TheCityFix Picks, December 28th: Chinese High Speed Rail, New York Subway...
Welcome back to TheCityFix Picks, our series highlighting the newsy and noteworthy of the past week. Every week, we’ll run down the headlines falling under TheCityFix’s five themes: integrated...
View ArticleChina Transportation Briefing: 5 Trends to Watch in China’s Urban Transport...
Our China Transportation Briefing shares interesting news and noteworthy research related to China’s transportation and urban development. The goal is to help people who are interested in solving...
View ArticleChina Transportation Briefing: Bus Rapid Transit in China – On the Way
Our China Transportation Briefing shares interesting news and noteworthy research related to China’s transportation and urban development. The goal is to help people who are interested in solving...
View ArticleHow cities can provide universally accessible mobility services: A Q&A with...
TheCityFix recently interviewed Tom Rickert – Founder and Executive Director of Access Exchange International – to learn more about how cities can improve mobility for disabled persons. Access Exchange...
View ArticleChina’s Pedestrianization: Reviving a Tradition of Walking for Healthier Cities
Pedestrian-oriented streets not only are safer, improve air quality, and encourage physical activity, but also facilitate commercial and social activity. Although China has rapidly urbanized in the...
View ArticleFrom Ideas to Implementation: 3 Steps for Improving Urban Resilience
How do we make cities work for people? As a WRI Helms Fellow on Urban Governance and Sustainable Cities, Maria Antonia Tigre was tasked with answering this question. Through From ideas to...
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From New York to Guangzhou: Lessons Learned from Congestion Pricing
Guangzhou opened a new BRT system to help reduce traffic, but experts say other solutions, like congestion pricing, should also be considered. Photo by everywhereATonce, As heard today on The New York...
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Guangzhou's BRT: Revolutionizing Perceptions of Bus Travel in China
The recently launched Guangzhou BRT is expected to change public perception about bus-based travel around the world. Photo: Karl Fjellstrom, ITDP. In the past several weeks, we’ve covered some...
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Best of 2010: New Transit Systems
As 2010 comes to an end, let’s take a look back at some of the public transportation systems across the world that made their debut over the past 12 months. From bike sharing to bus rapid transit...
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2011 Sustainable Transport Award Winner: Guangzhou, China
Guangzhou BRT's Gangding Station. Photo by Benjamin. Originally posted on EMBARQ.org. The city of Guangzhou, China today won the 2011 Sustainable Transport Award for its new world-class bus rapid...
View ArticleNew Video: Guangzhou’s Bus Rapid Transit System
Bus Rapid Transit in Guangzhou, China from Streetfilms on Vimeo. Streetfilms, in collaboration with the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP), recently released a video...
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Nominate a City for the 2012 Sustainable Transport Award!
The Guangzhou BRT runs along one of the busiest corridors in the city and carries 800,000 passengers each day. Photo via ITDP. The 8th Annual Sustainable Transport Award, created by the Institute for...
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TheCityFix Picks, August 19: Complete Streets, Dangerous Crosswalks, Parks...
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed complete streets legislation into law this week, supporting safer streets for "New Yorkers of all ages and abilities." Photo by Emily Raw. Welcome back to...
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China Transportation Briefing: Stemming The Tide of Private Autos in Guangzhou
Guangzhou recently set in place a private vehicle restriction scheme. Photo by by Abdul Rahman. Our monthly China Transportation Briefing shares interesting news and noteworthy research related to...
View Article5 Major Cities Threatened by Climate Change and Sea Level Rise
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently released a special report on the social and economic consequences of 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) of warming compared to 2...
View ArticleSeoul, Guangzhou and New York City Top List of Cities With Largest Carbon...
The largest and highest-consuming cities in the world have carbon footprints equal to those of small countries. This is the finding of a study surveying the carbon footprint of cities worldwide. Half...
View Article3 Lessons from China’s Rocket Growth in Electric Vehicles
As people stay home and city streets turn quiet, the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the global vehicle market. While many urban experts fear a turn to personal cars in lieu of public transport, few...
View Article5 Lessons from China, India, Vietnam on Decarbonizing Transport and...
The momentum towards low-carbon and sustainable transport is growing globally, but the sector still lags behind many others and each country faces a unique path to travel. Political landscapes,...
View ArticleLessons From China, India, Vietnam on National Transport Ambitions and...
In Asia, 14 countries — accounting for 26% of global transport emissions in 2019 — have made economy-wide net zero commitments. Momentum towards zero-emission transport is growing with countries...
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