ITDP’s mission is to promote environmentally sustainable and equitable transportation in cities worldwide. ITDP works to achieve transportation and urban development transformations that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and pollution, while boosting social inclusion, equity, and urban livability. ITDP is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) charitable organization incorporated in Washington, D.C. in 1985 and headquartered in New York City.

PUBLIC TRANSPORT: IN 2018, ITDP UPDATED ITS DATABASES ON BRT (FEATURING 48 CITIES) AND PARKING (FEATURING 11 CITIES). THESE DATABASES WERE STRONG TECHNICAL REFERENCES FOR MANY ACADEMIC REPORTS AND ARTICLES. IN ADDITION, DUE TO INTERNET ACCESS RESTRICTIONS IN CHINA, ITDP LAUNCHED AN OFFICIAL WECHAT ACCOUNT (AFTER HAVING ALREADY BEEN ON WEIBO). IN 2018, ITDP CHINA'S POSTS ATTRACTED NEARLY 55,000 READERS AND ITDP CHINA'S WEBSITE HAD MORE THAN 80,000 VISITS. IN CHINA, ITDP SIGNIFICANTLY ADVANCED BRT AND SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT CORRIDORS IN RAPIDLY GROWING, MID-SIZED CHINESE CITIES BY BUILDING ON AND LEVERAGING EARLIER PROJECT SUCCESSES IN LARGE CITIES, ESPECIALLY GUANGZHOU. WITH THIS APPROACH, ITDP SUCCESSFULLY SECURED THE OPENING OF HIGH-QUALITY BRT SYSTEMS IN THREE NEW CITIES (YICHANG, NANNING, AND WUHAN) AND UNDER-CONSTRUCTION SYSTEMS IN TWO MORE CITIES (JINAN AND ZHUZHOU) THAT ARE ANCHORING A HOST OF COMPLEMENTARY NON-MOTORIZED TRANSPORT (NMT), TRAVEL DEMAND MANAGEMENT (TDM), AND TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT (TOD) INTERVENTIONS. ITDP ALSO ACHIEVED REGIONAL SCALE-UP THROUGH ITS ADVOCACY AND COMMUNICATIONS, INCLUDING INSPIRING MORE THAN 20 ADDITIONAL CITIES TO BUILD OR PLAN THEIR OWN BRT SYSTEMS. IN THE UNITED STATES IN BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ITDP DEVELOPED AND EXECUTED THREE INNOVATIVE BUS REFORM PILOTS IN HIGH-RIDERSHIP, HIGH-TRAFFIC COMMUNITIES IN THE METROPOLITAN AREA. THE PILOTS TESTED BEST-IN-CLASS PRACTICES FOR BUSY SYSTEMS AND HELPED IMPROVE THE EXPERIENCE OF MORE THAN 30,000 DAILY BUS RIDERS. PILOT MEASURES INCLUDED TRANSIT SIGNAL PRIORITIZATION, DEDICATED BUS LANES, AND PLATFORM-LEVEL BOARDING FOR WHEELCHAIRS, STROLLERS, AND CARTS. THE PILOTS SUCCESSFULLY IMPROVED COMMUTE TIMES AND THE EXPERIENCE OF RIDERS. ALL OF THE COMMUNITIES ARE IN THE PROCESS OF ADOPTING KEY ELEMENTS OF THE PILOTS INTO THEIR SERVICE ON A PERMANENT BASIS. ITDP HAS RECENTLY TAKEN THE LEAD ON OUTREACH AND ADVOCACY ON BRT AT THE CITY, REGIONAL, AND STATE LEVELS. IN ADDITION TO DIFFERENT PRIVATE SECTOR STAKEHOLDERS AND BUSINESS ALLIANCES, ITDP WORKED WITH KEY GOVERNMENT PARTNERS INCLUDING THE MASSACHUSETTS BAY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY (MBTA), MASSDOT, BOSTON TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT, BOSTON CITY COUNCIL, DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND OTHERS TO SUPPORT EFFORTS AND ALIGNMENT TOWARDS IMPROVEMENTS ON BUS TRANSIT. IN BRAZIL, WITH ITDP'S SUPPORT, SAO PAULO EMBRACED INCLUSIONARY PLANNING AS INTEGRAL TO ITS BRT NETWORK DESIGN, ESPECIALLY THROUGH THE PLANNING OF SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOLS