Recent Streetsblog USA posts about ITDP

Sustainable Transportation Could Save the World (and Save $100 Trillion)

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 23, 2014 | 5 Comments

Dramatically expanding transit and active transportation over the next few decades could reduce carbon emissions from urban transport 40 percent more than following a car-centric trajectory. And it could also save the world economy $100 trillion. That’s according to a new report presented recently to the United Nations by researchers at UC Davis and the Institute […]

ITDP Study: “A Coming Out for Bus-Based Transit-Oriented Development”

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 26, 2013 | 17 Comments

In a new report making the rounds this week, “More Development For Your Transit Dollar: An Analysis of 21 North American Transit Corridors,” the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy does two things. First, authors Walter Hook, Stephanie Lotshaw, and Annie Weinstock evaluate which factors determine the impact of urban transit on development, coming up […]

ITDP Debuts a LEED-Type Rating System for Transit-Oriented Development

By Angie Schmitt | Jul 15, 2013 | 1 Comment

“Transit-oriented development” is probably one of the more abused terms in all of urban planning. Listen carefully in some cities, and you’ll hear urban development professionals calling parking garages “transit-oriented development” without a hint of irony. Last week, the Institute for Transportation & Development Policy released the first draft of a new scoring system that should […]

Taking the Guesswork Out of Rating BRT: An Interview With Walter Hook

By John Greenfield | Mar 13, 2013 | No Comments

There’s a new global benchmark for rating bus rapid transit projects. Yesterday the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy released the BRT Standard 2013, which lays out the requirements for bus routes to qualify as BRT and scores 50 systems in 35 cities around the world as basic, bronze, silver, or gold based on various […]

Profiles of American BRT: Pittsburgh’s South Busway and East Busway

By Stephanie Lotshaw | Jun 20, 2011 | 15 Comments

Last month the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy released its report, “Recapturing Global Leadership in Bus Rapid Transit” [PDF], which proposed a LEED-like rating system for bus rapid transit projects and laid out a strategy for American cities to build systems as good as the world’s best BRT. While more than 20 American bus […]

European Parking Policies Leave the U.S. Behind

By Noah Kazis | Jan 20, 2011 | 1 Comment

Flashback to Europe, sixty years ago. Only still emerging from the ruin of total war, the continent was in the midst of a nearly unprecedented reconstruction. Over the next decade, however, industry finally was able to turn toward consumer products, from stockings to refrigerators and, of course, the automobile. Italians owned only 342,000 cars in […]