Re: Next Steps in Lively Distance Participation in
Fremantle/UN events
Over
the next three days - Wednesday 09:00through
Friday noon, local time (Fremantle being at GMT +8
hours, no daylight saving) - the Fremantle Car Free Day and the associated
United Nations Car Free Days Programme will be taking place. And while
most people if they wish to attend any of the events will be obliged to trundle
to West Australia to do it, there are two sets of options which I would like to
draw to your attention briefly (with all program details available at
http://www.carfre.org).
The
first is the direct line of active participation which we have carefully set up
and tested between Fremantle and Paris. At both ends of the line are
standard H.323 IP videoconferencing units (Polycoms) and in the middle >256
kbps telephone lines (ADSL). I shall be attending the meeting more or
less continuously over the 2 and ½ days, and will be addressing it at several
points, including participation in the Q&A and discussion sessions.
The IP address for this line is 203.190.192.125. This generally
replicates the set up that we have for the February UN Practicum in Bogota, so
in its way may be thought of as almost ancient history. But in Fremantle
there is more to it than that. There is the 'extra chair', the next
sustainable wrinkle on distance participation
The Extra Chair:
We have
this time set up what we are calling an 'extra chair' at the meeting, an open
place for anyone anywhere in the world who wishes to check in and follow the events
efficiently and at no (marginal) cost. To get there, all you have to do
is call in to IP 203.190.192.119 and once the
connection is established there you are sitting toward the back of the
conference hall and observing what is going on at the rostrum, the large
display area (for the various PowerPoint, video and other presentations), and
the main discussants (if that's a word).
In
order that this be as discrete and as undisruptive as is appropriate under these
circumstance, we would ask you to adjust your settings as following:
·Access Speed - 64 kbps (minimizes line interference with main
unit)
·Mute - Off (very important. Otherwise your coughs and other
sounds may thunder through the room)
Since
the camera is not orientable or zoomable, you are kind of locked in to your
chair. Likewise the little Via Video unit at 64 kbps is a bit minimal for
these purposes, but it is certainly enough for you to form an opinion for
yourself as to the usefulness of this approach more generally. Similarly,
with this set-up we can only for now accommodate one person at a time in the
extra chair, so after you have had a good look and participated for say up to a
quarter of an hour, it would be kind if you would give up your seat for the
next visitor/distance critic.
Hence
and all this aside, we still would like to invite you to pop in, have a look,
and then let us know what you think or propose to build on this
experience. We have every intention of building on this approach in as
many of our international projects and meetings as possible, so your feedback
and guiding remarks will really be very useful. (These remarks will be
given a section of their own in the final report that we shall be preparing
after the Fremantle events on this important virtual meeting component.)
The
theme of all our work and projects in the run-up to this year's Johannesburg
World Summit on Sustainable Development is that of 'New Partnerships for
Sustainability'. In this instance, we are getting good support from many
sides, including from the Polycom people who are pitching in with loans of
first class equipment and technical counsel. Then of course are all the
others.
Including
you when you climb into this chair, have your look and let us know what you
think.
With
kind thanks and all good wishes,
Eric Britton
Senior
International Advisor
United
Nations Car Free Days Program at http://www.uncfd.org
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Olivier brings up a terrific issue set here and it would be great if the
members of our little group could mobilise to give ham a hand.
In fact, I would like very much to see a special issue of wtpp devoted
to exactly this topic. It could be ironic, fun, thought provoking and
very useful.
Eric Britton
-----Original Message-----
From: Oliver Schoeller [mailto:schoeller@...]
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 5:14 PM
To: wtpp-editors@...
Subject: BritRail
Dear Editors,
I work within a project-group called "Mobility" at the Social Sience
Research Centre Berlin. Recently I was confronted with the
argument of an increased passenger use in public transport
(refered back to the SAR survey 2002), wich was brought as an
example for an obviously successful deregulation of the public
transport system in Great Britain. When I took part at the
conference "Derailed" in Berlin I got another impression. In the
moment I prepare myself for a presentation in the project-group in
order to correct the picture on the privatisation process in GB. A
german colleague gave me the hint that you help me out with
informations about the background of the increased passenger
figures. Therefore I would be gratefull and thank you very much in
advance.
Yours sincerely
Oliver Schöller
--
Oliver Schöller
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin
Abteilung Organisation und Technikgenese
Reichpietschufer 50
10785 Berlin
Tel. +49(0)3025491-146
Fax. +49(0)3025491-209
I was happy to see the note from Eric about the possiblity of dedicating a whole issue of the WTPP journal to the overall impacts of the deregulation of Public Transport in Great Britain. I know that I've heard very mixed reports about this experiment, but here in the Middle East, the British experience seems to be regarded by bureaucrats as something that has achieved great success, and the Israeli Ministry Transport, for one, is very keen on following the British model.
I'm afraid that this may be the case in many developing countries, which have become entranced by the magic wand of the marketplace.
Subject: [WorldTransport] Britainand public Transport deregulation
To the group,
I was happy to see the note from Eric about the possiblity of dedicating a whole issue of the WTPP journal to the overall impacts of the deregulation of Public Transport in Great Britain. I know that I've heard very mixed reports about this experiment, but here in the Middle East, the British experience seems to be regarded by bureaucrats as something that has achieved great success, and the Israeli Ministry Transport, for one, is very keen on following the British model.
I'm afraid that this may be the case in many developing countries, which have become entranced by the magic wand of the marketplace.
Elaine Fletcher
Jerusalem
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Britain is maybe not the only experience to consider?
Best,
pach
-----Original Message----- From: John Whitelegg [mailto:ecologic@...] Sent: lundi 24 juin 2002 7:32 To: WorldTransport@yahoogroups.com Cc: ecoplan.adsl@... Subject: Re: [WorldTransport] Britainand public Transport deregulation
Dear Colleagues,
Many thanks to Elaine for this. I think it emphasises the need for this special issue. The British experience has produced:
record levels of unreliability and lack of punctuality
record levels of passenger complaints
very high rail fares
a bankrupt and incompetent Railtrack authority
more rail passengers
more rail freight
5 fatal accidents due to poor track, poor signals and poor quality control
large tax subsidies to private companies (larger than in the days of British Rail)
Let's see if we can get a special issue together on this.
Any offers of papers, suggestions etc to me, please.
Subject: [WorldTransport] Britainand public Transport deregulation
To the group,
I was happy to see the note from Eric about the possiblity of dedicating a whole issue of the WTPP journal to the overall impacts of the deregulation of Public Transport in Great Britain. I know that I've heard very mixed reports about this experiment, but here in the Middle East, the British experience seems to be regarded by bureaucrats as something that has achieved great success, and the Israeli Ministry Transport, for one, is very keen on following the British model.
I'm afraid that this may be the case in many developing countries, which have become entranced by the magic wand of the marketplace.
Elaine Fletcher
Jerusalem
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Tried to get this through to you privately, but cannot get through.
Look forward to this issue and would hope to submit an article that would offer a somewhat different perspective. Please let me know deadlines and requirements.
Best regards,
Wendell Cox
Member,
Amtrak Reform Council
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Subject: [WorldTransport] Britainand public Transport deregulation
To the group,
I was happy to see the note from Eric about the possiblity of dedicating a whole issue of the WTPP journal to the overall impacts of the deregulation of Public Transport in Great Britain. I know that I've heard very mixed reports about this experiment, but here in the Middle East, the British experience seems to be regarded by bureaucrats as something that has achieved great success, and the Israeli Ministry Transport, for one, is very keen on following the British model.
I'm afraid that this may be the case in many developing countries, which have become entranced by the magic wand of the marketplace.
Elaine Fletcher
Jerusalem
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Mo.Ve: the international, non-governmental, permanent observatory on metropolitan mobility
International Automobile Club Foundation and Italian Automobile Association to jointly define and advocate new public-private policies to relieve European urban congestion enhancing safety standards and protecting environment.
