Global and the Standards Aimee Gauthier October 2014
Dec 28, 2015
Who is Global?Global ProgramsColin Hughes, Director
National Policy and Project Evaluation
Michael Kodransky, Manager, Global Research
Luc Nadal, Technical Director, Urban Development
- Jacob Mason, Manager, Transport Research and Evaluation
Global Policy
Michael Replogle, Managing Director Global Policy, Co-founder
Communications
Jemilah Magnusson, Manager, Communications
- Gabriel Lewenstein, Associate, Communications
Why Global?
• To aid in replication & dissemination• To help establish our credibility and authority
by leveraging our work for program and development purposes
• To be ambassadors for sustainable transport generally and ITDP specifically
• To ensure quality control• To help with internal communications
How?• Best Practices
– Standards: how to define best practices– Case studies: Success stories to inspire and learn from (our own and others)– Technical Guides: how to implement best practices (consolidating our expertise with
others)
• Research and Development– Preliminary research into new topics, such as parking (US and European Best
Practices), urban development (OCO, 8 principles), shared mobility– Collecting data and analyzing / disseminating (Bike share, BRT Standard, TOD
Standard)
• Monitoring and Evaluation– Internally: Working with organization on goal setting and then measuring our impact– Externally: Producing numbers for our funders
• Technical assistance– Ensuring quality control once we set standards and targets– On demand (from general research on way finding to deep technical assistance on
research issues)
Case Studies
• Sustainable Transport Award• Best practice portal on the website • TOD case studies – need local examples• What do we need and in what form?
Research and Development
• National Policy• Bike share data• Data from Standards• Shared Mobility• Density
Way finding? Complete streets? Should we have organization wide fact sheets or should each office just create their own?
What is our Impact?
Are we doing enough to quantify and know our impact?
Measure our results?PR and Program
Monitoring & Evaluation - internal
• Goal setting: RTR to reach CO2 goals– Upcoming – how to achieve replication in urban
development?– How to measure GHG impacts from parking reform or urban
development?• Project impacts (Transoeste Report)• Consolidating project experience and share from office
to office– Parking – Kodransky organizing calls to discuss work with
China and Mexico– Staff meetings
M/E - External
• Climate Change– GHG reduction through reduced car use based on
Better Streets and Better Cities– Sustainable Transport Corridors – tracking kms and
outputs– Urban development – tracking pop density via FAR
and maybe ridership or mode split along corridor BUENOS AIRES!!
Monitoring & Evaluation - External
• Equity / Poverty alleviation– Travel time saved – Travel costs reduced
• Health– Years of Life saved from lowered pollution or
increased health lifestyle• Road safety
– Reduction in fatalities
Tactics
• Release of reports = data is important; supplemental materials (infographics, videos)
• Release of scores from standards• Conferences• STA• Global campaigns? Are we driving the
discussion? At what level?• Global advocacy?