A useful document from the UK governmenty. It covers building on brown field and also density of new developments. It has both regional breakdown of results...
Sustainable Urban Mobility in Asia (SUMA) News Digest Vol. 4 Issue 10 05 Jun 2007 SUMA News Digest is a free weekly e-mail publication that features news,...
Dear New Mobility Friends, I normally try hard to make sure that the thin walls between our fairly large number of programs and discussion areas are respected,...
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Chris Bradshaw
hearth@...
Jun 7, 2007 6:50 am
Freiburg community recently developed: http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=3234523...
RE: Local cycling environment indicators: More on ... Following my comments about slower speeds and in particular reference to Graz, I have done a GOOGLE using...
Dear Friends, As we roll ever so deliberately toward conclusion of the first volume in this series, "New Mobility in Paris: Action agenda for a sustainable...
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Ivo Wengraf
ivo.wengraf@...
Jun 7, 2007 11:48 am
Hi: I'm doing a PhD on automobility in the UK, and I am writing to ask if anyone on this list can recommend texts or organizations worth me looking at on the...
I was just looking at some old photos I have (press photos, not ones taken by me since I've never been to London) and I noticed both articulated buses (60 feet...
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Eric Bruun
ericbruun@...
Jun 7, 2007 8:22 pm
Richard DC is not a small city. DC is the nucleus of a quite large city, regardless if the official borders containing "only" 600,000 persons. 20,000 is a...
]On Behalf Of Zvi Leve This reminds me of a 'round-table' session on 'transportation planning in the developing world' that I attended some years ago. The...
On Behalf Of Tracey Axelsson A car sharing co-op, which for ten years has helped integrate private vehicles with walking, cycling and public transit to provide...
well, that 20K number is a bit deceptive to my way of thinking... that bus route is a very long L going from one end of the city to the other. To my way of...
From: Carlos F. Pardo [mailto:carlosfpardo@...] Joao's email is interesting. If I can use the black hat for a moment, I'd say that Joao is right but not...
While I accept the case for lower speed limits in urban areas, I think it is important not to lose sight of one of the possible downsides, namely the effect on...
Hi ... I am unsure of the relative importance of the view from inside the bus etc as an incentive to increased use of public transport viz importance of...
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Ian Wingrove
ian.wingrove@...
Jun 8, 2007 9:50 am
We are pushing 20mph as the norm in london, with negotiated exemptions. I suspect that that only way we will get transport for london on board with this idea...
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Ian Wingrove
ian.wingrove@...
Jun 8, 2007 12:37 pm
Quick point on bendy buses in london. They have three entry points and Oyster cards mean that people get and off very quickly. Agree about buses not being a...
I'm no expert but I understand from a recent conference that the busiest high frequency bus routes in London which use artics almost compare with some of the...
London's articulated buses have got a reputation that one can travel on them without paying. Ian, what are the statistics on the efficacy of revenue protection...
A great advantage of buses (London buses anyway!) is that they do not go very fast (door to door journeys, and even many journeys over a bus route, are much...
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Ian Wingrove
ian.wingrove@...
Jun 12, 2007 5:27 pm
As requested, the information on London buses and fare revenue. I have also included some questions to the Mayor on the subject which help provide useful...
Simon, Last year I went on a training workshop to provide campiagn solutions for transport, one of the exercises was to arrange images mostly cut from glossy...
Yes, I'll agree with Rory that cars are sexy, but it's the sexiness of the rapist or paedophile. I think that the experience of their victims can well be ...
I tend to disagree with Ken Livingstone's argument against not asking people to waive their tickets in front of readers. The smart card system does not require...
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Eric Bruun
ericbruun@...
Jun 13, 2007 2:57 am
Stephen Perhaps London already gets to much linvestment relative to the rest of the UK. But surely CrossRail might also bring some congestion reduction...
A few points in reply to these threads: Low speed limits aren't necessarily a problem if following traffic cannot pass. Rather than having laybys at bus...
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Peter Newman
p.newman@...
Jun 17, 2007 1:12 pm
The smart card system is working well in Perth. Its extremely quick and has cut fare evasion to almost nothing. Peter Professor Peter Newman Director,...
Dear Friends, I am hard at work updating and extending a keynote presentation I made last week at the opening congress for the Cities for Mobility Network –...
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Lee Schipper
SCHIPPER@...
Jun 17, 2007 8:39 pm
Behind Peter's positive note is an important point -- Transit has to work quickly, and fast fare collection is important to keeping the busses (or trains, for...