Today’s public policies based on questionable data: urban user populations permanently change while inhabitants less relevant as congestion grows
ØMo.Ve to hold first International Forum in Venice (October 25-26)
ØMo.Ve to hold first scientific workshop in Milan (June 25-26)
A permanent, international and non-governmental observatory dedicated to the study and advocating of innovative public and private policies to improve day-to-day mobility of people, goods and ideas in major metropolitan areas, was announced this morning in Rome in an international press conference by:
§Franco Lucchesi, President of ACI (Italian Automobile Club);
§David Ward, Director of FIA Foundation (Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile) and by
§Guido Martinotti, Urban sociologist, Pro-Rector of Università di Milano-Bicocca and scientific coordinator of the Mo.VeObservatory.
Mo.Ve stands for Mobility Venice, by virtue of the location for the Observatory’s annual forum.
The three organizations, supported by a multidisciplinary team of scholars from major international universities and research centers, intend to take the lead in developing and advocating realistic measures to effectively balance legitimate mobility expectations with sustainable safety and environmental standards.
This… in a major effort to improve quality of life of the diverse and ever changing segments of several distinct populations using the city in Europe’s major urban areas.
Mo.Ve’s principal components are:
1. a permanent observatory on urban user trends taking into account and interpreting data from the ongoing changes which today impact major metropolitan areas.
This…on the premise that today’s public and private mobility policies are based on data which do not necessarily reflect an ever-changing reality
2. an international and multidisciplinary team of experts due to meet next week (June 25-26) in Milan for a first workshop to discuss an opening discussion paper prepared by prof. Guido Martinotti, in which questions are raised on existing analysis criteria and that attempts to undertake an innovative interpretation of major city user populations and their mobility needs
3. an on-line Internet site www.move-forum.net containing a rich and easily accessible repository of policy papers, research documents and articles from all over the world on the issue of mobility in metropolitan areas; as well as a forum where registered members may access, contribute and participate to the on-going debate among experts and policy makers
4. an International Forum to be held in Venice (October 25-26) which will host some one hundred major European private and public policy makers to privately debate a ‘recommended policies’ document based on the findings and results of the first three activities.
The Mo.Ve International Forum intends to be an annual event and, in its first edition, will see the presence of Transport and Environmental Ministers from member countries, Mayors of some of Europe’s major cities as well as a host of highly relevant European business, financial, associations and academic leaders.
Dear all,
Of course, this discussion echoes widely here in the US, with the Amtrak
crisis at boiling point...
If the focus is, as originally posted, on the overall experiences with
Deregulation of Public Transport, then I would like to support the idea
that viewing the British Experience in International perspective is
particularly important. This is, perhaps, most important in the developing
country context, where, as Elaine points out, deregulation/privatization is
a major policy thrust and where several good, bad, and
"as-yet-undetermined" examples exist.
Regards,
Chris Zegras
At 10:29 AM 6/24/2002 +0200, patrice.husson@... wrote:
>John:
>
>Le taux de ponctualité des CFL (Luxembourg) a été de 92,3 % en 2000 (voir
>page 22 de
><http://www.cfl.lu/f/corporate/cfl_rapport_2000.pdf>http://www.cfl.lu/f/corpora\
te/cfl_rapport_2000.pdf).
>
>
>Please read other interesting facts at <http://www.cfl.lu>http://www.cfl.lu
>
>Britain is maybe not the only experience to consider?
>
>Best,
>
>pach
>-----Original Message-----
>From: John Whitelegg [mailto:ecologic@...]
>Sent: lundi 24 juin 2002 7:32
>To: WorldTransport@yahoogroups.com
>Cc: ecoplan.adsl@...
>Subject: Re: [WorldTransport] Britainand public Transport deregulation
>Dear Colleagues,
>
>Many thanks to Elaine for this. I think it emphasises the need for this
>special issue. The British experience has produced:
>
>record levels of unreliability and lack of punctuality
>record levels of passenger complaints
>very high rail fares
>a bankrupt and incompetent Railtrack authority
>more rail passengers
>more rail freight
>5 fatal accidents due to poor track, poor signals and poor quality control
>large tax subsidies to private companies (larger than in the days of
>British Rail)
>
>
>
>Let's see if we can get a special issue together on this.
>
>Any offers of papers, suggestions etc to me, please.
>
>
>very best wishes
>
>John Whitelegg
>Editor
>WTPP
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <mailto:Fletch@...>Elaine Fletcher
>To: <mailto:WorldTransport@yahoogroups.com>WorldTransport@yahoogroups.com
>Cc: <mailto:ecoplan.adsl@...>ecoplan.adsl@...
>Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 10:45 AM
>Subject: [WorldTransport] Britainand public Transport deregulation
>
>To the group,
>
>I was happy to see the note from Eric about the possiblity of dedicating a
>whole issue of the WTPP journal to the overall impacts of the
>deregulation of Public Transport in Great Britain. I know that I've heard
>very mixed reports about this experiment, but here in the Middle East, the
>British experience seems to be regarded by bureaucrats as something that
>has achieved great success, and the Israeli Ministry Transport, for one,
>is very keen on following the British model.
>
>I'm afraid that this may be the case in many developing countries, which
>have become entranced by the magic wand of the marketplace.
>
>Elaine Fletcher
>Jerusalem
>
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Hi all!
måndagen den 24 juni 2002 kl 07.32 skrev John Whitelegg:
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> Many thanks to Elaine for this. I think it emphasises the need for this
> special issue. The British experience has produced:
>
> record levels of unreliability and lack of punctuality
> record levels of passenger complaints
> very high rail fares
> a bankrupt and incompetent Railtrack authority
> more rail passengers
> more rail freight
> 5 fatal accidents due to poor track, poor signals and poor quality control
> large tax subsidies to private companies (larger than in the days of
> British Rail)
Sweden has chosen another way, dividing the railway system into three
different parts. We have kept the maintanance and ownership, and security
of the tracks in the hands of the State, but opened up the tracks for
competition. Thus far, all's been well. The old railway company, 'State
Railways', SJ, dominates the market, but is doing so in fierce competition
with several private companies. The 'Svealand track' has increased the
passenger volume sixfold the latest years after a major upgrade. The State
keeps control of security on the tracks via the 'Railway inspection'. The
system is under debate at the moment, since SJ still is dominating, and
the security could be better. The tracks are planned, maintained and built
by 'Banverket', via lots of private undertakers.
I think it will be possible to find someone from 'Rail Forum Sweden' to
write about all this. Should I ask them, or do anyone of you have contacts
there as well?
Med vänlig hälsning,
Peter Markusson
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Who did several studies on liberalisation and market openings in public services (transport)
With kind regards,
Arthur van Mansvelt
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>>> eric.britton@... 06/20/02 04:30 >>> Olivier brings up a terrific issue set here and it would be great if the members of our little group could mobilise to give ham a hand.
In fact, I would like very much to see a special issue of wtpp devoted to exactly this topic. It could be ironic, fun, thought provoking and very useful.
Eric Britton
-----Original Message----- From: Oliver Schoeller [mailto:schoeller@...] Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 5:14 PM To: wtpp-editors@... Subject: BritRail
Dear Editors, I work within a project-group called "Mobility" at the Social Sience Research Centre Berlin. Recently I was confronted with the argument of an increased passenger use in public transport (refered back to the SAR survey 2002), wich was brought as an example for an obviously successful deregulation of the public transport system in Great Britain. When I took part at the conference "Derailed" in Berlin I got another impression. In the moment I prepare myself for a presentation in the project-group in order to correct the picture on the privatisation process in GB. A german colleague gave me the hint that you help me out with informations about the background of the increased passenger figures. Therefore I would be gratefull and thank you very much in advance. Yours sincerely Oliver Schöller -- Oliver Schöller Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin Abteilung Organisation und Technikgenese Reichpietschufer 50 10785 Berlin
Tel. +49(0)3025491-146 Fax. +49(0)3025491-209
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I would be very sceptical about rosy reports of British transport
deregulation. There has been a huge increase in passengers numbers on
commuter trains but that is more to do with restrictions on road building
and shortage of affordable housing in south-east England.
If you asked most ordinary people whether deregulation had been a success,
I'm pretty sure they's say 'No Way!'.
