[sustran] Fw: [sustran] TRB NMT Research Circular

[V. S. Pendakur]

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From: V. S. Pendakur <pendakur at intechange.ubc.ca>
To: sustran-discuss at jca.ax.apc.org <sustran-discuss at jca.ax.apc.org>
Date: December 5, 1998 5:35 PM
Subject: Re: [sustran] TRB NMT Research Circular


>Good start.  How about the plannet, rural transport net, the trb committee
> Maggie has the list and so does Dharm).  Thanks.
>
>Cheers from Inner Mongolia.  Setty.
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>From: P. Christopher Zegras <czegras at MIT.EDU>
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>Date: December 4, 1998 10:35 AM
>Subject: [sustran] TRB NMT Research Circular
>
>
>>
>>Dear Friends,
>>
>>As many of you know, the Transportation Research Board (TRB) has a
>Committee
>>on Non-motorized Transportation and Related Issues.  The Committee is
>>relatively new and his chaired by Dr. V. Setty Pendakur.
>>
>>To guide future research efforts of this committee, we have drafted the
>>following Research Guide.  We encourage and welcome any comments,
>criticisms
>>and recommendations.
>>
>>(For more information on TRB, visit their web site: www.nas.edu/trb/)
>>
>>I look forward to hearing from you and/or seeing you at TRB in January.
>>
>>Best holiday wishes,
>>
>>Chris Zegras
>>
>>Draft Proposal for a Research Circular
>>TRB Committee on NMT and Related Issues (A5013)
>>
>>Mission:
>>
>>To assure continuity in and logical development of the research undertaken
>>by Committee members and friends, presented at Committee-sponsored
>>sessions, and published in Committee-sponsored publications, with the goal
>>of "institutionalizing" and implementing research advances.
>>
>>Initial themes of priority for the Research Circular:
>>
>>1. Socioeconomic Development Impacts of Non-motorized Transportation:
>>- - Poverty alleviation
>>- - Access to affordable modes
>>- - NMT and Gender issues
>>- - Travel Time, Barrier Effect (physical barriers to NMT)
>>- - The social costs of motorization
>>
>>2. Safety, Energy, and Environmental Effects of Non-motorized
>Transportation
>>- - NMT as part of a local and global air pollution mitigation plans
>>- - Road traffic accidents as a public health problem
>>
>>3. Transportation Planning and Evaluation Tools and Non-motorized modes
>>- - Incorporating NMT into currently used travel forecasting models
>>- - NMT and traffic flow models
>>- - Data collection needs and performance measures
>>- - Integrating NMT into transport policy and project evaluations
>>
>>4. The Built Environment and Non-motorized transportation
>>- - Urban form factors affecting NMT use
>>- - Building and re-building urban areas to promote safe and efficient NMT
>use
>>- - The importance of NMT to Public Transportation
>>- - "Best Practices"
>>
>>The Research Circular will use these four principal areas of Research to
>>facilitate calls for papers for A5013-sponsored TRB sessions.  The
Research
>>Circular Sub-Committee will publish a brief summary of papers presented at
>>each TRB Annual Meeting to highlight conclusions and results of papers in
>>each area of Research and thus help guide the Call for Papers for the
>>following year.
>>By the end of the Second Year of this Process (2000), the Sub-Committee
>>will publish a formal Research Circular, identifying priority areas of
>>research in NMT.  It is anticipated that this Research Circular will help
>>guide investigators in developing research themes and in fund-raising for
>>such work.
>>
>>The Research Circular sub-committee with input from other interested
>>parties will re-visit the four themes identified above after receipt of
>>papers submitted to A5013 and after each Annual Meeting.
>>
>>
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