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From the Bottom Up: How Small Power Producers and Mini-Grids Can Deliver Electrification and Renewable Energy in Africa
Most Sub-Saharan African countries try to promote rural electrification through both centralized and decentralized approaches. This guide focuses on the decentralized approach, providing practical…
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PPPLRC 2018 Report
In 2018, the site continued to get high traffic, including 1,400,736 views over 596,584 unique visitors. Close to 210,000 visitors had an “interaction” with the site, such as downloading a document,…
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How to Prepare and Execute Performance Based Contracts for Road Asset Management - For Advanced Users
Robust road transport systems are indispensable for driving both economic growth and social inclusion. Yet, several critical challenges often impede the full realization of road investments’…
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Transit-Oriented Development Implementation Resources and Tools
This toolkit provides a compendium of resources for Transit-Oriented Development stakeholders to navigate each phase of the TOD process: Assessing, Enabling, Planning and Design, Financing, and…
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Bus Rapid Transit in China: A Comparison of Design Features with International Systems
As the recent white paper on China’s transport for the 13th Five-Year Plan period (2016–2020) states, China must set higher standards for the transport development to “realize the Chinese Dream of…
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Governance of Inclusive Transit-Oriented Development in Brazil
Transit-oriented development (TOD)—a planning strategy focused on building compact, mixed-use neighborhoods with access to high-quality public transport and mobility options—is key to sustainable…
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TOD Implementation Resources and Tools
Transit-oriented development, commonly known as TOD, is a planning and design strategy that focuses on creating urban development patterns which facilitate the use of public transit,walking and…
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Transforming Cities with Transit: Transit and Land-Use Integration for Sustainable Urban Development
This study explores the complex process of transit and land-use integration in rapidly growing cities in developing countries. It first identifies barriers to and opportunities for effective…
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Planning for Transit-Oriented Development in Emerging Cities
Urbanization is accelerating at an unprecedented pace, making sustainable and efficient urban planning critical. Planning for Transit-Oriented Development in Emerging Cities offers a comprehensive…
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TOD Guide for Communities
This TOD Guide for Urban Communities shares the best practice guidelines in transit oriented development around the world. This publication summarizes 28 concrete design recommendations for transit…
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Cities are Taking on Electric Buses: How the FSCI Helps Accelerate the Transition
Each day, a quarter million people around the world rely on diesel-fueled buses to reach their destinations. For decades, these buses have been the backbone of public transit fleets in cities. But…
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Rail Plus Property Development in China: the Pilot Case of Shenzhen
China’s cities face significant challenges in financing the growth of urban transit infrastructure. The current practice of financing urban metro or subway projects through municipal fiscal revenues…
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GEF-6 SCIAP China Sustainable Cities Integrated Approach Pilot: Summary Reports
China’s GEF-6 SCIAP project institutionalized Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) as a multiscale planning and governance tool embedded in national and city-level systems. Across seven pilot cities,…
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Financing Transit-Oriented Development with Land Values: Adapting Land Value Capture in Developing Countries
Cities in developing countries are experiencing unprecedented urban growth. Unfortunately, this is often accompanied by the negative impacts of sprawl as a result of rapid motorization such as…
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A model for Transit Oriented Development: Curitiba, Brazil
In the mid-1960s, to keep pace with Curitiba’s surge in population, traffic congestion, and uncontrolled urban sprawl, the City shifted its urban planning strategy from a radial growth pattern to a…
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Projects and Programs Manual to Encourage Cycling in Communities
Cycling is already an important part of daily life many of Brazil’s urban residents. To grow the country’s cycling culture as well as provide better conditions for users, EMBARQ Brazil developed this…
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The Nature-Based Solutions Opportunity Scan
Nature-based solutions (NBS) offer cost-effective alternatives to gray infrastructure, while building climate resilience and bringing important socioeconomic benefits to communities and the…
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Global Facility to Decarbonize Transport Annual Report (2025)
Development depends on transport that works. Transport systems connect people to opportunity, support businesses and trade, and enable economies to grow. When transport is reliable, efficient, and…
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Electric Vehicle and Labor Market Transformation
Motorcycle-taxis are among the fastest-growing forms of informal transport in developing economies, providing essential mobility and absorbing millions of workers into flexible but precarious…
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Guide for Road Safety Assessments for Urban Railway Crossings and Stations
This guide explains that safety is not just about the trains themselves, but also about how people get to and from stations . Problems often come from poor sidewalks, missing sign age, bad lighting,…
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Mobility and Development Periodical, Winter 2025
This periodical brings together fourteen insightful articles that showcase the transformative role of transport in driving development, connectivity, and innovation across diverse contexts. The…
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Transit-Oriented Development Implementation Resources and Tools : Second Edition
This toolkit provides a compendium of resources for Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) stakeholders to navigate each phase of the TOD process: Assessing, Enabling, Planning and Design, Financing, and…
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Local Governments Climate Finance Instruments - Global Experiences and Prospects in Developing Countries
This joint publication of the World Bank and the UN Capital Development Fund aims to help cities and local governments better understand the various climate finance instruments and sources available…
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World Development Report 2025 - Standards for Development
A World Bank Group Flagship Report.World Development Report 2025: Standards for Development provides the most comprehensive assessment of the global landscape of standards today and how they can be…
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Rethinking Resilience: Adapting to a Changing Climate
The publication, Rethinking Resilience, urges developing countries to adopt policies that empower individuals, households, farms, and firms to take proactive measures. Resilience measures should…