From sustran at po.jaring.my Mon Aug 2 12:14:05 1999 From: sustran at po.jaring.my (SUSTRAN Resource Centre) Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 11:14:05 +0800 Subject: [sustran] fwd: Accessible Bus Lines in Bangkok Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19990802111405.00860100@relay101.jaring.my> Subject: BOUNCE sustran-discuss@jca.ax.apc.org: Non-member submission from [DPIAPRO ] Dear friends, I'd like to share with you another progress of transportation advocacy in Thailand. The Bangkok Mass Transit Authority (BMTS) is now ready to launch its 4 new buses with lift-installed and air-conditioned. As a pilot project, 2 buses will be put in line#39 (Rangsit-Sanamloung) between north suburb of Bkk to Grand Palace. Other 2 buses will be put in line#23 (Nonthaburi-Prapadaeng) between western and eastern suburb of Bkk. August 5, 1999 at 09.00 am at BMTA Hq.; Mr.Sonthaya Khunplum Dept. Minister of Transportation & Communication will preside over the first launching of service. 100 of PWDs including 30 wheelchair users will witness the ceremony. You can get update news at www.bangkokpost.net on August.6.99. Thank for your support! Topong Kulkhanchit Access Officer DPI-Thailand dpith@loxinfo.co.th handipro@loxinfo.co.tjh From sustran at po.jaring.my Mon Aug 2 12:10:43 1999 From: sustran at po.jaring.my (SUSTRAN Resource Centre) Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 11:10:43 +0800 Subject: [sustran] fwd: CAR BUSTERS BULLETIN - no. 11 - August, 1999 Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19990802111043.0084e8c0@relay101.jaring.my> ================================= -- -- -- -- CAR BUSTERS BULLETIN -- -- -- ================================= from CAR BUSTERS, 44 rue Burdeau, 69001 Lyon, France tel: +(33) 4 72 00 23 57 - fax: +(33) 4 78 28 57 78 - ...................................................................... Monthly edition no. 11 - August, 1999 - English Version ...................................................................... Car Busters is a magazine and resource centre for the European car-free/anti-car movement. IN THIS EDITION: -- SPAIN'S CAR-FREE DAY -- CAMPAIGN INTENSIFIES AGAINST RUSSIA'S LAGONAKI-DAGOMYS ROAD -- LOCAL COUNCILS BACK TRAFFIC REDUCTION POLICIES -- CONFERENCE TO BE POSTPONED -- "RIGHT ALL ABOUT IT! RIGHT ALL ABOUT IT!" CAR BUSTERS DEADLINE COMING -- VISIONS OF THE FUTURE -- ANY EXPERIENCES WITH FREE BIKE PROGRAMMES? -- KNOW ANY FRANCOPHONES? -- NOT-SO-WITTY DISCLAIMER SPAIN'S CAR-FREE DAY On April 29 Spain had what started out to be a "Car-Free Day", but was later named "Today, The Car at Home", and then "Day of Auto-Reflection". It was a half success, with 15% less cars all together in the area, motorised-vehicle free zones, increased public transport use, many more trips by foot, and an increase by 400% of bicycle trips. Of the many actions carried out by one of the day's initiators, Amics de la Bici altered six billboards to imitate a cigarette packet warning, advising that cars are bad for your health. To contact Amics de la Bici, e-mail . CAMPAIGN INTENSIFIES AGAINST RUSSIA'S LAGONAKI-DAGOMYS ROAD On the grounds that they have exhausted all "normal" means to fight the proposed road throught he Caucasis National Park, protesters from the ecological group Atshy and the Raduzhnaya Guerilla movement intensified their direct action campaign, July 7. Eighteen people, wearing the white headband of the anti-road campaign, blockaded the government buildings of the Republic of Adygeya. In continuing with the road, the Adygeya government is not only defying Russian and international public opinion, but also the advice of State environmental organisations, and breaking environmental law. Posters, taped to the windows, read "We demand only one thing: Follow the Law!", "Green President + Road = ?", and "Enough Roads on this Earth!". In front of the protesters, on the heap of twigs, stood the symbolic road with a carboard car on it--symbolising the death of wild nature in Caucasus National Park. The police didn't take long to arrive, kicking the protest decorations with heavy boots, and tearing apart the blockaders. Hands twisted, the passive protesters were dragged by the hair down the entrance steps. All 18 were shoved in two trucks (each with a two-person capacity), and left there despite hot conditions for more than an hour, suffering thumps and handcuffs if they argued. The local and national TV crews were told to stop filming, the participants's cameras confiscated and squashed under a "law enforcer"'s boot. All were given blood-alcohol tests. Finally, after the interference of a lawyer, all were released. On July 17 the president of Agyeya, a republic previously known for prioritising the environment, ordered the director of the national park to be relieved of his position. On July 20 the government passed a law in favor of going ahead with the road building. If you can offer help or ideas to the anti-road campaign, contact Atshy, . LOCAL COUNCILS BACK TRAFFIC REDUCTION POLICIES A new survey by Friends of the Earth, published one year after John Prescott's Transport White Paper, shows that local councils in England back the traffic reduction policies it contains. But Tony Blair has yet to back his Deputy with the money or the Parliamentary time needed to put the traffic reduction policies into effect. Friends of the Earth asked all 149 highway authorities in England whether they thought it desirable to put White Paper traffic reduction policies into effect in their area, if they were given the powers