Walking

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

Pedestrians First: Tools for a Walkable City

This online tool is suitable for a wide range of individuals, from curious readers to city planners and academics who want to learn about the benefits and principles of walkability. The tool allows users to explore walkability from the perspective of babies, toddlers and caregivers. Specifically, the tool allows users… Read More

Access for All – Gender

This report is designed to give urban planners, traffic engineers, and other stakeholders recommendations on principles to follow when designing streets and transportation systems that are accomodating to all road users. Gender has a significant bearing on travel patterns: for example, women and caregivers are more likely to chain together… Read More

Streets for Walking and Cycling

This guide highlights strategies that African cities can use to ensure that city infrastructure is able to accomodate pedestrians and cyclists. Walking and cycling are highly prevalent modes of transportation in African cities, and yet many do not have the infrastructure necesarry to make these trips safe and comfortable. This… Read More

Women and Children’s Access to the City

This report helps transportation planners create urban mobility systems and city fabric that are more responsive to the needs of caregivers, women and children in the city. Behavioral scientists, advocates and gender groups can use this report as a source of messaging and recommendations for more inclusive cities. Women and… Read More

The TOD Standard

“The TOD Standard” is a resource suitable for a wide range of users, including policymakers, planners, developers, engineers, and the general public who want to learn about why and how to implement Transit Oriented Development (TOD). TOD is the principle of planning land use such that residents are an easy… Read More