The Potential for Dramatically Increasing Bicycle and E-bike Use in Cities Around the World, with Estimated Energy, CO2, and Cost Impacts Cycling plays a major role in personal mobility around the world, but it could play a much bigger role. Given the convenience, health benefits, and affordability of bicycles, they could provide a far greater proportion of urban passenger…
Topic: Cycling and Walking
Cycling plays a major role in personal mobility around the world, but it could play a much bigger role. A report, A Global High Shift Cycling Scenario, presents the potential for dramatically increasing bicycle and e-bike use in cities around the world. Read the report for detailed exploration of the CO2 and cost benefits of a shift…
The Sustainable Transport Award Committee gave its tenth annual award to Belo Horizonte, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo, the first ever award to result in a three-way tie, giving credit to the scale and substance of Brazil’s achievements in increasing mobility and enhancing quality of life in its major cities. In 2014, Belo Horizonte…
O encontro Política Cicloviária do Rio: como queremos avançar? foi realizado pelo ITDP Brasil, Studio-X Rio e Transporte Ativo, e contou com a presença de 33 pessoas de diversas regiões da cidade, interessados na mobilidade por bicicleta, tais como ciclistas, cicloativistas, urbanistas, gestores públicos e integrantes de associações locais de moradores. Seu objetivo foi construir de forma…
Em agosto de 2014, aconteceu a oficina “Ruas completas ao longo do Transcarioca”, uma iniciativa do ITDP Brasil em parceria com a Secretaria de Conservação da Prefeitura do Rio de Janeiro (SECONSERVA). A oficina teve como objetivo analisar o entorno de duas estações do BRT Transcarioca, Cardoso de Moraes/Viúva Garcia e Mercadão, de acordo com os…
This inforgraphic accompanies documents such as Footpath Design and Better Streets, Better Cities, using standards from the Indian Roads Congress’ Guidelines for Pedestrian Facilities to explain best practices for footpath design in India. Download this infographic Source: ITDP India
Walking is fundamental to urban life. It is a healthy and pollution-free form of mobility and recreation. Pedestrian trips account for a quarter to a third of all trips in many Indian cities. However, the poor quality of pedestrian infrastructure sends a message that pedestrians are not welcome in the urban environment. Fortunately, street design practice in India is…
The Bike-Share Planning Guide establishes many important metrics and principles for evaluating bike-share systems around the world. Although each city makes bike-share its own, adapting it to the local context, many of the most successful systems share certain common features. The Guide provides important standards and insights into best practices for building bike-shares, and this infographic…
A Transporte Ativo e o ITDP Brasil, com recursos da Embaixada Britânica, realizaram um amplo estudo para levantar dados e informações sobre a utilização de bicicletas de carga para entregas de estabelecimentos comerciais no Rio de Janeiro. Realizado em nove bairros representando as diferentes regiões administrativas da cidade, com foco no quilômetro quadrado mais denso de…