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I find that there is great good sense in this counsel from Paul Minett in the context of our on-going Worst Practices exchanges and examples -- and I definitely agree that it needs to be put up close to our main title (which I am utterly loatch to abandon).

Thank you Paul.

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Minett [mailto:paulminett@...]
Sent: Wednesday, 20 July, 2011 02:21
To: 'eric britton'
Subject: RE: [sustran] A very short list of very bad practices

Perhaps the title should not be 'worst practices' or even 'bad practices'

but 'practices for which we are struggling to find appropriate

justification'. That would enable you to move the item to a different

classification when (if) it turns out that they had a good plan all along.

Paul Minett

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Sent: Tuesday, 19 July 2011 9:03 p.m.

I received a fair number of communications both on and off-line and I find

them interesting, challenging, and generally very encouraging. But at the

same time I am made aware of the fact that I have most probably not

communicated the basic goal behind this project, so let me see if I can now

clarify a bit.

For starters, this is not a witch hunt. It is not my interest to castigate

or humiliate any project or group behind it. Life is complex and filled

with all kinds of internal contradictions, and moreover the kinds of

projects and policies that concern us here tend to be in process, in

constant evolution and adaptation, until that is the day comes in which they

close down forever. That of course is the time to do a postmortem. But in

our particular case here is my guess that we will be sharing information on

projects in process, so let us make sure that we (that I) do not give up on

possible adaptations and improvements that may well be in process,

hopefully.

And if the usual ambitious goal of Best Practices surveys and inventories is

to get out there and capture quite a large number of attractive and

instructive projects, it is not at all the case in our own modest Worst

Practices mini project. What I am looking for is one or two handfuls of

outstanding from examples which we can learn. Yesterday's article in World

Streets on the Los Angeles Interstate 405 road widening project is a good

case in point. Let us take a minute to have a look at it together:

Exemplary Strong points: (Always a good place to start since our goal is to

see if we can have a balanced understanding of what is going on and what may

have gone wrong.)

. Caltrans and the other players involved in this project are

extremely good at what they do.

. Not only are they world level performers when it comes to creating

the planning and engineering standards to make a project like this work, but

they also, in partnership with other players, consistently manage to do a

fine job of bringing their projects in to standard and on time.

. For those of us familiar with driving in LA, we can testify on an

almost daily basis the manner in which the road crews get their job done,

often within minutes of the plan and clean up the mess so that the traffic

can start to roll. ("The cones are up.")

Exemplary weak points and commentary:

1. Oh dear. It is after all 2011 and if we have learned one thing about

sustainable and on sustainable transportation over the last decades, it is

that any project which extends the capacity of the infrastructure to carry

yet more moving motor vehicles is a definite Worst Practice strategy.

2. The concept of creating HOV lanes in the place of what went before is in

theory an excellent one, but in practice is often watered down and abused in

a number of ways. (Maybe somebody can explain to me in a convincing manner

why electric vehicles or hybrid vehicles should be allowed with a single

passenger on to HOV, and while I am ready to listen and whether you can pull

a rabbit out of a hat that I have ever seen, I most doubtful that you will

convince me or any other experienced independent observer.)

3. The articles' authors commentary concerning the limitations of

carpooling as presently practiced in the region is, according to my best

information, right on target. Does this mean, however, that HOV lanes are

not part of the solution? Not at all! But what it does mean is that the

old ideas about how to do this need to be brought up to date. So, if we

were to think about it from this perspective, here we have a situation in

which there is what looks like a potentially excellent hardware solution

(i.e., converting portions of the existing road infrastructure to HOV lanes)

needs to have better complementarity in terms of software and operations.

4. So, to summarize, they failed to do the whole job. We have at the base

of this project a good idea, well executed on the hardware side -- other

than the fact that the project team made the old and now well known error of

actually increasing infrastructure capacity for cars -- while for the rest

they simply fail to give attention to the most important part of all --

i.e., how to get more people into fewer cars with improved mobility and

improved quality of life. Basically they were taking an old mobility

approach to a problem/opportunity that required new mobility strategic

thinking.

That is my take on this as an example of the sort of thing that I would like

to see in our modest shared Worst Practices inventory and commentary. I am

sure that a number of you will come in and do more and better, at least I

hope so. But my reason for sharing this with you this morning is that I

wish to offer this is an example of the kind of project analysis and

commentary that I believe can help us to better organize our ideas and be

better prepared for future initiatives and opportunities.

I look forward to hearing from you either personally or here with your

views, objections, and eventually your ideas and suggestions on the basic

concept here namely , that of setting out to create a collaborative, open,

independent Worst Practices inventory and commentary.

#1634

From: "eric britton" <eric.britton@...>
Date: Wed Jul 20, 2011 11:04 am
Subject: India Streets: We must be doing something right.

fekbritton

Source: http://indiastreets.wordpress.com/2011/07/20/india-streets-we-must-be-doing-something-right/

India Streets: We must be doing something right.

Eric Britton, editor | 20 July 2011 at 15:54 | Categories: World Streets | URL: http://wp.me/p15YEC-hw

Here is something that is rather interesting about India Streets. While for various reasons there have been very little orignal content coming in from our Indian colleagues in the last months, the fact is that the journal is nonetheless quite heavily visited each day. And where do those readers come from?

#1635

From: "eric britton" <eric.britton@...>
Date: Wed Jul 20, 2011 4:53 pm
Subject: A very short list of very bad practices

fekbritton

Dear Colleagues,

I have been following the various commentaries and suggestions on my little brainstorm proposal with real interest. �And I have to say that I find it quite fascinating that this simple and I really thought quite sensible concept -- i.e., that there really are some very bad practices and that they really do need to be pinned down and made known so as not to be mindlessly replicated again and again and again -- -- apparently seems to divide us into two rather distinct groups.�

For my part, I am glad to see the vigorous discussions and at times apparently pretty strongly felt differences among us, because I really do believe that we need a lot more of that kind of lively discussion and a lot less soft agreement that all is for the best and that nothing should ever be criticized publicly. �All is not for the best, and many of the projects that we are discussing or shall be discussing under this heading really suck and should be understood for their outstanding flaws So, given that, it may not surprise those of you who know me know that I really do appreciate the more spirited negative reactions.

I do not think it would be particularly useful for me to take your time to try to justify my thinking on any of this.� The discussion is out there for everyone to take a swing at it, and rather than defend I prefer to keep pushing out for yet more examples of very bad practices. �And if the recent past is any guide, I will not be alone.

Thanks to you all for your ideas and suggestions, and let us see what happens next.

Eric Britton

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#1636

From: "eric britton" <eric.britton@...>
Date: Tue Jul 19, 2011 9:03 am
Subject: A very short list of very bad practices

fekbritton

I received a fair number of communications both on and off-line and I find them interesting, challenging, and generally very encouraging. But at the same time I am made aware of the fact that I have most probably not communicated the basic goal behind this project, so let me see if I can now clarify a bit.

For starters, this is not a witch hunt. It is not my interest to castigate or humiliate any project or group behind it. Life is complex and filled with all kinds of internal contradictions, and moreover the kinds of projects and policies that concern us here tend to be in process, in constant evolution and adaptation, until that is the day comes in which they close down forever. That of course is the time to do a postmortem. But in our particular case here is my guess that we will be sharing information on projects in process, so let us make sure that we (that I) do not give up on possible adaptations and improvements that may well be in process, hopefully.

