ITDP’s Response to the Iran Energy Crisis
Closing the Strait of Hormuz has driven oil prices up about 60% and natural‑gas prices up 100% in recent months, exposing the transport sector to soaring fuel costs. The disruption highlights the strait as a critical chokepoint whose future closures could embed structurally higher energy prices worldwide. Nations have responded either by subsidizing current consumption or by pushing for greater efficiency and transport electrification. ITDP urges the latter, arguing it offers the best long‑term economic outcome.
Now Is Moment to Electrify Brazil’s Urban Buses
Electric buses are the most mature technology to replace diesel, already reshaping cities worldwide. Santiago, Chile, leads Latin America with the region’s largest e‑bus fleet. In Brazil, buses generate 69% of transport‑sector GHG emissions, and with COP30 in Rio the...
One Challenge, Five Startups: Better Public Transport for India
India’s Transport4All (T4A) Challenge, launched in April 2021 by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs and the Smart Cities Mission, mobilized over 240,000 citizens, 130 cities and 28 startups to tackle chronic bus‑service unreliability. The competition split the problem...