About This STA Spotlight case study on Peshawar, Pakistan, the 2024 Sustainable Transport Award (STA) Honorable Mention, highlights the city’s continual efforts to modernize its public transport and bus systems to emphasize integration, accessibility, and sustainability. Peshawar was previously the recipient of a 2022 STA Honorable Mention for advancements in its Bus Rapid Transit (BRT)…
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About This STA Spotlight case study on the City of Tianjin, China, the 2024 Sustainable Transport Award (STA) winner, highlights the city’s collaborative efforts to expand non-motorized transport and street infrastructure to dramatically improve walking, cycling, and public transit connections. According to Climate Watch, China’s transport-related CO2 emissions alone account for 11% of all global…
About Inclusion, universal access, and empathy are key to building mobility systems that serve all members of society. It is vital to prioritize the needs of underrepresented groups — such as women, the elderly, children, and people with disabilities — through participatory decision-making in planning and delivering mobility infrastructure. Ensuring accessibility and universal design is…
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 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 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 “If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get people and places.” — Fred Kent, urbanist Parking reform is on the rise in cities around the world, as many look to repeal parking minimums and better manage and price their on-street…
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, ITDP 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…
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…