Let's summarize the achievement of the world's leading CSO. After 20 years, Mobility Car-Sharing has attracted about 1% of all Swiss with a drivers' license....
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On Behalf Of Daryl Os...
fekbritton
Oct 1, 2006 3:29 pm
On Behalf Of Daryl Oster Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 5:58 PM To: xTransit@yahoogroups.com Howard, The energy content data you desire is all published in...
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On Behalf Of Daryl Os...
fekbritton
Oct 1, 2006 3:31 pm
On Behalf Of Daryl Oster Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 7:22 PM To: xTransit@yahoogroups.com ... It is not always a release of energy, but energy can also be...
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Wendell Cox wcox@...
fekbritton
Oct 1, 2006 3:31 pm
Wendell Cox wcox@... Subject: Europe: Commuting Faster in Suburbs than Cities Commentary: ...
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On Behalf Of Todd Ale...
fekbritton
Oct 1, 2006 3:56 pm
On Behalf Of Todd Alexander Litman Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 4:49 PM Thank you for sharing this. Cox is a master of propaganda and it's good to be ...
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Rory McMullan
roryer
Oct 2, 2006 2:01 pm
I am interested by the claims that dense urban centres increase congestion, pollution and travel times. I find it hard to beleive that commuting is faster in...
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Jan Scheurer [mailto:...
fekbritton
Oct 2, 2006 7:32 pm
From: Jan Scheurer [mailto:jan.scheurer@...] Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 4:16 PM Subject: new report on public transport Dear friends and...
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Yusak Susilo
yo_susilo
Oct 3, 2006 1:32 pm
Dear Rory, One of my research results based on the National travel survey in the Netherlands also shows that: although commuters from less urbanised areas have...
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Roland Sapsford
roland@...
Oct 3, 2006 8:29 pm
Hi I have now undertaken a little research. The EU Urban Audit project home page can be found here: http://www.urbanaudit.org/ It covers a wide range of...
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Zegras, P. Christopher
czegras@...
Oct 4, 2006 7:45 am
I actually also took a closer look at the urbanaudit.org data. In fact, with enough digging it is possible to find the data which, apparently, underlie Cox's...
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Zvi Leve
zvileve
Oct 4, 2006 3:15 pm
[From a colleague of mine] I am currently conducting research into project risks associated with transport infrastructure, for the Dissertation element of my...
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Zvi Leve
zvileve
Oct 4, 2006 3:50 pm
In my opinion, the issue is not so much the differences in travel times between suburban areas and central areas, but rather the evolution of travel patterns...
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Lee Schipper
SCHIPPER@...
Oct 5, 2006 9:10 am
I think Zvi's point is well taken.. in the US commuting now accounts for only 25-27% of all km traveled, in europe a bit 2more (admittedly of a 30% smaller...
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Rory McMullan
roryer
Oct 5, 2006 9:12 am
The reason for the trend of out of town shopping centres and offices with large car parks is usually cost. Surely the answer is to enforce effective travel...
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Zvi Leve
zvileve
Oct 6, 2006 10:33 am
... I agree completely! On the other hand, we now have the capability to rapidly create 'instant' big-box development (and even gated communities), so what is...
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Lee Schipper
SCHIPPER@...
Oct 6, 2006 12:59 pm
Now we get to the interesting part. Geometry assures that area increases with the square of distance from a given point. There's simply more area outside of a...
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Rory McMullan
roryer
Oct 8, 2006 10:14 am
[note from Eric Britton. You will find considerable background and expertise on LVT in the forum of "The Land Cafe: Putting Value Capture to Work: An...
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Eric Britton
fekbritton
Oct 8, 2006 10:18 am
The following in the context of our long standing xTransit interests and work (http://www.xtransit.org <http://www.xtransit.org/> ). Eric Britton ...
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Eric Britton
fekbritton
Oct 8, 2006 2:58 pm
I personally love this guy (please don't stop reading yet!). o First because he gives us in one convenient place the entire litany of reasons,...
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Richard Layman
rlaymandc
Oct 8, 2006 8:00 pm
Hmm. Just some of those statements are pretty amazing. LR and congestion and Portland. All "congestion" can't be cured, because it's a function of a land use...
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Lee Schipper
SCHIPPER@...
Oct 9, 2006 5:50 am
totally agree with Eric.. but what of the O'Toole's on the side of the "good guys"? We are not without sinners and spinners either. Is it true that Peter...
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Eric Britton
fekbritton
Oct 9, 2006 2:08 pm
I would like to invite comments on this piece that appeared in yesterday's New York Times, which to my mind in hugely rich with lessons that we all will do ...
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Eric Britton
fekbritton
Oct 9, 2006 2:11 pm
Pick up and go 01:00 AM EDT on Sunday, October 8, 2006 By Peter C.T. Elsworth Journal Staff Writer A Zipcar - a car that is rented out on an hourly basis as...
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Todd Alexander Litman
litman@...
Oct 9, 2006 7:30 pm
I debated Randal O'Toole at the Florida American Planning Association annual meeting last year, and have evaluated his publications. He produces very bad...
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Eric Britton
fekbritton
Oct 10, 2006 8:58 am
PS: Harsh criticism as this may seem, my goal here is a very positive one. Read on. Boondoggle: Hate to say it John but to my mind this is but one more ...
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Institute for Transpo...
fekbritton
Oct 10, 2006 4:08 pm
<http://www.itdp.org/images/masthead_480.gif> “We cannot talk about urban transport until we know what kind of a city we want, and to talk about the kind...
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Stephen Plowden
stephenplowden
Oct 10, 2006 8:06 pm
A possibly relevant observation and a suggestion. In 1992 the World Bank undertook a study in the Ivory Coast about how best to maintain the inter-urban road...
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Prof J G Krishnayya
fekbritton
Oct 12, 2006 12:24 pm
On Behalf Of Prof J G Krishnayya Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 1:27 PM Agree completely. It is the think tanks and academics who will push this, since it...
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Stephen Plowden
stephenplowden
Oct 12, 2006 7:40 pm
Eric's criticisms are quite right. Almost all this research is a way for the Government to make out that it is doing something while shirking doing things...
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Michael Yeates
yeates_michael
Oct 13, 2006 7:43 am
It appears some on these lists may not have received the following ... ... It appears some on these lists may not have received the following ... Date: Wed, 11...
