About Between 2013 and 2019, the city of Chennai, India designed and built footpaths on more than 100 km of streets. Using data collected in 2019, we found that between 9% and 29% of people walking on the improved footpaths would have used a private motorized mode if the footpaths had not been improved. As…
Topic: Cycling and Walking
About This case study report on the City of Paris, France, the 2023 Sustainable Transport Award (STA) winner, dives into the bold policies and actions the city took to redesign its streets, spurring a modal shift in urban transport to encourage more cycling and walking. Adjusting to the surge in active mobility triggered by the…
About Addressing the climate crisis will require rapid, sustained transformation in every country and every sector of industrial activity. In The Compact City Scenario – Electrified report, researchers from ITDP and the University of California, Davis (with support from the ClimateWorks Foundation) modeled the global changes that will be necessary to decarbonize urban passenger transport. The…
About The Atlas of Sustainable City Transport is an online data dashboard that displays indicators of sustainable and inclusive urban passenger transport. The Atlas includes measurements of nine indicators for over 1,000 metropolitan areas, as well as measurements over 40,000 of legal jurisdictions and districts. These indicators do not just measure infrastructure: they measure what…
About Electric bikes, or e-bikes, are close substitutes for cars and two-wheelers because they cover longer distances with less effort. Thus, e-bikes will play a key role in shifting passenger and freight trips away from high-polluting private vehicles and generating fewer emissions if used at scale. While vehicle electrification has focused primarily on large, high-polluting vehicles…
About Addressing the climate crisis will require rapid, sustained transformation in every country and every sector of industrial activity. In The Compact City Scenario – Electrified report, researchers from ITDP and the University of California, Davis (with support from the ClimateWorks Foundation) modeled the global changes that will be necessary to decarbonize urban passenger transport. The team found that only through…
The 2023 issue of the Sustainable Transport Magazine has been re-designed and re-imagined, offering readers a dynamic, in-depth look at the challenges and opportunities to sustainable urban mobility in today’s world. From issues of gender and race to the power of transport digitalization, to the impacts of human-centered design, the content in Issue No. 35…
About In the years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, many cities and countries have taken action to position and promote active mobility—cycling and walking—as transport modes. Demand for active mobility during the pandemic skyrocketed, and cities and governments responded by making more space on streets, providing free access to bikeshare systems, and allocating…