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“What do you people have against pedestrians and bicycles?”
It doesn’t happen very often. Thank goodness. But there are times, very rare times, when in our work, we experience a kind of mid-life crisis, when some external event sparks the realization that we...
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If you miss me at the back of the bus, and you can't find me nowhereCome on up to the front of the bus, I'll be ridin' right thereI'll be ridin' right thereI'll be ridin' right thereCome on up to the...
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The Way We Move Will Define our Future
Mobility is a precondition for economic growth: mobility for access to jobs, education, health, and other services. Mobility of goods is also critical to supply world markets in our globalized economy....
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En Quoi les Transports Dessinent-ils l'Avenir de Notre Planète?
La mobilité est un prérequis essentiel à la croissance économique : elle garantit l’accès à l’emploi, à l’éducation, à la santé et à bien d’autres services. Dans notre économie mondialisée, la mobilité...
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Ecovia in Monterrey -- How Bus Rapid Transit is Transforming Urban Mobility
Follow the author on Twitter: @shomik_raj One of the shiny new Ecovía buses Listening to Juan Ayala rave about how they only let the most talented bus drivers operate the shiny new buses on the Ecovía...
View ArticleBogota: TransMilenio’s overcrowding problem and a professor's solution
Also available in: Español Follow the authors on Twitter: @jpvelez78, @canonleonardo and @ScorciaH Why TransMilenio isn't working (Spanish) A few weeks ago, a video entitled “Why doesn’t TransMilenio...
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Want Healthy, Thriving Cities? Tackle Traffic Safety First
Every year, more than 1.2 million people die in traffic crashes worldwide, equivalent to nearly eight Boeing 747 plane crashes every day. As developing economies grow and private car ownership becomes...
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Will the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank become the new musketeer?
On Monday, China officially launched the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) in a ceremony with representatives from the bank's 57 founding-member countries. AIIB will have a capital base of...
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Urban transport: Lagos shows Africa the way forward (again)
Photo: Ben Eijbergen With a metropolitan population approaching 23 million, Lagos is the economic engine of Nigeria and one of the largest cities on the African continent. Rapid growth, unfortunately,...
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Africa is paving the way to a climate-resilient future
Since the presentation of the World Bank’s first Africa Climate Business Plan at the COP 21 in Paris in 2015 and the Transport Chapter in Marrakech in 2016, a lot of progress has been made on...
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Maximizing finance for sustainable urban mobility
Photo: ITDP Africa/Flickr The World Bank Group (WBG) is currently implementing a new approach to development finance that will help better support our poverty reduction and shared prosperity goals....
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