And if the usual ambitious goal of Best Practices surveys and inventories is to get out there and capture quite a large number of attractive and instructive projects, it is not at all the case in our own modest Worst Practices mini project. What I am looking for is one or two handfuls of outstanding from examples which we can learn. Yesterday's article in World Streets on the Los Angeles Interstate 405 road widening project is a good case in point. Let us take a minute to have a look at it together:

Exemplary Strong points: (Always a good place to start since our goal is to see if we can have a balanced understanding of what is going on and what may have gone wrong.)

· Caltrans and the other players involved in this project are extremely good at what they do.

· Not only are they world level performers when it comes to creating the planning and engineering standards to make a project like this work, but they also, in partnership with other players, consistently manage to do a fine job of bringing their projects in to standard and on time.

· For those of us familiar with driving in LA, we can testify on an almost daily basis the manner in which the road crews get their job done, often within minutes of the plan and clean up the mess so that the traffic can start to roll. ("The cones are up.")

Exemplary weak points and commentary:

1. Oh dear. It is after all 2011 and if we have learned one thing about sustainable and on sustainable transportation over the last decades, it is that any project which extends the capacity of the infrastructure to carry yet more moving motor vehicles is a definite Worst Practice strategy.

2. The concept of creating HOV lanes in the place of what went before is in theory an excellent one, but in practice is often watered down and abused in a number of ways. (Maybe somebody can explain to me in a convincing manner why electric vehicles or hybrid vehicles should be allowed with a single passenger on to HOV, and while I am ready to listen and whether you can pull a rabbit out of a hat that I have ever seen, I most doubtful that you will convince me or any other experienced independent observer.)

3. The articles' authors commentary concerning the limitations of carpooling as presently practiced in the region is, according to my best information, right on target. Does this mean, however, that HOV lanes are not part of the solution? Not at all! But what it does mean is that the old ideas about how to do this need to be brought up to date. So, if we were to think about it from this perspective, here we have a situation in which there is what looks like a potentially excellent hardware solution (i.e., converting portions of the existing road infrastructure to HOV lanes) needs to have better complementarity in terms of software and operations.

4. So, to summarize, they failed to do the whole job. We have at the base of this project a good idea, well executed on the hardware side -- other than the fact that the project team made the old and now well known error of actually increasing infrastructure capacity for cars -- while for the rest they simply fail to give attention to the most important part of all -- i.e., how to get more people into fewer cars with improved mobility and improved quality of life. Basically they were taking an old mobility approach to a problem/opportunity that required new mobility strategic thinking.

That is my take on this as an example of the sort of thing that I would like to see in our modest shared Worst Practices inventory and commentary. I am sure that a number of you will come in and do more and better, at least I hope so. But my reason for sharing this with you this morning is that I wish to offer this is an example of the kind of project analysis and commentary that I believe can help us to better organize our ideas and be better prepared for future initiatives and opportunities.

I look forward to hearing from you either personally or here with your views, objections, and eventually your ideas and suggestions on the basic concept here namely , that of setting out to create a collaborative, open, independent Worst Practices inventory and commentary.

Kind regards/Eric Britton

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#1637

From: "eric britton" <eric.britton@...>
Date: Thu Jul 21, 2011 4:58 am
Subject: Volvo Sustainable Mobility award: Any bright ideas?

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Volvo Sustainable Mobility award: Any bright ideas?

Eric Britton, editor | 21 July 2011 at 09:27 | Categories: Award / prize | URL: http://wp.me/p15YEC-hJ

Annoucement: The Volvo Sustainable Mobility award supports all groups, organizations, institutes and individuals who are working towards creating ‘innovative solutions’ in the broad area of supporting sustainable transport in cities. The objective is to highlight the need to develop effective urban transport & mobility system to address the needs of rapidly growing cities. The last [...]

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#1638

From: "eric britton" <eric.britton@...>
Date: Thu Jul 21, 2011 12:17 pm
Subject: A very short list of very bad practices

fekbritton

Subject: Victim Blaming

Thank you very much Morton. I find your analysis excellent, as always from, you considered and sober (I guess that is because you are a Icelandic) and all in all a good guide to the topic and possible next steps.

I wonder if I might ask you to write this up an article for World Streets, and of course for this forum, on what you call so rightly Victim Blaming. An excellent topic, quite at the level of good sense at which we need to operate. Moreover it's great stuff because it is so thoroughly counter-intuitive and against the grain of unexamined but passively accepted standard practice. It certainly has to be right up there in the top rank of the pantheon of Worst Practices, and I know that you can do a great piece for us all on this so as to make sure that becomes part of the battery of tools and awareness is which are so essential to getting transportation related policy decisions right.

I very much hope you will be able take the time out of your busy schedule to do this for us all.

In closing I would like to make a brief remark about the importance of treating this little Worst Practices exercise in a properly mature manner. There is in the very title, Worst Practices, a somewhat jocular stab at the concept of Best Practices with all of the pretentiousness and potential dangers that such a mindset inevitably carries with it. I have no great problem with Bet's little cousin Good Practices, but when we begin to get into the hallowed halls of "Best Practices" and I find myself getting a bit obstreperous.

"Worst Practices" is like Richard Strauss's opera the Rosenkavalier. As one critic put it long ago: to be viewed with a wink in one eye, and a tear in the other.

Eric Britton

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#1639

From: "eric britton" <eric.britton@...>
Date: Fri Jul 22, 2011 4:34 am
Subject: Breathing the lovely morning air in Delhi traffic

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Source: http://indiastreets.wordpress.com/2011/07/22/breathing-the-lovely-mornng-air-in-delhi-traffic/

Breathing the lovely morning air in Delhi traffic

Eric Britton, editor | 22 luglio 2011 at 04:13 | Etichette: pollution, roads, vehicles | Categorie: World Streets | URL: http://wp.me/pXyfs-Na

GUEST POST. "Anyone who has sat in traffic in an Indian city knows what it feels like to be blasted in the face by the exhaust of a neighboring vehicle. Despite the potentially important health risks that may be involved with such encounters, relatively few studies have measured in-traffic air pollution in developing world cities, where the combination of congested traffic and high-emitting vehicle fleets make "in-your-face" exposures a feature … Read More

via The Streets of India

· With thanks to Sarath Guttikunda for the good heads-up on this.

#1640

From: "eric britton" <eric.britton@...>
Date: Sat Jul 23, 2011 3:04 pm
Subject: Mile upon mile of emptiness

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Inventing the Interstate

Direct: http://wp.me/psKUY-1MI

Mile upon mile of emptiness

Eric Britton, editor | 23 July 2011 at 06:14 | Categories: Author, musing, Review | URL: http://wp.me/psKUY-1MI

We do not normally "do" roads here in the pages of World Streets, our primary focus, even fixation, being not on vehicles and highways but rather on streets and people. But we would be foolish to forget that making full and continuing full use of our peripheral vision is critical if we are ever to understand context and to be able to see broader patterns. So from time to time we do, usually with the help of others, have a look at the roads end of our business. [...]

#1641

From: "eric britton" <eric.britton@...>
Date: Sun Jul 24, 2011 5:24 pm
Subject: Weekend leisure: The Bollywood Bicycle Boogie

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Weekend leisure: The Bollywood Bicycle Boogie

Eric Britton, editor | 24 July 2011 at 18:15 | Categories: film, India, media, YouTube | URL: http://wp.me/psKUY-1N6

Take a break. It's the weekend. Get your head out of that fat book and come with Navdeep Asija and me to the movies in India, the Bollywood Bicycle Boogie. The idea behind World Streets has from the beginning been to seek out and share universal lessons, from specific times and different places but which, [...]

