From integrated transit systems to innovative parking solutions – all of the 2012 Sustainable Transport Award-nominated cities are exemplars in implementing integrated transport solutions. Over the next week, we will cover profiles of the nominated cities – Medellín, San Francisco, Cape Town, and Buenos Aires – culminating in the presentation of the Sustainable Transport Award…
Author: Nneka Njoku
From integrated transit systems to innovative parking solutions – all of the 2012 Sustainable Transport Award-nominated cities are exemplars in implementing integrated transport solutions. Over the next week, we will cover profiles of the nominated cities – Medellín, San Francisco, Cape Town, and Buenos Aires – culminating in the presentation of the Sustainable Transport Award…
Cape Town, South Africa is a 2012 nominee for the opening of its first BRT corridor and its integration with cycling as a first step in using transportation to increase inclusivity and accessibility. The My CiTi system opened, in an area of the city without much mass transit investment, with a 16 km corridor and…
From integrated transit systems to innovative parking solutions – all of the 2012 Sustainable Transport Award-nominated cities are exemplars in implementing integrated transport solutions. Over the next week, we will cover profiles of the nominated cities – Medellín, San Francisco, Cape Town, and Buenos Aires – culminating in the presentation of the Sustainable Transport Award…
When the 17th COP in Durban, South Africa ended last month, the future of climate change legislation was looking up. Not only did all the signatories to Kyoto (including the U.S. for a historic first time ever) agree to forge a treaty by 2015 to bring all countries under a legally binding emissions reduction agreement…
Letter from the CEO: Strange Weather, Changing Streets, Stormy Relations • Tehran’s Transport Turnaround • Buenos Aires Tangos Towards Sustainability • Going for the Gold: Introducing the BRT Standard • Finding Atlantis: Cape Town Reconnects • Parking: A Bad Romance • SFpark: San Francisco Knows How to Park It • Our Cities Ourselves Goes Global…
Better Streets, Better Cities: a Guide to Street Design in Urban India illustrates ways that good design can help create safer streets and more livable public spaces. The guide was prepared by ITDP in collaboration with the Ahmedabad-based Environmental Planning Collaborative. Current street design practice in India is often based on a vision of high-speed…
Ahmedabad’s two-year-old bus rapid transit (BRT) system, known as Janmarg, earned one more national award during the fourth annual Urban Mobility India (UMI) conference held in New Delhi. India’s Ministry of Urban Development recognized Janmarg as the “Best Intelligent Transport System Project.” The Janmarg BRT has won six national and international awards in the system’s…
Nicky Gavron, former Deputy Mayor of London, told a packed room at the China Real Estate Guide (REG) Summit, how London had unwittingly followed ITDP’s ‘Our Cities Ourselves’ principles for transport in urban life to turn “the dirty old man of Europe” into a city that has achieved the world’s fastest shift from the private…