Cycling

Deep Dive on Local Mobility

This video highlights the importance of good walking and cycling infrastructure for caregivers and the children, as well as specific considerations that city planners must take when designing for these groups. The video explains different travel patterns of caregivers and children, and the necessity of proximity to local mobility options. Read More

From Transmilenio to Cycle Networks: Lessons Learned from Bogotá

This case study report discusses Bogota’s journey to becoming a more bike, pedestrian, and transit friendly city. Bogota’s growth of protected cycle lanes, BRT and road safety tactics have been highly effective in increasing the sustainability and safety of the city’s transportation network. There is much to be learned from… Read More

Building Great Transportation Infrastructure

This guide is designed for anyone looking to develop a framework for planning and funding a transportation system. It includes a host of funding pathways, best practices, steps, and other guidance for designing an effective transportation system. The guide also outlines frameworks to analyze transportation projects’ safety, equity, and climate… Read More

Protected Bicycle Lanes Protect the Climate

This report helps planners and policymakers understand the benefits of connected networks of protected bicycle lanes as a tool to increase bicycle use. These benefits include lower transportation costs, greenhouse gas emissions, and road fatalities. The report utilizes data and analysis from two cities in middle income countries (Bogota, Colombia… Read More

Access for All: Designing Inclusive Mobility for People with Disabilities

In this webinar recording, speakers from civil society in Pakistan and Indonesia discuss how inclusive participatory engagement leads to more accessible cities around the world. Cities continue to challenge mobility for people with disabilities, and this webinar can help unpack the issues around access and inclusion, and provide a few… Read More

Access and Persons with Disabilities in Urban Areas

This report explores accessible transit-oriented development and sustainable urban mobility through the lens of people with disabilities and offers a set of recommendations to promote responsive actions. For stakeholders from governments, civil society, and donor organizations, this report provides an overview of how land use and transport planning often fail… Read More

Making the Economic Case for Cycling

This report suitable for a wide variety of users, including practitioners who want to make an economic case for cycling expansion, advocates who are interested in promoting cycling in their city, and city leaders who wantto find out about the benefits of cycling to make better policy and planning decisions. Read More

Lviv – From Streets for Cars to Streets for All

This case study report shows how creating a multimodal urban landscape is great not just for users, but for cities as well. While car-ridden streets are hard to retrofit for more equitable use of urban space, cities show that with political will, good design and capacity building, streets can work… Read More

Maximizing Micromobility

This report is intended for practitioners who are interested in promoting micromobility in their communities. Microbility includes bikes, e-bikes, scooters, and other lightweight transportation devices, and is an essential aspect of creating well connected and sustainable transportation systems, and as such many cities are now looking at ways to expand… Read More

Why Every City Can Benefit From a ‘15-Minute City’ Vision

This blog post touts the benefits of cities adopting a “15-minute city” vision, where they pursue policies that aim to make it easier for residents to access most of their daily needs within a short walking or cycling distance. It’s written primarily for regional planners who may be considering implementing… Read More