Indian streets are a messy mix of people, cyclists, rickshaws, taxis, cars, buses, even the occasional cow. But within this mess is the vibrancy and fluidity of street life, like a tasty street soup where seemingly unlikely things come together and strange things might be bobbing around. Land use is India is similarly messy and…
Author: Nneka Njoku
The Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) today released the first comprehensive BRT Standard, a defining and scoring designation for bus rapid transit (BRT) systems around the world. Similar to the LEED designation for green buildings, BRT corridors may achieve a basic BRT, bronze, silver or gold designation. As a joint effort by the…
by C. Ranga Rohini, ITDP India With an urbanization rate of over 40 percent in the Indian state of Maharashtra, planning authorities and public transport operators face the increased responsibility of providing efficient transport systems while improving the quality of urban life. Pimpri Chinchwad, one of the state’s fastest growing cities, is set to…
This week, the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) recognized the growing significance of sustainable transport as a key building block of sustainable development by designating a new Action Network on Sustainable Transport. This is ninth Action Network to be recognized by UN DESA. These are action-oriented communities where stakeholders…
ITDP CEO Walter Hook and US Country Director Annie Weinstock were in Pittsburgh on Wednesday to officially recognize Pittsburgh as a US best practice for bus rapid transit. ITDP named Pittsburgh’s Martin Luther King East Busway as one of only five systems in the United States that qualifies as gold, silver, or bronze with the The BRT…
Officials from Lanzhou, China, a city which just saw the opening of China’s second high-capacity BRT, visited Rio de Janeiro and Curitiba in a study tour hosted by ITDP Brazil in partnership with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Development Bank of Latin America (CAF). Over the last week of January and early…
by C. Ranga Rohini, ITDP Indian cities have traditionally been centered around walking and cycling as the primary means of transport. For example, Chennai’s Comprehensive Transportation Study reports that walking and cycling account for almost 34 percent of all trips made in the city. With an increasing number of private vehicles on the road, the…
By Karl Fjellstrom, ITDP China Lanzhou, a city of three million and the capital of Gansu Province in north-western China opened its much-anticipated BRT system in late December. Lanzhou is Asia’s third ‘high capacity’ BRT system, after Guangzhou and Brisbane, and is the first BRT system in the world based on a split station concept…
By Michael Replogle and Ramon Cruz Representing ITDP and the Partnership on Sustainable Low Carbon Transport (SLoCaT) at a meeting of the UN Secretary General’s High Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda in Monrovia, Liberia, Ramon Cruz today urged that sustainable transport be recognized as a key element of sustainable development. The Panel…