Tony Vickers
The newly created SW Passenger Transport Users' Forum stared bus competition in the face recently on a fact finding mission to OFT. The attached are my notes to Stephen Joseph. This was not intended as presentatition of evidence of where it is going wrong but rather understanding the philosophy/dogma better behind the mess.
Also attached are Stephen's notes on reform of the industry arising from a number of regional TAR efforts to find a platform - a theme that might get somewhere at last. I think a very wide alliance might grow out of this.
Subject: [WorldTransport] Britainand public Transport deregulation
To the group,
I was happy to see the note from Eric about the possiblity of dedicating a whole issue of the WTPP journal to the overall impacts of the deregulation of Public Transport in Great Britain. I know that I've heard very mixed reports about this experiment, but here in the Middle East, the British experience seems to be regarded by bureaucrats as something that has achieved great success, and the Israeli Ministry Transport, for one, is very keen on following the British model.
I'm afraid that this may be the case in many developing countries, which have become entranced by the magic wand of the marketplace.
Elaine Fletcher
Jerusalem
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It’s very good indeed to see such a
range of ideas and positions coming out of the wtpp woodwork on this, and it is
beginning to look like we will have the stuff of a major special edition on the
topic. One small wrinkle that might be important will be to ensure that
while we may want to take Britain as our main straw person on this, that at the end of the day perhaps
no more than half the content should be aimed at your blessed plot, your earth,
your realm, your… It’s my guess that things become real interesting
when other country experiences and lessons are melded in, so that we can then stand
back and say with some authority and perspective what it is we may then have to
say.
It should also be fun (my position) if we
stand back and let one or two of the folks who think that ‘lightly
fettered market competition’ is the way to go also have their say.
Let’s give them an opportunity tell us about the successes and the right
way to do this.
One quick point though, when it comes to
buses, if I may (and rail to while I’m at it). I must confess that
I always get a little antsy when the city transportation discussion is phrased
in terms that suggest that the only choice is between the poles of a binary
universe, with good old (or bad old, depending on your position in all this)
cars at one end, and then standing there sullenly at the other what might possibly
from now on be known as GUT (Group Unrapid Transit), by which I mean stuff that
we expect second class citizens (no more honest term for it) to slog over and
then stand and wait (to be repeated at the other end of the slog). After
all we are already a big bite into the new century and there is a huge armory
of technologies and enterprise arrangements that we could be inventing and bringing
on line to provide truly first class non-private car transport. After
all, moving people and goods in and around cities is above all a question of
logistics. And logistics is something that the 21st century is
really very good at. So all we need to do is start to act our Age, and in
the face of our inventiveness a lot of these barriers and problems can be
broken down.
But that of course is an issue for
another day (for another Issue, actually). Now on to the topic that we
are beginning to define in these exchanges, and for which I hope that we can shortly
begin to scratch out a list of topics, authors, and perhaps ever a brave and
able Guest Editor to run the whole show.
Perhaps it will be a good moment now to
suggest that future correspondence of detail on this topic be directed to our editor
in chief, John Whitelegg at ecologic@...,
with if possible a copy to me at eric.britton@....
We can then keep the list apprised of progress at key intervals. Which
should prove very interesting indeed.
Eric Britton
(PS. If the above does not read quite
like proper English, it is because it has been translated directly from the original
French. Sorry.)
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Rail Privatisation led to an increase of 30% in passenger-km over 6 years. As to deaths - although there have been a spate of "train accidents" the deaths to rail passengers as a whole are now less per year than before privatisation largely due to the elimination of slam doors. Additionally over the 25 years prior to privatisation fares rose in real terms by 1% compound per year providing an increase for the period of 28% in real terms.
Why do people believe that a nationalised rail industry would perform any better. After all it is the Nationalised industry which pretended at privatisation that track maintenance would now be only £0.9 bn per year only to find it is actually £3 bn per year.
The only way to hold rail fares down is to subsidise from the tax payer but why should the tax payer do that when passenger rail uses 2 to 3 times the fuel of competing express buses and imposes casualty costs 3 times higher and when only 1.5% of all journeys go by rail?
If you would like copy of a paper with the title Railways Myth and Maths which sets all that out, and which is now becoming influential, please request details.
Meanwhile have we any but anecdotal evidence that bus services are (a) worse than they were or (b) worse than they would have been if they had not been deregulated?
Subject: [WorldTransport] Britainand public Transport deregulation
To the group,
I was happy to see the note from Eric about the possiblity of dedicating a whole issue of the WTPP journal to the overall impacts of the deregulation of Public Transport in Great Britain. I know that I've heard very mixed reports about this experiment, but here in the Middle East, the British experience seems to be regarded by bureaucrats as something that has achieved great success, and the Israeli Ministry Transport, for one, is very keen on following the British model.
I'm afraid that this may be the case in many developing countries, which have become entranced by the magic wand of the marketplace.
Elaine Fletcher
Jerusalem
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-----Original Message----- From: p.withrington [mailto:p.withrington@...] Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 11:57 AM To: kt.freeman Cc: Foe Transport; worldtransport@yahoogroups.com; ecoplan.ads@... Subject: [WorldTransport] Re: TRANSPORT: De-regulation
Rail Privatisation led to an increase of 30% in passenger-km over 6 years. As to deaths - although there have been a spate of "train accidents" the deaths to rail passengers as a whole are now less per year than before privatisation largely due to the elimination of slam doors. Additionally over the 25 years prior to privatisation fares rose in real terms by 1% compound per year providing an increase for the period of 28% in real terms.
Why do people believe that a nationalised rail industry would perform any better. After all it is the Nationalised industry which pretended at privatisation that track maintenance would now be only £0.9 bn per year only to find it is actually £3 bn per year.
The only way to hold rail fares down is to subsidise from the tax payer but why should the tax payer do that when passenger rail uses 2 to 3 times the fuel of competing express buses and imposes casualty costs 3 times higher and when only 1.5% of all journeys go by rail?
If you would like copy of a paper with the title Railways Myth and Maths which sets all that out, and which is now becoming influential, please request details.
Meanwhile have we any but anecdotal evidence that bus services are (a) worse than they were or (b) worse than they would have been if they had not been deregulated?
Subject: [WorldTransport] Britainand public Transport deregulation
To the group,
I was happy to see the note from Eric about the possiblity of dedicating a whole issue of the WTPP journal to the overall impacts of the deregulation of Public Transport in Great Britain. I know that I've heard very mixed reports about this experiment, but here in the Middle East, the British experience seems to be regarded by bureaucrats as something that has achieved great success, and the Israeli Ministry Transport, for one, is very keen on following the British model.
I'm afraid that this may be the case in many developing countries, which have become entranced by the magic wand of the marketplace.
Elaine Fletcher
Jerusalem
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Why should the passenger - or the general taxpayer - pay to maintain and
upgrade rail fixed assets? It is, after all, the owners of land adjoining
rail stations who benefit most from the presence of a working railway
network.
Passengers should pay for the cost of running trains through their fares.
Property owners should pay for the rest, through taxes based on property
values. This happens in many countries already, in various ways. Most
notable examples: Hong Kong and Brisbane.
Tony Vickers
This is to let you know that with one eye to sparing many of
our colleagues whose immediate level of interest in these discussions of
preparing this future special issue, we have set up a special discussion group which
you can now access as follows:
This will hopefully be a seamless and painless process.
We invite you to join the discussions simply by sending a
blank email to WorldTransport-Focus-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.
To get the ball rolling on this, I have taken the liberty of signing up
the handful of those of you who have expressed active interest, but of course
to get off this list all you need to do is send a blank email to
WorldTransport-Focus-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
This will allow us to hold down traffic here on our main
low-volume list, while at the same time providing those who are intersted in a
work space to exchange and develop their ideas.
With all good wishes,
Eric Britton
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Forwarded for your interest:
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Invitation to submit proposals for research and education projects in
the
area of "Future Urban Transport".
The Volvo Research and Educational Foundations, (VREF), is a generic
term
for two independent foundations, the Volvo Research Foundation and the
Volvo
Educational Foundation.
