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2023 STA Winner Paris, France Presents a Bold Vision for its Historic Streets

Over the past few years, Paris’s mobility investments and policies have inspired cities worldwide and garnered significant recognition from the transport community. Soon, the...

2023 STA Winner Paris, France Presents a Bold Vision for its Historic Streets

Over the past few years, Paris’s mobility investments and policies have inspired cities worldwide and garnered significant recognition from the transport community. Soon, the...

Pedestrian Bridges Make Cities Less Walkable. Why Do Cities Keep Building Them?

Pedestrian bridges are structures built over roads that require people to take longer, often inaccessible routes up and over many lanes of car traffic,...

The Right to Walk: Insights from Walk21 Kigali

Walk21 advocates for improvements to walking-related policy and infrastructure to ensure that walking is measured, valued, and prioritized by governments and stakeholders around the...

Reforming Off-Street Parking is the Key to Fewer Emissions and More Livable Cities

In ITDP’s Breaking the Code: Off-Street Parking Reform report, we take a closer look at these considerations and the outcomes of reforms by diving...

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...

Cycling’s Gender Gap: Breaking The Cycle of Inequality

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Riding Into A New Urban Agenda

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Kisumu Puts Pedestrians First

Kisumu is a port city situated on the shores of Lake Victoria and is Kenya’s third largest urban settlement with a population slightly over...

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A Marathon, Not a Sprint: Lessons from India’s Walking & Cycling Challenges

As we close the chapter on two of India’s landmark mobility initiatives, the India Cycles4Change (C4C) and Streets4People Challenges (S4P), there is much to...

This US Company Just Successfully Tested a Reusable Hypersonic Rocket Plane

Stratolaunch has finally found a use for the world’s largest airplane.Twice in the past five months, the company launched a hypersonic vehicle over the...

Are Electric Two-Wheelers the Future?

Two-wheelers — mopeds, motorcycles, and other higher-speed, high-powered motorbikes — are gaining in popularity, especially the faster ones. They are quick and affordable, and...

Advancing Gender Inclusion in Nairobi’s Transport System

Accessibility in urban transport systems is greatly influenced by design choices. These choices can either facilitate or hinder the mobility of various user groups,...