#1642

From: "eric britton" <eric.britton@...>
Date: Mon Jul 25, 2011 5:21 am
Subject: an example of a worst practice

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-----Original Message-----
From: Cherry, Chris R (Christopher Cherry) [mailto:cherry@...]
Sent: Sunday, 24 July, 2011 11:03
To: eric britton; Walter Hook

Eric and Walter,

Here's an example of a worst practice, an analogue to the rickshaw ban you
mentioned. This one is coming from Guangzhou, ITDP's sustainable city award
winner this year. This was in the China Daily a couple of days ago.
China is notorious for arbitrary "crackdowns" that have significant
implications for (often poor) users of these vehicles. These crackdowns are
infrequent, occur without warning, and are negatively reinforced by
non-enforcement 360 days a year. This leads poor individuals to invest huge
portions of their income to purchase these vehicles, for transportation or
goods delivery, only to have them confiscated and crushed without warning
(actually this happened to me once in Kunming.

Fortunately I'm not poor, but I felt terrible watching rural migrants lose
about everything they have in one swoop). Unfortunately, these individuals
cannot afford to live near BRT or their trips are not adequately served by
that mode. It would be interesting to compare this policy to a policy of
impounding and crushing cars (with richer drivers) that drive or park on
sidewalks. I think that the impact, considering purchasing power, might be
about the same. I'm particularly interested in the paper's explicit mention
of "tricycles used by the disabled" and "electric bicycles", two of the most
socially and environmentally sustainable modes on earth.

Chris Cherry
Assistant Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Tennessee-Knoxville
223 Perkins  Hall
Knoxville, TN 37996-2010
phone: 865-974-7710
mobile:  865-684-8106
fax: 865-974-2669
http://web.utk.edu/~cherry

On 7/24/11 4:10 AM, "eric britton" <eric.britton@...> wrote:

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>
>Dear Navdeep,
>
>What a great idea! I would with your permission like to make it into a
>weekend "musing" for World Streets.  If you agree, it would be good to
>know a couple of things.
>
>1. Might you introduce yourself in a few lines. Perhaps with a pic?
>
>
>2. Which of the clips you identify are your three favorites. Maybe
>taking them from different decades (but that's only an idea and of
>course your choice)?
>
>3. May I edit bits of the text slightly for our American readers?
>
>4. Finally, would you clarify for me:  First sentence 2nd paragraph:
>where you are saying: 12 out of 100 people in Punjab won bikes, but
>only 2 in 100 actually are using them today?
>
>5. Also: Can you clarify why " Facilitation and early licensing to one
>car user going to put life of 12 cycle user and many pedestrian at risk".
>
>I hope this is agreeable to you, and I know that your contribution will
>interest many of our readers on World Streets, and I will also of
>course post on India Streets.
>
>A final point, which I think is quit delicate and I would hope to deal
>with appropriately - and for which I ask for your counsel.  I do not
>want our readers to come away from this weekend trip over time and
>space thinking anything like "Oh how cute those Indians are? How
>quaint".  Given the special qualities of Bollywood this is just a too
>easy shot.  Anyway, we all have our Bollywood.
>
>The idea behind World Streets has from the beginning been to seek out
>and share universal lessons, from specific times and places but which,
>with thought, open up our eyes to many things, including ourselves and
>our own limitations and quirks.  So I do want to make sure that my
>short introductory note will reflect this combination of curiously,
>insight and generosity.
>
>So even if you don't want us to post this on W/S, let me nonetheless
>thank you so very much. I spent a very thought provoking half hour with
>Bollywood.
>
>Very best/Eric
>
>
>
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#1643

From: "eric britton" <eric.britton@...>
Date: Wed Jul 27, 2011 2:40 pm
Subject: Women taking the lead for sustainable transport and sustainable cities

fekbritton

We really need some help here. After the first two articles in this series only yesterday we have already �had about two dozen nominations. All very impressive. But there is a problem

20 of the 24 are from the States. Then one each from South Africa, India, Belgium and the UK.

That's crazy and cannot be so. And that is why I ask you for help.

You can see advance notices of the first two postings on this at http://networkdispatches.org. That should give you an idea of where we are trying to take this.

Please help us find and share information on outstanding women who are making a contributions in our field. �I think we should all know more about them, and if we can do our bit, well all the better.

Kind thanks/Eric Britton

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#1644

From: "eric britton" <eric.britton@...>
Date: Fri Jul 29, 2011 9:24 am
Subject: Upcoming international events: Aug/Oct. 2011 (SUTP)

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Eric Britton, editor | 28 Julho 2011 at 12:59 | Tags: conference-activitiesevents, event | Categorias: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/p1tcfr-2d

This listing of coming international events through end-October is compiled by the GIZ Sustainable Urban Transport Project. Click here to go to their website for their latest newsletter: May - June 2011 30.08.2011 Washington D.C.,US: Safe & Sustainable Mobility for Older People Link: http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_eventlist&Itemid=56&func=details&did=500&lang=en 11.09.2011 Durban, S.A.: Thredbo 12 Conference Link: ht … Read More [...]

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#1645

From: "eric britton" <eric.britton@...>
Date: Sat Jul 30, 2011 5:38 am
Subject: Fazilka Dial-a-rickshaw project on MIT radar

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This is a terrific, excellent world-level project Navdeep.

I have been following some of the rumblings on it with my ear to the ground on this end of the planet, but your note of this morning clarifies and makes my mouth water. The mere fact of putting at the base of the project the one and only cardinal rule of real sustainable transport, i.e., you work with what you have.� Brilliant!!

All involved, including Chris and Albert, you and Sandeep and surely many others, are to be congratulated on their clear original thinking. Now let's see how it plays out.

I would love to have an article(s) for World Streets on this, and then to follow up as things progress. �What can I say? Wow!

Thank you again,

Eric

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From: sustran-discuss-bounces+editor=worldstreets.org@... [mailto:sustran-discuss-bounces+editor=worldstreets.org@...] On Behalf Of Asija, Navdeep
Sent: Saturday, 30 July, 2011 06:05
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Subject: [sustran] Fazilka Dial-a-rickshaw project on MIT radar

Chandigarh Fazilka, ::

the newly-created district of Punjab, is making news on the international

front. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in US is studying its eco

cab project, where a rickshaw arrives at your doorstep soon after you call

up a call centre. Their objective: To see how the new experiment can help

civic bodies offset the traditional car-centric development patterns that

have handicapped many cities — from Beijing to Bangalore.

The project, titled “Future of Urban Mobility”, has been given to MIT by the

Singapore government to study solutions in regard to sustainable urban

transport. What has excited MIT about the dial-a-rickshaw project in Fazilka

is how intelligence systems (cellphone network) can be used with existing

transportation modes to benefit townships.

To study the project in detail, Albert Ching — a research assistant in the

Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT — recently visited Fazilka.

His specific mandate was to study the eco cab project in the township.

Speaking to The Indian Express, Ching said preliminary study has revealed

that intelligence infrastructure (mobile telephony) in India has developed

much ahead of transport infrastructure. “India has more than 700 million

cellphones versus about 13 million cars. After visiting Fazilka, I learnt

fully how their project works. They have five call centres — one for each

sub-zone. You dial the call centre in your area and within five to ten

minutes, the rickshaw puller reaches you,” said Ching.

The aspiring urban innovator said this is almost a revolution in terms of

urban transport. “It takes care of multiple issues like traffic congestion,

air pollution, parking, road safety, etc,” he said. With the efforts of

Graduates Welfare Association Fazilka (GWAF) — a local NGO — and the local

administration, Fazilka now has car-free zones and pedestrian areas.

