Annual Meeting: January 9-13, 2005 Committee on Transportation in the Developing Countries (ABE90) Sub-Committee on Bus Rapid Transit Call for Papers and...
Why speculate re "essential traffic"? Of course, congestion chargeallows the individual driver or freight operator to determine whether their journey is...
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 ...
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...
MEDIA RELEASE 21 April 2004 Rail Transit Benefits Study: New study finds that cities with rail transit systems have significantly less traffic congestion,...
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 ...
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...
"Sustainable Transport - just a catchphrase? - Trying to assess sustainability in transport" You are invited by UCL (University College London) to this 9th...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
"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...
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...
Replying to the two dissenters to the proposal to nominate Ken Livingstone (let's be sure to spell his name right !) et al for I agree that the Thames Gateway...
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 ...
EU May Require Sustainable Transportation and Environment Plan EcoLinks News Service <http://www.ecolinks.org> BRUSSELS, April 2, 2004 -- Europe's 500 largest...
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...
Eric I've not the time to wade through all the detail but a couple of points I suspect will be missed - It sounds very mauch that the World Bank is still ...
This is to let you know that we are making slow but hopefully useful progress in getting the main web site for The Commons Sustainability Agenda (at...
(The punch line isn't as good in English as in Swedish, but perhaps you can make a better translation.) At Borlänge railway station, Sweden, 2 o'clock in the...
I have to make an after-dinner speech this week. Does anyone have any good transport jokes or humorous anecdotes? I'd be eternally grateful. Dave "Solvitur...
Glad to see so many members of this group supporting the proposal to nominate Ken Livingstone and am pleased to add myself to the list. Would there be any...
Hi Eric, I'd agree, if it weren't a technology price, as the London solution is not the best technology solution. It was apragmatic decision to use available ...
Paris, Wednesday, March 17, 2004 On my way out the door for a conference on sustainable transportation, carsharing and a few other possibly related things...
Hi, I'm in. What do I have to do. Robert (Moskowitz) ... From: WorldTransport@yahoogroups.com [mailto:WorldTransport@yahoogroups.com] Sent: Thursday, March 18,...
Subject: Edinburgh conference on LVT 27 April Tickets are beginning to sell well for a major conference on: "The New Land Reform Agenda: How can Fiscal Change...
