Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Towards A Low-Carbon Future for Yichang, China

During the 2020 United Nations General Assembly, China announced its goal of achieving carbon neutrality before 2060. Although this timeline is further out than...

India Needs More Compact, Electrified Cities to Meet Climate Goals

Cities worldwide have two strategies available to decarbonize their transport sectors, but neither alone will be sufficient to address the impacts of climate change....

India Needs More Compact, Electrified Cities to Meet Climate Goals

Cities worldwide have two strategies available to decarbonize their transport sectors, but neither alone will be sufficient to address the impacts of climate change....

Why This Is Our Year of the Bus

In recent years, many cities have begun to invest more in improving the quality of public transport, including both physical and operational innovations. However,...

Why This Is Our Year of the Bus

In recent years, many cities have begun to invest more in improving the quality of public transport, including both physical and operational innovations. However,...

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,...

Cutting Urban Emissions with Policies that Promote Alternatives to Driving

Decreasing the number of miles traveled by cars and trucks is one of the most impactful measures considered in a recent ICCT study of...

Fostering Sustainable, Accessible African Cities Through TOD

Rapid urbanization is creating complex, multifaceted challenges and opportunities around the world. African cities are undeniably at the forefront of this phenomenon. As Africa’s...

In These US Cities, Parking Reform Is Gaining Momentum

Parking reform, an often overlooked component of the  sustainable transport movement, has taken to the national spotlight in the US as it gains momentum...

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Meeting the moment after the 2024 elections

We are heading towards a budgetary cliff on a transportation program that has failed to deliver on every one of its promises, from congestion...

How These Three Cities Are Scaling and Improving Urban Cycling

In 2021, ITDP launched the global Cycling Cities campaign to equip governments, planners, and advocates with tools and resources to make cycling a safer,...

Voters across America show support for more transportation options

Throughout the United States, various measures for funding transportation improvements were approved, advancing efforts to invest in the rest at the local level. Columbus, Ohio...

Three transportation policy recommendations for state legislators and governors

As new and returning governors and legislators prepare to take office, Transportation for America urges them to consider key transportation policy recommendations in this...