Ching was told to study the Fazilka project by P Christopher Zegras,

associate professor in Transportation and Urban Planning at MIT. “The

Fazilka experiment seems to offer an important demonstration of merging

advanced mobile communications technology with sustainable mobility

services. Such advances will be crucial to improving the quality of life in

urban areas across the world in the 21st century — offering affordable,

reliable, convenient, job-creating, low-carbon mobility solutions,” Zegras

told The Indian Express.

The researchers studying the “Future of Urban Mobility” project at MIT have

found that a major problem being faced by developed countries like Singapore

is their car-centric infrastructure. This has caused a high auto-dependence,

with too many people choosing to use cars. “Countries like Singapore can’t

turn back the clock. But many other cities which have rickshaws in public

transport can replicate the eco cab concept. Fazilka will be a case study

for our project, to spread the word about how it can be done. If something

good happens in Fazilka but nobody comes to know about it, it will be a big

waste,” said Ching.

GWAF Secretary Navdeep Asija said the township has five call centres for the

eco cab project. The project will get a further boost with a new scheme

introduced by Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL).

Sandeep Diwan, BSNL’s General Manager (Enterprise Business) said that for

the first time in the country, the Nigam has given 900 pre-paid mobile

connections under a closed user group. Within the group, users have free

unlimited calling. With a dedicated series, the project will soon have nine

call centres and greater access to rickshaw pullers.

“The eco cab project works best within a zone of 3 km. Bigger cities can

create sub-zones to ensure success of the project,” said Asija.

http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/dialarickshaw-project-on-mit-radar/824499/

HC flak for Haryana for not launching eco cabs

Irked over non-filing of a response with regard to the steps taken for the

launch of eco cabs, the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Friday directed the

director of Haryana urban bodies department to be present before the court

on the next date of hearing.

A division bench comprising Justices Surya Kant and Ajay Tewari observed

that the state’s response was not too serious towards the issue. The

directions were passed during the resumed hearing of a PIL arising out of a

suo motu notice taken by the high court on a news item published in The

Indian Express.

The court held that on March 25, the bench had asked the government to get

in touch with Navdeep Asija — running a Graduates Welfare Association in

Fazilka — to take his views into consideration on the issue of introducing

eco rickshaws.

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/hc-flak-for-haryana-for-not-launching-eco-cabs/824505/

#1646

From: "eric britton" <eric.britton@...>
Date: Tue Aug 2, 2011 11:08 am
Subject: Tragedy of the Commons: The car as enclosure

fekbritton

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Tragedy of the Commons: The car as enclosure

Eric Britton, editor | 2 August 2011 at 11:03 | Categories: parking, public space, social space, Street sharing | URL: http://wp.me/psKUY-1OI

Chris Bradshaw, Canadian planner and new mobility innovator, takes us on a quick peek into cars as "enclosures" of what should more rightly be the common domain in our cities. When we look at it this way, the concept of a "right to park" starts to look quite different. We are once again back to [...]

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#1647

From: "eric britton" <eric.britton@...>
Date: Wed Aug 3, 2011 11:06 am
Subject: Car Crazy: Lee Schipper on the Perils of Asia's Hyper-Motorization

fekbritton

_____________________________________________________

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Source: http://wp.me/psKUY-1OX

Car Crazy: Lee Schipper on the Perils of Asia’s Hyper-Motorization

Eric Britton, editor | 3 August 2011 at 12:47 | Tags: cars, mental-model, old-mobility | Categories: Streets of Iran | URL: http://wp.me/p1wJ0J-84

Our old friend and long time colleague Lee Schipper is sitting in a hospital bed in Berkeley California today, and since your editor is stuck in Paris and can't visit him, we thought that while he gets his strength back we would reach into our and others archives and publish a series of pieces to celebrate his deep knowledge of all that World Streets is about, his excellent judgement and his world level communications skills. (And if you have something by Lee that you would like to share with our readers as we wait for him to swing back into action, please send it on.) [...]

#1648

From: "eric britton" <eric.britton@...>
Date: Fri Aug 5, 2011 4:23 pm
Subject: Car Free Day in Vilnius. Finally a mayor who really cares.

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Eric Britton, editor | 5 August 2011 at 17:08 | Categories: Car Free Days, Cars, cyclists, demonstration, Governance, Sweet victory | URL: http://wp.me/psKUY-1Pb

Here is a rough chronology showing how information gets around in the world-wide sustainable transport network in 2011. Last Monday, 1 August, someone named Meras Zuokas (whom we do not know but whom we definitely like and who by all indications lives in Lithuania), uploaded a 104 second video onto YouTube with commentary in Lithuanian, showing a dynamic mayor dealing directly with the classic sustainable transport problem of illegally parked cars encumbering circulation in designated bike lanes in the capital city of Vilnius. [...]

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#1649

From: "eric britton" <eric.britton@...>
Date: Sat Aug 6, 2011 4:19 pm
Subject: Weekend break with Lee Schipper on Vibes

fekbritton

Weekend break with Lee Schipper on Vibes

Eric Britton, editor | 6 August 2011 at 16:00 | Categories: culture, event, Pattern break, Right brain | URL: http://wp.me/psKUY-1Py

Lee Schipper, (The Funky Physicist), on Vibraphone at the The Better Air Quality 2008 workshop in Bangkok, Thailand -- playing at the Imperial Queen's Park Hotel on Nov, 11th 2008. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArYUn3NAntE # # # About the artist: Lee Schipper is Project Scientist with Global Metropolitan Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, and Research [...]

#1650

From: "Paul Minett" <paulminett@...>
Date: Wed Aug 17, 2011 10:59 am
Subject: New Mobility Thoroughfares

paulminett@...

Ridesharing Institute

Dear Colleagues

The New Mobility Agenda emphasises ‘people throughput’ as a central consideration for sustainable transportation. It has been a central plank for some years.

Now we are planning a research programme where we will be seeking to find the most successful ‘New Mobility Thoroughfares’. Put more succinctly, “Which roads have the greatest person throughput per lane hour?”

In Auckland, NZ we have a piece of ‘motorway’ where we calculate that there are about 3,000 people per lane hour at the peak of the peak. We think this is pretty good, but we are sure there must be other places where the total is greater.

We would like to build a database of ‘nominated’ roads (call them freeways, highways, streets, arterials, boulevards, parkways, turnpikes, or whatever local term works for you) and rank them by the New Mobility Success Metric of ‘people throughput’.

The research will then seek to understand the combination of factors that led to success.

The calculation for that piece of motorway in Auckland looks like this:

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At this location the motorway is four lanes wide, so the New Mobility Success Metric is 3,050 people per lane hour. (12,200/4).

At this point we are keen to start a conversation about this, to find out who is thinking this way, and what the questions are that come up when we try to think this way. If you are aware of any previous research that looks at the same idea, please let me know. One thought is that we might have different categories, such as bus-only lanes, HOV lanes, general use lanes. Perhaps cycle lanes will be contenders as well? Maybe we need categories by different speeds.

I look forward to hearing your questions and suggestions, and of course, your nominations.

Kind regards

Paul Minett

Ridesharing Institute

PS Follow the exploits of the Ridesharing Institute by ‘liking’ us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ridesharing-Institute/226523247393284. PM

#1651

From: "Paul Minett" <paulminett@...>
Date: Wed Aug 17, 2011 10:57 am
Subject: Introducing....Paul Minett

paulminett@...

http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3966497.

Friends

At the recommendation of Eric Britton, I have asked to join your group. When my request to apply was approved, it suggested that I give a brief bio. I hope the following is relevant.

