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The Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) is a non-governmental non-profit organization that seeks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve the quality of urban life by advancing sustainable transportation in cities around the world. ITDP provides technical assistance to cities and local advocacy groups on a range ofsustainable transportation and development issues.〔"Keeping Buses on the Left May Not Work" by Atul Mathur, ''Hindustan Times'', New Delhi, May 15, 2008〕 ITDP focuses primarily on developing bus rapid transit (BRT) systems, promoting biking, walking, and non-motorized transport, and improving urban development platforms.〔(ITDP: Our Program Areas )〕 Other programs include parking reform, traffic demand management, and global climate and transport policy. According to its mission statement, ITDP is committed to "promoting sustainable and equitable transportation worldwide."〔 In addition to its role supporting and consulting local governmental efforts to develop more sustainable transportation, ITDP publishes the magazine ''Sustainable Transport'' annually, produces the BRT Standard and other research, and sits on the committee for the annual Sustainable Transport Award. ==Overview== ITDP was founded in 1985 by Michael Replogle and other sustainable transport advocates in the United States to counteract the spread of costly and environmentally damaging car-centric urban development models, and to promote biking, walking, and public transit in transportation planning.〔(ITDP: Who We Are )〕〔("Former Mayor of Bogota Stumps for Congestion Pricing" ) by Matthew Schuerman, ''WNYC'', Feb 18, 2008〕〔"Rethinking the auto: Blueprints for a cleaner, greener future" by Michael Reiner, ''Utne Reader'', March/April 1989〕 In its first ten years, ITDP worked to support and grow local bicycle industries in Haiti, Nicaragua, Mozambique, South Africa, and West Africa. By 1989, ITDP's Bikes Not Bombs campaign had shipped 10,000 second-hand bicycles to support health and education efforts in Nicaragua and used these to establish a bicycle assembly industry in that country. ITDP advocated for the redirection of lending activity by the World Bank and other multi-lateral institutions. Where these global institutions had an exclusive focus on road projects, ITDP worked to open up funding for multi-modal transport solutions.〔 ITDP advocated for sustainable transport initiatives in U.S. transportation policy, influencing the 1991 Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA). Responding to ITDP pressure, the Peace Corps put its volunteers on bicycles rather than motorcycles. In the early nineties, ITDP helped establish the Transport Sector Task Force, an advisory panel to the US Treasury Department's Multi-lateral Development Bank liaison office, to comment on specific transport projects. In its 1994 study "Counting on Cars, Counting Out People" ITDP published a preliminary set of guidelines for reforming the World Bank Transport Sector economic appraisal to make it less biased in favor of motorways. The report's key recommendation that economic impacts on non-motorized road users be included in the appraisal has been incorporated into World Bank practice.〔Hook, Walter. ''Counting on cars, counting out people: a critique of the World Bank's economic assessment procedures for the transport sector and their environmental implications,'' Institute for Transportation and Development Policy, 1994.〕 ITDP has offices in seven countries, with projects and relationships in over 100 cities worldwide. In 2009 Enrique Peñalosa, former mayor of Bogotá, Colombia, who has received wide acclaim for making the city of Bogotá a "model of enlighted planning" during his four-year tenure, and was instrumental in the establishment of that city's exemplary TransMilenio BRT system, was elected as President of the Board of Directors of ITDP.〔(Enrique Peñalosa Elected ITDP President )〕〔〔("Man With a Plan" ) by Deborah Solomon, ''New York Times Magazine'', June 8, 2008〕 Walter B. Hook served as the organizations executive director from 1993 to 2014. Heather Thompson is ITDP's interim CEO. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) is a non-governmental non-profit organization that seeks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve the quality of urban life by advancing sustainable transportation in cities around the world. ITDP provides technical assistance to cities and local advocacy groups on a range ofsustainable transportation and development issues."Keeping Buses on the Left May Not Work" by Atul Mathur, ''Hindustan Times'', New Delhi, May 15, 2008 ITDP focuses primarily on developing bus rapid transit (BRT) systems, promoting biking, walking, and non-motorized transport, and improving urban development platforms.(ITDP: Our Program Areas ) Other programs include parking reform, traffic demand management, and global climate and transport policy. According to its mission statement, ITDP is committed to "promoting sustainable and equitable transportation worldwide."In addition to its role supporting and consulting local governmental efforts to develop more sustainable transportation, ITDP publishes the magazine ''Sustainable Transport'' annually, produces the BRT Standard and other research, and sits on the committee for the annual Sustainable Transport Award. ==Overview==ITDP was founded in 1985 by Michael Replogle and other sustainable transport advocates in the United States to counteract the spread of costly and environmentally damaging car-centric urban development models, and to promote biking, walking, and public transit in transportation planning.(ITDP: Who We Are )("Former Mayor of Bogota Stumps for Congestion Pricing" ) by Matthew Schuerman, ''WNYC'', Feb 18, 2008"Rethinking the auto: Blueprints for a cleaner, greener future" by Michael Reiner, ''Utne Reader'', March/April 1989 In its first ten years, ITDP worked to support and grow local bicycle industries in Haiti, Nicaragua, Mozambique, South Africa, and West Africa. By 1989, ITDP's Bikes Not Bombs campaign had shipped 10,000 second-hand bicycles to support health and education efforts in Nicaragua and used these to establish a bicycle assembly industry in that country. ITDP advocated for the redirection of lending activity by the World Bank and other multi-lateral institutions. Where these global institutions had an exclusive focus on road projects, ITDP worked to open up funding for multi-modal transport solutions. ITDP advocated for sustainable transport initiatives in U.S. transportation policy, influencing the 1991 Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA). Responding to ITDP pressure, the Peace Corps put its volunteers on bicycles rather than motorcycles.In the early nineties, ITDP helped establish the Transport Sector Task Force, an advisory panel to the US Treasury Department's Multi-lateral Development Bank liaison office, to comment on specific transport projects. In its 1994 study "Counting on Cars, Counting Out People" ITDP published a preliminary set of guidelines for reforming the World Bank Transport Sector economic appraisal to make it less biased in favor of motorways. The report's key recommendation that economic impacts on non-motorized road users be included in the appraisal has been incorporated into World Bank practice.Hook, Walter. ''Counting on cars, counting out people: a critique of the World Bank's economic assessment procedures for the transport sector and their environmental implications,'' Institute for Transportation and Development Policy, 1994.ITDP has offices in seven countries, with projects and relationships in over 100 cities worldwide. In 2009 Enrique Peñalosa, former mayor of Bogotá, Colombia, who has received wide acclaim for making the city of Bogotá a "model of enlighted planning" during his four-year tenure, and was instrumental in the establishment of that city's exemplary TransMilenio BRT system, was elected as President of the Board of Directors of ITDP.(Enrique Peñalosa Elected ITDP President )("Man With a Plan" ) by Deborah Solomon, ''New York Times Magazine'', June 8, 2008 Walter B. Hook served as the organizations executive director from 1993 to 2014. Heather Thompson is ITDP's interim CEO.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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