[sustran] fwd: economic development and vehicular mobility

[Paul Barter]

I think this messaage below is of interest to the whole list but also
contains a specific request that was meant for Todd Litman I think - a
request for his paper (with Felix Laube) that was mentioned a few days ago.


>Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 14:35:24 +0100
>From: Vereniging INZET <inzet at xs4all.nl>
>MIME-Version: 1.0
>To: tkpb at barter.pc.my
>CC: sustran at po.jaring.my
>Subject: economic development and vehicular mobility
>X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
>
>Amsterdam, november 5 1998
>
>Dear sir,
>With interest I read your contribution to the SUSTRAN discussion group
>of tuesday, november 3. The paper that you mentioned, "Automobile
>Dependency and Economic Development" seems to critically touch on some
>themes of my research. In my present function as staff member of INZET,
>a Dutch development NGO, I am studying the trade of used cars between
>Europe and West-Africa. I focus thereby on the case of The Netherlands
>and Bénin. The research is one of the activities of INZET's Sustainable
>Development programme.
>
>The first objective of the research is to closely examine the trade of
>used cars between The Netherlands and Bénin. The desk-work to obtain
>sufficient information to comprehensively reveal the structures of trade
>has been completed recently. The findings were published in the article:
>"Export of Exhaust-Gases: the trade of Dutch used cars to Bénin" in the
>INZET Magazine (ISSN 1385-7363). After concluding the first phase of the
>research, I have now moved on to the research's second phase. Its
>objective is to study the economic, social and ecologic effects of the
>use of used cars in Bénin. One of the key-issues of this research phase
>is to study the relationship between economic development and vehicle
>travel. The findings of your paper might be relevant for my attempt to
>unravel the complex relations between (economic) development and
>vehicular mobility in The Netherlands and in Bénin. I therefore kindly
>request you to email me a copy of your paper .
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Yours sincerely
>
>J. Joost Beuving
>[staff member Sustainable Development]
>