Bernardo Baranda, ITDP Regional Director for Latin America, presented the organization’s 8 Principles of Sustainable Urban Mobility on June 6th at the Green Nation Fest, a “festival of environmental sustainability” in Rio de Janeiro’s Quinta da Boa Vista Park. Speaking to a crowd ranging from high school students to architects, Baranda described examples of best…
Author: Nneka Njoku
After years of planning and preparation, and with the world’s attention turned towards Rio in the final days before Rio+20, the city’s first of four planned BRT lines began operations on June 6th. Rio Mayor Eduardo Paes, alongside former President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, led the formal inauguration ceremony. ITDP was represented at the…
Kicking off ITDP’s busy roster of events leading up to Rio+20, the Mobilidade+ series launched on June 5th at Studio-X Rio’s headquarters. The series, organized by ITDP Brazil and Studio-X (Columbia University) in partnership with UN-Habitat, SLoCat, C40 Rio, and Transport Ativo, illustrates how urban mobility permeates diverse aspects of daily life in cities, and…
On June 8th, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Commissioner of the NYC Department of Transportation Janette Sadik-Khan, Executive Coordinator of Rio + 20, Brice Lalonde, Resident Director General of the Asian Development Bank North America Allesandro Pio and SLoCaT Deputy Director of UN-Habitat Yamina Djacta joined forces with ITDP to promote biking in the lead up…
June 1, 2012 On the heels of a three-day national-level training on street design, ITDP India and non-motorized transport expert Michael King arrived in the city of Rajkot for a workshop on the design of complete streets with a group of senior city engineers, planners, and officials from the Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC). Participants visited…
A three-day training workshop jointly organized by ITDP and the Institute of Urban Transport (IUT) concluded on 25 May in New Delhi. The workshop, “Creating facilities for non-motorized transport users,” brought together more than 40 city engineers, planners, officials, practitioners and consultants from across India. Participants visited selected sites in Delhi and conducted street audits…
Mark Gorton’s “Rethinking the Automobile Talk Tours India” documents the Streetfilms co-founder’s week-long tour, organized by ITDP India, through Delhi, Chennai and Ahmedabad. The video features ITDP’s Pratik Dave and Shreya Gadepallli, as well as Ahmedabad’s world-class Bus Rapid Transit system. Mark spoke with Indian business leaders and NGOs to share lessons learned from the…
On May 8th, ITDP CEO Walter Hook addressed the largest real estate conference in Mexico City on best practices in urban mobility, zoning, and parking management. Mexico City has seen a startling 95 percent increase in car use over the last decade, due to poor transportation policy and zoning regulation that has encouraged sprawl and…
Streetfilms’ new video, created in partnership with ITDP, showcases San Francisco’s new sustainable transportation measures that earned the recognition of the sustainable transport award committee. These include the parklet program, which converts parking spaces into people spaces in the form of mini-parks adopted by local businesses and has its roots in Park(ing) Day, the annual…