Institute for Transportation and Development Policy

Promoting sustainable and equitable transportation worldwide

 

  • Guangzhou BRT 5th year anniversary celebrated

    2015-03-01

    Spring Festival marks the fifth anniversary of the opening of the Guangzhou BRT in February 2010, reported at the time by ITDP as the'Year of the Transit Tiger'(pdf).Five years after opening, the Gold Standard(www.brtstandard.org)Guangzhou BRT, with its revolutionary high capacity 'direct service' operational mode, continues to heavily influence the planning ......Read More


  • Yichang BRT architecture improved

    2014-12-31

    The Yichang BRT demonstration station at Wuyi Guangchang has completed the civil engineering construction stage. ITDP-China staff, GMEDRI partners and ITDP consultant architect Derek Trusler visited Yichang earlier in December to review and provide input to the station architecture and construction. At the end of the one-week input ITDP delivered ......Read More


  • Yichang BRT station area proposals

    2014-12-28

    Much progress was made by ITDP in Yichang in 2014 on BRT station TOD and setback improvements that are needed to fully utilize the investment-generating benefits of the BRT corridor. This work was funded in part by the Climateworks Foundation, and in part by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. The Yichang ......Read More


  • Bike sharing preliminary design for Vientiane completed

    2014-11-28

    ITDP-China completed the preliminary plan for a bike sharing system in Vientiane which is proposed as part of a coming Asian Development Bank loan package. The proposals received strong local support and are subject to final ADB approval. A bike sharing system provides an important part of the public transport ......Read More


  • Yichang BRT demonstration station

    2014-11-22

    Yichang’s Wuyi Plaza BRT station has been assigned as a demonstration station now that the main structure and interior decoration is largely completed. The station construction will serve as a demonstration for other stations and the testing of the bus stopping will be conducted at this station. The Asian Development ......Read More


  • International Workshop on BRT in Guangzhou

    2014-10-22

    On 20-21 October an International Workshop for Bus Rapid Transit, organized by the China Academy of Transportation Sciences (CATS) and China Urban Sustainable Transport Research Center (CUSTReC), both under the Ministry of Transport, was held in Guangzhou. ITDP-China helped host the conference that saw over 90 participants from 20 different ......Read More


  • Urban villagers rely on BRT for access to jobs & opportunities

    2014-09-22

    Guangzhou's so-called urban villages (cheng zhongcun, 城中村) are extremely dense, mixed use, car-free settlements that proliferated especially since the 1980s. Typically 8 or even 10 storey sub-standard buildings were built on the former agricultural land surrounding historical core villages, becoming home to lower income recent migrants and greatly expanding the ......Read More


  • ITDP-China’s Beijing Parking study commences

    2014-09-22

    ITDP-China has started work on an ADB-funded parking study in Beijing. In the next three months Beijing’s parking problems will be identified primarily based on a study area of around four square kilometres, and recommendations for on-street and off-street parking reform developed. On-street and off-street surveys are planned for the ......Read More


  • Demonstration NMT projects readied for Vientiane

    2014-09-13

    As part of an ongoing Asian Development Bank funded study on non-motorized transport in several Asian cities, ITDP-China has prepared 'complete street' designs and other demonstration improvements for implementation in Vientiane in 2015. The proposed measures include a 206m complete street, 2 raised intersections, 3 raised side roads, 6 pedestrian ......Read More


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