Transport links

Please note: these pages are no longer maintained, and we are not taking further link submissions. All external links to online resources are now via our Practical Answers technical information service.

You may also wish to explore our lists of Practical Action websites and partners and related websites.

International Forum on Rural Transport and Development (IFRTD)
ifrtd.gn.apc.org
Set up in 1991, as a global network of organisations and individuals interested in promoting alternative, sustainable transport solutions for poor rural people, IFRTD focuses on generating, collecting and sharing information and provides practical advice for individuals and organisations in nearly 100 countries.

World Transport Policy & Practice
www.ecoplan.org/wtpp/wt_index.htm
World Transport Policy & Practice journal on-line

Sustainable Urban Travel
www.nottingham.ac.uk/sbe/planbiblios/bibs/sustrav/refs
Index to a comprehensive bibliography on urban travel.

Global Transport Knowledge Partnership (gTKP)
www.gtkp.com
The global Transport Knowledge Partnership is an initiative to promote and disseminate sustainable transport knowledge, whilst encouraging greater participation from the developing world.

DFID Transport Links
www.transport-links.org/transport_links/index.asp
This site presents information about transport-related matters arising out of the UK Department for International Development's (DFID) programme of aid to developing countries.

Also available on this site is:

Transport Resource Centre
www.transport-links.org/rcs/
Practical Action is a partner in the Transport Resource Centre Scheme (TRCS), a world-wide consortium of groups and individuals with specialist knowledge in the field of transport research.

Rural Roads
www.ruralroads.org
This website has been set up to help planners and managers of rural road networks in developing countries to ask the many questions which should be asked in planning a program, to better appreciate the considerations which led them to being posed, and to take account of the growing body of knowledge about rural transport systems available on the Internet.

Please note that descriptions are generally taken from each website and are not ITDGPractical Action's evaluation of that website. ITDGPractical Action is not responsible for the content of external websites.