From Australia ... Southeast Queensland (SEQ) and in particular Brisbane is facing an unprecedented rate of population growth increase from incoming migration...
1. The post on Doors of Perception mentions the Leapfrog Hypothesis, whereby newly developing countries avoid the environmentally most damaging problems which...
Doors of Perception Report ... June 2008 by John Thackara CITY ECO LAB: YOUR BENCHMARK SUGGESTIONS PLEASE City Eco Lab, the "nomadic market of projects" that...
Dear all, The BAQ 2008 Program Committee has received over 200 abstracts already and is in the process of reviewing these. Meanwhile, we would like to offer...
It is worth adding that the US Bureau of Transport statistics puts the BTU/passenger-mil for US buses at around 3400 btu./passenger mile in 2005, while the...
This is a despicable hatchet job from the rabid right. What is unforgivable is not the tilted argumentation -- fair enough that is to be expected from these...
Dear moderator of "World Transport Forum", The International Institute for Information Design (IIID) in Vienna is organizing a top-notch event this year in...
Thanks to Aaron Naparstek and Streetsblog for the excellent coverage of these issues and the following item. You can check out both this and the very heated...
Hi Last year I helped organise a seminar called Transforming Transport here in Wellington, NZ. The focus was on transport and CO2, and the potential for...
The first-cut entry that I started some time ago on "slowth" in the Wikipedia -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slowth --is being challenged because it lacks...
Here is a good question that comes from several of our colleagues in New York, which I would like to share with you, both questions and answers as possible. ...
I would like to introduce quickly this good note from Morten Lange from Rejkyvek and suggest that we treat this as another of our discussion topics, as we did...
From a discussion on the World City Bike Forum: see http://www.forum.worldcitybike.org Here you have a draft of my proposed position on this topic. I attach...
Sustainable Urban Transport Project (GTZ SUTP) update November, 2007 - January, 2008 GTZ-SUTP wishes all our registered users and subscribers a happy and ...
There is an illuminating discussion of BRT, TransMilenio and BRT for US cities, NYC included that you can find on the terrific StreetsBlog.org site at...
It seems to me that incorporating compulsory cycle helmet wearing in a city bike scheme would kill it unless some means was used of enabling people to borrow...
This is to invite any of you who may share this interest to join a new forum here specifically focused on the issues around City or public bicycles. This is...
This is something that they are looking in to for the Vancouver city bike project. Have anything to help us/them better understand the issues. [Kindly send...
The latest number of the Journal of World Transport Policy & Practice is now available: Vol. 13, No. 1. “At the Frontiers of Cycling: Policy Innovations in...
BAQ 2008 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS The theme for the Better Air Quality 2008 (BAQ 2008) workshop is: “Air Quality and Climate Change: Scaling up Win-Win Solutions...
... VTPI NEWS ... Victoria Transport Policy Institute "Efficiency - Equity - Clarity" ... Winter 2008 Vol. 11, No. 1 ... The Victoria Transport Policy...
Hans Monderman, 1947 - 2008. In memoriam As we were going to press this morning with this report and work plan for 2008, I learned of the sad news that our...
Dear Friends With much sadness I heard today of the death, early this morning, of Hans Monderman. Although he had been suffering from cancer for many months,...