and the money. Ninety-three authorities responded. Of these, all believe it is desirable to encourage employers to develop green travel plans, 98% believe it is desirable to set up safe routes to school programmes, 97% want to build bike route networks, 94% want bus priority networks, and 89% want to encourage walking via area-wide traffic calming. An impressive 86% want to tighten parking controls, while 70% want to re-open a local railway line, and 67% think it's desirable to charge for workplace parking. Only 26%believe it is desirable to introduce road parking. For more information, contact Friends of the Earth at . CONFERENCE TO BE POSTPONED After much thinking, stressing and looking for alternatives, it has finally been decided that the Towards Car-Free Cities II conference will be postponed due to lack of funding. Originally to be held in October in Poland, the revised details and funding plans will be discussed at the Ecotopia gathering in Timisoara, Romania, during workshops between August 9-13. Stay tuned for more news! "RIGHT ALL ABOUT IT! RIGHT ALL ABOUT IT!" CAR BUSTERS DEADLINE COMING After having too much fun over summer, the Car Busters crew will return to being overworked and underpaid in late August, with work on magazine issue 6. The deadline for your action news, controversial letters, articles, action photos and announcements is August 15. Contribute, contribute! It's good for your health (and more so, ours). The word limit for news contributions is a couple of paragraphs. If you want to write something longer or a feature article, get in contact with us. Help with translation is also very welcome, as is (vegetarian) pizza delivery when we're working late at night. VISIONS OF THE FUTURE Car Busters magazine issue 6 will be looking at the past (the history of the car), and the future (where we're going). We'd be grateful to have 100 words on your vision of the future - what you want or what you think will arrive - and we'll publish it if it meets our rigid journalistic standards (hee hee). Don't be afraid to be a little funny or crazy. Deadline August 15. ANY EXPERIENCES WITH FREE BIKE PROGRAMMES? Issue 6 is also going to contain an article on free bike programmes, where bikes are left at various points around a city for people to use and return to a different point. If you have any experiences of a free bike programme, please contribute a paragraph or two on your personal experience - how the programme works in your city, what works well, what needs improvement, and related thoughts. Deadline August 15. KNOW ANY FRANCOPHONES? As of issue 6, Car Busters will send an inserted supplement to francophone subscribers, with some full articles translated into French. If you know anybody who would like to receive Car Busters with the French supplement, let us know. And if you're interested in taking on the responsibility of regularly translating large sections into another language in the future, please, please contact us. NOT-SO-WITTY DISCLAIMER Since the entire country of France virtually shuts down for the month of August, with the exception of tourism, we just wouldn't fit in in our host country without taking a three-week holiday. So blame France, not us, if you can't reach us before August 20. The Car Busters office will be shut for a couple of weeks while we lie around on beaches, well actually organise workshops at Ecotopia. So please be patient if we don't answer your e-mails for a bit! --------------------------------------------------------------------- CAR BUSTERS Magazine and Resource Centre 44 rue Burdeau, 69001 Lyon, France tel.: +(33) 4 72 00 23 57; fax: +(33) 4 78 28 57 78 carbusters@wanadoo.fr From sustran at po.jaring.my Mon Aug 2 12:32:35 1999 From: sustran at po.jaring.my (SUSTRAN Resource Centre) Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 11:32:35 +0800 Subject: [sustran] fwd: MRTS Thane Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19990802113235.00793ba0@relay101.jaring.my> Explanatory note from forwarder: Thane is in the Mumbai (formerly Bombay) metropolitan region. Mumbai is unusually rail oriented for a low-income city (and is one of the most densely settled urban areas in the world). It's suburban railways are heavily used and form a significant part of the transport system. Presumably this proposed MRTS Thane is meant to complement the Mumbai suburban rail system. Paul. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 13:07:50 +0530 (IST) From: Prof S L Dhingra Subject: MRTS Thane Dear Friends, We are in the process of installing the study for MRTS Thane. Basically it will be an LRT of 18 Kms+ circular elevated line mainly on the west of the existing main line and slightly on the east. The capacity augumented will be to the tune of 40000 passengers per hour per direction. The demand is enough now and may be more in the future.What one will know like to know the justification for Broad Gauge (5 ft 6 in) vs Standard Gauge ( 4 ft 8 1/2 in). We are in the process of calling tenders for taking up the detailed study up to DPR (Detailed Project Report) and management consultancy during construction. can any body give the comparative evaluation of these two gauges keeping in mind this as the circular railway with proper turning radius and also in the cotext of developing countries with lot of passenger demand? With warm compliments, Sincerely, dhingra ***********end of message******************* * Dr S. L DHINGRA * * Prof. of TRANSP. SYSTEMS ENGG. (TSE) * * HEAD, CIVIL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT * * INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY * * POWAI,BOMBAY-400 076,INDIA * * VOICE:091-022-5782545 EXTN 7329/7300(Off)* * 5786530 .. 