AROUND BRT CORRIDORS. ITDP IS NOW WORKING TO REPLICATE THIS SUCCESS IN FORTALEZA. THE RIO DE JANEIRO GOVERNMENT ADOPTED A 90% PEOPLE NEAR RAPID TRANSIT INDICATOR TARGET. IN INDONESIA, ITDP CONTINUED TO MAKE SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENTS AND ADVANCES AS PART OF THE REDUCING EMISSIONS PROJECT. ITDP'S TECHNICAL GUIDANCE AND RECOMMENDATIONS LED TO NOTABLE RESULTS ON THE GROUND INCLUDING A MAJOR INCREASE IN TRANSJAKARTA'S DAILY RIDERSHIP, WHICH HAS SKYROCKETED OVER 115% SINCE THE LAUNCH OF THE REDUCING EMISSIONS PROJECT IN SEPTEMBER 2015. IN 2018, TRANSJAKARTA DAILY RIDERSHIP REACHED A PEAK OF 773,000 PASSENGERS, THE HIGHEST RECORDED NUMBER IN ITS 15 YEARS OF OPERATION, AND CARRIED AN AVERAGE OF 663,000 PASSENGERS DAILY. IN 2018, IMPROVEMENTS TO TRANSJAKARTA LED TO A SUBSTANTIAL INCREASE IN ANNUAL RIDERSHIP BY 31% AS COMPARED TO THE PREVIOUS YEAR, WITH THE AVERAGE DAILY PASSENGERS ALSO CLIMBING 35% OVER THE SAME PERIOD. THIS IS PRIMARILY THE RESULT OF THE EXPANSION OF FEEDER SERVICES, PARTICULARLY THE MINIBUS SERVICES CALLED JAKLINGKO, WHICH PROVIDES A FREE-FEEDER SERVICE TO A TRANSJAKARTA STATION. CURRENTLY THERE ARE AN ADDITIONAL 36 MINIBUS ROUTES UNDER TRANSJAKARTA SERVICE. FEEDER EXPANSIONS, WITH ITDP'S SUPPORT, HAVE HELPED MAKE TRANSJAKARTA AN AFFORDABLE OPTION FOR HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS MORE RESIDENTS. WITH INDONESIAN OFFICIALS INCREASINGLY RECOGNIZING BRT AS A KEY SOURCE OF GHG MITIGATION EFFORTS, NOW IS THE TIME TO LEVERAGE THE SUCCESS OF JAKARTA'S TRANSJAKARTA BRT TO BUILD MOMENTUM FOR HIGH QUALITY BRT AND IMPROVED BUS SERVICES IN OTHER CITIES. IN COLLABORATION WITH THE MINISTRY OF TRANSPORTATION, ITDP CAPITALIZED ON THIS OPPORTUNITY BY DEVELOPING THE PUBLIC TRANSIT REFORM GUIDE, WHICH PROVIDES CITY GOVERNMENTS WITH A COMPREHENSIVE ILLUSTRATION OF PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT OPTIONS AND STEPS TO IMPLEMENT THEM. TRANSJAKARTA HAS 190 ROUTES OPERATING DAILY. HOWEVER, SOME STATIONS ARE ALREADY SATURATED AS SHOWN BY BUS OVERCROWDING. ITDP IS PROVIDING ASSISTANCE TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF STATION EXPANSIONS FOR SEVERAL STATIONS ON CORRIDOR 1 BY LEVERAGING THE 2018 ASIAN GAMES (AG). TRANSJAKARTA HAS ALLOCATED FUNDS FROM THEIR BUDGET TO RENOVATE AND EXPAND ONE STATION IN SENAYAN, NEAR THE MAIN AG VENUE. THE GBK STATION EXPANSION WAS SUCCESSFULLY FINISHED A FEW DAYS BEFORE THE ASIAN GAMES STARTED. THE STATION WAS EXTENDED TO ACCOMMODATE TWO BUSES WITH THE PRESERVATION OF AN EXISTING TREE. ALTHOUGH OVERTAKING LANES AND SUBSTOPS WERE NOT IMPLEMENTED, THE EXPANDED STATION HAS PROVIDED BETTER PASSENGER CIRCULATION FLOW ESPECIALLY DURING PEAK HOURS. ADDITIONALLY, THE GOVERNMENT OF JAKARTA HAS INTRODUCED A FARE INTEGRATION PLAN. THERE ARE FIVE PARATRANSIT ROUTES INCLUDED IN THE FIRST PHASE. ITDP CONDUCTED A FIELD SURVEY IN JANUARY 2018 AND DEVELOPED AN EXPANSION PLAN THAT CONSISTS OF 80 POTENTIAL ROUTES. ITDP WILL PASS THE RESULTS OF THIS RESEARCH TO TRANSJAKARTA AND OTHER RELEVANT STAKEHOLDERS IN ORDER TO DETERMINE THE RIGHT DIRECTION FOR ROUTE INTEGRATION. IN 2018, TRANSJAKARTA CONTINUED TO COOPERATE WITH THE PARATRANSIT