My interest in transportation is in the field of ridesharing. I am the proprietor of a carpool service provider called Raspberry Express, (see www.raspberryexpress.com) a meeting-place based carpool formation system. Different to any other approach, we advocate that there should be meeting places where people get rides to their destination, without a trip by trip pre-arrangement. Most other service providers in this field work on the basis of ‘ride matching’. We are the ‘anti-ridematchers’. Our system is most similar to the slug lines in Washington DC and the casual carpooling in San Francisco. We’ve developed some intellectual property and have patents covering the business system that we have developed.

I am based in Auckland, New Zealand, though I was born in the UK and speak with a Canadian accent.

Each day 400,000 Aucklanders drive alone to work. They use up all the road space and cause hours of delay. With a relatively small reduction in the ‘Single Occupant Driving at Peak’ (SODAP) rate, we could have free flowing traffic and no delay. This could be achieved by each driver becoming a passenger one day out of four. The challenge is engaging with the drivers to get them to consider this change, and having simple systems that enable them to get into a carpool without high personal overheads. We tried to launch a pilot of Raspberry Express in Auckland, but so far have not got a large enough user group to be able to provide a reliable service. We persevere on minimal resources. What we have mainly learned from the experience so far is that it is difficult to engage with the commuting public (something I am sure you all knew).

We have recently formed the Ridesharing Institute, a non-profit organisation operating in the US and New Zealand (so far) with the goal of raising awareness of the potential for ridesharing to improve transportation system performance. We hope to achieve this by speaking out, by agitating for applied research, and by being a focal point for people and organisations interested in the topic.

You are welcome to follow the exploits of the Ridesharing Institute by ‘liking’ us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ridesharing-Institute/226523247393284. We also have a group on LinkedIn:

I am married and have two adult children. Ridesharing takes too much of my life, but it is like a scab…you have to keep picking at it. When I am not doing ridesharing work I am most likely working on a business strategy project for a client.

Kind regards

Paul Minett

#1652

From: Dave Holladay <Tramsol@...>
Date: Wed Aug 17, 2011 1:01 pm
Subject: Re: WorldTransport Forum New Mobility Thoroughfares

Tramsol@...

Take a look at the Street Films reports on Curitiba and Bogota (Milremo) BRT systems flat out they are describing between 35,000 and 40,000 pax/hr on close headway, fast boarding (200-300 pax/bus) buses - on the video watch c 100 pax board via 4 double doors in under 60 secs(?)

(?) - I recall that the egress rating for a double door fire exit is 80 persons/minute, which makes a lane width operating at maximum moving density = 2 x double fire doors - = 160 ppm = 9600 pph, possibly higher when crush load operation, and allowing for integration of 2 doorways.

Dave H

Better Paul, to examine the true door to desk trip, and add the access times to the car doorstep to car, and car park to office, and then offer a doubling in size of your workstation - move out of the 6 sq m in a typical open plan office and take over the 12.5 sq m you have for your car as your new office. - Would make an interesting image - transhipping an cramped open plan office to the parking lot and giving each worker twice as much working space!

Anywhere good to set this up as a picture?

Could do something similar with a retail store - with the car park outside turned in to an expanded retail space - or a market - and the earnings per sq m figure posted, a car park, and a retail premises likewise. With the question who is making best use of their assets?

On 17/08/11 11:59, Paul Minett wrote:

Ridesharing Institute

Dear Colleagues

The New Mobility Agenda emphasises ‘people throughput’ as a central consideration for sustainable transportation. It has been a central plank for some years.

Now we are planning a research programme where we will be seeking to find the most successful ‘New Mobility Thoroughfares’. Put more succinctly, “Which roads have the greatest person throughput per lane hour?”

In Auckland, NZ we have a piece of ‘motorway’ where we calculate that there are about 3,000 people per lane hour at the peak of the peak. We think this is p retty good, but we are sure there must be other places where the total is greater.

We would like to build a database of ‘nominated’ roads (call them freeways, highways, streets, arterials, boulevards, parkways, turnpikes, or whatever local term works for you) and rank them by the New Mobility Success Metric of ‘people throughput’.

The research will then seek to understand the combination of factors that led to success.

The calculation for that piece of motorway in Auckland looks like this:

At this location t he motorway is four lanes wide, so the New Mobility Success Metric is 3,050 people per lane hour. (12,200/4).

At this point we are keen to start a conversation about this, to find out who is thinking this way, and what the questions are that come up when we try to think this way. If you are aware of any previous research that looks at the same idea, please let me know. One thought is that we might have different categories, such as bus-only lanes, HOV lanes, general use lanes. Perhaps cycle lanes will be contenders as well? Maybe we need categories by different speeds.

I look forward to hearing your questions and suggestions, and of course, your nominations.

Kind regards

Paul Minett

Ridesharing Institute

PS Follow the exploits of the Ridesharing Institute by ‘liking’ us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ridesharing-Institute/226523247393284. PM

#1653

From: Richard Layman <rlaymandc@...>
Date: Wed Aug 17, 2011 1:28 pm
Subject: Re: WorldTransport Forum New Mobility Thoroughfares

rlaymandc

one issue with this, at least as it relates to the U.S., is that U.S. people don't tolerate the same levels of in-bus density, "crush loads." So buses that in the U.S. are rated for 80 passengers carry 2x that many in Curitiba or Bogota or Santiago. That's part of the reason that BRT works well in South America, but doesn't in North America. (Plus the whole passenger entrance/exit/multidoor system.) In the U.S., running 2x the number of buses reduces the purported cost advantages of buses over light rail.

And the recent ITDP report on BRT in the U.S. did not consistently disclose ridership information over all of the case examples--e.g., using percentage increase without providing base numbers. I think probably because many of the examples aren't that great. (E.g., the Silver Line in Boston has anemic ridership.) Plus there is puffery about ancillary real estate development. E.g., with regard to the Health Line in Cleveland, much of the development was already in the pipeline, as it serves the areas of Cleveland that are still relevant in terms of being prime centers of commercial, health care, and university/academic activity.

From: Dave Holladay <Tramsol@...>
To: WorldTransport@yahoogroups.com
Cc: Paul Minett <paulminett@...>; WorldCarShare@yahoogroups.com; NewMobilityCafe@yahoogroups.com; CarFreeCafe@yahoogroups.com; Cities-for-Mobility@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 9:01 AM
Subject: Re: WorldTransport Forum New Mobility Thoroughfares

Ridesharing Institute

Dear Colleagues

The New Mobility Agenda emphasises ‘people throughput’ as a central consideration for sustainable transportation. It has been a central plank for some years.

Now we are planning a research programme where we will be seeking to find the most successful ‘New Mobility Thoroughfares’. Put more succinctly, “Which roads have the greatest person throughput per lane hour?”

In Auckland, NZ we have a piece of ‘motorway’ where we calculate that there are about 3,000 people per lane hour at the peak of the peak. We think this is p retty good, but we are sure there must be other places where the total is greater.

We would like to build a database of ‘nominated’ roads (call them freeways, highways, streets, arterials, boulevards, parkways, turnpikes, or whatever local term works for you) and rank them by the New Mobility Success Metric of ‘people throughput’.

The research will then seek to understand the combination of factors that led to success.

The calculation for that piece of motorway in Auckland looks like this:

At this location t he motorway is four lanes wide, so the New Mobility Success Metric is 3,050 people per lane hour. (12,200/4).

At this point we are keen to start a conversation about this, to find out who is thinking this way, and what the questions are that come up when we try to think this way. If you are aware of any previous research that looks at the same idea, please let me know. One thought is that we might have different categories, such as bus-only lanes, HOV lanes, general use lanes. Perhaps cycle lanes will be contenders as well? Maybe we need categories by different speeds.

I look forward to hearing your questions and suggestions, and of course, your nominations.

