The City Fix

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Long queues for public transport have become common sights during peak hours all over Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Under the hot sun or the heavy rain, people anxiously wait for the next public transport to arrive. Frustrated and eager to reach.

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The City Fix

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

In the global conversation around decarbonizing transport, the spotlight on electric vehicles has never shone brighter. The EV revolution is underway, with consumers embracing them in record numbers and manufacturing ramping up around the world. And yet, electric vehicles will. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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The City Fix

MARCH 11, 2024

Urban development in many cities around the world prioritizes making space for cars over pedestrians, cyclists or public transportation. In Brazil, this design led to an average of more than 30,000 annual road crash fatalities nationwide by the turn of the century,

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The City Fix

JANUARY 19, 2021

For most Latin American and Caribbean cities, public transport is the single most important way to access opportunity and essential services for most urban dwellers, from finding a job to education. This blog is also available in Spanish on IADB.org. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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The City Fix

JULY 16, 2020

There’s no question we’re going through unprecedented times for public transport. Ridership is down anywhere from 60% to 90%. Transit agencies are hemorrhaging cash, with fare revenue following ridership down the tube. But the fact is that throughout the tremendous. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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The City Fix

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Plummeting bus and train ridership, lost jobs, overflowing warehouses, more inequality: 2020’s disruptions to the transport sector were widespread and deep. Speaking at Transforming Transportation 2021, co-hosted by WRI and the World Bank, sustainable mobility leaders from around the world. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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The City Fix

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Moving around cities in a variety of ways is getting easier and more convenient: whether it’s improved public transportation systems, wider sidewalks or more dedicated bike lanes. With the rise of smartphone technology and GPS, shared mobility services — like.

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The City Fix

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Public transport is a powerful tool to curb climate emissions and to reduce dependence on private motorized vehicles – not to mention to provide more equitable and affordable access to opportunity for riders. But surprisingly few countries have made public transport part.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 18, 2024

At the time, my focus was trying to create a shared parking scenario, and to invest in sustainable mobility. Transportation Demand Management programming The reality is, especially in a place like Salt Lake, most people drive. Promoting biking, walking, and other sustainable modes is another element of TDM.

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The City Fix

JULY 7, 2022

Cities are increasingly trying to discern what post-pandemic resilience will look like, especially in terms of mobility and public transport. And in Colombia, cities are known for their innovations in public transport systems — like Bogotá’s bus rapid transport and. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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The City Fix

DECEMBER 8, 2023

A new digital platform being piloted in cities around the world is making public transportation more efficient, economical and accessible, while encouraging low-carbon travel. Mobility-as-a-Service is an on-demand service that integrates various forms of transportation services into a single platform accessible.

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The City Fix

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Traditional, car-centric transport planning has not only increased greenhouse gas emissions, but has also detrimentally impacted air quality, road injuries and fatalities, and traffic congestion. As the world faces the climate crisis and continues to face a growing global road. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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The City Fix

MARCH 10, 2023

Transportation connects us to one another. It’s how we get to school and work, how we visit our families, and how we access our food and health care. It’s also how we ship goods and deliver services. As economies and.

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The City Fix

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Although it is widely recognized that gender disparities are echoed in the design and operation of urban transportation systems, gender-responsive transportation planning is still in its early stages. Drawing from the TOPUK project, which stands for “Women Accessing Public Transport,”.

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The City Fix

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

After COP26, transport has reached an important milestone in the global climate conversation. Visit transformingtransportation.org to watch full sessions from the conference. And join the conversation on Twitter with #TTDC22. The electric revolution is underway and it’s now a centerpiece. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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The City Fix

MAY 30, 2023

To cut transport emissions, moving vehicles away from burning fossil fuels is a fundamental step. However, the e-mobility transition is not only an opportunity to reduce emissions but to modernize mobility across the board, from expanding access to public transport.

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The City Fix

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Transforming Transportation 2022 will continue on February 17. The case for decarbonizing transport cannot be clearer: it’s the fastest growing sector of emissions after. Visit transformingtransportation.org to register and watch full sessions. And join the conversation on Twitter with #TTDC22. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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The City Fix

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

2020 brought tremendous disruption to the global transportation sector. As the world coped with a pandemic, millions began working from home and millions more lost their jobs. Logistics networks were broken and then reshaped. All while the planet experienced the. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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The City Fix

JUNE 24, 2021

The global coronavirus pandemic brought a wave of public and private initiatives to help societies adapt and recover, from economic stabilization and safety measures to new business models and shifts in consumption. Many of these initiatives are not green, despite. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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The City Fix

AUGUST 28, 2023

As cities become more congested, traffic fatalities continue to rise and the impacts of climate change escalate, the need for sustainable and safe transportation solutions has reached a critical juncture. The World Health Organization reports an alarming statistic: 186,300 children.

