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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 MoreBy Bicycle, Ghana Groups Raise Awareness for World AIDS Day
November 27, 2003
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Lisa Peterson, 212-629-8001, lpeterson@itdp.org The Ghana AIDS Commission, in cooperation with UNAIDS, the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) and the Republic of Ghana’s Ministry of Health, has launched a campaign to raise public awareness about AIDS through bicycle rides. Two rides, one through all of Ghana’s 11 regions and one through Nigeria, ...Read MoreCentral Europe’s New Brownfield Malls
October 1, 2003
Thanks to the efforts of a local NGO, Vankovka, a new development in Brno, Czech Republic will preserve an historic brownfield site and incorporate community services into new mall development. The site was purchased by the city of Brno and will be developed by the German firm ECE. Next to a new shopping mall, in the ...Read MoreSurabaya Toll Road Proceeds over Objections from City
October 1, 2003
Toll road promoters received a boost in July when President Megawati suggested that eight suspended toll road projects, including the one through Surabaya, were to move forward. Since then, the Mayor and other elected leaders, who are from the same political party as the president, have felt pressure to refrain from public criticism of the ...Read MoreMaracaibo Weighs Bus Service Improvements, Light Rail
October 1, 2003
Based on the results of the Commission’s evaluation, two projects have been given new life – a light rail project developed in 1994 and a bus restructuring proposal created in 1995. Though the light rail project was never completed, the infrastructure was partially built. Work on light rail infrastructure will restart in October, while the project ...Read MoreITDP Europe – SUSTRAN Launched
October 1, 2003
Founding members included Michael Replogle (ITDP President), Walter Hook (ITDP Executive Director), Yaakov Garb (ITDP CEE Regional Director), Jirina Jackson (ITDP CEE Program Director), Andras Lukacs (President, Clean Air Action Group, Hungary), Roelof Wittink (Director I-CE Cycling, Netherlands), Axel Friedrich (Director, MobileSource/Transport Section, German Federal Environmental Agency-UBA), Manfred Breithaupt (Senior Transport Adviser, GTZ Germany), Deike ...Read MorePedestrianizing Asian Cities (Issue 15, 2003)
September 1, 2003
Letter from the Executive Director: US Fiddles While Oil Burns • Bus Rapid Transit Spreads to Africa and Asia • Transit Terror: The view from Jerusalem • Sao Paulo’s Bus Reform Leads to Turmoil • Access Africa Update • Iraqi Oil and the Future of OPEC • Pedestrianizing Asian Cities • Car Free Days Go ...Read MoreU.S. Bill Could Eliminate Funds for Cycling, Safety and Transit
August 1, 2003
The bill, which has passed the Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Treasury, and Independent Agencies, would cut funding in half for Amtrak, the U.S.’s intercity passenger rail system. Amtrak President David Gunn has identified $1.8 billion as the minimum funding level needed to avoid a costly shutdown the bill would provide only $580 million. The bill ...Read MoreManila’s Fireflies Ride Again, Celebrating “Peace and Pedals”
August 1, 2003
“Fireflies are very sensitive insects, and very beautiful too. They are, however, dying in Metro Manila because of pollution,” said Dinna Louise C. Dayao, a member of the Brigade. “Like them, we are dying too, albeit slowly, because of pollution. We bike to show everyone that we want clean air, now” she said. This year, Lufthansa ...Read MoreEU Behind on Kyoto Goal, Transport Emissions to Blame
August 1, 2003
While the results are certainly disappointing, at least the EU is participating in the Kyoto Protocol and performing yearly monitoring studies that point to the specific areas where emissions targets are not being met. The United States, on the other hand, withdrew from Kyoto and made no progress toward complying with its predecessor agreement, the ...Read MoreBlack Stars on Bogotá Streets
August 1, 2003
While Bogotá’s pedestrian death rate has dropped in recent years 179 pedestrians died in car crashes last year compared to 184 the previous year pedestrians are at the greatest risk. Currently, 61% of deaths caused by automobile crashes in Bogotá are pedestrians. The stars campaign, organized by the Mayor’s Office and the Road Prevention ...Read More