Public Transport

Changing the Way We Move: A Win-Win for Climate and Development

As cities around the world continue to grow and congestion and pollution continue to increase, this blog post is intended to promote sustainable transport modes as a climate and development solution.

Peshawar Case Study: Building Out Accessible and Inclusive Public Transport for All

In 2022, the City of Peshawar earned an honorable mention from ITDP’s Sustainable Transport Award due to the successful implementation of TransPeshawar, the first Gold Standard BRT on the Indian Peninsula. “Peshawar Case Study: Building Out Accessible and Inclusive Public Transport for All” is a case study that provides a… 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

How Electric Buses are Moving Cities: Developing a Roadmap to Scale

In this webinar recording, stakeholders from India and Indonesia discuss the current efforts of cities to deploy and scale battery electric buses and microbuses by highlighting national & local policies, different financial tools & instruments, and some early lessons learned to create a meaningful roadmap for electric battery electric buses.

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

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

Lessons Learned from Jakarta’s Journey to Integrated and Resilient Transport Systems

This case study report discusses Jakarta’s improvement in its transportation infrastructure, particularly arount transport integration, and improved access to mass rapid transport stops. With it, transit planners can learn transferrable lessons and key takeaways that they can apply in their city.

How to Implement Transit-Oriented Development

This guide is intended primarily for planners and decision makers as they plan out urban development that maximizes proximity of housing, jobs, services, and amenities to public transit hubs. Car-dependence has a variety of negative health, safety, climate, and equity impacts. With this guide, planners can help design effective, transit-oriented… Read More

Integrating Climate Adaptation: A Toolkit for Urban Planners and Adaptation Practitioners

Climate change and its effects have become increasingly relevant challenges to global urban environments. This resource provides a good roadmap of the challenges that climate change poses to cities, as well as potential mitigations. Readers such as development banks, planners and decision makers can gain greater insight on the relationship… Read More

Gender-Based Violence on Public Transport

This report is intended for transport planners and decision makers to nderstand gender-related challenges in the transport system. The report provides an account of the risks that women face on public transit, drawing from surveys and studies. With it, planners can better understand and quantify the safety risks that women… Read More