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[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 MoreQunli New City Report (Harbin, China)
April 29, 2009
群力新区是哈尔滨市城市总体规划中确定的近期重点开发建设的新区。群力新 区位于松花江南岸，哈尔滨市道里区西部。东起何家沟，西至规划四环路，南 起哈双北线，北至江南群力堤，总用地面积 27.33 km2，规划人口32万。 本着可持续发展的交通政策和观点及以人为本的目的，为了更好的将亚洲发展 银行可持续交通研究项目的成果更好的和哈尔滨新区建设有效结合，将群力新 区设计为不是为了解决短期的车辆交通阻塞，而是为了建成一个我们梦想的可 居住的和有吸引力的城市新区，受哈尔滨市群力新区开发建设管理办公室的委 托，开展本咨询研究工作。 我单位联合ITDP（交通政策和发展研究所）、国外咨询公司和北京卓星工程 咨询有限责任公司共同对部分道路设计和交通规划进行优化设计咨询。Read MoreCase Study: Motorcycles in Guangzhou
April 29, 2009
In the early 1980s, owning a motorcycle was equivalent in status terms to having an expensive imported car today. During the reform and opening‐up period in the 1980s, motorcycles gradually began to enter millions of households. Faced with very rapid increases in the motorcycle vehicle fleet, the city perceived a number of problems associated with motorcycles. Due to ...Read MoreHans Rey’s Wheels4Life Donates California Bikes in Tanzania
April 27, 2009
We recently delivered a number of bikes, in person, to people living in Tanzania. The delivery was part of our ongoing Wheels 4 Villages project. The culture here is such that many people within the community are more than happy to share their bikes. This is wonderful to see; when a person is given a bike ...Read MoreBRT Gets New Operator, Routes (Lagos, Nigeria)
April 27, 2009
Ahead of the inauguration of a new Bus Rapid Transit route in Lagos, a new group, Igbatuntun City Bus Cooperative Society that will operate the Iyana Ipaja-Ikotun mass transit buses, has been formed. The new corridor, which will stretch to Igando, Iyana Iba, Ipaja, Ayobo and Maryland, would open for operation this month with 50 high ...Read MoreCali’s BRT System Takes Off
April 24, 2009
With a population of nearly 2.5 million inhabitants, Cali is ranked as the third most important city in Colombia after Bogota and Medellin respectively. It is now the third city in Colombia to implement a bus rapid transit (BRT) system. Called MIO, phase one opened in February to public excitement and fanfare after many months ...Read MoreGreen Is The New Black On Earth Day in Jakarta
April 23, 2009
More than 50 supporters of the environmental organization World Wildlife Fund (WWF), gathered at a South Jakarta mall Wednesday to fold old newspapers into paper bags. Celebrating Earth Day, which fell on Wednesday, WWF-Indo-nesia invited people to Caf* Walk at Plaza Semanggi to make paper bags out of old newspapers to distribute, for free, to supermarkets ...Read MoreOne Project At A Time Keeps Congestion Away, Experts Say (Jakarta)
April 23, 2009
Jakarta’s administration should focus on one public transportation project at a time, to avoid projects being half completed and unsuccessful, like the waterway and monorail projects, urban planning experts said Wednesday. Despite worsening traffic conditions in the city, the administration has not yet managed to develop any form of efficient public transportation, said urban planning expert ...Read MoreCity Wants Less Cars, More Days (Jakarta)
April 23, 2009
The city administration has expanded its controversial car-free day program from just once a month to twice monthly. The Jakarta Environmental Management Board, or BPLHD, announced on Thursday that it had scaled back the ban on vehicles on the main Jalan Sudirman-Jalan Thamrin thoroughfare during the last Sunday of every month, but would now bar traffic ...Read MoreZuma Already Tastes Challenges of Presidency as South Africa Votes
April 23, 2009
Jacob Zuma’s ride to South Africa’s presidency may be smooth. Retaining the support and admiration of his fanatical following while in office, however, will certainly not be as easy. And Mr Zuma is already having a taste of the Herculean challenges that could be awaiting him, while at the helm. Striking a balance between protecting the existing ...Read MoreActivist Says Jakarta’s Current Vehicle Growth Leads to Transportation Failure
April 22, 2009
If the vehicle growth rate in Jakarta continues to hover around tens of percent annually without any breakthrough in transportation and traffic management, the city will be paralyzed by total gridlock by 2014, a nongovernmental organization said Wednesday. “Total traffic failure is an unbearable risk caused by the city’s failure in transportation and traffic management,” the ...Read More