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The City Fix

AUGUST 6, 2020

The large cities in the Latin American region all have one thing in common: the opportunities for employment and income are concentrated in a few districts while, more and more, sprawling housing zones are located on the outskirts of cities. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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The City Fix

MARCH 8, 2024

For a woman living in an African city, public transport can be a daunting experience. Women usually plan their trips in advance, and consider a multitude of factors before setting out: What is the safest way to reach the bus.

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The City Fix

APRIL 13, 2022

I recently had the pleasure of re-visiting Curitiba, Brazil, thanks to an invitation from the Smart Cities Expo. I made my first pilgrimage in 2000, when Bogotá was implementing its bus rapid transit system, Transmilenio, and returned twice after that. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 30, 2022

But it's a demonstration of a quirk in planning generally and transportation planning specifically. Mostly, a master plan only covers what the government controls or operates, and usually ignores for profit services, and often, franchised services.

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The City Fix

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

This is the third installment in a series of articles documenting lessons learned across NDC-TIA country activities, to be published throughout 2022. In Vietnam, a country home to 97 million inhabitants, there are 65 million registered motorcycles and mopeds,1.5 million.

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Human Transit

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Paul Comfort, Conversations about Equity and Inclusion in Public Transportation, Comfort Consulting, 2022. But even then, it’s good to see what transit leaders are being expected to do, in the political situations they find themselves in, to sustain support for a transit system.

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The City Fix

APRIL 15, 2021

The 1970s global oil and fiscal crisis brought a short-lived bike boom and a retreat of city dollars for public transit. Crisis often sparks changes to the ways we move. Post-war prosperity made the automobile a household item, and lifestyle. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 11, 2024

The COG is the union of local governments and designated by the USDOT as the region's metropolitan planning organization for regional transportation planning and coordination. And a more expanded concept of the "sustainable mobility dates to 2018 (" Further updates to the Sustainable Mobility Framework ").

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The City Fix

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Just before she took office in January 2020, Mayor Claudia López committed to redesigning a major artery of Bogotá into a “green corridor” for sustainable, active mobility. She also committed to a comprehensive participatory planning process – a potentially daunting. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Data, and the ability to process it rapidly and seamlessly, is crucial to the connected, intelligent networks that provide the lifeblood to today’s cities and the transport systems that link a nation’s cities together. Mobility and connected transit: Monitoring public transport can improve safety and hygiene.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 6, 2024

The study offers policymakers, operators and transport planners, powerful insights into what motivates a person’s transport decisions within and between cities. While sustainability factors may not drive how people travel – only an important factor to 14% – the research does show that respondents back green legislative interventions.

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The City Fix

APRIL 21, 2022

There’s never been a better time to reduce reliance on fossil fuels. Oil and gas prices are skyrocketing as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with gas prices exceeding $4 a gallon in the United States in March 2022. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 19, 2024

Just as people now consider car ownership, public transportation, and ridesharing services, organizations must expand criteria to capture the multiple dimensions offered by cloud computing and determine which creates the greatest ROI. Figure 2 shows the AWS Cloud Value Framework: cost, productivity, resilience, agility, sustainability.

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The City Fix

MARCH 22, 2024

If a picture can tell a whole story, then the image below of an intersection in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, shows the past, present and future of global transformation in the transport sector. During Transforming Transportation 2024, which focused on.

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The City Fix

MARCH 20, 2023

After two years of unprecedented disruption to transport globally and two years of virtual conferences, Transforming Transportation returned to Washington, DC, March 14-15. More than 900 policymakers, experts and leaders in transport gathered at the World Bank Headquarters to explore.

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The City Fix

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

You start the day frustrated, your alarm clock ringing 30 minutes earlier than usual to try to beat the thousands of other morning commuters out the door. Battling bottlenecks has become your daily drill, from the side road shortcuts to.

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The City Fix

APRIL 7, 2023

For decades, urban transportation policy and practitioners have favored a model of analysis that prioritizes increasing the speed of vehicles and the time saved for people as a result. While this may make sense on an intuitive level, it is.

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