The June 2024 Sustainable Transport Newsletter from ITDP provides highlights and news from our global teams, with a focus on ITDP’s Year of the Bus and our various bus and public transport-related projects around the world. The newsletter also previews upcoming research, products, and resources that will keep readers up-to-date on the latest trends in…
Topic: Public Transport
About Bus rapid transit (BRT) is a powerful public transit solution that can move large numbers of passengers in cleaner buses, helping cities deliver on their climate goals. Building on the release of the 2024 BRT Standard and as part of ITDP’s year of the bus, the BRT Simple Calculator Of Project Effects (BRT SCOPE) is…
About In response to equity, climate, health and economic crises worldwide, ITDP and VREF convened global transport stakeholders in 2022-2023 to consider the importance of public transport as the main enabler for accessible, resilient and just cities. This year-long MOBILIZE Learning Lab program gathered expert researchers and practitioners from around the world to ideate on…
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 this Edition The BRT Standard is both a framework for understanding BRT and an evaluation tool for BRT corridors based on international best practices. BRT experts have evaluated the elements that receive points in the BRT Standard in a wide variety of contexts. When present, these elements result in consistently improved system performance and…
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…