OPERATORS AND THE NUMBER OF PARATRANSIT ROUTES GRADUALLY INCREASED. CURRENTLY, THERE ARE 36 PARATRANSIT ROUTES UNDER TRANSJAKARTA SERVICE, CONTRIBUTING UP TO 105,000 DAILY PASSENGERS OR ABOUT 13.6% OF THE DAILY TRANSJAKARTA TOTAL. IN SEMARANG, INDONESIA ITDP DEVELOPED A CONCEPTUAL PLAN FOR BRT AND FACILITATED A SERIES OF PUBLIC DISCUSSIONS AND WORKSHOPS WITH THE GENERAL PUBLIC. THE CITY HAS AGREED TO CONTINUE THE FULL BRT CORRIDOR DEVELOPMENT, WHICH WILL NOW BE TAKEN UP BY THE INDOBUS PROJECT AND PT SARANA MULTI INFRASTRUKTUR WITH FUNDING FROM GREEN CLIMATE FUND (GCF). IN KENYA, ITDP PLAYED AN ACTIVE ROLE IN THE PLANNING PROCESS FOR NAIROBI'S FIRST BUS RAPID TRANSIT (BRT). IN NAIROBI, ITDP PROVIDED INPUT REGARDING THE ONGOING BRT PLANNING PROCESS. IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE NAIROBI METROPOLITAN AREA TRANSPORT AUTHORITY (NAMATA), ITDP BEGAN DATA COLLECTION FOR A COMPREHENSIVE BRT SERVICE PLAN IN SEPTEMBER 2018. THE DATA COLLECTION INCLUDED FREQUENCY-OCCUPANCY SURVEYS, ONBOARD BOARDING-ALIGHTING SURVEYS, AND TRANSFER SURVEYS. THE RESULTING TRAVEL DEMAND MODEL WILL ENABLE NAMATA TO TEST SERVICE SCENARIOS AND PRIORITIZE THE DEVELOPMENT OF BRT CORRIDORS. THE SURVEYS WERE INTERRUPTED IN NOVEMBER 2018 WHEN THE GOVERNMENT BEGAN AN ENFORCEMENT DRIVE TO IMPROVE COMPLIANCE WITH ROAD TRANSPORT REGULATIONS ON BEHALF OF INFORMAL PUBLIC TRANSPORT OPERATORS, BUT ARE EXPECTED TO RESUME IN 2019. ITDP PROVIDED TECHNICAL INPUT TO NAMATA ON BRT BUS SPECIFICATIONS AND THE BUSINESS MODEL FOR BRT OPERATIONS. ITDP ALSO DEVELOPED A TWO-YEAR BRT IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE. IN LATE 2018, NAMATA ORGANIZED A WORKSHOP TO REVIEW THE DESIGNS FOR BRT LINE 3, WHICH RUNS FROM UPPER HILL TO DANDORA ALONG THE JUJA RD CORRIDOR. TO BUILD BROADER SUPPORT FOR BRT IMPLEMENTATION, ITDP HELD CONSULTATIONS WITH DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS INCLUDING UN-HABITAT, AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK, THE EUROPEAN UNION, AND THE WORLD BANK. IN TANZANIA, ITDP HELD EXTENSIVE DISCUSSIONS WITH DART ON THE BUSINESS MODEL AND CONTRACTING PRACTICES FOR THE FIRST-PHASE BRT NETWORK. ITDP REVIEWED THE BRT STATION DESIGNS FOR DART PHASES 2-3 AND PROVIDED INPUT TO THE DART AGENCY AND THE TANZANIA NATIONAL ROADS AUTHORITY (TANROADS) REGARDING THE REQUIRED DESIGN CHANGES. KEY ISSUES IDENTIFIED IN THE DESIGN REVIEW INCLUDED THE NEED FOR LARGER STATIONS THAT CAN HANDLE HIGHER BUS VOLUMES AND SEAMLESS PEDESTRIAN FACILITIES THAT GUARANTEE UNIVERSAL ACCESS. THE PROPOSED DESIGN RECOMMENDATIONS ARE UNDER REVIEW BY TANROADS AND HAVE BEEN PARTIALLY INCORPORATED, BUT ITDP WILL CONTINUE TO ADVOCATE FOR FULL ADOPTION OF THE IMPROVEMENTSIN RWANDA, KIGALI IS CURRENTLY COMPLETING A FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR A FIRST-PHASE BRT NETWORK. ITDP HAS BEGUN THE PROCESS OF REVIEWING THE FEASIBILITY STUDY AND WILL PROVIDE FEEDBACK IN EARLY 2019. ITDP ALSO ASSISTED THE CITY OF KIGALI IN APPLYING FOR SUPPORT FROM THE TRANSFORMATIVE URBAN MOBILITY INITIATIVE (TUMI) CHALLENGE FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF AN IT-BASED BICYCLE SHARING SYSTEM. (DESCRIPTION CONTINUED BELOW)