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HopStop Reveals Top Urban Travel Trends
HopStop Reveals Top Urban Travel Trends
HopStop, a provider of pedestrian navigation and mobile transit routing services, released the Urban Travel Patterns infographic last week. The infographic gives insights into how commuters in more than 68 major metropolitan areas across 150+ cities travel. “Based on more than 400 million ...
Friday Fun: Bicycle Animation
Friday Fun: Bicycle Animation
Katy Beveridge, a student of media, illustration and graphic design, created short animations using bicycle wheels. Part of her final year dissertation, Beveridge created the project as an attempt to understand how animation gets created. The animation can only be ...
TheCityFix Picks, December 9: Australian Helmet Laws, Transport Talks at Durban, Peruvian Health
TheCityFix Picks, December 9: Australian Helmet Laws, Transport Talks at Durban, Peruvian Health
Welcome back to TheCityFix Picks, our series highlighting the newsy and noteworthy of the past week. Each Friday, we’ll run down the headlines falling under TheCityFix’s five themes: integrated transport, urban development and accessibility, air quality and climate change, health and ...
Caterpillar Foundation Awards Major Support to World Resources Institute for Sustainable Cities Initiative
Caterpillar Foundation Awards Major Support to World Resources Institute for Sustainable Cities Initiative
The Caterpillar Foundation today announced a five-year, $12.5 million grant to the World Resources Institute (WRI) to advance the progress of environmentally sustainable and livable cities in China, India, and Brazil. WRI intends to develop low-carbon city models and pathways for environmentally sustainable ...
Hamburg, Germany to Cover Expanded Highway with Public Park
Hamburg, Germany to Cover Expanded Highway with Public Park
The City of Hamburg, Germany is planning on building elevated public parks on sections of the to-be-expanded  A7 (Highway 7), which is considered one of the most important north-south connectors in Germany. According to officials, parts of A7 are 26 ...
Rome Restricts Car Use to Reduce Emissions, Improve Air Quality
Rome Restricts Car Use to Reduce Emissions, Improve Air Quality
With climate talks taking place in Durban this week, all eyes have been on South Africa. But whether climate discussions yield binding targets or not, cities around the world are suffering the very real consequences of greenhouse gas emissions and ...
Sergio Fajardo and the Rebirth of Medellín
Sergio Fajardo and the Rebirth of Medellín
This post was originally published in Portuegese by Maria Fernanda Cavalcanti on TheCityFix Brasil on December 1, 2011.  For Sergio Fajardo, the former mayor of Medellín (2004-2007) and now governor-elect of Antioch (2012-2014), all government action must be strategically linked to ...
Bicycle Rally Rolls Out for Madhya Pradesh Foundation Day
Bicycle Rally Rolls Out for Madhya Pradesh Foundation Day
  In honor of Madhya Pradesh Foundation Day, a celebration of the merging of the central Indian state in 1956, EMBARQ India in partnership with Atal Indore City Transport Service Ltd. (AICTSL) and BSA Hercules organized a bicycle rally in ...
Let's Get Growing! Urban Farms Take to City Streets
Let's Get Growing! Urban Farms Take to City Streets
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2010, no state in the United States had a prevalence of obesity less than 20 percent. In fact, 36 states had a prevalence of 25 percent or more and 12 ...
Research Recap, December 5: African Green City Index, Peak Pedestrian Risk, Running Red Lights
Research Recap, December 5: African Green City Index, Peak Pedestrian Risk, Running Red Lights
Welcome to “Research Recap,” our series highlighting recent reports, studies and other findings in sustainable transportation policy and practice, in case you missed it. African Green City Index The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) recently released the African Green City Index, examining ...
TheCityFix Picks, December 2: Chicago BRT, Cycling Subsidies, My Healthy Arequipa
TheCityFix Picks, December 2: Chicago BRT, Cycling Subsidies, My Healthy Arequipa
Welcome back to TheCityFix Picks, our series highlighting the newsy and noteworthy of the past week. Each Friday, we’ll run down the headlines falling under TheCityFix’s five themes: integrated transport, urban development and accessibility, air quality and climate change, health and ...
Friday Fun: Fine Dining in New York City Public Transit
Friday Fun: Fine Dining in New York City Public Transit
Petit filet mignon with pomme puree and asparagus; hamchi crudo with bone marrow, trout roe, laproaig and sweet lime; foie en brioche with port wine and raisin; and a chocolate and gold leaf panna cotta with raspberry. Salivating, yet? What ...
Making Good Use of Transit Data
Making Good Use of Transit Data
This weekend, the Desarrollando América Latina Hackathon will take place across six countries: Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. The event focuses on solving social problems using web applications and public data. The goal of the event is to create ...
Visiting TransMilenio with Prof. Swamy, the Brains Behind Ahmedabad's BRT System
Visiting TransMilenio with Prof. Swamy, the Brains Behind Ahmedabad's BRT System
Prof. Shivanand Swamy, a faculty member specializing in public transit planning and bus rapid transit (BRT) at the Center for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT) University in Ahmedabad, India visited Bogota, Colombia on November 15-19, as a speaker at the fifth annual International ...
Q&A with Sujit Mahamulkar: Protecting Pedestrian Spaces in India
Q&A with Sujit Mahamulkar: Protecting Pedestrian Spaces in India
Upon receiving numerous complaints from readers on the state of pedestrian spaces in Mumbai, Hindustan Times started a campaign to raise awareness about the problem. The conflict between pedestrians and private vehicles in India is yet another example of how urban ...
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