Oslo's City Ring Road after multimodal safety improvements. Photo courtesy of City of Oslo, Norway In 2015, the City of Oslo, Norway, made a commitment after years of rising transportation injuries to ...

The Colombian capital of Bogota has been praised for more than a decade concerning its dramatic transformation, which centered around the TransMilenio bus rapid transit (BRT) system, ushered in by ...

Nossa Cidade (“Our City”), from TheCityFix Brasil, explores critical questions for building more sustainable cities. Every month features a new theme. Leaning on the expertise of researchers and ...

Pedestrians walk along Rua XV in Curitaba, Brazil. Even among strangers, eyes on the street provide safety in public spaces. Photo by Dylan Passmore/Flickr.

Before the Metrocable was built, the only options for residents to descend from the hilly informal settlements were infrequent, unreliable buses or journeying on foot, which could take multiple hours.

It is a two-way street: people will be on the street if they feel safe and the street will be a safer environment the more people use them. Below, we present ten principles that should be considered ...

Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, cycling has become even more popular. Here are four ways cities can design safer roads for cyclists.

Changing the temperature in your home by one or two degrees may not seem like a big deal, but when temperatures change across the globe by that much, major cities will be threatened by sea level rise, ...

“ Toward Car-Free Cities,” a blog series by WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities’ Urban Mobility Team, explores the challenges and opportunities for Transport Demand Management (TDM) strategies. TDM ...

For many city leaders, more cars and more highways mean better transportation. And during the current pandemic, fear of COVID-19’s spread is pushing some to turn to private vehicles. But a safe, ...

In San Francisco, parks, squares and alleys transform into playgrounds on car-free days, fostering a sense of togetherness and belonging. Photo: Patrick Race As cities become more congested, traffic ...

A reverse effect to traffic generation is the phenomenon of “traffic evaporation”: traffic that disappears when road space is reallocated from private vehicles to more sustainable modes of transport ...