Transportation and Land Use Program

The Transportation and Land Use program launched a new website, the Transit Priority Atlas, which explores what surface transit priority looks like in practice and in theory. Director Eric Goldwyn and his team collected data on thirty-two cities around the world, detailed different treatments, and have begun writing case studies about specific cities. The website is meant to show how bus speeds compare across cities and to provide actionable interventions for elected officials, policymakers, and others to understand and advocate for. Fellow Marco Chitti introduced the atlas at a recent event, and Chitti and Goldwyn discussed it in “Speeding Up the Bus: Reality Behind the Rhetoric” in Vital City:

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