Friday Fun: Mobile apps and your commute
A passenger on a mobile phone entering the New York City subway. Photo by momentcaptured1/Flickr.
Successful urban mobility is predicated on increased user choice. With a variety of transportation options, citizens can choose a preferred mode based on their own priorities. In the last five years, sustainable urban mobility choices may have reached a tipping ...
Transport set to be defined as social right by Brazilian Constitution
Passenger on the TransOeste BRT in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Photo by Benoit Colin/EMBARQ.
Urban transport is on its way to becoming a social right in Brazil. On December 4, PEC 90 – a proposed amendment to Article Six of the Brazilian Constitution that would define transport as a social right – was approved ...
A physical activity agenda for the increasingly urban, inactive global population
Brazilian children at play. Photo courtesy of Designed To Move Full Report (in Portuguese).
The impacts of what has become a widespread physical inactivity epidemic affect everyone in every nation. – Designed To Move If global trends in physical activity continue as they stand today, Brazilians will be 34% less active by 2030 than ...
4 ways cities benefit from bus rapid transit
Social, environmental, and economic impacts of BRT. Photo by Benoit Colin/EMBARQ.
Around the world, cities are searching for sustainable ways to transport residents quickly, efficiently, and safely throughout their streets. One such solution is bus rapid transit (BRT), which is already widely implemented in both the developed and developing worlds. New ...
Friday Fun: Awesome infographics show benefits of sustainable transport
A family travels by train in Germany. Photo by Edo Medicks/Flickr.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. So what about an infographic? Information graphics, or infographics, recently emerged as a highly popular and effective medium for visualizing and sharing information. According to visual.ly, a website that helps users ...
Beijing says “no” to vehicle ownership growth
Traffic in Beijing, China. Photo by Malingering/Flickr.
Beijing has launched an effort to tighten up its vehicle quota control regulation and further curb air pollution and traffic congestion in China’s capital city. Echoing the city’s recent “Clean Air Action Plan (2013-2017),” an amendment to the car ownership ...
Saving lives with sustainable transport
Mexico City's Metrobús. Photo by EMBARQ Mexico.
Sustainable transport initiatives have gained traction in recent years in developing world cities. This trend can be seen in the growth in Bus Rapid Transit and Busway systems around the world, the new bike-sharing scheme in Mexico City, or the ...
On the move: The swift, global expansion of bicycle-sharing schemes
Barcelona, Spain's bicycle sharing system, Bicing. Photo by IluriPhoto/Flickr.
Peter Midgley joins us as this week’s author for the “Sustainable Urban Transport On The Move” series. We invited Peter to share his vast knowledge on bicycle sharing gained through his experience tracking the growth of bicycle sharing systems since ...
Opinion: Bogotá’s vision for public transport hangs in the balance
A crowd of passengers boards the TransMilenio BRT in Bogotá, Colombia. Photo by Mariana Gil/EMBARQ Brazil.
“Optimism is undermined by the amount of work required for full implementation.” Before withdrawing his nomination as Bogotá’s ombudsman in December 2011, Paul Bromberg recommended that the incoming administration “joyfully receive the public transport system of Bogotá (Sistema de Transporte ...
Visualize and explore Bus Rapid Transit with this revamped data portal
TransOeste BRT driver
Every single day, nearly 30.9 million people ride Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) or busways system globally. That’s more people than the entire population of Ghana or the state of Texas. 19.5 million (63.3%) of these passengers are located in Latin ...