VREF promote research and education in selected areas by providing funds
for
research and educational projects. The current program is entitled
"Future
Urban Transport", with the subtitle "How to cope with the complexity of
urban transport development".
The program activities are/will be:
1. Funding of a relatively small number of larger scientific projects
with
the aim to support / create Centres of Excellence in the area "How to
cope
with the complexity of urban transport development". With this letter we
invite to apply for Planning grants for Centre of Excellence Proposals
(see
below).
2. Funding of a number of Smaller Projects for research/education in the
field mentioned above or for well-structured surveys of knowledge.
Applications for this type of projects can be made as described below.
3. Organisation of a series of high level Conferences (every 2nd or 3rd
year). The initiative to organise the conferences will be taken by VREF.
The
next FUT conference will take place September 21-24, 2003, Göteborg,
Sweden.
For updated information and participation, see:
http://www.future-urban-transport.com
More information about the Foundations, the FUT programme and how apply
for
funding, is found at the Foundations web-site:
http://www.volvoresearchfoundations.com
We look very much forward to your response to this program.
Sincerely,
Bengt Kasemo
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IN THIS ISSUE:
1) Summer Reading: New Resources to Transport your Mind to Action
2) Recommendations Needed for New Labour Market Subject Area
3) Making Connections Through Partnerships, Links & Events
4) Quick Reminders
1) SUMMER READING: NEW RESOURCES TO TRANPORT YOUR MIND TO ACTION
Summer has arrived! Detour has thirteen new acquisitions to inform and activate
you. The majority of these titles are "hot off the press" while some are
classics that every organizational and personal library must have! All of
Detour's latest additions can be found on our What's New page at
http://www.detourpublications.com/new.html.
Better Not Bigger: How to Take Control of Urban Growth and Improve your
Community
Eben Fodor, 1999
http://www.detourpublications.com/catalogue/urban.html#bnb
Ecocities: Building Cities in Balance With Nature
Richard Register, 2002
http://www.detourpublications.com/catalogue/urban.html#ebcbwn
European Transport Policy and Sustainable Mobility
Edited by J. Akerman, et al ; 2000
http://www.detourpublications.com/catalogue/urban.html#etpsm
New Departures: Rethinking Rail Passenger Policy in the 21st Century
Anthony Perl ; 2002
http://www.detourpublications.com/catalogue/track.html#ndrrpp
Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth
Mathis Wackernagel & William Rees, 1996
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Power: Journeys Across an Energy Nation
Gordon Laird ; 2002
http://www.detourpublications.com/catalogue/atmosphere.html#pjaen
Run Over: A Boy, his Mother and an Accident
Douglas Bell ; 2001
http://www.detourpublications.com/catalogue/cars2.html#ro
Shifting Gears: A Look at Alternative Transportation (Video)
Peggy Holroyd & Hugh Moloney ; 2001
http://www.detourpublications.com/catalogue/video.html#sg
Solving Sprawl: Models of Smart Growth in Communities Across America
F. Kaid Benfield, Jutka Terris, et al. ; 2001
http://www.detourpublications.com/catalogue/urban2.html#ss
The Culture of Nature:
North American Landscape from Disney to the Exxon Valdez
Alexander Wilson ; 1998 (2nd Edition)
http://www.detourpublications.com/catalogue/urban2.html#tcon
The No-Nonsense Guide to Climate Change
Dinyar Godrej (Ed.) ; 2001
http://www.detourpublications.com/catalogue/atmosphere.html#tnngtcc
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Robert A. Caro ; 1974
http://www.detourpublications.com/catalogue/urban3.html#tpb
The Sustainability Advantage: Seven Business Case Benefits of a Triple Bottom
Line
Bob Willard ; 2002
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If you turn to
http://ngroups.com/stockholm today, you will see that the World Sustainable
Cities Consortium follow-up to the Stockholm Partnerships June events is now up
and ready to go. It is our view that this is a potentially useful tool for
those working in the area of transport, mobility and logistics as an efficient ‘big
picture’ source, which can be useful to you both for the information it offers
and the networks that it is building up. As I hope you will see, the goal
is to work toward a truly useful, pragmatic and encouraging World Sustainable
Cities Innovations Knowledgebase (itself surely linked in many new ways to the
growing number of other information projects and sources springing up around the
world).
Once you have had a look around the site,
including checking out the projects and teams already on board and the way in
which all this works, we invite you to click the Sign In link and log in yourself
or your group (as Sustainability Advocates) or perhaps a specific ongoing project.
. For this you will need an Authorization, which has been set for the
Partner Projects as 748596.
The entire sign-in procedure should take you no more of ten minutes
to get started, Once you submit, you may wish to have a good look at your
entry, and if you wish to revise or extend at any point you can do so (for
example in order to add your Messages). You will need your login in and
password, but don’t worry, within minutes of making your initial entry
you will receive an email reminder of both.
We hope that you are going to find this
new group site interesting as well as useful. Since there is a lot there,
permit me to draw a couple of things to your attention:
The use of a Mosaic to show people and projects is,
we think, a powerful information tool, and you may want to experiment a
bit with making a couple of your own Sustainable Cities Mosaics based on
your own criteria. At present with not quite 70 intitial entries just in,
this is not as yet quite so interesting, but image how useful it will be
when there are hundreds of projects in so many categories, places and
stages of development.
A quick tour of the following might also provide of
some interest:
·The QuickUser Survey and its questions about and
positions on the forthcoming World Summit in Johannesburg
·The Challenge Essays and Projects in Peril rubrics while just
getting started are already perhaps worth a quick visit.
·The World CitiesLinks listing already identifies some three dozen leading
organizations working ion the cities agenda in a variety of ways. While
this is already of interest as a reference, it will be come even more so if you
give us your candidates to be added.
We know that you are very busy and that your time is scarce,
but we are confident that you are going to find this a useful experience and
that there are many interesting things we will be able to learn and do
together. The easy answer to being kept up to date efficiently is to sign up
for the Newsletter, which we promise will never be sent more that once a month,
and even then with real attention to putting before you only exception
information on resources, projects and events that will be of potential use to
you in your own challenges.
And as always we would like to invite you to share with us
your critical ideas and suggestions as to how we can make this better and more
useful for you. That after all is what it is all about.
With all good wishes,
Eric Britton
The World Sustainable Cities Consortium
At http://ngroups.com/stockholm
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This may not look like “transport as usual”, but
as about all of us in this bug and steadily growing virtual family at World
Transport Policy and Practice understand, the future of sustainable transport is precisely that it
is not “the usual”. In this context I would like to draw your
attention today to another, related activity under The Commons along with several
important things presently going on that may turn out to be of interest and use
to you, both individually and as a group. Let me keep this as brief as
possible and use numbers to facilitate your rapid reference.
2002 World
Technology Network prize: As you will see in the attached, and in good part as a
result of the fine collaborative work that we have done together with you
and other programs under The Commons over this last year, I was on Monday
awarded the 2002 World Technology Network prize for outstanding
achievement in the area of technology and the environment.
In at least one way the award is discomforting, since one of the other
nominees in the environment category (they were all impressive) was Gordon
Moore, and how can you compete with someone who has put $3.5 billion
dollars into a public interest foundation in a single year? But on
the other hand, it’s for sure that I need it more than he does, and
that may have entered into the judges’ calculations. And why do
I need it? Well, see below.
Use of this
forum to get support for ‘No Fault Sustainable Project
Machine” As you will see in the attached note for my acceptance
speech, I immediately jumped on this as an opportunity to advance our
common sustainability agenda. Specifically this took the form of my
announcing to the assembled high powered audience, my goal that we were
going to take to Johannesburg, in addition to any other messages or
suggestions that might come to mind, a unified proposal for a ‘No Fault
Sustainable Project Machine” capable of generating useful support
for hundreds, hopefully thousands of deserving local project teams around
the world… each year over the next decade.
I don’t think I need to explain two times to any of you what I have
in mind with this, and I hope that you will have a look at both the
attached and the more focused background materials that have been posted
to the World Sustainable Cities Consortium site at
http://ngroups.com/stockholm under the Johannesburg Proposal rubric.
