Dear Sujit and new mobility friends, Please don't think that our Chicago CTA friends have made these moves with joy in their hearts. The fact is that they...
Dear Eric, Sujit, I have argued many times against cheap fare policies (i.e. deliberate under-pricing) and that transit should be as close to self-financing as...
I think that the UK (outside London) has been a leader in the proposition that public transport can be self financing, with conspicuous lack of success. The ...
On Behalf Of Christopher Kost Brendan, You raise good points, but the assumption that the transit-dependent can pay more than cheap is problematic. At least in...
With all due respect Brendan, and I do very much appreciate those three important points you bring up (see below), I really do believe that the time has come...
Dear Brendan, I don't want to get overly stuck on the world "free" here, a source probably of more heat than light,. So let me just pop in a few thinking...
Hi all Don't misuse Public Transit politically as a Social Program . Public Transit must be managed as a usual business to show expected services and quality. ...
Sustainable Urban Mobility in Asia (SUMA) News Digest Vol. 4 Issue 16 03 September 2007 SUMA News Digest is a free weekly e-mail publication that features ...
Fare hikes and service cuts in Chicago as well as in other older developed cities around the world are unfortunately an ongoing phenomenon. However, getting...
If the alternatives to public transport, i.e. cars, were properly priced and (equally or more important) properly regulated, and if walking and cycling were...
I wrote a paper on these kinds of issues for Washington, DC -- for a class -- but I really need to revise it once more before sending it out. As a talking...
In the U.S., roads are subsidized by about 40%, as gasoline taxes, registration fees, tolls and other "user fees" don't cover all the costs incurred for...
Pittsburgh and Philadelphia are also experiencing massive financial problems, and their fares are rising. Cities like Chicago and New York City have much more...
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Ian Wingrove
ian.wingrove@...
Sep 4, 2007 9:14 am
First a bit of information. A remarkably large number of people on London's buses are travelling free. All the pensioners, plus the police and Transport for...
There are also a number of negative costs (although they appear in the positive in GNP and GDP but as real costs in "Green Economics") such as crash costs and...
Another key issue is that when the usage of a service becomes restricted mainly to the less well off this automatically leads to a decline because fewer people...
Paying for 'Free' Transit <http://thetyee.ca/Views/2007/07/13/NoFares5/> The article has links to the other pieces in the series. RL...
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Chris Bradshaw
hearth@...
Sep 5, 2007 2:37 pm
If our goal is "new mobility", we cannot give a "pass" to transit, either to defend the status quo or suggest that everything would improved if it were free....
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JoĆ£o Lacerda
jglacerda@...
Sep 6, 2007 7:08 am
A Brazilian Petrol Company has just launched a new credit card that adverstises it will offset all the carbon emissions of your car. It made remember of a...
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Todd Alexander Litman
litman@...
Sep 6, 2007 4:09 pm
... VTPI NEWS ... Victoria Transport Policy Institute "Efficiency - Equity - Clarity" ... Summer 2007 Vol. 10, No. 3 ... The Victoria Transport Policy...
... On Behalf Of Jon Shaw Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 7:41 PM Subject: [UTSG] Invitation to attend the launch of the University of Plymouth's new Centre...
Dear New Mobility friends and colleagues around the world, This is to inform you about our latest collaborative new mobility project. You will see it at...
Good article by John Adams. I was glad to see the point which had been in the depths of my mind but which I hadn't been able to articulate properly -- that ...
Dear colleagues, Based on the feedback received from various professionals, and other comments on the gender and urban transport module, the authors have ...
Nothing particularly surprising in this report, although it's pleasing to see personal carbon allowances mentioned and explored in more detail in one of the...
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Steve Abley
steve@...
Sep 13, 2007 5:19 am
Hello, I am applying the UK technique for the application of Public Transport Accessibility Levels in New Zealand. PTAL is a technique for measuring the...
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Ian Wingrove
ian.wingrove@...
Sep 13, 2007 2:11 pm
Simon Can you send me the original DEFRA reference to the 8.5% increase in CO2 from cars. It would be very handy to have right now. We had ken livingstone...
"The national e-ticketing system in Netherlands Dear Madame, Dear Sir, The Netherlands is the first country to implement an e-ticketing system on a ...
