While India accounts for only 2 percent of global motor vehicles, it contributes over 12 per cent of global road traffic deaths. Around 150,000 people lose their lives on India’s roads every year, making them...Read more
|Comment|author: Amit Bhatt, Binoy Mascarenhas and Dhawal Ashar
As cities strive to improve the quality of life for their residents, many are working to promote walking and biking. Such policies make sense, since they can, in the long run, lead to less traffic,...Read more
To harness the benefits of new mobility, decision-makers should establish clear guidelines that prioritize safe, efficient and equitable transportation for all.
More than 300 new bike-share services were launched worldwide last year. Ride-hailing services such as Uber and Didi Chuxing...Read more
Our cities are rapidly expanding, and with them motorization is increasing at an unchecked pace. Unless the global community takes meaningful strides to address the impact of these trends on the most vulnerable in our...Read more
The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo has proposed that children ages 4 to 11 should be able to use public transport for free. At this time only children under the age of 4 travel for...Read more
Urbanization is changing the face of the planet – for better and for worse. City populations, GDP and investment are increasing exponentially. At the same time, carbon emissions are rising, more and more people are living in...Read more
|Comment|author: Anne Maassen and Madeleine Galvin
Accessibility remains a challenge for Belo Horizonte’s bus rapid transit corridor. Improving public transit requires a hard look not just at vehicles and routes but at how people get on and off them.
Too often, design...Read more
Raahgiri Day is India’s first sustained car‐free event. It started as a small initiative and has since blossomed into a national movement. Now, it celebrates its fifth birthday.
In too many cities today we see a...Read more
The international research is clear. Stimulating and positive environments early in life provide optimal foundations for children’s ongoing development into adulthood. This in turn makes a difference to the productivity of society at large.
Communities are...Read more
Urbanisation is by and large a good thing, corresponding with steady declines in extreme poverty. More compact cities may also hold the key to a sustainable future. But this trend has come with a side effect: more...Read more
|1 comment|author: Schuyler Null, Anna Bray Sharpin and Paula Tanscheit
Irene Quintáns is a force to be reckoned with. She is on a crusade helping cities across Latin America implement child-friendly policies. Aside from her passion, a key part of her success is her ability to...Read more
The Austrian model of the so-called “Wohnstrasse“ (residential street) – a street intended as a social meeting point as well as a counter-project to the increasing urban motorisation in the cities has been existing for...Read more
How can we foster the autonomous mobility and cycling skills of children living in the city and promote physical activity? How can we facilitate a safe but exciting approach to cycling for urban kids?
Cycling will...Read more
Research shows that the brain develops the most in the first thousand days of a child’s life. Alarmingly some funders and researchers are not paying attention to this critical age group. During the Child in...Read more
The draft of the new London Plan, the long-term spatial development strategy for the UK capital, published yesterday for public consultation, includes a revised policy for children’s play and informal recreation. Adrian Voce reports.
The new...Read more
In this second of her two-part essay on the need for cross-disciplinary approaches to street design and traffic management, Lucy Marstrand points to evidence of an innate bias towards roads – over pedestrian and cycle...Read more