged BRT system in Asia. Streetsblog caught up with Hook—in between trips to Cape Town ...Read MoreEnrique Peñalosa Brings Inspiration to Boston
February 20, 2009
Streetfilms’ Robin Urban Smith hopped a bus to Boston to hear world renowned urban strategist and champion of the livable streets movement, Enrique Peñalosa speak at the Boston Public Library. According to our friends at the LivableStreets Alliance, who organized his four day visit, more than 1,000 Bostonians attended the various events planned in his ...Read MoreReports of Vélib’s Demise Greatly Exaggerated
February 12, 2009
If you’ve read this BBC story currently making the rounds, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Vélib, Paris’s wildly popular bike-share system, has suddenly been afflicted by an epidemic of theft and vandalism that threatens its very existence. Vélib bikes have been “torched,” strung up from lamp-posts, and smuggled across borders, the Beeb reports in alarmist tones. ...Read MoreVersão impressa do Manual de BRT disponível do Ministerio das Cidades (Brasil) [in Portuguese]
February 11, 2009
Se você esta no Brasil e quiser receber uma copia do Manual, basta preencher o formulário disponível no seguinte site do Ministério das Cidades: Manual de BRT: Guia de Planejamento A versão em lingua portuguesa do “Manual de BRT,” publicado pelo Ministerio das Cidades em cooperação com o ITDP, foi lançado dia 11 de Fevereiro 2009 no ...Read MoreEnrique Peñalosa: An Urban Innovator Draws A Crowd
February 9, 2009
These were the words that kicked off the lecture/presentation/self-help seminar by Enrique Peñalosa, former Mayor of Bogotá, Colombia, last Thursday night at the Boston Public Library. The quote was unattributed, but the idea of happiness formed the nucleus of Mr. Peñalosa’s philosophy of people-centered urbanism. Using photos and examples of projects in cities around the ...Read MoreImpressions Of Enrique Peñalosa Event in Boston Public Library
February 6, 2009
In what ended up being standing room only seating, Enrique Peñalosa gave a stirring speech last night at the Boston Public Library. Over the course of a three hour period he kept the large audience enraptured to hear about his philosophy on urban planning, and his stories of Bogota, and other cities and what they ...Read More