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How Sustainable is Your City’s Transportation Network?
...and how does it compare with its peer communities?
May 30, 2024
The Definition of Great BRT Is Changing Fast — And Most of the U.S. Isn’t Measuring Up
A top international transportation organization is setting the record straight about what BRT is – and what it should aspire to be in 2024.
May 16, 2024
Study: Just Shifting to EVs Won’t Save Our Cities, Planet
“When we design our cities, we’ve been putting moving cars ahead of moving people,” said the head of the ITDP “It doesn’t have to be that way."
December 10, 2021
How to Accelerate Parking Reform in U.S. Cities

March 17, 2021
Monday’s Headlines: Focus on Pedestrians Edition
We spent a lot of time this weekend nerding out on which world capitals are truly great places for pedestrians. And New York didn't fare so well. Check out that report and others in today's news digest.
October 19, 2020
The Right to Walk
Choosing to move on foot - to work, school, or the market - should be safe and easy for urban residents. Yet city streets are increasingly being built for high-speed, personal vehicles.
January 30, 2018
How Much Can Bicycling Help Fight Climate Change? A Lot, If Cities Try
A new study from the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy attempts to measure the potential of bikes and e-bikes to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
November 18, 2015
It’s Smart to Be Dense
As the world’s population continues to urbanize, our cities have two options for growth: densify or sprawl. To accommodate a more populous and more prosperous world, the spread-out, car-dependent model of the 20th century must change. In this video, the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) and Streetfilms team up to bring you the most important reasons for building dense.
July 6, 2015
Parking: Searching for the Good Life in the City
Streetfilms is proud to partner with ITDP to bring you this fun animation that's sort of a cross between those catchy Schoolhouse Rock shorts and the credit sequence for a 1960s-style Saul Bass film.
July 10, 2014
How Do You Grade a Bike-Share System?
Bike-share has exploded in the last decade -- and in North America, just in the last few years. What started as a shaky concept in Amsterdam in the 1960s has matured into a viable transit option worldwide, with 600 systems offering more than 600,000 bikes.
December 6, 2013