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[/panel][WEBINAR] Indicators For Sustainable Mobility
January 14, 2019
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Wednesday, January 30, 2019 12pm EST Webinar Recording More on the Indicators Indicators for Sustainable Mobility Presentation As Climate Change Escalates, US Cities Fail to Provide Car Alternatives About the Webinar As cities seek to improve their transportation systems to make them more sustainable, equitable, and useful for people, it is critical that they first understand how their system performs. To that ...Read MoreITDP Announces New CEO Heather Thompson
September 19, 2018
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Heather Thompson as our new chief executive officer. Ms. Thompson, who has been serving in the role of interim CEO since February, was selected by the ITDP board of directors after an extensive, international search. Her transition to permanent CEO is ongoing, and will be effective October ...Read MoreBus Rapid Transit Nearly Quadruples Over Ten Years
November 17, 2014
Bus rapid transit has grown by 383 percent in the last ten years, according to new data released by ITDP. As cities around the world discover the benefits and cost effectiveness of BRT, they have built hundreds of systems across dozens of countries that qualify as true BRT. A new interactive map shows a comprehesive ...Read MoreITDP Releases New Study on Climate Change Ahead of UN Climate Summit
September 17, 2014
As world leaders gather for the United Nations Secretary-General’s Climate Summit on September 23rd, ITDP and the University of California, Davis, have released a new report on the impact of transportation emissions on our climate future. According to the new study, more than USD$100 trillion in cumulative public and private spending could be saved, and ...Read MoreEurope’s Vibrant New Low Car(bon) Communities
September 22, 2011
Moving is a time to reevaluate the stuff you own. Boxes of family photos? Coming. That ratty old couch? Not coming. But what if you could leave something even bigger behind? Like your car? New developments are often associated with sprawl and more driving. But eight communities across Europe demonstrate there is a different model. ...Read MoreOur Cities Ourselves: Eight Principles for Transport in Urban Life
September 20, 2011
The Institute for Transportation and Development Policy has developed eight principles designed to create more sustainable cities that produce less carbon emissions. Our Cities Ourselves: 8 Principles for Transport in Urban Life shows how cities from New York to Nairobi can meet the challenges of rapid population growth and climate change while improving their competitiveness. The ...Read MorePhotos from ITDP’s Parking Day Events
September 19, 2011
This year all of ITDP’s field offices participated in Park(ing) Day, or supported a local non-governmental organization that organized an event. Here are some photos of our Park(ing) Day events! View more photos of the Parking Day Events here. See more on our facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ITDP.orgRead MoreITDP Celebrates Park(ing) Day
September 15, 2011
For the past six years on September 16th advocates, planners, bureaucrats and artists have joined forces to create mini pop-up parks in curbside spaces, generally reserved for cars. All this is part of a global movement called “Park(ing) Day” which uses these fun new public spaces to call attention to what is ordinarily a touchy ...Read MoreRajkot Municipal Corporation to develop parking policy
September 14, 2011
Sep 21, 2011 Recognizing the critical importance of parking management as part of a holistic effort to promote sustainable transport, the Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) has initiated the process of developing a parking policy for the city. Rajkot’s problems relating to parking policy and other traffic and transport issues were discussed at a workshop organized by ...Read MoreOur Cities Ourselves: Principles for Transport in Urban Life
August 29, 2011
Livable today, sustainable for the future. The principles outlined here will help cities significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions while improving the quality of life. Citizens of the world do not want to sit in bumper-to-bumper traffic. They do not want to walk in mud, not feel threatened on a simple bike ride to work. They want to be in citites ...Read MoreITDP CEO Walter Hook Inspires Government Staff and Students in Brazil
August 24, 2011
By Maricha Friedman ITDP Chief Executive Officer Walter Hook recently completed teaching a two week course, “The Theory and Practice of Sustainable and Equitable Transportation Planning”, at the Universidade Federal Fluminense in Niteroi, Brazil, near Rio de Janeiro. The course focused on Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) potential in Niteroi but also on parking reform, congestion charging, ...Read MoreSupport Grows for Gold Standard BRT for Chicago
August 18, 2011
Yesterday, the Metropolitan Planning Council in Chicago released a report which calls on the City and the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) to create a robust bus rapid transit network on 10 Chicago streets, each of which would have a dedicated lane for BRT. The MPC invited ITDP board president and former Mayor of Bogotá, Colombia Enrique Peñalosa, ...Read MoreZhujiang Newtown Greenway Improvement – 珠江新城绿道 改善建议
August 17, 2011
前言 在2010 年广州市修建了1000 多公里的绿道，成为了广州市民 休闲娱乐的新去处。对于广州市，这个项目的意义却远远不止改善居民生活的品质，之外绿道还倡导了“绿色出行，低碳生活”的新理念。 虽然广州绿道取得卓越成绩，但是还存在一些不完善之处，怎样使绿道更具吸引力，提高绿道的使用效率，更人性化。如何与人民日常生活通勤结合，如何使绿道被更多的人喜爱和使用，是我们面临的现实问题和挑战。 通过绿道与慢行交通及城市市政路网有效结合，可为城市营造出更安全，更具活力，更幸福宜居的环境，以提高城市竞争力及宜居性。 通过对广州已建绿道的调研，并以珠江新城为案例，借鉴国际上绿道实施的成功经验，提出珠江新城绿道的改善方案，这些 措施简单，易实施，花费不大，不会对社会交通造成负面影响，可快速实施。Read MoreGuangzhou BRT Reduces CO2 Emissions by 86,000 Tonnes Annually
August 17, 2011
Guangzhou, China opened its first, 22.5-kilometer Bus Rapid Transit corridor in 2010 in an effort to cut congestion on one of the city’s busiest roads, Zhongshan Avenue, and to improve the efficiency of the city’s bus system. The system has already won awards and garnered the city lots of favorable press, both locally and internationally. ITDP started collecting data ...Read More