Public transport bus serving Corridor 2 (Harmoni-Pulo Gadung) ITDP works to encourage safe, modern, and efficient public transportation systems in cities worldwide. ITDP is currently active in a design and/or consulting capacity in the
BRT programs of
Ahmedabad, India;
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania;
Johannesburg, South Africa (
Rea Vaya);
Jakarta, Indonesia (
TransJakarta);
Guangzhou,
Lanzhou, and
Yichang, China;
Mexico City, Mexico,
Buenos Aires, Argentina, and more. In June 2007, ITDP published the
Bus Rapid Transit Planning Guide along with the
United Nations Environment Programme, the
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), the
Hewlett Foundation, and
Viva. The guide draws from the extensive
BRT design experience of
Latin American
transit planners, and aims to disseminate this information in the US and other countries around the world. The guide is currently available in
English,
Spanish,
Portuguese, and
Chinese, and is free for download in
.pdf format from the ITDP website. noted that "Some American systems reviewed had so few essential characteristics that calling them a BRT system at all does a disservice to efforts to gain broader adoption of BRT in the United States...These systems, with relatively few BRT characteristics, have helped confuse the American public about what exactly constitutes BRT." in
Vrindavan, India In December 2013 the ITDP published the Bike-Share Planning Guide with the aim "to bridge the divide between developing and developed countries' experiences with bike-share." The guide is expected to be useful for planning and implementing a
bike sharing system regardless of the location, size, or density of the city. The guide is currently available only in
English and is free for download in
.pdf format from the ITDP website. ITDP works with local governments on the expansion and design of bike lanes, and pedestrian networks throughout the city. In
São Paulo, Brazil, ITDP assisted in the design of a pilot bicycle path in the neighborhood of
Butantã. For the project, ITDP commissioned a report for a 58 kilometer
feeder network, which will lead cyclists from adjacent streets and sidewalks to the bicycle path. The path will pass through a high-visibility corridor of the city, and if successfully implemented could be expanded to surrounding neighborhoods and throughout the city. Past projects have included a redesign of
India's traditional
cycle rickshaw in collaboration with local experts, reducing the weight of the vehicles by 30% and adding a
multi-gear system to increase efficiency; increasing
Africa's cycling capacity while bolstering local industry through the establishment of the California Bike Coalition (CBC); and traffic impact and mitigation analysis along with outreach to local interest groups in the
pedestrianization of
Malioboro Road in
Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Sustainable urban development ITDP works to integrate transport and smart urban design to help remake cities and suburbs into livable spaces that foster economic opportunities, encourage low carbon lifestyles, and attract residents. This is done through designing environments for cycling and walking, fostering the development of pedestrian and transit based real estate development, and creating policies that help turn cultural and physical spaces into economic assets. In November 2013 ITDP published "The TOD Standard" which elaborates in eight key principles for guiding the implementation of
transit-oriented development (TOD). The guide is available for download in
.pdf format from the ITDP website. ITDP has initiated advised on a number of projects in cities around the world. ITDP worked with the
Mexico City government to provide technical support for the
revitalization of Mexico City's
Historic Center. ITDP managed the planning and implementation efforts of the revitalization, in addition to promoting street maintenance and cleanliness, supplementation of public security, and the management and controlling of parking and street vending activity in the area. ITDP claims that this reorientation of the Historic Center towards pedestrian and transit oriented development will reverse decades of deterioration, attract tourism and investment, and improve air quality in the notoriously polluted city. Additionally, ITDP participated as part of the team developing Mexico City's Bicycle Master Plan to design routes that connect to the Historic Center, further integrating multi-modal development of the area.
International sustainable transport policy ITDP co-founded the
Partnership on Sustainable Low Carbon Transport (SLoCaT) in 2009 and through that helped secure in 2012 a $175 billion 10-year commitment from the world's largest multilateral development banks to support sustainable transport, with annual reporting and monitoring. Working with SLoCaT, ITDP helped mainstream sustainable transport strategies in the United Nations' post-2015 development agenda and in discussions of
climate change mitigation strategies in the run-up to the 2015 global climate summit in Paris (COP-15). With the University of California Davis, ITDP in 2014 published, A Global High Shift Scenario: Impacts and Potential for More Public Transport, Walking, and Cycling With Lower Car Use, showing how a shift in transport funding to support alternatives to more driving could save over $100 trillion cumulatively for consumers and governments by 2050 while cutting cumulative climate change pollution from urban transport by 25% and improving equity of access to opportunities for the poor. This is available on the ITDP website. ==See also==