The Not Sustainable Transport Library (A final resting place for those really bad ideas) We have just today created a new forum under the New Mobility Agenda....
please find attached our latest newsletter on Land Transport and Climate Change. In a couple of days, the annual conference of the parties (COP) will open its...
Dear All, For those of you who will be in Copenhagen for COP 15, you are cordially invited to the ADB event on Transport and Climate Change on 13 December, ...
COP15: Getting transport into the climate agenda <http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kbTo-M_pSuw/SxjXVTkcLkI/AAAAAAAACD4/3nZhYjUrPTg/s 1600-h/ws-kolkata-bus2.jpg> The...
From: Simon Norton [mailto:S.Norton@...] I disagree with Lee Schipper, or have I misunderstood the posting ? It is common for many people talking...
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Ian Wingrove
ian.wingrove@...
Dec 4, 2009 8:21 pm
The London Mayor's draft Transport Strategy is a good example of this debate between techno fix and reduced demand: According to the Mayor's own transport...
Only integrated solutions i.e. policy enforcement,technologies and reorientation e.t.c will minimize the problem. Regards, Joshua Odeleye NIGERIA ... From:...
In reply to Ian, I think that what some of us would want in London (and elsewhere in the UK) is both road pricing and mass rollout of electric vehicles. This...
Simon, The UK is already threatened with electricity shortages in the not-too-distant future (as are many other countries). How would the massive rollout of...
Nobody said this was easy ... so it is too easily distracted ... In other words perhaps, the problem is a system we call "the economy" (as if it exists ......
Eric Britton has left a new comment on your post "COP15: Getting transport into the climate agenda ...": Simon, The UK is already threatened with electricity...
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Ian Wingrove
ian.wingrove@...
Dec 7, 2009 1:47 pm
I thought that Copenhagen was about climate change and CO2 production - not energy production as Zvi suggests. There are a range of problems with mass mobility...
Hi Eric: Thanks for the video. It realy depicts what´s going on with the hidden agenda of world powers. In fact, energy will be our next battlefield. ...
Yes, the provision of adequate electricity supplies, hopefully from non fossil sources, is one of the problems that would have to be dealt with in replacing...
These are excellent points. Improving vehicle technologies, such as more efficient or alternative fueled vehicles, tends to address one or two objectives...
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Chris Bradshaw
hearth@...
Dec 7, 2009 3:46 pm
Yes, let's allow transportation to NOT be a focus in Copenhagen. Since transportation is a recognized as a major CO2-generation sector and due to the need for...
Eric Britton has left a new comment on your post "COP15: Getting transport into the climate agenda ...": I thought that Copenhagen was about climate change and...
Eric Britton has left a new comment on your post "COP15: Getting transport into the climate agenda ...": These are excellent points. Improving vehicle...
Transport is of course one of those technology rebound areas where improvements have lead to faster, heavier and further travelled vehicles that wipe out the...
Eric Britton has left a new comment on your post "Not for COP15: Two ideas we can safely set aside o...": I thought it would make sense to provide some...
More than half and in some cities as many as 75% of trips are short, under 5 km, and yet high percentages are done by car. These should be converted to walking...
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Chris Bradshaw
hearth@...
Dec 8, 2009 6:16 pm
Adrian Bell, Vancouver: < Chris raises the point that transport should have summits alongside the climate change agenda and this makes me weep. Firstly all the...
COP15: Radio France interviews World Streets Editor <http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kbTo-M_pSuw/SyCbUizY4fI/AAAAAAAACGg/aZkfbAcIT-U/s 1600-h/ws-rfi.jpg> As part of...
