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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 MoreU.S. Cities Reinventing Buses as Modern, Efficient, and Effective
May 26, 2011
A new independent study, issued by the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy rates Los Angeles, Cleveland, Las Vegas, Eugene and Pittsburgh as the nation’s leading cities for bus-based transportation because of their high-quality bus rapid transit systems (BRT). BRT combines the flexibility of buses with the speed and priority of light rail, but at ...Read MoreRecapturing Global Leadership in Bus Rapid Transit: A Survey of Select U.S. Cities
May 26, 2011
The transportation system in the United States has often been dominated by a particular mode. A century ago it was rail; in the last several decades it has been the automobile. Over time we have come to learn that while various modes have a tremendous impact on the shape of our communities, the movement of goods, ...Read MoreGreenways in Guangdong
May 25, 2011
Guangdong, China’s most populous (and also most prosperous) province has been experiencing an explosion in greenway development. An initial rollout of hundreds of kilometers of high quality bike and pedestrian pathways in 2010 in Guangzhou (the provincial capital) has laid the groundwork for even more ambitious plans. The city plans improve greenway coverage and connectivity ...Read MoreBest Practices in Marketing and Branding BRT
May 24, 2011
This week EMBARQ released a new report entitled “From Here to There: A Creative Guide to Making Public Transport the Way to Go.” According to EMBARQ the report “encourages cities and transit agencies to think critically and creatively about how to make public transport the preferred way to travel.” Distinctive marketing and branding are one of ...Read MoreNew Book Celebrates Cycling in Mexico City
May 24, 2011
ITDP recently assisted Mexico City’s local bicycle advocacy group, Bicitekas, in creating a new page book that showcases the stories of 41 urban cyclists between the ages of 9 and 75. According to Ruth Pérez López, the book’s editor, the stories were collected from people from a wide range of professions and neighborhoods in Mexico ...Read MoreBiking in Buenos Aires
May 23, 2011
Buenos Aires is making it easier to ride a bicycle, with new lanes and an expansion of the city’s bike share system. The city has installed 60 km (37 miles) of new bike lanes in the busiest parts of the city, they aim to have 100 km total installed by the end of this year. The ...Read MorePune BRT: Recreating a Vision
May 20, 2011
Pune, cultural capital of Maharashtra, has begun to develop a new, robust public transport system in the form of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT). The Pune metropolitan region is comprised of two municipal corporations—Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad—with a population of over five million. The twin cities face a daunting challenge: how to preserve sustainable and equitable mobility ...Read MoreBicycle Sharing Expands in Mexico City
May 19, 2011
Mexico City’s government is planning to broadly expand ECOBICI, the city’s bicycle-sharing system, which has proved extremely popular during its first year. ECOBICI was launched in February 2010 in six central neighborhoods around the Reforma and Insurgentes corridors, which account for 40% of the city’s daily work trips. ECOBICI makes intermodal connections with the city’s ...Read MoreThe National Autonomous University of México Celebrates its 100th Birthday With a Bike Rally
May 17, 2011
This spring ITDP Mexico and UNAM co-sponsored a bike rally that brought together academics and students to celebrate the 100th birthday of this famous Mexican university. At the rally, the Dean of UNAM, Jose Narro Robles, spoke about his university’s continued commitment to promoting the use of more sustainable and equitable transport systems, and reducing private ...Read MoreA Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020
May 12, 2011
With nearly 1.4 million people killed each year, road traffic fatalities are a major international public health and development crisis. This week marks the launch of the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020, a global effort led by the United Nations and the World Health Organization to save 5 million lives over a ten year period. Given the higher density ...Read More