Resources

Technical Perspectives

E-Buses: Operational Tests and Customer Surveys Facilitate Transition and Highlight Benefits

  • Cities
  • Electric Mobility
  • transportation
  • Integrated Transport
People wait under umbrellas at a bus stop in Brazil
  • Cities
  • Electric Mobility
  • transportation
  • Integrated Transport

How "Complete Streets" Are Creating Safer, More Sustainable Cities in Brazil

  • Cities
  • transportation
  • public transit
  • Urban Mobility
  • Urban Transformations
  • Urban Development
People cross the street in Belo Horizonte
  • Cities
  • transportation
  • public transit
  • Urban Mobility
  • Urban Transformations
  • Urban Development

The Future of Extreme Heat in Cities: What We Know — and What We Don’t

  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
  • Urban Development
  • Climate
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate impacts
  • climate science
  • COP28
Brick layers during in a heatwave in New Delhi, India
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
  • Urban Development
  • Climate
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate impacts
  • climate science
  • COP28

10 Cities Shortlisted in $9-Million Global Challenge to Drive Innovation in City Mobility

  • Cities
  • Urban Mobility
  • Integrated Transport
  • transportation
Train in Bengaluru, India.
  • Cities
  • Urban Mobility
  • Integrated Transport
  • transportation

From Minibuses to “Boda Bodas,” Informal Transport Systems Could Be an Untapped Climate Change Solution

  • Urban Mobility
  • transportation
  • public transit
  • Cities
  • Integrated Transport
Passengers on a busy Bangkok street ride on colorful three-wheeled tuk-tuks.
  • Urban Mobility
  • transportation
  • public transit
  • Cities
  • Integrated Transport
Update

Celebrating 10 Years of Collaboration on Public Transportation from WRI and FedEx

  • Cities
  • transportation
  • public transit
  • Urban Mobility
Avenue in Mexico City
  • Cities
  • transportation
  • public transit
  • Urban Mobility
Initiatives
Woman opening train door with bicycle sign
Initiatives
Participants in a Transformative Urban Coalitions event in Teresina, Brazil
Initiatives

TUMI E-Bus Mission

Transmilenio electric transit bus charging at an electric bus depot in Bogota, Colombia
Initiatives

UrbanShift

early in the morning in the best light in Havana

Transformative Urban Coalitions Project Focuses on Urban Labs in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico

  • Urban Development
  • Urban Mobility
  • Climate Resilience
Houses on a hill
  • Urban Development
  • Urban Mobility
  • Climate Resilience
News
  • Urban Transformations
  • Urban Development
  • Equity & Governance
Initiatives
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Developing Cities Need Cash. Land Value Capture Can Help

  • Cities
  • infrastructure
  • land use
  • development
  • Finance
  • Urban Development
People walk on and around an outdoor escalator at a train station in Shenzhen.
  • Cities
  • infrastructure
  • land use
  • development
  • Finance
  • Urban Development

5 Big Ideas to Address the Climate Crisis and Inequality in Cities

  • Towards a More Equal City
  • Climate Resilience
  • Urban Mobility
  • Urban Transformations
  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
  • Cities
  • climate change
  • Urban Development
  • COP26
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  • Towards a More Equal City
  • Climate Resilience
  • Urban Mobility
  • Urban Transformations
  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
  • Cities
  • climate change
  • Urban Development
  • COP26
Initiatives
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