Five Temporary COVID Measures that US Cities Should Make Permanent
Over the past month, as the spread of COVID-19 has upended daily life throughout the United States, cities have been grappling with how to...
Pune Leads India Toward a Sustainable Future
Every year, the Sustainable Transport Award is given to a city that has implemented innovative sustainable transportation projects to improve mobility, reduce air pollution...
How China Kept Transit Running During Covid-19
With the easing of COVID-19 restrictions, governments throughout the world have reopened public transport systems as people have begun to return to work, school,...
From Skeptic to Advocate: One Boston Area Mayor’s Transit Journey
Everett, Massachusetts, is a city directly bordering Boston. It has an ethnically diverse population of 40,000 people––one-third of whom were born outside of the...
The World Stopped but Transit Kept Moving
Public transportation, despite being an essential service, is frequently on the chopping block for municipal budget cuts. In 2020, transit worldwide was walloped by...
Reducing emissions with better transit, part three: Examples from leading cities
Greater transit use is key for lowering emissions, and cities across America are reconsidering how they serve their residents with public transit—and the land...
Jakarta Is What Resiliency Looks Like
For the past several years, the city of Jakarta, Indonesia, has been on track for a major transport transformation. Like most other big cities,...
US Transit Leaders: “We Must Prioritize, Invest, and Do Better for BRT”
The majority of transit trips in the US are by bus. California State Senator Scott Wiener’s keynote address at ITDP’s U.S. Bus Rapid Transit...
Buses are Critical to Zero-Emission Mobility in Los Angeles
Los Angeles residents lose over 100 hours each year due to traffic congestion. For decades, freeways and single-family neighborhoods spread outward and parking consumed...
In This Indonesian City, Green Corridors Are Key to Bolstering Public Transit
Despite having a much smaller regional budget than the capital city Jakarta, the Central Java city of Semarang has successfully developed a progressive public bus system known as Trans Semarang. Trans Semarang was launched in...
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