On Wednesday June 13th, ITDP began our official events of the 10-day Rio + 20 conference with a day-long seminar on sustainable urban mobility in the city of Niterói, located just across the harbor from Rio de Janeiro. The 2nd annual seminar, coordinated jointly with the city government of Niterói, brought together policymakers, technical and…
June 1, 2012 On the heels of a three-day national-level training on street design, ITDP India and non-motorized transport expert Michael King arrived in the city of Rajkot for a workshop on the design of complete streets with a group of senior city engineers, planners, and officials from the Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC). Participants visited…
A three-day training workshop jointly organized by ITDP and the Institute of Urban Transport (IUT) concluded on 25 May in New Delhi. The workshop, “Creating facilities for non-motorized transport users,” brought together more than 40 city engineers, planners, officials, practitioners and consultants from across India. Participants visited selected sites in Delhi and conducted street audits…
On May 8th, ITDP CEO Walter Hook addressed the largest real estate conference in Mexico City on best practices in urban mobility, zoning, and parking management. Mexico City has seen a startling 95 percent increase in car use over the last decade, due to poor transportation policy and zoning regulation that has encouraged sprawl and…
Streetfilms’ new video, created in partnership with ITDP, showcases San Francisco’s new sustainable transportation measures that earned the recognition of the sustainable transport award committee. These include the parklet program, which converts parking spaces into people spaces in the form of mini-parks adopted by local businesses and has its roots in Park(ing) Day, the annual…
By Edward T. McMahon, Senior Resident Fellow, ULI Would you prefer to live in a community where you had to drive everywhere for everything, or would you prefer to live in a community where you could walk, ride a bicycle, take public transportation, or drive to get to where you want to go? This question…
Mark Gorton, a New York based information technology and finance entrepreneur and a leading advocate of sustainable transportation, began his week-long trip in India, organized by ITDP, with a talk in Delhi on Monday. “Rethinking the Automobile: Lessons from 100 years of Urban Experience with the Automobile”, focuses on the detrimental impact car-oriented urbanization has…
San Francisco, USA and Medellin, Colombia were declared the winners of the 8th annual Sustainable Transport Award. This year’s slate of nominees is unique in that the two winners, and the two honorable mentions – Cape Town and Buenos Aires – showcase a breadth of interventions that put citizens first. Each city is also a…
From integrated transit systems to innovative parking solutions – all of the 2012 Sustainable Transport Award-nominated cities are exemplars in implementing integrated transport solutions. Over the next week, we will cover profiles of the nominated cities – Medellín, San Francisco, Cape Town, and Buenos Aires – culminating in the presentation of the Sustainable Transport Award…