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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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Transforming Transportation for More Inclusive, Prosperous Cities

Also available in: Español | Français | 中文Leaders in the transport, development, and for the first time, business sectors will convene for Transforming Transportation this week in Washington, DC....

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Replacing the car with a smartphone… Mobility in the shared economy

Follow the author on Twitter: @shomik_raj Photo: Sam Kittner / Capital Bikeshare The sharing economy has been around for a long time. But recent technological advances like the development of real-time...

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Transit-oriented development — What does it take to get it right?

Follow the authors on Twitter: @chyiyunhuang and @shomik_raj   A recent trip to Addis Ababa really brought the imperatives of transit-oriented development as a complement to mass transit investments...

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Why we were happy when our bosses raised employee parking rates... Or how...

Follow the authors on Twitter: @shomik_raj and @canaless   Recently, as part of a broader cost cutting initiative, World Bank management decided to do away with a long standing policy of subsidizing...

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Traffic jams, pollution, road crashes: Can technology end the woes of urban...

Photo: Noeltock/Flickr Will technology be the savior of urban mobility?  Urbanization and rising incomes have been driving rapid motorization across Asia, Africa, and Latin America. While cities are...

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How can Indonesia achieve a more sustainable transport system?

Photo: UN Women/Flickr Indonesia, a vast archipelago of more than 17,500 islands, is the fourth most populous country in the world, with 261 million inhabitants, and the largest economy in Southeast...

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Moving toward green mobility: three countries, three different paths

A local bus in Luxembourg. Photo: Fränz Bous/Flickr As discussions concluded at COP24, countries still struggle to translate their climate commitments into effective and socially acceptable actions....

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