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…
Author: Nneka Njoku
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,…
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…
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…
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…
Here is a closer look at what a MOBILIZE conference is like. MOBILIZE Santiago 2017 Teaser from ITDP on Vimeo. June 26-28, 2018 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania MOBILIZE is the annual sustainable transport summit of the Institute for Transportation and Development (ITDP), which brings together urban transport and development practitioners alongside world-class researchers to celebrate best…
The launch of CTFastrak, the Connecticut Department of Transport’s (ConnDOT) Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) brand linking communities around Hartford, Connecticut was inspired after a study tour in 1997 to Curitiba, Brazil made by local officials. Participants in the study tour got to experience riding the world’s first BRT, built in the 1970s. First Transit representatives, who…
The rapid pace of technology-driven innovation from the private sector in shared transportation services, vehicles and networks is filled with both opportunity and risk. The impending advent of self-driving vehicles, for example, will have a profound impact on livelihoods, congestion and urban land use. At the same time, city streets are a finite and scarce…