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  • [WEBINAR] Indicators For Sustainable Mobility

    [WEBINAR] Indicators For Sustainable Mobility
    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 ...
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  • ITDP Announces New CEO Heather Thompson

    ITDP Announces New CEO Heather Thompson
    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 ...
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  • Bus Rapid Transit Nearly Quadruples Over Ten Years

    Bus Rapid Transit Nearly Quadruples Over Ten Years
    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 ...
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  • ITDP Releases New Study on Climate Change Ahead of UN Climate Summit

    ITDP Releases New Study on Climate Change Ahead of UN Climate Summit
    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 ...
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  • Santiago de Chile: Transporte y Legislación – Una Mirada Ciudadana

    Santiago de Chile: Transporte y Legislación - Una Mirada Ciudadana
    White Papers Presented at the CEMDA/ITDP International Seminar: Toward the Reform of Transportation and Air Quality Planning—Mexico City 
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  • U.S. Transportation-Air Quality Planning: Evolution of Recent Federal Law and Its Implementation

    U.S. Transportation-Air Quality Planning: Evolution of Recent Federal Law and Its Implementation
    White Papers Presented at the CEMDA/ITDP International Seminar: Toward the Reform of Transportation and Air Quality Planning—Mexico City  This paper provides an overview of U.S. transportation and air quality planning and governance policies from 1920 to the present, with an emphasis on reform laws enacted since the mid-1960s. It scans some of the key features of relevant laws, ...
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  • Transport Policy and Assessment Procedures in the United Kingdom: Lessons for Mexico City

    Transport Policy and Assessment Procedures in the United Kingdom: Lessons for Mexico City
    White Papers Presented at the CEMDA/ITDP International Seminar: Toward the Reform of Transportation and Air Quality Planning—Mexico City This paper reviews recent changes to transport policy in the UK. This is discussed within the context of changes from policies of “predict and provide” to an integrated transport policy and the role of new knowledge on induced travel effects. ...
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  • Constructing the Trans-Israel Highway’s Inevitability

    Constructing the Trans-Israel Highway's Inevitability
    White Papers Presented at the CEMDA/ITDP International Seminar: Toward the Reform of Transportation and Air Quality Planning—Mexico City This paper discusses the role and construction of a sense of inevitability in the forwarding of large infrastructure and development projects. It suggests that the growth of the project’s inevitability- its emergence from being one contested notion amoung ...
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  • Estrategia para Realizar una Reforma Legislativa en Materia de Transporte y Calidad de Aire

    Estrategia para Realizar una Reforma Legislativa en Materia de Transporte y Calidad de Aire
    White Papers Presented at the CEMDA/ITDP International Seminar: Toward the Reform of Transportation and Air Quality Planning—Mexico City
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  • Institutional and Regulatory Options for Delhi’s High Capacity Bus System

    Institutional and Regulatory Options for Delhi's High Capacity Bus System
    The Delhi Government has initiated an ambitious program to improve public transit service throughout the metropolitan area. One important element of their sustainable transport program is the Delhi High Capacity Bus System (HCBS). Currently, Delhi’s plans for HCBS focus primarily on the public procurement of modern, larger capacity, low floor buses, and the construction of center- lane bus lanes ...
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  • UN, WHO Call for Better Policy, Street Design to Reduce Traffic Deaths

    On April 7, hundreds of events around the world highlighted the need for improved traffic safety, in honor of the World Health Organization’s World Health Day – “Road safety is no accident.” Photo: ITDP gave bicycle safety training during Accra’s WHD celebration  The WHO launched a year-long campaign to increase political commitment to improve road safety in response ...
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  • New World Bank Handbook on Transport and Air Pollution

    The newest version of the document should be available on line soon at https://www.cleanairnet.org/cai/1403/article-56396.html. Early versions of the handbook attracted sharp criticism from groups ranging from the Delhi-based Center for Science and Environment to NRDC to the US EPA. The transport sector parts of the document were quite positive, supporting non-motorized transport, bus priority systems, and congestion ...
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  • ASEAN Ministers Endorse Sustainable Transport Policies

    In December, the Ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) formally endorsed a policy statement that includes a host of sustainable transport measures. The ASEAN Secretariat is a regional inter-governmental organization that fosters cooperation in the economic, social, cultural, technical, educational and other fields. Its new transport policy is the strongest statement of its ...
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  • Iraqi Flooded with Cars in Occupation’s Wake

    Under Saddam Hussein, automobiles carried an import tariff of close to 100%. Combined with little free capital, this led to very low levels of motorization, despite the low price of gasoline. In the 12 months since the U.S. invasion of Iraq, tariffs have not been enforced. This has lead to well over half a billion ...
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