World Streets: The Politics of Transport in Cities

Today marks the fifth anniversary edition of World Streets. Our first number appeared on 31 March 2009 with an opening message by the edito...

This is short report was submitted by the participants of the city of Amsterdam in the 20 February 2014 workshop in the Utrecht for the proj...

Challenging year ahead. Here are the main program areas to which we intend to give attention over the course of the year ahead. All of these...

In transportation circles, most often in Europe and North America but not uniquely there, we often hear the term "behavior modification...

We keep reading and are repeatedly informed that for carsharing to work there must be good public transport, cycling and other mobility arra...

This is a simple fact ! Free Public Transport (FPT) has no possible justification whatsoever unless your governing officials are willing to ...

Results of pilot project in the Netherlands This paper describes a pilot project consisting of a substantial increase in the number of carsh...

World Streets welcomes discussion of fare free public transport because we believe that it is important to listen to alternative views from ...

World Streets and the New Mobility Agenda are strong and consistent supporters of bike sharing projects created in university settings, part...

Sustainability is not a four letter word (but maybe it should be) The second annual Haiku Sustainability Slam is being organized by World St...

Carsharing changes our relationship with the cars we owned and loved and hated over much of the century just behind us. And one of the point...

Germany is among the world leaders when it comes to the development of carsharing, as the following figures and graphics clearly illustrate....

World Streets: The Politics of Transport in Cities Each week  subscribers to World Streets - presently numbering 5,407 from 149 countries on...

If you are interested in carsharing, if you understand that public policy has an important role to play . . . and if you read Dutch, then Va...

xCARS: NEW WAYS OF OWNING AND USING CARS IN  21ST CENTURY. The 2014 work program focuses on carsharing, but not limited to this one new form...

Carsharing has a brilliant, in many ways surprising and certainly very different future -- a future which is already well in process. Carsha...

Today is International Women's Day. And not only that, 2011 marked the one hundredth anniversary of this great and necessary idea. So wh...

More than three quarters of the municipalities in the Netherlands are currently served by carshare operators (as opposed to 11% in 2002). Th...

The following listing of organizations around the world that are "fighting for free public transport" has been compiled by the Swe...

Before digging into the details, the important mechanics of carsharing [1] , it is important for policy makers to ask these deeper questions...

An informal shared library has been set up in support of this group project for the KpVV to serve collaborators and contributors – in the fo...

Some may argue this, be that as it may, but if you ask World Streets for our advice for a great place to go to start your research into and ...

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Transport in Penang (and all around the world for that matter) relies on non-renewable sources of energy. Think 20 cars with one person in e...

The topic of "free public transport" (FPT), or better yet "zero fair public transport" (ZFPT), is one that has gotten co...

This issue of World Transport Policy and Practice opens the journal's 20th year of  consistent commitment to sustainable transport, whic...

The short off the cuff answer is: yes definitely. But let us dig deeper. The answer becomes even more self-evident if you turn the question ...

Enrique Peñalosa, former mayor of Bogotá, was  responsible for introducing a number of in terms of transportation and public space innovatio...