Presentation notes for the UNEP Regional Workshop “Deals on Wheels: Sustainable Transportation Initiatives in Developing Countries”, San Salvador, July 28-30, 1999. Seventy percent of the 1.3 billion people living in poverty worldwide are women, according to the UN 1995 Human Development Report. Transport-related issues such as access to jobs, markets and social/educational facilities play an important, but underappreciated role in perpetuating…
Author: Nneka Njoku
Letter from the Executive Director: Organizing Pedestrians, Cyclists and Bus Passengers • Budapest Metro: Trojan Horse from European Union • Prague Threatened by Auto Mania • Managua Plans to Bike Around Transport Pitfalls • Making Bikes Work for South Africa • Tehran Clears the Air • Jakarta: A City in Crisis • The Trans-Israel Highway:…
Letter from the Executive Director: ITDP Mobilizes HABITAT • South Africa: Transportation Struggles in the Post Apartheid City • ISTEA Reauthorization: Will the Highway Lobby Steer U.S. Transport Reform Off the Road? • The Cycle Rickshaw can Save the Taj Mahal • Networks for Green Transport: Fighting for the ‘Seoul’ of Transport in Korea •…
This report follows on ITDP’s earlier report, “Counting on Cars, Counting Out People,” published in 1994. That report found significant biases in the nature of World Bank economic rate of return (ERR) analysis, which could result in the favoring of road loans over loans to alternative modes of transport. Since that time, some of the problems in their ERR…
Letter from the Executive Director: ITDP Thinks Globally, Acts Globally • Cuba: Havana Pedals Through Hard Times • Mobilizing Democracy in Haiti •Cycling Renaissance in Mexico City • Poland: Shock Therapy Short-Circuits Public Transit • Upgrading Peruvian Mountain Tracks Puts People First • News Briefs • New Titles • Bulletin Board
Letter from the Executive Director and Program Director: Sustainable Transportation: Are We Winning the Battle But Losing the War? • Eastern Europe: Paving the Way to Environmental Disaster? • Women Take Back the Streets • South Africa: Dismantling the Apartheid City • News Briefs • The Philippines: The Road to Ruin • Will Bicycles be…
Letter from the New President and New Executive Director: ITDP: Fighting for Sustainable Transportation • Mobility Haiti • City Focus: Bangkok, Thailand • Sustainable Transportation News Briefs • Are Bicycles Making Japan More Competitive? • The 3% Solution: A Call for Action • New Titles • Bulletin Board