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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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  • Child Friendly Cities are Friendly Cities for Everyone

    Child Friendly Cities are Friendly Cities for Everyone
    According to the Department of Transport Statistics, more than 18,500 children (under 14 years old) die of traffic accidents in China every year – 2.5 times the number in Europe and 2.6 times in U.S.A.  Among many others, poor travel conditions is a key component leading to these tragedies.  While many cities around the world ...
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  • MOBILIZE Santiago: Just & Inclusive Cities Become the New Normal

    MOBILIZE Santiago: Just & Inclusive Cities Become the New Normal
      This year, the MOBILIZE Summit in Santiago, Chile was a call to action on our theme of “just and inclusive cities become the new normal”. This vision of mobility and community demands for transport policy advantages to be experienced more equitably throughout neighborhoods in our cities. We must consider how people really travel, and how ...
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  • All-Door Boarding Demo in Boston Blazes Path For Needed Bus Improvements in U.S. Cities

    All-Door Boarding Demo in Boston Blazes Path For Needed Bus Improvements in U.S. Cities
    Allowing passengers to board a bus at any door (front, back, middle) and pre-pay are basic elements of BRT. These elements are also the foundation of good bus service generally as seen in best practice cities around the world. Yet only a handful of U.S. cities have managed to integrate all-door boarding and pre-paying in ...
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  • How Mexico City Became A Leader in Parking Reform

    How Mexico City Became A Leader in Parking Reform
    This post is available in Spanish on ITDP Mexico’s website here.  On July 11, Miguel Ángel Mancera, Mayor of Mexico City announced the “limitation of parking spaces in the city construction code”. This new norm changes minimum parking requirements to maximum depending on the land use of the construction. This puts Mexico City, the largest city ...
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  • Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Wins 2018 Sustainable Transport Award

    Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Wins 2018 Sustainable Transport Award
    Dar es Salaam is the first African City to win the STA Moscow, Russia will receive an Honorable Mention Dar es Salaam, a city of five million, is one of the fastest growing cities in the world, a major economic hub in East Africa and a major port city on the Indian Ocean. Over the last year, ...
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  • The New & Improved TOD Standard

    The New & Improved TOD Standard
      ITDP thanks our partners, the Ford Foundation, for their support of the new TOD Standard as an important resource to create equitable, transit centered cities around the world. The TOD Standard stands for the rights of all to access the city: to walk and cycle safely, to easily and affordably reach the most distant destination through rapid ...
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  • TOD Standard

    TOD Standard
    TOD Standard
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  • MOBILIZE Speaker Series: Paula Bisiau, Department of Transport- Buenos Aires

    MOBILIZE Speaker Series: Paula Bisiau, Department of Transport- Buenos Aires
    BRT now plies Avenida 9 de Julio, the widest avenue in the world (Andrzej Otrebski, Wikimedia Commons) With the recent election of former mayor Mauricio Macrí as president, the city of Buenos Aires should now have greater support from the Argentine government. Down at the local level, meanwhile, the city of 3 million continues to push ...
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  • How Can We Use Data to Improve Cities?

    How Can We Use Data to Improve Cities?
    The world is in the midst of a data explosion. This has the potential to transform cities in many ways by helping to plan for new transport infrastructure and urban growth, and better utilize existing infrastructure and services. Yet, many urban planning experts are finding that cities are not fully benefiting from these opportunities. The old paradigm of ...
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  • The BostonBRT Station Design Competition Winners

    The BostonBRT Station Design Competition Winners
    The BostonBRT Station Design Competition is an ideas competition for Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) stations in Boston.  The competition created an opportunity for designers to showcase creative, innovative and inspiring modern design for a critical part of the BRT System: The Station. BostonBRT challenged the design community to think beyond the traditional bus stop and bring ...
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