****Upcoming Events about Sustainable Urban Transport**** From www.SUTP.org Date : 16.07.2008 Venue : Vienna, AT Title : Travel Demand Management Symposium ...
Anyone know of any research or position papers on the topic of drive-through banks and the disabled? I started writing about how two drive-through banks in my...
Editor’s note: This is of course the other half of the New Mobility Agenda. The challenge is how to build the necessary bridges. Let’s keep at it. Eric ...
Many disabled people who have mobility impairments have difficulty with pedestrian environments as there is often a long way to walk - and rarely adequate...
Note: While it may be news to the Mayor of Paris and his fine team that I am "guiding the evolution of public transport in Paris" I nonetheless share this...
Many disabled people are unable to walk, and claim the right to drive right up to where they need to go in such circumstances. Most transport campaigners would...
Kind thanks to Andy Offenbacher for the good heads-up. Eric Britton Study: As gas prices go up, auto deaths drop By JOAN LOWY, Associated Press Fri Jul 11,...
Note: Mayer Hillman is a Senior Fellow Emeritus since 1992 at the <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policy_Studies_Institute> Policy Studies Institute. A qualified...
Dear All, Well its true that "Every Cloud has a Silver lining" :-) The point which caught our imagination was the fact that "*Reduction in 1.4 Billion VMT in...
Sudhir
sudhir@...
Jul 13, 2008 1:50 pm
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Some comments from the other Cambridge on Robin Chase's email. In densely populated areas of cities it is often the case that all available roadside frontage...
Because our work program and concerns seem so many and sprawling, several people have recently asked me for a concise one page update on what is going on...
Sorry to overload you here, but here’s a thought that came out of a video exchange that I had with Bina Balakrishnsan of the Mumbai Transformation Project...
Don't want to be pedantic but non-motorised bikes can have more than 3 wheels and are also used as goods vehicles (see e.g. the gutas in Tanzania). A sub-set...
Eric Britton schrieb: ... Well, what we usually reagrd as public transport are driven vehicles which ply set routes to a timetable. I guess there are very few...
From: Stefan Langeveld [mailto:slangeveld@...] In cities where the cycle mode does not really exist, like Paris, you something like Velib' to get out of...
I think this idea has a lot of promise. Perhaps technolgy could devise a system whereby you cd only enter a central area by car if you had booked a parking...
Only bikes for hire could plausibly be described as public transport, and then only in the limited sense that taxis can be, wheras the prime need is to create...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/12/business/12newpark.html ... =v= So, in addition to lurching, drifting, pulling U-turns, and/or stopping without warning at...
Jym Dyer
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Jul 16, 2008 3:52 pm
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What a good idea! I am in support of any idea that takes the absurdly high number of noisy and polluting personal and goods related vehicular traffic off the...
Let me see if I can do a better job in explaining myself on this, not least because my note of this morning is getting such interesting responses. The idea is...
This is a quote from Wikipedia; this can be adjusted to include public bicycles: Public transport, public transportation, public transit or mass transit ...
new mobility is about optimal mobility. Legal definitions of common carriers etc. are something else. E.g., for the University of Maryland student-staff...
Sorry I have not had more time to follow this discussion. I am not sure if I agree with the approach of bicycles as 'public transport'. They certainly are a...
Eric Britton schrieb: ... I don't know much about this but agree that it would be very important to raise the status of cycling in such countries. My remarks...
**UITP’S YOUTH Project Awards aim to reward originality and creativity among the young managers of our sector as well as improve the image of public...
The Internet is a transportation system for information, and there is little problem requiring each user to provide his or her own 'vehicle' (a computer with...
Chris Bradshaw
hearth@...
Jul 20, 2008 6:30 pm
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We already have a term that encompasses both of the above together with walking, namely "sustainable transport". While this may not be 100% accurate it is ...
... My own candidates would be "effective", "efficient", or "freedom" transportation. None of these is very good. Let's keep thinking. Recapitulating: Walking...
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