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Friday Fun: A Los Angeles cycling highway?
A four-legged passenger enjoys the CycLAvia bike event in Los Angeles, California. Photo by Melissa Wall. “The South California towns, Los Angeles and Pasadena, are now connected by the strangest and...
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Friday Fun: Sound off on Elon Musk’s Hyperloop
Billionaire Elon Musk released alpha designs for his Hyperloop concept on Monday. Photo by Tesla Motors. Elon Musk’s futuristic Hyperloop concept has the public thoroughly divided. The latest idea...
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New toolkit provides cities with innovative street design guidelines
The National Association of City Transportation Officials’ Urban Street Design Guide marks a big step forward in advancing a people-oriented approach to transport policies. Photo by University City...
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Friday Fun: Urbanism according to Blade Runner
The 1982 film Blade Runner sparked an interesting dialogue on urban planning and the future of our cities, which is still relevant today. Photo courtesy of Blade Runner film. It’s not every day that...
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Who are our streets for?: A Q&A with 2014 Lee Schipper Scholar Madeline Brozen
2014 Lee Schipper Scholar Madeline Brozen will research how to better evaluate street performance, challenging the conventional Level of Service (LOS) method. Her conclusions will help cities develop...
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Friday Fun: Three Cities Innovate Solutions for Tackling Water Scarcity
As cities face increasing populations and long periods of drought, urban areas are being forced to innovate new ways to produce clean water. (Photo: David Berkowitz / Flickr. Slightly modified from...
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The Newest Car-Free Day in Peru: ¡Ciclovía de Trujillo!
The first-ever ciclovía in Trujillo, Peru. Photo by EMBARQ Andino. Trujillo, the third largest city in Peru, held its first-ever ciclovía on Sunday, as a result of a partnership between the Peruvian...
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TheCityFix Picks, August 17: Brazil Infrastructure Investments, “Elegant...
A congested Brazilian highway. Photo by Paulo Fehlauer. Welcome back to TheCityFix Picks, our series highlighting the newsy and noteworthy of the past week. Each Friday, we’ll run down the headlines...
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Research Recap, August 20: India Road Network, Emissions Reductions in Los...
India has a long path ahead to achieve adequate road capacity. Photo by Bob Witlox. Welcome to “Research Recap,” our series highlighting recent reports, studies and other findings in sustainable...
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TheCityFix Picks, September 7: EcoBici Boom, Lagos BRT, Banned Bus Ads
Mexico City’s bikeshare system, EcoBici, will add 3,000 more bikes in the months ahead. Photo by Dani Simons. Welcome back to TheCityFix Picks, our series highlighting the newsy and noteworthy of the...
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TheCityFix Picks – October 9th: CicLAVia Draws 100,000, Jo’burg Grows its...
Welcome back to TheCityFix Picks, our series highlighting the newsy and noteworthy of the past week. Every week, we’ll run down the headlines falling under TheCityFix’s five themes: integrated...
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TheCityFix Picks, October 24th: BRT for Vietnam, Widening An American...
Motorbike traffic stacks Ho Chi Minh City. A new BRT line could alleviate congestion in Vietnam’s largest city. Photo by Padmanaba01. Welcome back to TheCityFix Picks, our series highlighting the newsy...
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TheCityFix Picks, November 14th: L.A. Subway Grows, The BRT Ultimatum, $300...
The Los Angeles subway system broke ground on the Westside Subway extension! Photo by Chris Yarzab. Welcome back to TheCityFix Picks, our series highlighting the newsy and noteworthy of the past week....
View ArticleRide-Hailing: Great for Users, But Sustainability Is an Open Question
“Ride-hailing” or “ride-sourcing” companies like Uber, Easy Taxi, Ola and Didi have made it much easier for passengers to get around cities everywhere, providing real-time location data, increasingly...
View Article3 Things Cities Can Learn from Cape Town’s Impending “Day Zero” Water Shut-Off
Cape Town is running out of water. After three years of intense drought, South Africa’s second-largest city is just a few months away from “Day Zero,” the day when the city government will shut off...
View ArticleD.C. Just Released the First Evaluation of Its Dockless Bike and Scooter...
Washington, DC, has been one of the foremost laboratories for tech-driven innovations in the transport sector. The city implemented North America’s first bike-share system, and most recently it...
View ArticleUseful Knowledge and Building Blocks of Change: An Outside Perspective on the...
Last week, I had the pleasure of participating in a day-long roundtable discussion with the five finalists for the WRI Ross Prize Cities, organized by WRI at the Ford Foundation in New York City. The...
View ArticleClimate Action Now: 3 U.S. States, 3 Cities and Puerto Rico Lead the Way
The emergence of the Green New Deal has inspired unprecedented activism and lively debate about the future of climate action in Congress and the relationship between climate policy and a broader...
View ArticleScooters Are Skyrocketing in Cities, But Are They Safe? A Look at the Evidence
Electric scooters are the latest “new mobility” tech to disrupt the transportation sector. Chances are you’ve seen someone passing by on one these small but nimble two-wheelers in a city near you....
View ArticleCollaboration on Nature-Based Solutions Is Key to Resilient City Infrastructure
Capital City, a (hypothetical) seaside metropolis, has a growing population. However, much of its infrastructure was built 100 years ago and is straining from deferred maintenance, unable to meet the...
View ArticleLessons from Shenzhen’s Green Logistic Zones: Fast-Tracking Zero-Emissions...
Urban freight vehicles constitute less than 10% of vehicles on the road in most cities, but they account for a disproportionate amount of transport-related CO2 emissions and pollutants. According to...
View ArticleU.S. Cities Bought More Renewable Energy Than Ever in 2020. Here’s How
As the world reels from the financial blow of COVID-19, local governments in the United States are under huge pressure as cities and counties face severe budget shortfalls. This is forcing cuts to...
View ArticleZero-Emission Delivery Zones: A New Way to Cut Traffic, Air Pollution and...
Urban freight and delivery services boomed during the COVID-19 pandemic as consumers switched to online shopping when businesses were forced to close. The surge in online market activity that began in...
View ArticleHow Cities Can Build Food System Resilience
Let’s not forget what we learned during 2020 about the fragility of our food supply chains: the prevailing, globalized model is as fragile as a spider web. It can shatter into dangling threads in times...
View ArticleLocal Governments Have Opportunities to Accelerate the E-Mobility Transition...
The passage of the Inflation Reduction Act and Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act marked two of the most profound pieces of climate legislation in U.S. history. With approximately $370 billion...
View Article5 Car-Free Day Myths Debunked: Unveiling the True Benefits of Open Streets
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...
View ArticleClearing the Air: Why Low-Carbon Transportation is Critical for Cities
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...
View ArticleMany Underserved Communities Face EV ‘Charging Deserts.’ These 5 Strategies...
The rapid acceleration of electric vehicle adoption in the United States comes with the risk of leaving historically disadvantaged communities behind if charging infrastructure isn’t adequately...
View ArticleTransforming Transportation 2024: Mobilizing Finance for Climate Action
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...
View ArticleZero-Emission Zones Are Helping Some Cities Fight Pollution
With growing urban populations and increases in cars, trucks and buses, cities are poised to experience more harmful pollution threatening people’s health and livelihoods. But some cities around the...
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