(By the way, as you can perhaps see, we are having trouble with getting a
good name for our “No Fault Sustainable Project
Machine”. If you have any ideas, they will be welcome.)
Your Support
of this Project and Next Steps To get the ball rolling on this, and inlight of the fact that the doors of
the World Summit open exactly one month from this morning, we have just
placed on the World Sustainable Cities Consortium site a Survey in support
of the Johannesburg Proposal for this concept – and I would
appreciate it if you might take the very few minutes that are needed to
sign in with your vote, and perhaps a couple of lines explaining your
position on this. This entire process will take less than five
minutes of your time – and believe me, if we can show that there is
a solid base of support from all our Stockholm projects for this idea, we
should be able to find ways to make some noise in Johannesburg and even
get a hearing. Since it’s such a terrific powerful concept, I
am confident that once we have joined forces on it, some interesting
things will come of our collaboration.
And after Johannesburg? If we have been making a lot of reference to the
forthcoming World Summit in our exchanges with you over these last months,
it is not because we see this some kind of end-point but simply as one
more step in a much broader process. Who knows what is going to
happen there? With as many as seventy thousand individuals and
groups apparently going to show up, we can at the very least count on a
lot of noise. But when the doors close on Johannesburg, you
and I are just going to have to get up the next morning and go about the
challenges of our work in progress. It would be very nice to think that
the Summit might make a difference for
your projects and cities, but we would be foolish to count on it.
And whatever happens, we know this for sure: if there is going to be real
progress on the sustainability agenda in your city, it is going to be
because of what you and people like you are able to accomplish.
So be assured, that like you, our efforts will not just evaporate one
sunny day in early September. How does that lovely old Arab
expression go? “The dogs may bark but the caravan moves
on”. And our caravan of course is sustainable
development and social justice – in policy and in practice and right
here where we can do something about it.
I hope that this note finds you all well, so that you and we
can do our bit to become at least a notch or two more sustainable every day.
With all good wishes,
Eric Britton
PS. And if you have not as yet had time to go in and sign
into the World Sustainable Cities Consortium at http://ngroups.com/stockholm
and register your project or group, you will need that authorization number,
which 748596. If you already made an entry but cannot find your password,
just drop a line and we’ll get it right back to you. If I seem to
be insisting on this, it’s because I continue to believe that if we think
of ourselves as an authoritative international force for sustainability, we can
do far more together than ever we could individually. And there is so very much
to do.
PPS. And oh yes, you are cordially invited to share these materials
with your friends, colleagues, neighbors, and other lists.
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Volume 8, Number 2, 2002 of World Transport Policy & Practice, a
quarterly journal edited by Professor John Whitelegg, is now
available at http://wTransport.org
This edition of the journal is
dedicated to the memory of Louise Darracott Britton (1916-2000)
Contents:
* Editorial,
John Whitelegg
* Toward
a New World of Fair Mobility? Or is it true that you can't get there, until you
have been there?, Eric Britton
* Compromise
& constraint: Examining the nature of transport disability in the context
of local travel, Alison Porter
* Older
people & road safety: Dispelling the myths, Kit Mitchell
* 'Enabling'
transport for mobility-impaired people: the role of Shopmobility,
Robert Gant
* Concessionary
fares in Britain: what we need to know, Tom Rye, David Seaman, David McGuigan
& David Siddle
* The
Disability Discrimination Act & developments in accessible public transport
in the U.K., Bryan
Matthews
The Journal is free of charge as
Adobe Acrobat PDF files at http://wTransport.org.
This policy of free distribution is intended to help the Journal reach a wider
readership, encompassing advocates
and activists, as well as policy
makers, operators, suppliers, academics, and advisers.
If you have difficulty in
downloading, please contact [mailto:eric.britton@...].
It is recommended that you use MS Internet Explorer or Netscape 6.1 to access
the website.
INNOVATION BRIEFS Advisory
September/October 2002
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Abstracts of the latest issue of Innovation Briefs are now
available on our website at:
http://www.innobriefs.com/abstracts/2002/sep02.html
+ Financing Future Transportation Needs
Part II: The Next Six Years
+ Financing Future Transportation Needs
Part III: Long Term Alternatives - New Funding Concepts
+ Toll Truckways:
Toward a Model 21st Century Freight Highway System
+ The Route to Reauthorization
Commentary by Brad Mallory, President of AASHTO
+ Automobile Fuel Efficiency: A Modest Proposal
Commentary by James A. Dunn, Jr.
+ News from Abroad
- London's Congestion Charging System
- China's Rush to Motorize
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This chapter, one of the largest in the Encyclopedia, describes how to
create a comprehensive framework for planning and evaluating
transportation. It identifies omissions and biases in conventional
planning that tend to undervalue TDM.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
NEW REPORTS
===========
The following new document is posted at the VTPI website.
"Economic Value of Walkability"
(http://www.vtpi.org/walkability.pdf)
This paper uses standard economic evaluation methods to investigate the
value of walking (the activity) and walkability (the quality of walking
conditions, including safety, comfort and convenience). Walking and
walkability provide a variety of benefits, including community
livability, accessibility (particularly for people who are transportation
disadvantaged), cost savings, public health, reduced external costs, more
efficient land use, economic development, and support for equity
objectives. Current transportation planning practices tend to undercount
and undervalue walking. More comprehensive analysis techniques, described
in this paper, are likely to justify increased investment and support for
walking and other nonmotorized modes of travel. Most conclusions also
apply to cycling.
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BEEN THERE - DONE THAT
======================
VTPI Executive Director Todd Litman participated in several recent
conferences and workshops. Below are highlights.
TNO The Netherlands
---------------------
Presentations to various government and business officials concerning the
feasibility of implementing Pay-As-You-Drive vehicle insurance and other
transport market reforms in the Netherlands, sponsored by the Institute
for Traffic and Transport, Logistics and Spatial Development, TNO Inro
(http://www.inro.tno.nl),
Delft, The Netherlands, July 1-3.
WCTR Conference
---------------
Presented "The Online TDM Encyclopedia: A Gateway to Innovative
Solutions to Transportation Problems," at the World Conference on
Transport Research (WCTR) First Annual Conference, Leeds, UK, July 8-9.
The WCTR is a major organization for transportation researchers,
comparable to the Transportation Research Board, with a more
international perspective. For information visit
http://www.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/let/wctrs/wctr.htm.
IPPR, London
------------
"Environmentally and Socially Progressive Insurance Policy: Can
Distance-Based Charging Deliver?" an overview of Pay-As-You-Drive
automobile insurance, presented at a workshop of transport, insurance and
environmental experts, sponsored by the British Institute for Public
Policy Research
(http://www.ippr.org),
London, July 11.
Rogue Valley, Oregon
--------------------
Presented information on transportation planning and market reforms to
planning and community organizations in the fast-developing Rogue Valley,
in southern Oregon. This was an opportunity to explore rural community
transportation management issues (see the "Rural Transportation
Management" chapter of our Online TDM Encyclopedia, described
above).
(A special thank you to all of the generous people who helped organize
and sponsor these trips.)
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UPCOMING EVENTS
===============
Economic Value of Walking Workshop
----------------------------------
VTPI Director Todd Litman is organizing a TRB workshop on the economic
value of walking, to be held Sunday, January 12, in Washington DC, as
part of the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting. It will cover a
wide range of issues, including the value of pedestrian facilities
(sidewalks and paths), pedestrian-friendly streets, public health
benefits, consumer choice, financial savings, and other categories of
impacts (see "Economic Value of Walkability" paper described
above). Several leading experts on nonmotorized transport planning and
evaluation are planning to speak. Please contact VTPI if you have related
research that you might be able to share at this event. For registration
information contact the Transportation Research Board at
http://www.trb.org
(specific information should be available in October or November).
Walk21 Conference 2003 - Call for Papers
----------------------------------------
Planning is now underway for "Walk21 IV: Health, Equity and Environment," the Fourth International Conference on Walking in the 21st Century. The conference will be held in Portland, Oregon, USA, May 1-3, 2003.
