ITDP is pleased to announce The Rockefeller Foundation’s endorsement of The BRT Standard, ITDP’s bus rapid transit scoring and certification system. This endorsement will be enormously helpful as ITDP seeks to set an internationally recognized standard for what constitutes best practice in BRT, and works to achieve a gold-standard corridor in the US. Currently in…
Author: Nneka Njoku
On Thursday at the Ford Foundation’s Rio+20 tent, ITDP held the closing ceremony for Mobilidade+, the innovative series that broadened the debate on sustainable urban mobility by considering how mobility affects our daily lives in ways we might never have imagined. Themes discussed over the course of the series included aspects of daily life like…
World’s Largest Development Banks pledge $175 Billion for the Creation of More Sustainable Transport
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL (20 June, 2012)—The eight largest multilateral development banks (MDBs) announced today that they will invest US$175 billion to finance more sustainable transportation systems over the coming decade, boosting equitable economic development and protecting the environment and public health across the developing world. The pledge by the Asian Development Bank, the World…
On Sunday June 17th at the Humanidade Forum at Rio+20, ITDP’s Technical Director, Luc Nadal, gave a presentation assessing the plans for the redevelopment of the port area of Rio by the Principles of urban development for sustainable urban transport. Among several recommendations Luc made on reducing parking and vehicular traffic infrastructure and designing a…
In Rio de Janeiro, an ambitious two-phase regeneration plan for the port area has been underway since 2009, and predicted to be completed in time to shine in the spotlight of Rio’s 2016 Olympic games. The project is groundbreaking for the city, as it integrates cultural, historical, environmental and infrastructure interventions. It is the largest…
In the poorest areas around cities in the developing world, many families can’t afford cars and reliant on mass transit systems. In countries like Indonesia, public spending is much smaller on mass transit than on fuel subsidies. Fuel subsidies encourage driving, making Jakarta’s, and many other cities’, terrible traffic worse, and leave most stuck in…
ITDP’s first official side event took place in Rio Centro, the epicenter of the Rio+20 negotiations. The event, Financing Sustainable Transportation to Support Sustainable Development, was moderated by ITDP Global Policy Director Michael Replogle, and bought together about 70 people from transportation and finance ministries from countries including Brazil, Indonesia, Namibia and Iraq. Organized by ITDP…
The second session of ITDP and Studio-X Rio’s public speaker series at Studio-X Rio’s headquarters continues with part two of a three-part series addressing twelve diverse concepts in relation to mobility, culture, sustainability and waste, and youth. The second session featured Cristina Mendonca, C40-CCI Director for the city of Rio, Pedro Rivera, Director of Studio…
On Wednesday June 13th, ITDP began our official events of the 10-day Rio + 20 conference with a day-long seminar on sustainable urban mobility in the city of Niterói, located just across the harbor from Rio de Janeiro. The 2nd annual seminar, coordinated jointly with the city government of Niterói, brought together policymakers, technical and…