Past GNPT Events
Delhi Deep Dive Study Tour: Changing Narratives on 2&3 Wheelers
In September 2025, GNPT partnered with Uber to host a study tour in Delhi, immersing journalists and researchers from around the globe in India’s mobility systems and informal transportation networks. Participants met with local experts, experienced two- and three-wheeler travel firsthand, and visited key sites shaping Delhi's mobility landscape. With the goal of building on first-hand experience to ideate narrative-changing stories on the role of two- and three-wheelers in emerging economies, the program culminated with a space for participants to share and workshop stories as a group.
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Emergent + Empowered: Mobilizing Global Popular Transportation Networks for Equity, Health and Climate
With the support of the Rockefeller Foundation, Volvo Research and Educational Foundations (VREF), Columbia University’s Climate School’s Center for Sustainable Urban Development, and the Partnership for Research on Informal and Shared Mobility (PRISM), GNPT hosted Emergent + Empowered: Mobilizing Global Popular Transportation Networks for Equity, Health and Climate, a convening with key stakeholders and leaders representing transport workers and labor organizers, multilateral development banks, climate funders, global transport and/or climate NGOs, and research institutions to draft a global call to action, strategy and research agenda for popular transportation. This ambitious global campaign seeks to enable systems change through the articulation with different stakeholders and leveraging support in different action areas for the recognition, integration and improvement of popular transport services.
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3rd Annual Paratransit / Popular Transportation Day
Held on Washington D.C. in March 2025, this mini-conference focused on the role played by paratransit services—also known as popular transportation, informal transportation, intermediate public transportation, or artisanal transportation—the privately provided, publicly serving local transportation services and systems that emerge in nearly every city in the Global South.
The theme for the 3rd P/PTD was “Pathway Partners: Engaging paratransit/ popular transportation as assets to building sustainable transportation.”
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2nd Annual Paratransit / Popular Transportation Day
Held on Washington D.C. in March 2024, this mini-conference focused on recognizing and elevating paratransit services. The event explored the role these privately provided, publicly serving local transportation systems can play in decarbonizing transportation and achieving a just transition. Join colleagues, researchers, practitioners, and advocates as we discuss finance, fleet renewal, data and technology, and research.
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4th Annual Paratransit / Popular Transportation Day
Held in Washington, D.C. in March 2026, this half-day event combined plenary presentations, a panel discussion featuring city perspectives from Rwanda, Mexico, and Colombia, and three parallel thematic workshops covering: Public Health and Road Safety; Business Models and Financing; and Regulation of Two-Wheelers. Together, these sessions aimed to take stock of the latest regional trends and evidence, identify concrete action areas, and strengthen collaboration among key stakeholders.
The theme for the 4th P/PTD was “Advancing Paratransit / Popular Transport: From Understanding to Action.”
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