Kind regards

Paul Minett

Ridesharing Institute

PS Follow the exploits of the Ridesharing Institute by ‘liking’ us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ridesharing-Institute/226523247393284. PM

#1654

From: "eric britton" <eric.britton@...>
Date: Wed Aug 17, 2011 8:17 pm
Subject: Subject: In support of the move to a more sustainable Kampala and a mobility system to match

fekbritton

World Streets / New Mobility Partnerships / Sustainability Seminar Series

Subject: In support of the move to a more sustainable Kampala and a mobility system to match.

Dear Amanda,

As agreed, after our call today, I took a bit of time to set up three web sites in support of (a) the broader issue of how to bring (more) sustainable transport to Kampala, and (b) the specific event of the forthcoming first Car Free Day. All of that excellent and exciting stuff. Here is what we have thus far:

1. Facebook Group page: A Facebook Group page to support all these activities now at http://www.facebook.com/groups/266190133393713/ with its first 14 members. Now if our experience in these things is any guide, what we now would like to do is to see if we can get 30-50 people who share our concerns and goals into the group, so that we can start to share information, tools and more generally collaborate in the context of sustainable transport in Kampala and indeed in cities across Uganda and East Africa.

2. Streets of Kampala: I have also started to lay out what I think can, with your joining in and taking ownership, a very good, even an excellent blog to provide a major focal point for everything that you can now start to do to move toward a more sustainable mobility system for Kampala. You will find the working draft now at http://streetsofkampala.wordpress.com/. Let me by way of quick first introduction tell you what looks like some of the good and as yet less god things about this site:

a. It gives us a strong and proven frame for starting to get an extended base of support and exchange in favor of both the overall sustainable transport agenda, and of course for the forthcoming first World Car Free Day,

b. It is, I am told, reasonably attractive and pretty efficient.

c. It is also pretty easy to work with once you get the swing of things, and I am there to help you until you are ready to take over for yourselves.

d. You may note that the main image changes each time someone comes into the site. We are trying to give a feel for the great variety of street conditions in Kampala. And you will see that much is missing. So please feel free to pike in and add to it. Sharp visuals are very important in advancing the sustainability agenda more generally

e. If you scroll own a bit on the right column, you will see that there is a gallery for the photos thus far collected under the heading Streets of Kampala.

f. And just below you will see the list in process of Key Sources And References. Already quite useful, but like all the rest needs more and better.

g. There are a number of easy to use tools, including for citizen reporting and information via mobile phones. But one thing at a time for now.

3. Editorial Team: We are now ready to develop our editorial team, and for this I will need you to sign in, including with a photo and some brief background information. If you are ready to join, let me know and I can send on the easy to use routine. Will take about 6 minutes of your time.

There you have it. I can give this a bit more time in the next two days, gut then I am off for Car Free Day celebrations first in Taiwan (2) and then in Guadalajara. This is going to keep me completely tied up until 16 Sept. But then I will be back at my des and ready to do what I can to contribute to your Car Free Day.

I look forward with real interest to your comments and suggestions on all this. After all, The Streets of Kampala belong to you.

All the best/Eric

Eric Britton, Editor / Managing Director

8, rue Jospeh Bara 75006 Paris France

Tel. +331 7550 3788 | editor@... | Skype: newmobility

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#1655

From: "eric britton" <eric.britton@...>
Date: Thu Aug 18, 2011 3:59 pm
Subject: In homage to Lee Schipper

fekbritton

_____________________________________________________

In homage to Lee Schipper

Eric Britton, editor | 17 August 2011 at 09:52 | Categories: event | URL: http://wp.me/psKUY-1Qi

Our long-time colleague and very dear friend Lee Shipper left us on Tuesday evening, warmly surrounded by family and loving friends. Since he meant so much to so many of us who have been involved in the uphill struggle for sustainability in all its forms and corners of our lives, I thought it would be appropriate to open up these pages over the next days, and possibly more than that, to a selection of pieces in which the author reflects on the kind of very special person that Lee was. [...]

Source: http://worldstreets.wordpress.com/2011/08/17/in-honor-of-lee-schipper/

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#1656

From: "Chris Bradshaw" <hearth@...>
Date: Sat Aug 20, 2011 12:47 am
Subject: Re: WorldTransport Forum New Mobility Thoroughfares

hearth@...

I don't have any resources to cite regarding thoroughfare capacity, but do have a couple comments.

Throughput is pretty much a product of the footprint of the mode, but is independent of the speed of movement, since as speed goes up, so does the buffer in between road users, pretty much in proportion (since the space on either side of faster vehicles also needs to increase, capacity, or throughput, per square metre, actually declines with speed for any one mode). Another factor of throughput is the amount of time out of every hour that traffic can move (when cross traffic doesn't have to be given time to move). Having few intersections per kilometre and having them be subservient (and get a smaller part of the signal cycle) makes for better throughput.

But the Minnett table lacks the two other modes, walking and cycling, that occur in two other "lanes", the sidewalks (both sides, each two-way) and the 'gutter' that cyclists use (where lanes haven't been provided).

But this whole exercise also ignores the total distance of each trip. The roads aren't just providing for a certain number of people and their vehicles to move, but over a particular distance. Share of the entire trip does each kilometre represent? Much of the growth in congestion in the recent decades is the result of the lengthening of each commute. Many of you would say it is a shift in mode (and a decline in persons per car), but mode is more likely a dependent variable, related to trip length, since the longer the trip, the more likely the traveler will feel the need to travel more 'formally,' thanks to difficulties with logistics, weather, and their own stamina.

Finally, there is one other point. How many of the roads are available to use for achieving throughput? In a true grid, each street is available -- although the efficiency of each declines because of lost time for cross traffic to also move. Paralleling the increase in distance of commutes (and the accompanying shift to more formal modes) is the growth of the hierarchical road system, in which only a few roads are straight and move traffic directly towards various destinations; the rest serve 'feeder' roles on a hiearchy, with most of those roads moving the travelers in a direction other than toward their respective destinations, just to reach an arterial or a road ('circle,' crescent,' even 'walk'), making the trip actually longer, but supposedly pleasing local residents by reducing the load on their streets.

The solution, therefore, may not be increasing throughput on the 10 percent of roads that are arterials, but shortening commutes (by getting employees and employers to co-locate better) and by opening up roads to allow more of them to provide more direct movement and lesensing the amount of traffic at each intersection (see the work by Reid Ewing on this interesting point) so that there are simply fewer vehicles per hour passing through any one intersection, and thus making each work on a shorter cycle, reducing waits, and disenfranchising less the three modes that should be favoured: walking, cycling, and transit.

Chris Bradshaw

Ottawa

----- Original Message -----

From: Richard Layman

To: WorldTransport@yahoogroups.com

Cc: Paul Minett ; WorldCarShare@yahoogroups.com ; NewMobilityCafe@yahoogroups.com ; CarFreeCafe@yahoogroups.com ; Cities-for-Mobility@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 9:28 AM

Subject: Re: WorldTransport Forum New Mobility Thoroughfares

one issue with this, at least as it relates to the U.S., is that U.S. people don't tolerate the same levels of in-bus density, "crush loads." So buses that in the U.S. are rated for 80 passengers carry 2x that many in Curitiba or Bogota or Santiago. That's part of the reason that BRT works well in South America, but doesn't in North America. (Plus the whole passenger entrance/exit/multidoor system.) In the U.S., running 2x the number of buses reduces the purported cost advantages of buses over light rail.