Walk21 IV will bring together professionals and activists in public health, transportation, and community planning and design from around the world. Delegates will explore how walking is integrated into our infrastructures, our institutions, and our daily lives. The three themes of Health, Equity and Environment, will be woven together throughout the conference.
Abstracts for papers and presentations are now being solicited. The deadline for submitting abstracts is Monday, September 16, 2002. For more information, or for abstract submission guidelines, please visit the conference website at http://www.walk21.com, or e-mail to info@....
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Please let us know if you have comments or questions about any information in this newsletter, or if you would like to be removed from our mailing list. And please pass this newsletter on to others who may find it useful.
Sincerely,
Todd Litman, Director
Victoria Transport Policy Institute
"Efficiency - Equity - Clarity"
1250 Rudlin Street
Victoria, BC, V8V 3R7, Canada
Phone & Fax: 250-360-1560
Email: litman@...
Website: http://www.vtpi.org
As I last recall, the whole public transport privatization issue was tentatively scheduled to be the subject of a special edition of WTPP. So my apologies if this inquiry is a bit premature.
However, at the moment, I am urgently looking for just one article on the internet or via e-mail that might summarize succintly some of the key problems with rail privatization that have arisen in Britain or Europe.
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VTPI NEWS
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Victoria Transport Policy Institute
"Efficiency - Equity - Clarity"
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Autumn 2002 Vol. 5, No. 4
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The Victoria Transport Policy Institute is an independent research
organization dedicated to developing innovative solutions to transportation
problems. The VTPI website (http://www.vtpi.org) has many resources
addressing a wide range of transport planning and policy issues. VTPI also
provides consulting services.
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NOTE: PLEASE USE OUR CURRENT EMAIL ADDRESSES (litman@... or
info@...), RATHER THAN litman@..., WHICH WILL BE
DISCONTINUED IN THE FUTURE.
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TRANSPORTATION COST AND BENEFIT ANALYSIS GUIDEBOOK
==================================================
Available free at http://www.vtpi.org/tca.
VTPI has posted an Online edition of "Transportation Cost And Benefit
Analysis: Techniques, Estimates And Implications." This 350-page guidebook
provides comprehensive information on transportation costs and benefits for
use in planning and policy analysis. It is one of the most detailed studies
of transportation economic, social and environmental impacts, and the only
one that is regularly expanded and updated as new information becomes
available. It provides estimates of twenty costs for eleven transport modes
under three travel conditions in a format designed to easily compare
transportation alternatives. It also indicates the distribution of costs.
For example, it provides estimates of the internal and external costs of
automobile use, and the potential cost savings from a shift to alternative
modes under rural, urban-off-peak and urban-peak conditions.
The Guidebook reviews previous transportation impact studies, discusses
economic evaluation practices, describes how nonmarket impacts are
estimated, discusses major findings, evaluates criticisms of transportation
costing, and explores implications and applications of this research. It
provides extensive reference information, mostly available through the
Internet, allowing users to obtain additional information when needed.
VTPI ONLINE TDM ENCYCLOPEDIA EXPANSION AND UPDATE
===================================================
The VTPI "Online TDM Encyclopedia" is the most comprehensive resource
available anywhere to help identify and evaluate innovative solutions to
transportation problems. It has dozens of chapters with hundreds of pages
of text and thousands of Internet links, providing convenient information
for Transportation Demand Management (TDM) planning, evaluation and
implementation. It is available free at http://www.vtpi.org/tdm. We have
been busy expanding and updating the Encyclopedia. Below are highlights.
NEW & UPDATED CHAPTERS
----------------------
* Public Transit Encouragement (http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm112.htm) - This
chapter describes various ways to encourage public transit ridership.
* TDM in Developing Regions (http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm75.htm) - This
chapter discusses the implementation of TDM in developing (i.e.,
lower-income) areas. It describes many resources available to help
implement TDM in developing countries, and additional case studies.
* Smart Growth Policy Reforms (http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm95.htm) - This
chapter describes various planning, regulatory and fiscal reforms that help
create more efficient land use. These reforms correct current practices
that encourage lower-density, urban periphery, automobile-dependent
development patterns.
* Pay-As-You-Drive Vehicle Insurance (http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm79.htm) -
This chapter describe pricing reforms that result in more equitable and
efficient premiums, and reduce annual vehicle mileage by about 10% among
participating motorists.
* Transportation Elasticities (http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm11.htm) - This
chapter investigates the influence that prices have on travel behavior. It
summarizes research on various types of transportation elasticities and
describes how to use this information to predict the travel impacts of
specific TDM strategies.
* TDM Evaluation (http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm14.htm) - This chapter
describes transportation evaluation methods and how they can be used to
evaluate the value of TDM programs. It now provides more detailed
information and more extensive references.
* Evaluating Nonmotorized Transport (http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm63.htm) -
This chapter has much new information on techniques for measuring walking
and cycling conditions and prioritizing improvements.
* Fuel Taxes (http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm17.htm) - This chapter provides
more information and case studies of fuel tax changes, and the (Fuel Trends
Spreadsheet (http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/fueltrends.xls) includes U.S. fuel
consumption and price data over four decades.
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NEW REPORTS
===========
The following new documents are posted at the VTPI website.
Todd Litman, "Transit Price Elasticities and Cross-Elasticities: For Urban
Transportation Demand Modeling," Victoria Transport Policy Institute
(www.vtpi.org), 2003.
This paper summarizes price elasticities and cross elasticities for use in
public transit planning and modeling. It describes elasticities and how
they are used, summarizes previous research on transit elasticities.
Commonly used transit elasticity values are largely based on studies of
short- and medium-run impacts, performed decades ago when real incomes were
lower and a larger portion of the population was transit dependent. As a
result, they tend to be lower than appropriate to model long-run impacts.
Analysis based on these elasticity values tend to understate the potential
of transit fare reductions and service improvements to reduce problems such
as traffic congestion and vehicle pollution. They also understate the
long-term negative impacts that fare increases and service cuts can have on
transit ridership, transit revenue, traffic congestion and pollution emissions.
Todd Litman, "Efficient Vehicles Versus Efficient Transportation,"
(http://www.vtpi.org/cafe.pdf).
This paper uses a comprehensive framework to evaluate four potential
transportation energy conservation and emission reduction strategies. The
analysis takes into account how each strategy affects total vehicle
mileage, and therefore mileage-related impacts such as congestion, facility
costs, crashes and consumer mobility benefits. Even small mileage changes
can have a large impact on the net value of an energy conservation
strategy. Fuel efficiency standards and some alternative fuels reduce
per-mile vehicle operating costs and so increase mileage (a rebound
effect). Mobility management strategies reduce mileage and so can provide
additional benefits. This study indicates that conventional evaluation
practices tend to overvalue strategies that increase vehicle fuel
efficiency and undervalue mobility management strategies by ignoring
impacts resulting from changes in vehicle mileage.
Todd Litman, "If Health Matters - Integrating Public Health Objectives in
Transportation Decision-Making," (http://www.vtpi.org/health.pdf).
This article investigates how transportation policy and planning practices
must change if public health objectives is to be given greater priority.
Conventional transportation decision-making focuses on some health impacts
but overlook others. It gives considerable attention to per-mile vehicle
crash risk and pollution emissions, but overlooks the safety and pollution
problems that result from increased vehicle mileage, and the negative
health impacts resulting from less physically active transportation. As a
result, transportation agencies tend to undervalue strategies that reduce
total vehicle travel and create a more diverse transportation system.
Mobility management impacts on traffic safety, pollution emissions and
physical activity are evaluated. This analysis suggests that giving greater
priority to health objectives in transportation decision-making would
reduce roadway and parking facility capacity expansion and increase support
for mobility management strategies, particularly those that increase
walking and cycling.
The following document was produced by VTPI and posted at the website of
Island Transformations, an independent community development organization
that commissioned the study.
Todd Litman, "Light Rail Economic Opportunity Study: Evaluating Light Rail
Transit As A Solution To Capital Regional Transportation Problems", Island
Transformation (http://www.islandtransformations.org), November 2002.
