The Guangzhou BRT continues to make waves, with ongoing impact analysis by ITDP revealing that it is saving 805,000 average daily users nearly 7 minutes per trip, for a total annual passenger time saving of more than 30 million hours. As well as saving time, passengers are also saving money. A combination of monthly multiple…
Author: Nneka Njoku
Hangzhou is the capital and largest city of Zhejiang Province in Eastern China and also one of the Chinese cities leading the way on public bike share. With 2,050 bike-share stations, 50,000 bikes, and plans for 175,000 bikes by 2020, it really is an example for other global bike share systems. Enjoy the video below, produced…
Goldsmith Brings Over 20 Years of Experience from the Urban Land Institute Marta Goldsmith has been appointed Chief Operating Officer of the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP), beginning July 11th. Ms. Goldsmith joins ITDP from the Urban Land Institute Foundation where she is Senior Vice President. She will manage ITDP’s day-to-day activities, focusing…
A guest post by: Ryan Anders Whitney Ottawa’s Transitway Ottawa’s Transitway opened in 1984 and provides high-quality Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) service to the region. The system carries an average of 240,000 riders per day and 96 million annually, which means Ottawa has the highest transit ridership for any city of comparable size in North…
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 The public, government officials, and members of the press gathered this morning in the neighborhood of Palermo for the inauguration of the country’s first bus rapid transit system, Metrobús. Mayor of Buenos Aires Mauricio Macri, who was accompanied by City Transportation Secretary Guillermo Dietrich, spoke about the benefits that the…
A new independent study, issued by the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy rates Los Angeles, Cleveland, Las Vegas, Eugene and Pittsburgh as the nation’s leading cities for bus-based transportation because of their high-quality bus rapid transit systems (BRT). BRT combines the flexibility of buses with the speed and priority of light rail, but at…
The transportation system in the United States has often been dominated by a particular mode. A century ago it was rail; in the last several decades it has been the automobile. Over time we have come to learn that while various modes have a tremendous impact on the shape of our communities, the movement of goods,…
Guangdong, China’s most populous (and also most prosperous) province has been experiencing an explosion in greenway development. An initial rollout of hundreds of kilometers of high quality bike and pedestrian pathways in 2010 in Guangzhou (the provincial capital) has laid the groundwork for even more ambitious plans. The city plans improve greenway coverage and connectivity…
This week EMBARQ released a new report entitled “From Here to There: A Creative Guide to Making Public Transport the Way to Go.” According to EMBARQ the report “encourages cities and transit agencies to think critically and creatively about how to make public transport the preferred way to travel.” Distinctive marketing and branding are one…