And the recent ITDP report on BRT in the U.S. did not consistently disclose ridership information over all of the case examples--e.g., using percentage increase without providing base numbers. I think probably because many of the examples aren't that great. (E.g., the Silver Line in Boston has anemic ridership.) Plus there is puffery about ancillary real estate development. E.g., with regard to the Health Line in Cleveland, much of the development was already in the pipeline, as it serves the areas of Cleveland that are still relevant in terms of being prime centers of commercial, health care, and university/academic activity.

From: Dave Holladay <Tramsol@...>
To: WorldTransport@yahoogroups.com
Cc: Paul Minett <paulminett@...>; WorldCarShare@yahoogroups.com; NewMobilityCafe@yahoogroups.com; CarFreeCafe@yahoogroups.com; Cities-for-Mobility@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 9:01 AM
Subject: Re: WorldTransport Forum New Mobility Thoroughfares

Take a look at the Street Films reports on Curitiba and Bogota (Milremo) BRT systems flat out they are describing between 35,000 and 40,000 pax/hr on close headway, fast boarding (200-300 pax/bus) buses - on the video watch c 100 pax board via 4 double doors in under 60 secs(?)

(?) - I recall that the egress rating for a double door fire exit is 80 persons/minute, which makes a lane width operating at maximum moving density = 2 x double fire doors - = 160 ppm = 9600 pph, possibly higher when crush load operation, and allowing for integration of 2 doorways.

Dave H

Better Paul, to examine the true door to desk trip, and add the access times to the car doorstep to car, and car park to office, and then offer a doubling in size of your workstation - move out of the 6 sq m in a typical open plan office and take over the 12.5 sq m you have for your car as your new office. - Would make an interesting image - transhipping an cramped open plan office to the parking lot and giving each worker twice as much working space!

Anywhere good to set this up as a picture?

Could do something similar with a retail store - with the car park outside turned in to an expanded retail space - or a market - and the earnings per sq m figure posted, a car park, and a retail premises likewise. With the question who is making best use of their assets?

On 17/08/11 11:59, Paul Minett wrote:

Ridesharing Institute

Dear Colleagues

The New Mobility Agenda emphasises ‘people throughput’ as a central consideration for sustainable transportation. It has been a central plank for some years.

Now we are planning a research programme where we will be seeking to find the most successful ‘New Mobility Thoroughfares’. Put more succinctly, “Which roads have the greatest person throughput per lane hour?”

In Auckland, NZ we have a piece of ‘motorway’ where we calculate that there are about 3,000 people per lane hour at the peak of the peak. We think this is p retty good, but we are sure there must be other places where the total is greater.

We would like to build a database of ‘nominated’ roads (call them freeways, highways, streets, arterials, boulevards, parkways, turnpikes, or whatever local term works for you) and rank them by the New Mobility Success Metric of ‘people throughput’.

The research will then seek to understand the combination of factors that led to success.

The calculation for that piece of motorway in Auckland looks like this:

At this location t he motorway is four lanes wide, so the New Mobility Success Metric is 3,050 people per lane hour. (12,200/4).

At this point we are keen to start a conversation about this, to find out who is thinking this way, and what the questions are that come up when we try to think this way. If you are aware of any previous research that looks at the same idea, please let me know. One thought is that we might have different categories, such as bus-only lanes, HOV lanes, general use lanes. Perhaps cycle lanes will be contenders as well? Maybe we need categories by different speeds.

I look forward to hearing your questions and suggestions, and of course, your nominations.

Kind regards

Paul Minett

Ridesharing Institute

PS Follow the exploits of the Ridesharing Institute by ‘liking’ us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ridesharing-Institute/226523247393284. PM

#1657

From: "Paul Minett" <paulminett@...>
Date: Sat Aug 20, 2011 5:03 am
Subject: RE: WorldTransport Forum New Mobility Thoroughfares

paulminett@...

In the case of the Minett table, that motorway has no sidewalks so the only ‘person throughput’ is what occurs on the four lanes of road.

I was not seeking solutions, though they are very welcome, but rather to gather factual data. In particular, though perhaps I didn’t explain this well, I am interested in finding examples of mixed use (also called general purpose) lanes, and where average occupancy of cars is above the usual 1.1, and a number of buses use the road as well, regardless of how long the trips are.

Congestion is not caused by the length of the trip, but by the vehicle being there. Much congestion on our system in Auckland, for example, is caused by ‘local traffic’ that gets on at one ramp and off at the next.

Curitiba and Bogota aside, where the ‘roads’ in question are dedicated BRT (and they are deserving of recognition in our table, don’t get me wrong), which roads are getting the highest ‘person throughput’? After how many years of the new mobility agenda, with person throughput as a key metric, can we compile a table that shows what is being achieved, in particular in the peak hour (or hours) rather than just capacity for the whole day?

Paul Minett

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From: WorldTransport@yahoogroups.com [mailto:WorldTransport@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Chris Bradshaw
Sent: Saturday, 20 August 2011 12:47 p.m.
To: WorldTransport@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: WorldTransport Forum New Mobility Thoroughfares

I don't have any resources to cite regarding thoroughfare capacity, but do have a couple comments.

Chris Bradshaw

Ottawa

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one issue with this, at least as it relates to the U.S., is that U.S. people don't tolerate the same levels of in-bus density, "crush loads." So buses that in the U.S. are rated for 80 passengers carry 2x that many in Curitiba or Bogota or Santiago. That's part of the reason that BRT works well in South America, but doesn't in North America. (Plus the whole passenger entrance/exit/multidoor system.) In the U.S., running 2x the number of buses reduces the purported cost advantages of buses over light rail.

And the recent ITDP report on BRT in the U.S. did not consistently disclose ridership information over all of the case examples--e.g., using percentage increase without providing base numbers. I think probably because many of the examples aren't that great. (E.g., the Silver Line in Boston has anemic ridership.) Plus there is puffery about ancillary real estate development. E.g., with regard to the Health Line in Cleveland, much of the development was already in the pipeline, as it serves the areas of Cleveland that are still relevant in terms of being prime centers of commercial, health care, and university/academic activity.

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Subject: Re: WorldTransport Forum New Mobility Thoroughfares
Take a look at the Street Films reports on Curitiba and Bogota (Milremo) BRT systems flat out they are describing between 35,000 and 40,000 pax/hr on close headway, fast boarding (200-300 pax/bus) buses - on the video watch c 100 pax board via 4 double doors in under 60 secs(?)

(?) - I recall that the egress rating for a double door fire exit is 80 persons/minute, which makes a lane width operating at maximum moving density = 2 x double fire doors - = 160 ppm = 9600 pph, possibly higher when crush load operation, and allowing for integration of 2 doorways.

Dave H

Better Paul, to examine the true door to desk trip, and add the access times to the car doorstep to car, and car park to office, and then offer a doubling in size of your workstation - move out of the 6 sq m in a typical open plan office and take over the 12.5 sq m you have for your car as your new office. - Would make an interesting image - transhipping an cramped open plan office to the parking lot and giving each worker twice as much working space!

Anywhere good to set this up as a picture?

Could do something similar with a retail store - with the car park outside turned in to an expanded retail space - or a market - and the earnings per sq m figure posted, a car park, and a retail premises likewise. With the question who is making best use of their assets?

