ITDP’s policy briefs and fact sheets provide summaries of specific issues, projects or programs.
Recent Policy Briefs and Fact Sheets
[panel backgroundcolor=”lightgray” padding=”20px”]
Search Policy Briefs and Fact Sheets By Keyword
[/panel][WEBINAR] Indicators For Sustainable Mobility
January 14, 2019
![[WEBINAR] Indicators For Sustainable Mobility](https://www.itdp.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/toyota-indicators-header-e1560444961373.jpg)
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 MoreRegulating Dockless Bikeshare: Lessons from Tianjin, China
January 25, 2018
Photo Source Tianjin provides an early example of a city’s experience with unregulated dockless bikeshare, followed by efforts to regulate it. This post summarizes forthcoming research by ITDP China about dockless bikeshare in Tianjin, including important lessons for the rest of the world. A Legacy of Bike Manufacturing Tianjin, one of the four municipalities directly under the administration ...Read MoreCelebrate With Us in Washington D.C. This Week
January 5, 2018
ITDP RECEPTION & BRT PLANNING GUIDE CELEBRATION Come share food and drinks with ITDP and friends, meet the authors of the 2017 BRT Planning Guide, and see what’s in store for 2018. RSVP is required so click the link below to join the fun! Date: January 10, 2018 Time: 6-9pm Location: Baby Wale Restaurant, Washington DC RSVP SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT AWARD CEREMONY Representatives from winning city Dar es Salaam, ...Read MoreDockless Bikeshare: What We Know So Far
January 4, 2018
Over the last decade, bikeshare schemes have become a standard feature in cities around the world, with over 1,000 cities offering at least one bikesharing scheme. City governments have incorporated bikeshare into their transportation and sustainability plans as a low-cost and innovative mobility option for residents. More and more cities are realizing the benefits of ...Read MoreBoston Area Communities to Pilot BRT Elements in 2018
December 14, 2017
On December 5, 2017, ITDP joined partners from the BostonBRT initiative in announcing the recipients of three $100,000 grants provided by the Barr Foundation to demonstrate BRT’s potential in metro Boston. Working together with the MBTA (regional transit authority) and across municipal boundaries, the communities of Arlington, Everett, and Cambridge in partnership with Watertown will ...Read MoreGlobal BRT Data is now Backed by The BRT Standard
December 13, 2017
There is growing demand for high quality, high capacity transit all over the world. Increasingly, cities are finding solutions with bus rapid transit (BRT), an efficient, affordable, and sustainable option that, when done right, can compete with the capacity, speed, and comfort of metro systems. The Institute for Transportation and Development Policy and The World ...Read MoreThe TOD Standard v. 3.0: Building Inclusive and Sustainable Cities for Generations to Come
November 28, 2017
by Luc Nadal & Iwona Alfred Population growth and urbanization worldwide is on course to bring two billion additional residents to cities within the next three decades. Creating the buildings, neighborhoods and cities that will house them is a task of a magnitude unprecedented in human history. However, these numbers, as daunting as they are, ...Read MoreAlbuquerque, NM Opens First USA Gold Standard BRT on Historic Route 66
November 27, 2017
Over Thanksgiving weekend, the City of Albuquerque, New Mexico launched a new Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor, known as Albuquerque Rapid Transit or ART , at a public event with elected officials, business leaders, and community supporters. ART is the first BRT corridor to achieve a Gold-Standard with ITDP’s BRT Standard scorecard in the USA. The gold ...Read More[Webinar] TOD Standard 3.0: Building Inclusive Cities
November 20, 2017
![[Webinar] TOD Standard 3.0: Building Inclusive Cities](https://www.itdp.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Blog-Post-Feature-Image-1-e1559926856832.jpg)
Thursday, December 7, 2017 11am EST About the Webinar The TOD Standard is a powerful tool to evaluate projects and neighborhoods, to align policies, regulations, and stakeholder expectation, and to give rise to urban development that is truly inclusive and walking, cycling and transit-oriented. This webinar will review the newest version of the Standard, highlight its enhanced metrics for ...Read MoreSmart Mobility and Open Data: A Global and Personal Perspective
November 20, 2017
by Oliver O’Brien, Urbanist & Researcher, University College- London Oliver O’Brien is an urbanist and researcher in quantitative geography, at University College London. His specialties include spatial analytics of bikeshare systems across the world, and visualizing socio-economic data such as population demographics. Introduction Many major cities around the world are seeing rapid population growth, resulting in increased strain on existing ...Read MoreThe BRT Planning Guide
November 16, 2017
The BRT Planning GuideRead More