Kunming is the capital and largest city of Yunnan Province in Southwestern China. In many ways it is typical of other similarly sized cities in China. Car ownership has increased by more than 100% between 2005-2009. But still only 17% of residents own cars. According to the Kunming Urban Transportation Institute 30% of residents still…
Author: Nneka Njoku
In the mid-20th century, many American cities started to require a certain number of parking spaces be built any time a new commercial or residential development was created. The assumption was, more people would equal more cars, in a consistent ratio over time, and therefore space must be provided for both side by side. But…
March 23, 2011 Earlier this week the Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with an international organization Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP). The MoU will be in effect for two years, and it calls for ITDP to provide the RMC with technical assistance to improve the city’s overall environment,…
Boulder, an American city of roughly 100,000 people about 30 miles from Denver in Colorado, became a trail blazer in 1970 by creating a Parking Benefits District (PBD), which channels money from curbside parking meters and off-street garage fees into streetscape improvements. Today the program generates over $1 million in annual revenue. Parking fees also…
This spring ITDP brought the Our Cities Ourselves exhibition to South Africa. OCO is a valuable tool helping inspire the public, media and key decision makers to reimagine what their cities could look like with better transportation and better urban planning. Cape Town, which is currently host to OCO, is an example of a city that’s making…
Hamburg, Portland and Zurich are often cited in livability surveys as having high quality urban environments with citizens enjoying near mythical quality of life. All of them have instituted parking caps, sealing the existing public parking supply. Hamburg and Portland have had these caps in place since the mid-70s. Zurich’s parking cap came later, in…
Want less traffic? More walkable streets? Cleaner air? Make it tougher or more expensive to find a parking spot. Donald Shoup, the parking “rockstar” has been encouraging cities to use pricing as a way to manage parking (and driving) demand for over 40 years now in the United States, and cities around the world are…
Bicycle Parking Facility Manual – ASCOBIKE Mauá Model A guide to the creation of urban bicycle parking garages in the model of the bicycle parking facility created and administered by ASCOBIKE — Association of Bicycle Users of Mauá, in Mauá, Brazil, in the metropolitan region of São Paulo, the largest city in South America. …
This week, the new Streetfilms series ‘Moving Beyond the Automobile’, covers Bus Rapid Transit and features ITDP Board President, Enrique Penalosa, and ITDP Executive Director, Walter Hook. Moving Beyond the Automobile is a ten part video series which explores solutions to the problem of automobile dependency. It’s a visual handbook that will help guide policy makers, advocacy…