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The COVID-19 pandemic had significant impacts on public transport systems worldwide. Public health restrictions in cities limited the mobility of many—the International Energy Agency...
How This Indian City is Empowering Women and Improving Transport Connectivity
The City of Bhubaneswar, a 2023 Sustainable Transport Award Honorable Mention, has been a significant mover in green and equitable urban mobility since 2018,...
How This Indian City is Empowering Women and Improving Transport Connectivity
Bhubaneswar Is the capital of the State of Odisha in India and forms one of the Golden Triangle of Tourism nodes in the State,...
Puget Sound’s strategy to center equity in the new normal
Spurred on by COVID-19 disruptions, leaders of the Puget Sound Regional Council found a new way to allocate federal transit formula dollars. Their equity-focused...
How Transport Planning in Brazil’s Cities Can Be More Inclusive of Women of Color
Brazil’s National Urban Mobility Policy has a core objective of reducing transport inequalities nationwide and promoting more inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable mobility in...
20 Groups Call for Strengthening the USDOT’s Equity Action Plan
On behalf of 20 national and community-based groups representing millions of Americans, ITDP submitted a letter to the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) asking...
Why Road Safety is an Issue of Race and Equity in US Cities
This Juneteenth, it is crucial that the transport community continues to acknowledge the inequitable impacts of urban planning on low-income communities of color across...
US Working Group Calls on White House Council to Focus on Environmental Justice, Frontline...
Nine major national and regional transportation, environmental, and environmental justice organizations issued a statement yesterday on implementing environmental justice goals for frontline communities exposed...
Ensuring US Federal Transportation Policy Protects Frontline Communities
Nine major national and regional transportation, environmental, and environmental justice organizations issued a statement yesterday on implementing environmental justice goals for frontline communities exposed...
Challenges and Opportunities for Gender-Equitable Transport in Cairo, Egypt
ITDP Africa, in partnership with the New Urban Communities Authority (NUCA), UN Women, and UN-Habitat, recently undertook a comprehensive study to understand the...
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