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 ...
Friday Fun: Brighten up the road in the name of bike safety
Biker in city night. Photo by Bridget Coila/Flickr
It’s no secret that visibility is critical to bike safety, especially under dark nighttime skies. To help ensure that cyclists can be easily spotted by motorists in crowded streets, Wouter Walmink, Alan Chatham and Floyd Mueller of RMIT University in ...
Four things to be thankful for about sustainable urban mobility
A young boy on a bus in India. Photo by Rob de Wit/Flickr.
Happy Thanksgiving, TheCityFix readers! Even if you’re not celebrating today’s American holiday of giving thanks and feasting, here are four things we can all be thankful for: 1. Urban mobility is a global priority. This year’s theme for UN-HABITAT’s annual Global Report ...
Can this Santiago Metro innovation end gridlocked platforms once and for all?
Crowded metro platform in São Paulo, Brazil. Photo by Fernando Stankuns/Flickr.
Imagine you’re riding in a crowded metro car. It’s so full you weren’t able to get a seat, so you do all you can to stay upright as the train lurches between stations. As your stop approaches, you wonder how ...