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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 More11 Latin American Governments Adopt New Declaration for Sustainable Transport
July 5, 2011
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 ...Read MoreNew York Times Takes Note of Europe’s Parking Policies
June 27, 2011
A front page article in today’s New York Times looks at how European cities are prioritizing mass transit, cycling and walking and reducing dependence on private cars. The piece features ITDP’s report “Europe’s Parking U-Turn”. A few snippets from the article are below. … “It often takes extreme measures to get people out of their cars, and providing good public ...Read MoreTransport Systems Summit Presentations
June 22, 2011
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 Consulting, The Role of PPPs in BRTs Graham ...Read MoreInfrastructure 2011: A Strategic Priority – New Report by the ULI and Ernst & Young
June 14, 2011
“Downscaling Ambitions and Finding Creative Solutions”: Infrastructure 2011: A Strategic Priority Warns of Strain on U.S. Cities to Maintain Assets & Build Infrastructure Projects As Federal Funding Declines A new report by the ULI and Ernst & Young looks at the challenges faced by many U.S. cities to provide adequate infrastructure services for their residents, workers and businesses. Already under-funded, America’s infrastructure ...Read MoreBike Share in China
June 8, 2011
China has some of the biggest bike share systems in the world and new ones are popping up across the country, some that will include tens of thousands of bikes. ITDP is working primarily with Guangzhou to help expand the city’s current system. ITDP is also documenting best practices (particularly in Asian cities) at Hangzhou’s pioneering ...Read MoreGuangzhou BRT Saving Residents Time, City Money
June 6, 2011
The Guangzhou BRT continues to make waves, with ongoing impact analysis by ITDP revealing that it is saving 805,000 average daily users nearly 7 minutes per trip, for a total annual passenger time saving of more than 30 million hours. As well as saving time, passengers are also saving money. A combination of monthly multiple ...Read MoreThe Biggest, Baddest Bike-Share in the World: Hangzhou China
June 2, 2011
Hangzhou is the capital and largest city of Zhejiang Province in Eastern China and also one of the Chinese cities leading the way on public bike share. With 2,050 bike-share stations, 50,000 bikes, and plans for 175,000 bikes by 2020, it really is an example for other global bike share systems. Enjoy the video below, produced ...Read MoreITDP Appoints Marta Goldsmith as Organization’s First COO
June 1, 2011
Goldsmith Brings Over 20 Years of Experience from the Urban Land Institute Marta Goldsmith has been appointed Chief Operating Officer of the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP), beginning July 11th. Ms. Goldsmith joins ITDP from the Urban Land Institute Foundation where she is Senior Vice President. She will manage ITDP’s day-to-day activities, focusing on ...Read MoreOttawa Considers Moving from Bus Rapid Transit to Light Rail
June 1, 2011
A guest post by: Ryan Anders Whitney Ottawa’s Transitway Ottawa’s Transitway opened in 1984 and provides high-quality Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) service to the region. The system carries an average of 240,000 riders per day and 96 million annually, which means Ottawa has the highest transit ridership for any city of comparable size in North America. However, ...Read MoreMetrobús, Argentina’s first BRT system, launches in Buenos Aires
May 31, 2011
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 The public, government officials, and members of the press gathered this morning in the neighborhood of Palermo for the inauguration of the country’s first bus rapid transit system, Metrobús. Mayor of Buenos Aires Mauricio Macri, who was accompanied by City Transportation Secretary Guillermo Dietrich, spoke about the benefits that the 12 km ...Read More