Until recently, transport planning operated under the assumption that women and men benefit from services equally. The reality, however, dictates a different experience for women and men. The Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) in partnership with the New Urban Communities Authority (NUCA), UN Women, and UN-Habitat undertook this study which included a series…
Type: Policy Brief
How to scale tactical urbanism using lessons from the Global South In the current context of the COVID-19 pandemic, various forms of long term lock down or shelter-in place orders have limited non-essential travel and resulted in some of the lowest vehicle volumes in decades. Recognizing that people still need (and want) to move around,…
In the past decade, the world has seen car sharing go mainstream, bike sharing become a global trend, and hundreds of startups stake their claim to reinventing transport. The new systems, collectively known as shared mobility, reflect the rise of both the on-demand and sharing economies. These dual economic phenomena are changing the way everyone from car owners to…