[sustran] Coherent transport systems

[Gerry Hawkes]

Dear Tore & Sustran Colleagues,

In response to your request for information you might like to go
to http://www.biketrack.com/visions.htm for a vision of the
transportation system we are working toward.

We have been testing and refining the travel surface for the past
four years and are now installing it over existing bicycle,
pedestrian and wheelchair surfaces (wood & concrete) nationwide.
By this June we will have a 2' x 4' structural travel surface
panel that can be used for low speed bicycle and pedestrian
paths. Once we have demonstrated the merits of this structural
panel surface we hope to attract the investment to proceed
quickly toward our vision of a light vehicle transportation
system similar to what we describe at
http://www.biketrack.com/visions.htm.

We have not yet prepared information for dissemination other than
what is on the web site.  In May we will be testing the first
structural surfacing panels. In June we should have photographs
and specifications up at www.biketrack.com .

I hope this has been of some help.

Gerry Hawkes
Bike Track, Inc.
RR 1, Box 247
Woodstock, VT 05091
USA

ghawkes at sover.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Tore Berge, ANT <ant at c2i.net>
To: sustran-discuss at jca.ax.apc.org
<sustran-discuss at jca.ax.apc.org>
Date: Friday, April 03, 1998 6:42 AM
Subject: [sustran] Coherent transport systems


>Dear Colleagues,
>
>Even if I have followed the discussion with much interest since
May 97,
>this is my first mail to the SUSTRAN DISCUSS list. I am the
general
>director of  ANT, the Norwegian Federation for Local Environment
and
>Transport.
>
>ANT, the Norwegian Federation for Local Environment and
Transport, has got
>financial support to do a project on: How to integrate land use
and
>transport planning and develop coherent local transport systems.
>
>The intention is to make an international «inventory» of
relevant measures
>and planning procedures. Besides describing the different
measures, the
>project will focus on the actual results of implemented measures
and
>procedures. If possible the project will describe measures
directed towards
>the transportation of persons and measures directed towards the
>transportortation of goods.
>
>ANT has already described some of these measures in the report
«Greening
>Urban Transport - Land use planning», published by the European
Federation
>for Transport and Environment (T&E) in 1994 - like the public
transport
>index in Hammersmith and Fulham in London and the Dutch ABC
system.
>
>The idea is to develop a list with further examples, also from
countries
>outside Europe, like the ISTEA and the Metropolitan Planning
Organizations
>in USA, and to get more information on the actual outcomes of
the
>implemented measures.
>
>I would be very interested in getting suggestions to relevant
measures that
>could be included in this list, and names and addresses to
persons and
>institutions to contact for further information.
>
>Best regards
>Tore Berge
>
>ANT
>The Norwegian Federation for Local Environment and Transport
>PB 2035 Grünerlokka
>N-0505 OSLO
>Tel +47 22 71 56 60
>Fax +47 22 38 23 03
>E-mail ant at c2i.net
>
>