Wednesday, December 4, 2024

Unused £321m trapped on dormant Oyster cards – and time may be running out...

Topping up. shutterstockIt is 15 years since Transport for London (TfL) launched the Oyster card on London’s buses and tube trains, but Oyster hasn’t...

Growing cities face challenges of keeping the masses moving up, down and across

Cities are growing vertically as well as horizontally, so infrastructure needs to ensure people can move up and down as well as across the...

Growing cities face challenges of keeping the masses moving up, down and across

Cities are growing vertically as well as horizontally, so infrastructure needs to ensure people can move up and down as well as across the...

What public transit can learn from Uber and Lyft

Riders on San Francisco's Muni light rail system. David Lytle, CC BYFor all of their complaints about it, Americans care about public transit. Surveys...

Mass transit News, Research and Analysis – The Conversation

Many Americans need reliable public transit to get to school or work. Frank Hank July 26, 2017Junfeng Jiao, University of Texas at Austin and...

Stranded in our own communities: Transit deserts make it hard for people to find...

Many Americans need reliable public transit to get to school or work. Frank Hank, CC BY-SAAs any commuter who has experienced unreliable service or...

Stranded in our own communities: Transit deserts make it hard for people to find...

Many Americans need reliable public transit to get to school or work. Frank Hank, CC BY-SAAs any commuter who has experienced unreliable service or...

Cities can jump-start climate progress by plugging in their vehicles

Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck, left, and Mayor Eric Garcetti pose next to an all-electric car in this 2015 photo. AP Photo/Nick...

City of cars: Paying for public transport in Los Angeles

WHEN the Los Angeles transit authority extended a railway to link the city’s towering downtown to Santa Monica, a swanky seaside neighbourhood, last May,...

Make housing affordable and cut road congestion all at once? Here’s a way

This transit-oriented development in Oakland, California, combines residential housing with easy access to local transport options and amenities. Eric Fredericks/flickr, CC BY-SATwo of...

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Better Urban Mobility Starts with Universal Accessibility

More than a billion people around the world have a disability, and more than half of them live in cities. That number is expected...

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...