[sustran] Re: alt-transp pedicabs as more than tourism?

[Obwon]

Hi Kristin:

      It took me quite sometime to get around to doing the searches,
it's far from exhaustive but here's some links you might find useful.

1.  Heres and interesting vehicle and a small co.  
    Often smaller co's will give better service in fabricating
    custom products. So they shouldn't be ignored

http://www.industrivel.com/industrivel/trikea.htm

2.   Wisconsin bikes.  Lots of istea stuff including Amtrak trade off of
bicycle cars for smoking cars going back on a promise they made.  Will
help in terms of considering problems to be faced as well as some other
interesting stuff.

http://danenet.wicip.org/bcp/bfw/wb3_2.html#s10_1

3. Here's two pedicab links
  http://www.halcyon.com/fkroger/bike/workbike.htm#Pizza
  http://www.cruzio.com/~hub/ppower/index.html
 
4. Here are my pedicab images page
   http://www.dynalogic.com/pizzapower/index.html

5. Some mfg links page 
   http://www.recumbents.com/manufact.htm

6. Of course there's the Rhodescar page, prices have come down
   quite a bit.

   http://www.rhoadescar.com/14952.htm

7. Rideable Bicycle Replicas is a mfg of a pedicab with trailer that
   can carry four passengers.  They also do custom work.

   http://www.hiwheel.com/hiwheel.htm

8. TechLand is a must see site
  
   http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~rossta/

9. This is a link to SF discussions of proposed laws where bicycles
   will now be treated as a real part of the transportation mix rather
   than some strange toy.  It's useful to examine some of the expected
   objections to be encountered.  I didn't read the whole site yet, but
   it seems that the matter of bikers permission to 'proceed when clear'
   at traffic lights rather than wait the full cycle, is missing.
   Bikers need such lattitude, especially on longer trips where
   more lights will be encountered, such as in urban areas.  Because
   their speed is low, and accelerations are difficult, when cross 
   streets are clear bikers should have the right to proceed when safe.
   This also helps them keep their average speed up, and saves time/ 
   shortens their trip.  

   There's nine or ten long pages here, you should save them for reading
   later.

   http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~rossta/

10.  Bill Darbys Special Purpose Vehicle site a  co dedicated to
custom      human power tech. 
     
     http://dewline.com/~spv/

11.  Main Street Pedicab page, and mfg.
    
     http://www.pedicab.com/index1.html


  This is the result of a not so exhaustive search, since lots of
information is often buried deeper within a site than one chooses to go
when the going gets slow :-(  But this should be a good enough start.  I
didn't follow all the links out to the end so when you get a page you
might want to examine the rest of the site for yourself.

  Hope this is some help
  Obwon