My fear is his main activity will be shoveling snow in -30C weather. ... Of course Eric would be a splendid candidate from a Canadian point of view. But...
Dear All, I wish Eric well,if he will be able to combine this new challenge with the New Mobility Agenda. Best regards, JOSHUA ODELEYE NIGERIAN INSTITUTE OF...
When I read the suggestions from some of you regarding the available position in Canada being taken by Eric Britton, I thought this wouldn’t be something...
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Eric Bruun
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Feb 3, 2006 9:03 am
Does anyone have a reference handy that attempts to measure the fatality and/or injury rates per hour or per unit distance of travel. I have absolute numbers...
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Lee Schipper
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Feb 3, 2006 12:39 pm
A key problme is there are few honest and reliable estimates of distance traveled by mode and fatalities by mode, i.e., the way the victin was traveling (or...
Good idea in principle though i am not sure exactly want is involved and to whom the proposal would be made....
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Eric Bruun
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Feb 4, 2006 10:44 am
This is the response which Todd Litman gave me: See our report, "Safe Travels" ( http://www.vtpi.org/safetrav.pdf ), Table 5, which compares average traffic...
The GTZ SUTP has published a revised 40-page module on Public Awareness Raising in Sustainable Transport (module 1e, 3.8 MB) by Carlos F. Pardo. It has...
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Eric Bruun
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Feb 4, 2006 10:44 am
Lee Thanks. You raise a good point. Sometimes pedestrians are not even traveling, they are just in the wrong place at the wrong time. So how do we measure...
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Lee Schipper
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Feb 4, 2006 3:05 pm
Many decades ago a good friend of mine was on a motor bike on the famous Sunset strip in West Hollywood, when a left-turning car hit him. He flew off his bike...
Eric, This is a very good question. As you have already noted this is not such a simple measure to calculate, let alone to make comparisons about. Ideally this...
I am inordinately busy of late (and this seems likely to continue for the immediate future), so I have not had much time to add anything to this interesting...
In my last post I suggested that the most useful definition of sustainable transportation would be to walking, cycling, public transport, railfreight and ...
My friend and colleague the LA based city planner Donald Brackenbush is coming to spend a couple of weeks in the Belgium, Netherlands and France area next...
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Eric Bruun
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Feb 6, 2006 8:27 am
Zvi Thanks for the input. I imagine that in many developing countries the "exposure" is really any time one is near the "road", as the road is not clearly...
I agrew with the thrust of this, but for cyclists traffic speed is a much more important deterrent than traffic volume. Stricly enforced lower speed limits...
Some of you may be interested to know that Chennai (formerly Madras) in India is in the midst of a heated controversy over public transport. The Tamil Nadu...
Dear Eric, Could the Stockholm Congestion Pricing project use this trial period as an opportunity to become an evolving, data gathering, living laboratory?...
To: Asia and the Pacific sustainable transport Subject: [sustran] Re: Chennai monorail controversy The experience in Chennai appears to be increasingly common...
Note: This reference has just been factored into the appropriate section of the Wikipedia entry on sustainable transportation which is still very much in...
Friends Trying to get exposure data for cyclists is bad enough and pedestrians are worse. A few years ago I did a one-household, two-person, one week travel ...
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D. Scott TenBrink
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Feb 7, 2006 10:38 am
I'd like to contribute a couple points on this topic 1) I don't think that we can claim, universally, that either traffic volume or speed is the major deterent...
The history of monorails fiascos is so long, so rocambolesque (is that a word in English? .. otherwise think Cervantes), and so without real exception that...
1. On personal experience I can't agree that buses and lorries are more irritating, even at a lower volume, than private cars for walkers. There may be some...
Dear All, The recent definition of sustainable transport by erudite scholars of this group, amused me a lot. I am indeed fascinated by the definition that...
Dear Madam, Dear Sir, We are an nonprofit association, which calls IIFM (International Institute for Mobility Training- www.iifm.ch) based in Geneva. We...
From my experience as an urban cyclist (in North America), I would say that my primary consideration is the traffic flow pattern, which impacts directly on the...
