Topic: transportation

The BOP share of transportation spending is consistently high in Africa.

CO2 and air pollution can be reduced significantly by improving cities’ transportation systems, but quantifying those reductions can be difficult.

Beijing's Air Pollution: It Isn't The Cars

Even with half of private cars off the road, Beijing remains wrapped in a haze of smog. The real causes of Beijing’s air quality woes lie elsewhere.

WHAT: Nobody wants to admit that the United States has only made slow progress when it comes to improving on-road fuel efficiency.

How We Move: Sustainable Transport Around the World

When it comes to urban transportation, ingenuity is the key to cleaner, greener, and smarter cities.

Making High Gas Prices Less Painful

Learn more about three long-term, sustainable policy solutions that would help ease the pain of high gas prices.

Mayor Taking Mexico City Green, One Bus Line at a Time

For roughly thirty years, Mexico City has been a city in rapid decline, threatening to descend into a murky stew of crime, pollution, and chaos. But in recent years the city has regained its footing, experiencing an urban renaissance powered by a series of projects that have dramatically improved the quality of life of the 18 million people that make the city their home.

New agreement will help ensure success of city’s bus-rapid-transit system

INDORE, INDIA, February 28, 2008 – The residents of Indore, India should enjoy reduced emissions, congestion, and improved pedestrian safety a little sooner.

Dr. Lee Schipper, EMBARQ fellow at EMBARQ - The World Resources Institute Center for Sustainable Transport, has been appointed as an editorial board member of the prestigious Transport Policy journal, the official journal of the World Conference on Transport Research Society.

Remarks by Jonathan Lash on December 18, 2007 at the National Press Club Briefing for Journalists

WHAT:

A ceremony to launch an international contest to identify and celebrate cities in Latin America that have made changes in their man-made surroundings that promote physical activity and improve overall public health.

Over the last year I’ve been visiting cities around the world, studying their bus systems. My review includes many aspects ranging from the political and managerial environments that allowed the different bus systems to be implemented to the actual design of the systems themselves.

California Dreaming

The Energy Bill just signed by President Bush will raise fuel efficiency standards, but they may not fully affect new cars until 2020. That means we won’t see the complete impact until almost 2035, when cars before 2020 will be off the road. My children will be nearing retirement by then. Are we waiting too long? Read the blog.