On 17/08/11 11:59, Paul Minett wrote:

Ridesharing Institute
Dear Colleagues
The New Mobility Agenda emphasises ‘people throughput’ as a central consideration for sustainable transportation. It has been a central plank for some years.
Now we are planning a research programme where we will be seeking to find the most successful ‘New Mobility Thoroughfares’. Put more succinctly, “Which roads have the greatest person throughput per lane hour?”
In Auckland, NZ we have a piece of ‘motorway’ where we calculate that there are about 3,000 people per lane hour at the peak of the peak. We think this is p retty good, but we are sure there must be other places where the total is greater.
We would like to build a database of ‘nominated’ roads (call them freeways, highways, streets, arterials, boulevards, parkways, turnpikes, or whatever local term works for you) and rank them by the New Mobility Success Metric of ‘people throughput’.
The research will then seek to understand the combination of factors that led to success.
The calculation for that piece of motorway in Auckland looks like this:

At this location t he motorway is four lanes wide, so the New Mobility Success Metric is 3,050 people per lane hour. (12,200/4).
At this point we are keen to start a conversation about this, to find out who is thinking this way, and what the questions are that come up when we try to think this way. If you are aware of any previous research that looks at the same idea, please let me know. One thought is that we might have different categories, such as bus-only lanes, HOV lanes, general use lanes. Perhaps cycle lanes will be contenders as well? Maybe we need categories by different speeds.
I look forward to hearing your questions and suggestions, and of course, your nominations.
Kind regards
Paul Minett
Ridesharing Institute
PS Follow the exploits of the Ridesharing Institute by ‘liking’ us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ridesharing-Institute/226523247393284. PM

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From: "eric britton" <eric.britton@...>
Date: Sat Aug 20, 2011 8:30 am
Subject: Streets of Kampala: Sustainable transport - One city at a time

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World Streets / New Mobility Partnerships / Sustainability Seminar Series

May we ask you to show your support for the just getting underway Streets of Kampala website in a way which is easily done but important for this ambitious team project.

The front door is wide open at http://streetsofkampala.wordpress.com/. And if you like what you see, it would be great if you would click here http://wp.me/P1MjAl-2L where you will see the easy guidelines for expressing your support.

Make that your good deed for today

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#1659

From: "eric britton" <eric.britton@...>
Date: Sat Aug 20, 2011 3:07 pm
Subject: Towards Car Free Cities. Guadalajara, Mexico, 5-9 Sept. 2011

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Towards Car Free Cities. Guadalajara, Mexico, 5-9 Sept. 2011

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#1660

From: Nuno Quental <nuno.quental@...>
Date: Thu Aug 25, 2011 4:58 pm
Subject: EcoMobility Changwon 2011 - registrations now open!

nuno.quental

EcoMobility Changwon 2011
World Congress on Mobility for the Future of Sustainable Cities
Where transport leaders will meet

22-24 October 2011, Changwon, Republic of Korea

ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability - and the City of Changwon invite you to register at the EcoMobility Changwon 2011 congress. Find out more about the congress at http://www.iclei.org/ecomobility2011

Congress themes and program
Take a look at the latest program!

Plenary topics will feature:
- EcoMobile cities around the world
- Mainstreaming EcoMobility
- Envisioning the future EcoMobile city
- Instruments and business models for EcoMobility

In parallel sessions, a special focus will be given to:
- Bicycle sharing systems
- Innovations such as e-mobility and intelligent transport systems
- Visions for overcoming physical, institutional or financial barriers
- City Challenges Workshops concentrating on innovative solutions tailored to the particular needs of cities
- Doubling the market share of public transport

Other reasons why you should attend
- Network with leading city government officials, businesses, and organizations to form partnerships for future EcoMobility endeavors;
- Participate in the GIZ training "Implementing bike-sharing systems" on 24-25 October (participation restricted to 25 participants);
- Get to know various components of EcoMobile solutions and products, and talk to experts, producers and service providers at the marketplace;
- Experience Changwon's award winning NUBIJA system, the host city's bicycle sharing program. For more information visit NUBIJA website and download ICLEI case study.

Confirmed Mayors and city officials participating as speakers:
Young Gyu Kwon (Seoul), Park Wan-Su (Changwon), Yum Tae-Yeong (Suwon), Stephen Yarwood (Adelaide), Helena Hećimović (Koprivnica), Masashi Mori (Toyama), Brian Shanahan (Melbourne), Fernando Nunes da Silva (Lisbon), Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf (Tehran), Catarina Freitas (Almada), Devecz Miklos (Budapest), and Sukhumbhand Paribatra (Bangkok).

Speakers from other organizations and businesses include:
- Speakers from international and governmental organizations include Kee Yeon Hwang (KOTI), Rae Kwon Chung (UNESCAP), Manfred Breithaupt (GIZ), and Lloyd Wright (ADB).
- From the non-governmental arena, Michael Repogle (ITDP), Li Shanshan (ITDP China), Bernhard Ensink (ECF), Waltraut Ritter (Hong Kong Foresight Centre), Bert Fabian (CAI Asia), Cornie Huizenga (SloCaT Partnership), and Dawn Chui (UITP) are confirmed.
- Speakers with a research background include Carlo Ratti (MIT), Peter Newman (Curtin University), Florian Lennert (LSE) Shivanand Swamy (CEPT University), and Pan Haixiao (Tongji University).
- From the business community, speakers include Eric Britton (New Mobility), Christian Häuselmann (Swisscleantech), Robert Stussi (Perform Energy), and Hendrik Mlasowsky (Choice GmbH).

Register now! Refer to the website for more information, including practical information on how to easily get to Changwon.

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#1661

From: "eric britton" <eric.britton@...>
Date: Tue Sep 13, 2011 2:50 pm
Subject: The EC is not doing its job on carsharing and alternative forms of car ownership and use. So . . .

fekbritton

World Streets / New Mobility Partnerships / Sustainability Seminar Series

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World Streets

Subject: Would you like me to relay your comments on this attached memo to EC conference (http://www.momo-cs.eu/ ) on Thursday? (Sorry for the last minute nature of this but I am just back from three weeks in Taiwan and Mexico working on just these challenges - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj9D_F5ql0c . Anyway, off we go.)

Bottom line: The EC is not doing its job on carsharing and alternative forms of car ownership and use -- fascinated as they are by the long term (where we all are dead, as Keynes put it so sweetly) and technology. But by now it is clear: we will never be able to get to sustainable mobility and sustainable cities without a good dose of carsharing. So what is holding them/us back?

This public conference is being held right under their nose in Brussels and offers a good occasion to get the word out that it is high time for them to shift gears and get rolling on the carsharing agenda. I have the good luck to chair the final portion of the conference and make the recommendations and notes on findings that will have good visibility. So let me propose this. If you have any comments on the memorandum and its recommendations, I would be pleased to relay them to the conference and in the post conference documentation. If they are short, I can read them out. Longer ones I will figure out how to put them into the hands of one and all.

The key document for this is the attached proposed "Momorandum", which is aimed straight at the Commission and which I invite you to comment and further elucidate. You also may have some choice words to share with national government agencies and cities, both of whom of course have a major role to play in giving higher profile to this new and better way of getting around in our cities.

For my part I think that the commission is doing a rotten job in this and other areas where they really should have the information, insight and wisdom (and daring) to plow ahead and be useful. (Actually I don't think it, I know it!) They are spending a huge amount of hard-fought taxpayer money on stuff that is far far from the critical path, and in the process doing little to move us toward sustainable transport and sustainable cities. That a huge pity. Worse in fact it is a real case of, as we say in French: non-assistance � personne en danger (which by the way is a crime under French law).

I would love to think that we might be able to do a bit of aggressive pushing here. Team work will help.

Thanks for sharing.

Best/Eric

PS. Please copy your eventual response to fekbritton@..., which is the address that gets to me when I am on the road.

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3 of 3 File(s)

momo_conference_programme.pdf

momorandum_final.pdf

Momo Panel discussion-v1-0.doc

#1662

From: "eric britton" <eric.britton@...>
Date: Mon Sep 19, 2011 1:49 pm
Subject: On World Streets from August 20 to September 20: Gone fishin' (delayed psoting)

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