In the meantime here is some information on a newly-released report from the Economist Intelligence Unit, which you can click to at the bottom of this page for...
[http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0610/feature3/index.html] That we should find nature rejuvenating is hardly surprising. After all, our tribe arose not...
Ian, 1 Could you please give the source/s for these figures ? (apart from the Friends of the Earth poll) 2 I'm unimpressed by the <4m for further road safety...
Sir Roy Eddington fell under the pernicious influence of those British transport economists who have always refused to look seriously at methods of traffic...
Stephen, ... This is because the way we've been brought up as transport planners is to see road pricing as some sort of holy grail, and that the major economic...
The quote from Stephen below; "It is true that road pricing for lorries (trucks) should be introduced straight away" needs challenging as there is no logic in...
Bus Rapid Transit Planning course – Training Course 11th December, 2006. Mercure Hotel, Yogyakarta Dear all Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) is an innovative approach...
The document describes the sort of transport policies London needs to cater for the growth we will experience by 2025 and it included land value capture as one...
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Andrew Curry
andrew.nextwave@...
Dec 5, 2006 12:09 pm
The damage to roads by a given vehicle is - if I recall correctly - the cube of the axle weight. By this measure, trucks are almost certainly undertaxed rather...
On Behalf Of Sujit Patwardhan 4 December 2006 Friends in SUSTRAN, You will be happy to know that Pune inaugurated its BRT System on 3 December 2006, one day...
I think we've had this argument before, but may I suggest that raising train and bus fares sky high while failing to price car use is possibly the ultimate in ...
Hey Folks, Given the conversation, I thought you might be interested in the article I just wrote about the history of congestion charging in New York City....
BRT is an innovative approach to solve the transport problems of not just developing cities, but developed cities too. The BRT-UK confernece which finished...
European Transport Conference 2007 The European Transport Conference will be held from 17 - 19 October at the Leeuwenhorst Conference Centre, Noordwijkerhout,...
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Eric Bruun
ericbruun@...
Dec 7, 2006 4:24 pm
Rory Please don't take these comments as being against BRT, they are more meant in defense of LRT. Both have their place, and are to some extent...
We built tramways when our GNP per head was a tiny fraction of what it is now, so how can they be unaffordable ? We must guard against the following: 1. The...
Simon, ... Through one of the many strange financial things that are now required, and also because schemes are vastly inflated due to dodgy numbercrunching by...
Eric, Likewise I feel support for BRT and LRT are not mutually exclusive. I am no expert on either, but feel that the momentum that BRT seems to be gathering...
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Eric Bruun
ericbruun@...
Dec 8, 2006 7:57 am
Dear readers: One my compatriots in the ITS community raised the following interesting question. It is in line with the ongoing discussion about the use of ...
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Eric Bruun
ericbruun@...
Dec 8, 2006 7:57 am
Rory Just one more comment. As far as I know, most LRT systems in the UK do OK in ridership by European crowding standards. I know that Sheffield and...
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Lee Schipper
SCHIPPER@...
Dec 8, 2006 8:00 am
The problem is that LRT costs consdirably more per unit of capacity (in people/hour) or per kilometer than BRT. IF both take the center of a street, LRT ...
<http://www.streetsblog.org/2006/12/07/three-concrete-proposals-for-new-york-cit y-traffic-relief/> Three Concrete Proposals for New York City Traffic Relief ...
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Larry Shaeffer
larryshaeffer@...
Dec 8, 2006 1:16 pm
I've been to numerous presentations on ITS projects for corridor segments from 6-12 intersections. each project having a price tag of over $1 millionUS. The...
Sustainable Urban Transport Project (GTZ SUTP) update August - December 2006 This newsletter gives updates on the SUTP activities, resources, website and ...
The Great Leap China Car Free Days Idea Factory Outline draft proposal for an open brainstorm Kindly preserve Subject line in future posts; It's soon 2007 and...
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Martin Cassini
martincassini@...
Dec 8, 2006 3:46 pm
It's pretty clear we're reaching a tipping point. Traffic controls are of use only to the control industry. CTS is a more appropriate name than ITS, where C...
The cost of the Cambridge-Huntingdon guided busway scheme is about 116m pounds, paid for by a combination of government grant (92.5m pounds) and developer ...
Eric, This is possibly the project that is closest to my heart. I agree with you that there is little point in following examples of CFD in other countries,...
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Eric Bruun
ericbruun@...
Dec 8, 2006 10:19 pm
Martin Don't go too far with your condemnation of ITS. Don't forget that it also helps speed up transit, it provides real-time passenger information, it...
