By Jonas Hagen, ITDP Brazilian NGO Transporte Ativo organized a commuter challenge on September 10, 2009, to determine the fastest travel modes for city residents in Rio de Janeiro. This year, a combination of riding the metro and public bicycle allowed commuters to arrive most quickly to their final destination, with the combination of metro…
Author: Nneka Njoku
The Guangzhou, China, bus rapid transit (BRT) system is slated to open in February 2010. The Guangzhou BRT system is perhaps the most well-known and high profile urban project in Guangzhou’s history, and has outstanding demonstration potential for other Chinese cities. It is the first truly high capacity, ‘metro-replacement’ BRT system in Asia, with projected…
By Jonas Hagen Rio de Janeiro will host the summer Olympics in 2016, and if the city uses this opportunity, sports fans from around the world will be able to get around the city using one of the most efficient, sustainable, and people-friendly transport modes: the bicycle. To help show that there is already a…
by Michael Replogle, ITDP The science remains unequivocal. Humans need to take rapid action to slow global warming that is caused by our burning of fossil fuels, or face a climate catastrophe. Although disappointing and lacking in global scope, the accord from the December Copenhagen climate meeting laid a foundation for future progress on comprehensive…
Creating spaces where the young and elderly can interact freely, cities where people can walk and cycle without risking their lives—is what David Sims of Gehl Architects and the Colombian architect Lorenzo Castro proposed to planners in Rio de Janeiro during a three-day workshop, from November 4-6, 2009. Gehl Architects came to Rio de Janeiro…
慢行交通（Non‐motorized Traffic）通常指步行和非机动车交通。从可达性来说，不管交通 如何发达，每次出行的始、终，最终都需慢行交通来承担，这是一种可达性最好的出行方 式。慢行交通系统在完善与提升城市空间功能，提高居民生活品质方面具有重要作用。目前，慢行交通在交通系统中占有很大的比重，随着未来生活品质的不断提升、绿色出行理念的普及和城市出行方式的改变，人们对慢行交通系统的要求将会越来越高，慢行交通系统在城市交通体系中也将变得越来越重要。 一个优秀慢行交通系统，应具有方便、自由、舒适、安全、连续和持续六个方面的功能，不但可以满足人们生产生活的需要，保障行人的出行需求和安全，还应尽量提供更加舒适 的出行环境，营造良好的城市人文环境。由于以往对慢行交通的重视不够，尽管慢行交通 对道路的条件要求最低，但是同全国大多数城市一样，目前哈尔滨慢行交通系统存在着一些问题，给行人出行带来不便的同时也降低了城市的吸引力和宜居性。
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Press Contact: Claudia Gunter, Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (646) 839-6479, cgunter@itdp.org Ahmedabad’s Janmarg Bus Rapid Transit System Reduces Carbon Emissions, Dramatically Improves Residents Access Cities in Developing World Dominate Award Washington, D.C., January 12, 2010—The developing world is leapfrogging developed countries when it comes to urban transport, with the city of…
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On the morning of December 5, more than 400 “EcoPassengers” boarded the CO2-free Climate Express train in Brussels with the goal of arriving in one of the lowest-carbon possible ways to the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) in Copenhagen. Among the passengers were climate change negotiators and observers, business leaders, environmental activists and journalists….