This study investigates the value a Light Rail Transit (LRT) system could
provide in the Victoria, BC region, and compares this with other
transportation improvement options. It takes into account a wide range of
economic, social and environmental impacts.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
===============
Transportation Research Board
-----------------------------
The following events are part of the Transportation Research Board Annual
Meeting, held in Washington DC, January 12-17, 2003. For information see
http://www.trb.org.
Pedestrian Design Workshop - Economic Valuation of Walking
----------------------------------------------------------
The Human Factors Workshop on pedestrian facility design (workshop 103), to
be held January 12 will include the following presentations. (Note, this
workshop involves an additional $150 fee.)
* Greg Lindsey, Director, Center for Urban Policy and the
Environment (www.urbancenter.iupui.edu/container.htm) - will discuss
techniques for quantifying transportation and land use decision impacts on
urban quality of life, and particularly the value of public trails.
* Rune Elvik, Economist, Norwegian Centre for Transport Research
(http://www.toi.no/English/default.asp) - will discuss biases in standard
cost-benefit analyses of transport projects that tend to undervalue walking
and cycling investments.
* Robin Blair, Planner, Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority
(http://www.mta.net) - shares experience developing walking districts, how
changing perceptions of space and distance in the urban environment can
encourage walking, and how this affects property values.
* Todd Litman, Director, Victoria Transport Policy Institute
(www.vtpi.org) will discuss the Economic Value of Walkability and Walking
(see paper described above).
* Michael Ronkin, Bicycle and Pedestrian Program, Oregon Dept. of
Transportation (http://www.odot.state.or.us) will discuss how the design
of street crossings and intersections affects pedestrian access and safety,
and how urban design can entice pedestrian movement.
Other TRB Sessions
------------------
VTPI Director Todd Litman will give the following presentations at TRB.
Session 222, Monday, 8:00 AM9:45 AM
Sustainable Transportation Symposium, Part 1: Best Local Practice
"Measuring Sustainability at the Project Level"
This presentation will discuss practical indicators that can be used to
evaluate progress toward sustainable transport.
Session 452, Tuesday, 10:15 AM12:00 PM
Marketing: How Soft Policies Can Solve Hard Transportation Problems
"Mobility Management Marketing"
This presentation will discuss the increasingly important role of marketing
(determining what consumers want, delivering what they want, and letting
them know what is available) for transportation problem solving.
Session 728, Wednesday, 7:30 PM9:15 PM
Walkability Issues of Adult and Child Pedestrians
"Economic Value of Walkability"
This presentation will discuss the paper "Economic Value of Walkability"
(described above) and its implications for transportation planning.
Walk21 Conference 2003 Targeted Call for Papers
----------------------------------------
Planning is underway for Walk21 IV: Health, Equity & Environment, the 4th
International Conference on Walking in the 21st Century, to be held in
Portland, Oregon, USA, 1-3 May 2003. The conference will focus on
rethinking the context and perfecting the tools for a walkable world. It is
expected to attract advocates, practitioners, academics and policy makers
from around the world.Earlybird registration will be available beginning 2
January 2003.
The call for papers, which closed in September, netted well over a hundred
submissions, a record for the Walk21 conferences to date. While the quality
of the accepted abstracts is excellent, the Program Committee did identify
some gaps in subject area, and has issued a limited call for additional
abstracts on four specific topics:
* Pedestrian Travel and Alcohol
* Pedestrian Travel and Personal Security
* Pedestrian Travel and Training for Practitioners
* Pedestrian Travel and Mobility Management
The deadline for submissions for this limited call is Friday, December 13,
2002. For more information about the limited call for abstracts or the
conference as a whole, visit http://www.walk21.com.
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USEFUL RESOURCES
================
Transport Geography on the Web (http://www.people.hofstra.edu/geotrans)
provides access to transport geography information, including academic
articles, maps, figures, and datatsets. VTPI will be contributing material
to this excellent website.
Sustainable Transportation Live (www.movingtheeconomy.ca), by Moving the
Economy, is a website that provides information on how to apply sustainable
transportation principles to help reduce traffic congestion, facility
costs, pollution and other transport problems.
CIVITAS (www.civitas-initiative.org) is a European Commission supported
initiative to help introduce sustainable urban transport strategies.
Smart Growth America (www.smartgrowthamerica.org) is a nationwide coalition
promoting new development patterns that protect farmland and open space,
revitalize neighborhoods, keeps housing affordable, and provides more
transportation choices.
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Please let us know if you have comments or questions about any information
in this newsletter, or if you would like to be removed from our mailing
list. And please pass this newsletter on to others who may find it useful.
Sincerely,
Todd Litman, Director
Victoria Transport Policy Institute
"Efficiency - Equity - Clarity"
1250 Rudlin Street
Victoria, BC, V8V 3R7, Canada
Phone & Fax: 250-360-1560
Email: litman@...
Website: http://www.vtpi.org
From deepest darkest Geneva a few quick thoughts on carsharing in Third
World cities:
1. In many cities of the developing world, there are indeed groups and
places where carsharing should prove a viable option - subject to the usual
(harsh) constraints of making it work in the first place. The target group
for take off is (a) obviously among the top couple of percent of the income
groups, and (b, and perhaps less obviously) what looks like a specific
sub-set of the yuppie class - call them post-modern or post-auto. To the
extent that a world wide culture is growing up (which I think is the case)
in which increasing numbers of mainly educated and generally well to do
people are beginning to get the message that car ownership is not some kind
of Nirvana but rather, more often than not, a real drag.
2. My guess is that we will see this developing in a next stage in Southern
Europe, parts of Latin America, and places like Singapore - and who knows,
China and India in their fast growing "Europe surrounded by Africa"
enclaves. So to help make this happen, all of us need to keep talking here
and more important still keep hard at it to make sure that we have
replicatable models to offer. Think of it as: leading by example.
3. Finally and after some years of hands on experience with these issues in
cities as well as in the halls of theory, it strikes me that the great step
forward will occur all over the place only when those of us who care about
this sort of thing are able to demonstrate viability within a much broader
pattern or paradigm of "post automotive age transportation" thinking and
practice. In this transportation configuration there are/we need to have
many different elements doing many different things - many of which new,
unfamiliar and even for most, quite unrecognizable. You can get a first
taste for this if you go to Bogotá and see what Enrique Peñalosa, his team
and all those who thy have engaged to follow, pursue and deepen their
pioneering work. Likewise a visit to Jaime Lerner's Curitiba to see an
earlier variant of some of these concepts, or, while you are at it, a visit
to Zurich or any of several dozen other European cities that have started,
at least, to get the message.
4. So when a great moment in the transport story of any city suddenly crops
up - for example, some high authorities decision to do something drastic
about a ring road, pushing human transport to the side, building a super new
urban motorway, monorail, whatever - it is there where those of us who care
must be standing and waiting with our alternative proposals all well thought
out and ready to put into high profile. Two bits of all this must be
thought out and concatenated in great detail:
a. At the front end, the full gamut of mobility tools and arrangements,
encompassing such things as carsharing, lift sharing, new and innovative bus
systems, TSM (transport systems management) active (non-motorized)
transport, "planning transport out" activity nodes, strategic parking
policies, E&H transport, IT and other substitutes or capacitor, for physical
movement, kinds of taxis, vans and delivery services that you have never
dreamed of, and the list goes on. And even includes road pricing and other
forms of restricted access, of which there are those slowly growing models
of how to do it, well if not always quite perfectly, at least better than
the option (of doing nothing at all). And please do not forget the
wonderful world of new tools in terms of micro-modeling and simulation which
give us (finally) the ability to model our alternative solutions and to
modify and fine tune them before disaster strikes.
b. And then behind this all and in support of it an overarching programming
framework, consciousness, and support system. For this last, we had a
terrific example in Bogotá a couple of years back when a large international
support group got behind the proposal of the Peñalosa administration to (a)
organize and deploy a real car free day and (b) then to continue with a long
term follow-up program worthy of the name.
Without this essential broader context, the chances of making carsharing
work in any truly useful scale way in most of the world's cities is pretty
slim.
