EMBARQ is preparing a new guidebook for cities and transit agencies about the importance of branding, marketing and communications when creating new transit services. This publication will be a very visual guide to best practices seen in cities around the world. We need your help!

Urban dwellers in China, India and Mexico may not think they have much in common, but cities in all three countries are experiencing similar rapid growth patterns and the subsequent challenges in managing that growth in a sustainable way.

EMBARQ Turkey, in collaboration with city officials and local planners, is working to facilitate the construction of pilot cycling corridors in three Turkish cities:

EMBARQ and the Center for Sustainable Transport and Health in the Andean Region (CTSS-Andino) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Peru’s Development Finance Corporation (COFIDE) to execute an ambitious five-year program to support urban development and sustainable mobility in nine Peruvian cities.

WASHINGTON, D.C., January 24, 2011 - The city of Guangzhou, China, today won the 2011 Sustainable Transport Award for its new world-class bus rapid transit (BRT) system that integrates with bike lanes, bike share and metro stations.

The Center for Sustainable Transport in Turkey (SUM-Türkiye) and the Interface for Cycling Expertise (I-CE), a Dutch NGO, held its first cycling inclusive urban transport planning workshop on January 19-21 in Eskişehir, Turkey.

Transport academics, engineers and nonprofit professionals learned best practices of improving bus operations and planning in a two-day training hosted by EMBARQ India.

"Modernizing Public Transport," a report with recommendations on how to deal with the challenges of introducing bus reforms in developing world cities, is now available in Spanish.