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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 MoreCzech D47 Highway Contract Collapses
May 1, 2003
Under an arrangement known as “BOT” (build, operate, transfer), a private consortium planned to build the 80 kilometers of road connecting Ostrava to the border with Poland, operate it for 30 years and then transfer it back to the government. The government would provide the operating budget through “shadow tolls” per vehicle amounts paid ...Read MoreDraft EU Accession Treaty Endorses CEE Road Building
May 1, 2003
The draft treaty accepts the blueprint laid out by the Transport Infrastructure Needs Assessment (TINA), completed in 1999 by a committee of the European Commission, for extension of the Trans-European Network. The affected countries are Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia, Romania, Bulgaria, and Cyprus. “We know from Western Europe that building before ...Read MoreWhat Future for Iraqi Oil?
May 1, 2003
As Iraq’s oil fields have been state-owned since the 1970s, through contracts to private Iraqi companies, decisions about renewal of such contracts will be determined by the new civilian authority under US Gen. Garner. It is currently unclear whether the Iraqi state oil company will be ‘privatized’, or whether new contracts will be restricted to ...Read MoreLivingstone Discusses Expansion As Congestion Pricing Increases in Popularity
May 1, 2003
Transport for London told ITDP that they are at the early stages of studying the technical feasibility of the plan, as well as the extension of the current congestion pricing zone in central London. A major consideration of the expansion, which would include most of the boroughs of Westminster, Kensington and Chelsea, is eliminating the 90% ...Read MoreSeoul to Raze Elevated Highway, Giving Way to Revitalized City Center
May 1, 2003
Fulfilling a central campaign promise, Seoul Mayor Lee Mung-Bak is moving forward with the restoration of a downtown riverfront tearing down an elevated highway and building a Bus Rapid Transit corridor. In office for only two months, Mayor Lee has wasted little time in announcing a new vision for Seoul and taking steps to see ...Read MoreSports Utility Vehicles, Pickups and Minivans Now 50% of US Vehicle Sales
May 1, 2003
The vehicles on sale in the US this year are the heaviest vehicles on record since World War II. Cadillac is introducing a car weighing 6000 lbs, with 16 cylinders, and 1000 hp. More vehicles were sold in the US in the last two years than at any other time in history, over 17.2 million ...Read MoreAir Pollution Data Available for Megacities of Asia
May 1, 2003
The APMA project was initiated in November 2000 by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Health Organization (WHO) in collaboration with the Korea Environment Institute (KEI) and the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI). The project aims to increase the capacity of governments and city authorities to deal with urban air pollution issues by ...Read MoreFirst Car-Free Sunday Announced in Quito
May 1, 2003
A management committee formed to oversee the promotion of cycleways in the city hopes Quito will be able to make the Ciclopaseo a monthly event. The decision follows a recent major conference on bicycling and walking in the city. The popularity of car-free Sundays is increasing in many cities around the world. In Bogotá, car-free Sundays ...Read MoreBus Rapid Transit to Africa: Cape Town Announces BRT and Bicycle Corridor
May 1, 2003
“For ordinary people, many of whom live in remote parts of the city, and do not have easy access to economic opportunity, the implementation of the rapid bus transit system in the Klipfontein corridor will make a considerable difference to the quality of their lives,” added Cape Town Mayor, Nomaindia Mfeketo. Cape Town has identified the ...Read MoreExperts Outline Benefits of Better Bus System
April 12, 2003
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Lisa Peterson, 212-629-8001, lpeterson@itdp.org A group of international transportation experts arrived in last week to help Cape Town officials design a world-class bus system. Many of the experts were involved in the planning and management of TransMilenio, the successful Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system built in Bogotá, Colombia, which has brought incredible improvements in ...Read More