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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 MoreInfrastructure 2011: A Strategic Priority – New Report by the ULI and Ernst & Young
June 14, 2011
“Downscaling Ambitions and Finding Creative Solutions”: Infrastructure 2011: A Strategic Priority Warns of Strain on U.S. Cities to Maintain Assets & Build Infrastructure Projects As Federal Funding Declines A new report by the ULI and Ernst & Young looks at the challenges faced by many U.S. cities to provide adequate infrastructure services for their residents, workers and businesses. Already under-funded, America’s infrastructure ...Read MoreBike Share in China
June 8, 2011
China has some of the biggest bike share systems in the world and new ones are popping up across the country, some that will include tens of thousands of bikes. ITDP is working primarily with Guangzhou to help expand the city’s current system. ITDP is also documenting best practices (particularly in Asian cities) at Hangzhou’s pioneering ...Read MoreGuangzhou BRT Saving Residents Time, City Money
June 6, 2011
The Guangzhou BRT continues to make waves, with ongoing impact analysis by ITDP revealing that it is saving 805,000 average daily users nearly 7 minutes per trip, for a total annual passenger time saving of more than 30 million hours. As well as saving time, passengers are also saving money. A combination of monthly multiple ...Read MoreThe Biggest, Baddest Bike-Share in the World: Hangzhou China
June 2, 2011
Hangzhou is the capital and largest city of Zhejiang Province in Eastern China and also one of the Chinese cities leading the way on public bike share. With 2,050 bike-share stations, 50,000 bikes, and plans for 175,000 bikes by 2020, it really is an example for other global bike share systems. Enjoy the video below, produced ...Read MoreITDP Appoints Marta Goldsmith as Organization’s First COO
June 1, 2011
Goldsmith Brings Over 20 Years of Experience from the Urban Land Institute Marta Goldsmith has been appointed Chief Operating Officer of the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP), beginning July 11th. Ms. Goldsmith joins ITDP from the Urban Land Institute Foundation where she is Senior Vice President. She will manage ITDP’s day-to-day activities, focusing on ...Read MoreOttawa Considers Moving from Bus Rapid Transit to Light Rail
June 1, 2011
A guest post by: Ryan Anders Whitney Ottawa’s Transitway Ottawa’s Transitway opened in 1984 and provides high-quality Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) service to the region. The system carries an average of 240,000 riders per day and 96 million annually, which means Ottawa has the highest transit ridership for any city of comparable size in North America. However, ...Read MoreMetrobús, Argentina’s first BRT system, launches in Buenos Aires
May 31, 2011
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 The public, government officials, and members of the press gathered this morning in the neighborhood of Palermo for the inauguration of the country’s first bus rapid transit system, Metrobús. Mayor of Buenos Aires Mauricio Macri, who was accompanied by City Transportation Secretary Guillermo Dietrich, spoke about the benefits that the 12 km ...Read MoreU.S. Cities Reinventing Buses as Modern, Efficient, and Effective
May 26, 2011
A new independent study, issued by the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy rates Los Angeles, Cleveland, Las Vegas, Eugene and Pittsburgh as the nation’s leading cities for bus-based transportation because of their high-quality bus rapid transit systems (BRT). BRT combines the flexibility of buses with the speed and priority of light rail, but at ...Read MoreRecapturing Global Leadership in Bus Rapid Transit: A Survey of Select U.S. Cities
May 26, 2011
The transportation system in the United States has often been dominated by a particular mode. A century ago it was rail; in the last several decades it has been the automobile. Over time we have come to learn that while various modes have a tremendous impact on the shape of our communities, the movement of goods, ...Read MoreGreenways in Guangdong
May 25, 2011
Guangdong, China’s most populous (and also most prosperous) province has been experiencing an explosion in greenway development. An initial rollout of hundreds of kilometers of high quality bike and pedestrian pathways in 2010 in Guangzhou (the provincial capital) has laid the groundwork for even more ambitious plans. The city plans improve greenway coverage and connectivity ...Read More