Like Athens, London has a long way to go before pedestrians are given equal treatment to cars. However, our Mayor, Ken Livingstone, has made a start. More time...
We are hearing a lot about the contradcitons and impoerfections of the London project, which of course is what life is all about. You try to make an...
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K Tsourlakis
ktsou@...
Apr 2, 2004 7:18 pm
... Indeed, it is a cost for those who use cars. But the lower the cost, the more driving is encouraged, according to a trivial law of economics. In fact it is...
EU May Require Sustainable Transportation and Environment Plan EcoLinks News Service <http://www.ecolinks.org> BRUSSELS, April 2, 2004 -- Europe's 500 largest...
The trouble with tolerating congestion is that bus users are probably the worst affected. Congestion at a given point only concerns motorists if they are ...
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Tramsol@...
Apr 3, 2004 5:48 am
... charge is the rigorous management of the space resource. 1) apply the UK statute that roads are provided SOLELY for the passing and repassing of traffic -...
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Peter.WIEDERKEHR@...
Apr 5, 2004 10:21 am
Thanks for the message, Eric. Good! It was about time to come up with this idea. I would be nice to give also inventives to promote effective, most forward...
"World Health Day is celebrated annually on the 7th of April. The theme for World Health Day 2004 is Road Safety. On this day around the globe, hundreds of...
Keeping Children Safe in Traffic Tragically, one child out of every 2100 will die before his or her 15th birthday in a road-related incident, and even more...
While the following is too narrow for most of the members of this list, I share it with you since it also shows the direction in which we are moving on all our...
I have a proposal which would kick-start car sharing in central London. This is that when a car sharing scheme had been set up in a given neighbourhood within ...
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Todd Alexander Litman
litman@...
Apr 12, 2004 2:25 pm
There are a number of studies that investigate what portion of trips shift to alternative modes, or disappear altogether, in response to various incentives. An...
Tomorrow The Commons, including its various programs, will pass the 100k visitors mark since the current version of our sites were first placed on the web in...
There are days in which you learn more than in other days. For example, yesterday. As almost everyone on both of these lists knows, I am a firm believer in...
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Anthony Perl
aperl@...
Apr 15, 2004 2:55 pm
Dear Eric, I cannot resist the chance to add an observation to your cogitations. As you know I am car-free by choice, and have always been skeptical of those...
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Chris Bradshaw
chris@...
Apr 16, 2004 6:35 am
Eric, Thanks for bringing this provocative question/point to our attention. This will bring to two the # of Canadians responding. Lee Schipper (BTW, I know a...
I totally agree with Lee Schipper. Car sharing is for the too rich. Even there, the ratio between cost of car and cost of acquiring a licence may be an...
(this was also posted to the World Carshare forum) Interesting interchange. There clearly is a desire of people in third world countries to have the mobility...
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Richard Allsop
rea@...
Apr 16, 2004 5:53 pm
"Sustainable Transport - just a catchphrase? - Trying to assess sustainability in transport" You are invited by UCL (University College London) to this 9th...
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Craig Townsend
craig_townsend@...
Apr 17, 2004 6:19 pm
Dear Eric, There is a dimension to this discussion that I believe has been overlooked: developing nations are already the world's leaders in car sharing . They...
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mark.j.king@...
Apr 21, 2004 10:28 am
Hi Eric I've just read Craig Townsend's comment on developing nations and carsharing. I think the important phrase is "how to share scarce resources", with the...
I think that the key issue as far as developed societies are concerned is to link car sharing with car-free living. A certain proportion of new housing should...
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Wetzel Dave
davewetzel@...
Apr 21, 2004 2:55 pm
Happy to answer Simon's question put to me personally. The Land Value Tax (LVT) would apply to all sites, residential, commercial, agriculture, open space etc....
Todd Litman suggested that there is no particular level of traffic which is "necessary". In pure supply/demand terms this may be true, but one must remember ...
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Todd Alexander Litman
litman@...
Apr 21, 2004 2:58 pm
MEDIA RELEASE 21 April 2004 Rail Transit Benefits Study: New study finds that cities with rail transit systems have significantly less traffic congestion,...
Sorry I don't know anything about english tax system. In Sweden we have had for many years a "fastighetsskatt", or land property tax. The valuation of land...
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Wetzel Dave
davewetzel@...
Apr 22, 2004 7:42 am
Why speculate re "essential traffic"? Of course, congestion chargeallows the individual driver or freight operator to determine whether their journey is...
Hi all, Just a small comment about traffic: In Dresden, Germany, the former municipal transport company runs a cargo tram system (and a carsharing system as...
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john.holtzclaw@...
Apr 22, 2004 7:43 am
Todd is right. The level of traffic "necessary" is dependent on the internal convenience of the neighborhoods in the city and their convenience to the job...
Annual Meeting: January 9-13, 2005 Committee on Transportation in the Developing Countries (ABE90) Sub-Committee on Bus Rapid Transit Call for Papers and...
