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- ITDP Awards Bronze BRT Status to Pittsburgh, PA
- Posted on May 2, 2013
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Walter Hook discusses Pittsburgh’s BRT with Interim Port Authority of Allegheny County CEO Ellen McLean and County Executive Rich Fitzgerald Photo Credit: WESA
ITDP CEO Walter Hook and US Country Director Annie Weinstock were in Pittsburgh on Wednesday to officially recognize Pittsburgh as a US b...
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- Our Cities Ourselves: Eight Principles for Transport in Urban Life
- Posted on September 20, 2011
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Cyclists in Hangzhou, China. Photo: ITDP
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...
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- Metrobús, Argentina’s first BRT system, launches in Buenos Aires
- Posted on May 31, 2011
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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
María José Vázquez, BRT Executive Unit, GCBA; Andrés Fingeret, ITDP; Guillermo Dietrich, Undersecretary of Transportation, GCBA; Manuela López Menéndez, BRT Executive Unit Leader, GCBA; Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, Chief of Staff, GCBA; Óscar E. Díaz; Bernardo Baranda,...
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- Guangzhou BRT to be Featured in Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
- Posted on April 21, 2011
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Guangzhou’s Bus Rapid Transit system is featured in “Design with the Other 90%: Cities,” the second in a series of themed exhibitions by the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum that demonstrate how design can address the world’s most critical issues, opens Oct. 15 at the United Nations and...
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- New Book: Urban Transport in the Developing World
- Posted on April 17, 2011
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ITDP staff, including Executive Director Dr. Walter Hook, Michael Replogle, Global Policy Director and Founder, and John Ernst, Vice Director, South East Asia have contributed chapters to Urban Transport in the Developing World: A Handbook of Policy and Practice. This twenty chapter guide provides “...
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- Guangzhou wins 2011 Sustainable Transport Award—video
- Posted on January 28, 2011
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- The Hon. Mayor of Tehran, His Excellency Dr.Qalibaf, address to the STA ceremony
- Posted on January 28, 2011
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- TransMilenio Celebrates 10 Years of Operation
- Posted on November 3, 2010
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By Andrés Jara-Moreno, Country Director, Colombia
TransMilenio, Bogota’s world-class BRT system, celebrated ten years of successful operations on October 28th. ITDP President and former Mayor of Bogota, Enrique Penalosa, described TransMilenio as “the best bus system in the word’ in his key...
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- 25 Years of ITDP
- Posted on September 13, 2010
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The Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) was founded in 1985 to promote environmentally sustainable and socially equitable transportation worldwide. We work with city governments and local advocacy groups to implement projects that reduce poverty, pollution, and oil dependence....
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- Best Sustainable Transport Report-Ever!
- Posted on September 10, 2010
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From Sustainable Scotland
At the heart of sustainable development is transport. Worldwide the sector accounts for around a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions, derived largely from cars and trucks. Cities and urban areas in Scotland, and the world, many of them growing massively, have to wake up to...
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