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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 MoreCycling’s Gender Gap: Breaking The Cycle of Inequality
July 6, 2022
A critical gender gap exists in cycling — in fact, it is one of the most stark illustrations of gender inequity amongst modes of transportation, and this dynamic persists in city after city. In Kisumu, Kenya, men account for 96% of all cyclists and use cycling for 7% of their trips — in contrast, women in ...Read MoreEnsuring Access for All Persons with Disabilities
June 29, 2022
In this new paper, Access for All: Persons with Disabilities, ITDP and World Enabled (The Victor Pineda Foundation) explore accessible transit-oriented development and sustainable urban mobility through the lens of people with disabilities and offer a set of recommendations to promote responsive actions. Persons with disabilities make up nearly 15% of the global population, and ...Read MoreAn Antiracist Future For Our Highways
June 19, 2022
On the heels of the movements for racial and social justice that swept the US and the world in 2020, the need to take a critical lens and reflect on the extensive history of systemic racism in our daily lives has never been more urgent. It is clear that — from healthcare to education to ...Read MoreHow Cycling Powers People and Economies
June 14, 2022
Cycling went beyond connecting people to essential services like healthcare, grocery stores, and front-line jobs — it also served as a critical means for reaching friends and loved ones. In fact, in 2020, there was so much demand for cycling that many manufacturers could not keep up. The global market for bicycles was estimated at ...Read MoreHow Peshawar Approaches Sustainable, Accessible & Inclusive Transport
June 9, 2022
Peshawar is located in the capital of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Northwest Pakistan and has a population that has recently boomed to nearly 2 million residents, but with an estimated 40% living below the poverty line. In recent years, Peshawar has struggled with congested streets filled with private cars, pedestrians, and small informal public ...Read MoreCompact & Electrified Cities Have the Potential to Massively Reduce Emissions
May 9, 2022
Curbing emissions to prevent the worst effects of climate change begins with transforming our cities. As populations continue to increase, how cities approach growth and development will determine the future of our planet and our lives. If we continue on the same path of building sprawling cities around gas-guzzling private vehicles instead of around people, ...Read MoreRiding Into A New Urban Agenda
April 28, 2022
On April 27th, UN-Habitat and ITDP hosted Riding into a New Urban Agenda, a bike ride and discussion event ahead of the UN General Assembly’s High-Level Meeting in New York City. The event called attention to cycling as an essential transportation mode and basic service for promoting more equitable and livable cities. In recent years, ...Read MoreFrom the Golden Coast to the Bay State: U.S. Cities on the Move
April 21, 2022
ITDP recently interviewed two of its U.S. Program team members to get their perspectives on the challenges and opportunities facing their regions when it comes to advancing more sustainable and equitable cities. Carolynn Johnson is ITDP’s West Coast Program Manager based in Southern California and leads the organization’s research, engagement and advocacy projects in the region. Julia ...Read MoreFrom Commuter to Care: Public transport’s role in creating the new normal
April 19, 2022
Before the pandemic, around the world, public transport was not working well for many people. When they could afford to leave public transport, they would. Ridership was declining in many places, especially for road-based public transport. For example, Brazil saw a 25.9 percent decrease in bus passengers between 2013 and 2017. In the United States, ...Read MoreStrengthening the Human Infrastructure of Cycling
March 2, 2022
As cities around the world embrace cycling as an increasingly important part of their transport strategies, urban policies to encourage it are still predominantly focused on urban planning and design measures, in line with the mantra “build it and they will come”. If we are to successfully combat the many challenges caused by car dominance ...Read More