This makes it tough for our carshare operator friends and aspirants, but
whoever said that life was supposed to be easy. Anyway, most of the people
whom I have met in the carsharing 'industry' over the last few decades were
plenty smart enough to comprehend this, but to judge by the results they
never quite found the time to get around to doing enough about it. With the
exception of you, of course.
;-)
Eric Britton
The Commons ___ technology, economy, society ___
Le Frene, 8/10 rue Joseph Bara, 75006 Paris, France
Email: Eric.Britton@... Mobile: +336 8096 7879
Tel. +331 4326 1323 Fax/Voicemail hotline: +331 5301 2896
URL www.ecoplan.org IP Videoconference: 81.65.50.49
PS. As some of you know I am currently working in Geneva in an attempt to
save a couple of small technology companies here (real technology, not dot
com), which gives me a great opportunity to observe the traffic system in
one of the world's wealthiest and most intellectually endowed cities. May I
give you my Executive Summary? Pathetic. Unbelievably bad. Crude. Brain
dead. What was it that O Wilde was supposed to have said about fox hunting:
"the unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible"? We need a slogan along those
lines to describe the situation that persists here in our fair Geneva. One
that is perhaps not unique in the world. May I ask for suggestions?
Dear Eric,
I have not been in Geneva (yet) however I been in several cities of the
developing (?) world, moreover, i live in one of them.
Just form the top of my head, the issue of carsharing as a good business
oportunity seems to be more related to the lack of a good administrative
context (registration system, good and cheap insurance availability, etc)
that limits the chance of a success enterprise, along with the hidden and
open subsidies for private ownership, more than picking up the top rich
sector of the society to introduce the concept of CS.
Of course several cities are doing good adminstrative progress and
internalizaing costs despite the inmense informality in transport sector so
this situation can change in the upcoming years.
Another point, to avoid long stories, which seems to be relevant is about
thinking that the strategy towards CS should point the richest part of the
society because due the conditions mentioned this is the people who does not
really need a car sharing option (ok, for ideological reasons, as you
mentioned, few of them could), instead I would go for the middle class
(normally more illustrated than the rich ones) who would like to reflect
their status in certain moments of the month, but intelligent enough to not
carry all the weight that the car property implies.
Hope we can follow the discussion and have good holidays,
Carlos Cordero Velasquez
----- Original Message -----
From: Eric Britton <eric.britton@...>
To: WTP&P List <WorldTransport@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 10:44 AM
Subject: [WorldTransport] FW: The Culture of Carsharing (3rd world thoughts)
> From deepest darkest Geneva a few quick thoughts on carsharing in Third
> World cities:
>
> 1. In many cities of the developing world, there are indeed groups and
> places where carsharing should prove a viable option - subject to the
usual
> (harsh) constraints of making it work in the first place. The target
group
> for take off is (a) obviously among the top couple of percent of the
income
> groups, and (b, and perhaps less obviously) what looks like a specific
> sub-set of the yuppie class - call them post-modern or post-auto. To the
> extent that a world wide culture is growing up (which I think is the case)
> in which increasing numbers of mainly educated and generally well to do
> people are beginning to get the message that car ownership is not some
kind
> of Nirvana but rather, more often than not, a real drag.
>
> 2. My guess is that we will see this developing in a next stage in
Southern
> Europe, parts of Latin America, and places like Singapore - and who knows,
> China and India in their fast growing "Europe surrounded by Africa"
> enclaves. So to help make this happen, all of us need to keep talking
here
> and more important still keep hard at it to make sure that we have
> replicatable models to offer. Think of it as: leading by example.
>
> 3. Finally and after some years of hands on experience with these issues
in
> cities as well as in the halls of theory, it strikes me that the great
step
> forward will occur all over the place only when those of us who care about
> this sort of thing are able to demonstrate viability within a much broader
> pattern or paradigm of "post automotive age transportation" thinking and
> practice. In this transportation configuration there are/we need to have
> many different elements doing many different things - many of which new,
> unfamiliar and even for most, quite unrecognizable. You can get a first
> taste for this if you go to Bogotá and see what Enrique Peñalosa, his team
> and all those who thy have engaged to follow, pursue and deepen their
> pioneering work. Likewise a visit to Jaime Lerner's Curitiba to see an
> earlier variant of some of these concepts, or, while you are at it, a
visit
> to Zurich or any of several dozen other European cities that have started,
> at least, to get the message.
>
> 4. So when a great moment in the transport story of any city suddenly
crops
> up - for example, some high authorities decision to do something drastic
> about a ring road, pushing human transport to the side, building a super
new
> urban motorway, monorail, whatever - it is there where those of us who
care
> must be standing and waiting with our alternative proposals all well
thought
> out and ready to put into high profile. Two bits of all this must be
> thought out and concatenated in great detail:
> a. At the front end, the full gamut of mobility tools and arrangements,
> encompassing such things as carsharing, lift sharing, new and innovative
bus
> systems, TSM (transport systems management) active (non-motorized)
> transport, "planning transport out" activity nodes, strategic parking
> policies, E&H transport, IT and other substitutes or capacitor, for
physical
> movement, kinds of taxis, vans and delivery services that you have never
> dreamed of, and the list goes on. And even includes road pricing and
other
> forms of restricted access, of which there are those slowly growing models
> of how to do it, well if not always quite perfectly, at least better than
> the option (of doing nothing at all). And please do not forget the
> wonderful world of new tools in terms of micro-modeling and simulation
which
> give us (finally) the ability to model our alternative solutions and to
> modify and fine tune them before disaster strikes.
> b. And then behind this all and in support of it an overarching
programming
> framework, consciousness, and support system. For this last, we had a
> terrific example in Bogotá a couple of years back when a large
international
> support group got behind the proposal of the Peñalosa administration to
(a)
> organize and deploy a real car free day and (b) then to continue with a
long
>
>
> term follow-up program worthy of the name.
>
> Without this essential broader context, the chances of making carsharing
> work in any truly useful scale way in most of the world's cities is pretty
> slim.
>
> This makes it tough for our carshare operator friends and aspirants, but
> whoever said that life was supposed to be easy. Anyway, most of the
people
> whom I have met in the carsharing 'industry' over the last few decades
were
> plenty smart enough to comprehend this, but to judge by the results they
> never quite found the time to get around to doing enough about it. With
the
> exception of you, of course.
>
> ;-)
>
> Eric Britton
>
> The Commons ___ technology, economy, society ___
> Le Frene, 8/10 rue Joseph Bara, 75006 Paris, France
> Email: Eric.Britton@... Mobile: +336 8096 7879
> Tel. +331 4326 1323 Fax/Voicemail hotline: +331 5301 2896
> URL www.ecoplan.org IP Videoconference: 81.65.50.49
>
> PS. As some of you know I am currently working in Geneva in an attempt
to
> save a couple of small technology companies here (real technology, not dot
> com), which gives me a great opportunity to observe the traffic system in
> one of the world's wealthiest and most intellectually endowed cities. May
I
> give you my Executive Summary? Pathetic. Unbelievably bad. Crude. Brain
> dead. What was it that O Wilde was supposed to have said about fox
hunting:
> "the unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible"? We need a slogan along
those
> lines to describe the situation that persists here in our fair Geneva.
One
> that is perhaps not unique in the world. May I ask for suggestions?
>
>
>
>
>
>
> The Journal of World Transport Policy and Practice
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They will also be able to assit you and send you links to relevant papers.
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Rosemarie Speidel Program Director Cycling Promotion Fund Tel./Fax 03 97553557 www.cyclingpromotion.com The bicycle industry working to make Australia more bicycle friendly
-----Original Message----- From: Elaine Fletcher [mailto:Fletch@...] Sent: Tuesday, 29 October 2002 11:12 PM To: WorldTransport@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [WorldTransport] World Sustainable Cities - next steps
As I last recall, the whole public transport privatization issue was tentatively scheduled to be the subject of a special edition of WTPP. So my apologies if this inquiry is a bit premature.
However, at the moment, I am urgently looking for just one article on the internet or via e-mail that might summarize succintly some of the key problems with rail privatization that have arisen in Britain or Europe.
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks,
Elaine Fletcher
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