7348(LAB) * * 8329(RES) * * 5767300/01(O)/8329(R) DID * * 5777001(RES) Private * * FAX :091-022-5767302/5783480 * * GRAMS:TECHNOLOGY,BOMBY,INDIA * * TELEX:011-72313 IITB IN * * EMAIL:dhingra@gemini.civil.iitb.ernet.in * * URL:http://www.civil.iitb.ernet.in/ * * civil_people/faculty_dir/dhingra/ * * index.html * ******************************************** From litman at islandnet.com Mon Aug 2 13:54:11 1999 From: litman at islandnet.com (Todd Litman) Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 21:54:11 -0700 Subject: [sustran] Free Bike Programs In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990802111043.0084e8c0@relay101.jaring.my> Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19990801215411.0119fa50@mail.IslandNet.com> At 11:10 AM 8/2/99 +0800, you wrote: >================================= >-- -- -- -- CAR BUSTERS BULLETIN -- -- -- >================================= > >ANY EXPERIENCES WITH FREE BIKE PROGRAMMES? > Issue 6 is also going to contain an article on free bike >programmes, where bikes are left at various points around a city for >people to use and return to a different point. If you have any >experiences of a free bike programme, please contribute a paragraph or >two on your personal experience - how the programme works in your >city, what works well, what needs improvement, and related thoughts. >Deadline August 15. A volunteer group here in the city of Victoria, British Columbia operates a community bike program. They collect donated bikes, fix them up, paint them blue, and leave them around the city for anybody to use. Although I think that their intentions are great, I am unimpressed with the outcome. The bikes tend to be trashed (one was thrown up into a tree near out home) and abused, and so they don't look very safe to use. Despite a considerable amount of work that's gone into the program I don't see people riding them very frequently, except for teenagers on a lark. I doubt that they have reduced vehicle travel at all. Rather than making bicycling a more legitmate form of transportation, they seem to reinforce the sense that bicycles are toys, with little value, unworthy of respect. I would much rather see donated bikes given to specific individuals who could not otherwise afford a bicycle. This would insure that they are available to people who really need them, and that they are well taken care of. That is what a group in Olympia, Washington did: bikes were fixed up and donated to low-income households through a social services agency, along with helmets and instructions. It was a very effective program. An alternative would be to donate the bikes to a specific organization (such as the local collage rec center or a downtown storefront organization) that could loan or rent them for a nominal fee (such as $2 a day), as a way to make them available to responsible users. A final note: Here in North Amercia, many people have unused old bicycles around their house that they happily donate to such a program. It makes them feel virtuous. If you advertise that you are collecting such bicycles you can easily be overwhelmed by the quantity of donations, but more than half of what you get will be worthless: low quality bicycles with broken components, some requiring outdated that parts are no longer available. A few with bent frames. Some will be unsuitable, such as narrow tire racing bikes. To avoid a considerable amount of wasted energy, excess storage requirements and trips to the garbage dump be very specific and strict about what types of bicycles you accept. Be prepared to do a lot of work to get them into operating shape, and have a system for maintaining them as needed. Sincerely, Todd Litman, Director Victoria Transport Policy Institute "Efficiency - Equity - Clarity" 1250 Rudlin Street Victoria, BC, V8V 3R7, Canada Phone & Fax: 250-360-1560 E-mail: litman@islandnet.com Website: http://www.islandnet.com/~litman From jmbw at msn.com.au Mon Aug 2 15:20:14 1999 From: jmbw at msn.com.au (Jean-Marc & Wendy) Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 16:20:14 +1000 Subject: [sustran] Regional NSW Message-ID: <003601bedcaf$16258de0$0367868b@com.au> Hello everyone I'm looking for some information about anything progressive in public transport, bicycling, pedestrianism in regional NSW. Does anyone have any info, please? Thank you everyone Wendy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jca.apc.org/manage/private/sustran-discuss/attachments/19990802/51ce9e85/attachment.htm From ganant at vsnl.com Tue Aug 3 03:47:25 1999 From: ganant at vsnl.com (ganant) Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 00:17:25 +0530 Subject: [sustran] Re: fwd: MRTS Thane References: <3.0.6.32.19990802113235.00793ba0@relay101.jaring.my> Message-ID: <001b01bedd17$f4713a00$e986c5cb@vsnl.net.in> While the experts can respond to the question of advantages of the different gauges, I would like to tell Prof.Dhingra that the only city where an elevated MRTS scheme is actively in progress - Chennai, also known as Madras - has opted for the Broad Gauge. Considering the urgent need for putting in place rapid transit projects in Indian cities, it might help in integrating supplies and spares by opting for the Broad Guage, and existing suburban rolling stock models, which are being manufactured within the country. New Delhi is thinking of foreign consultancy for a rapid transit project, which could permanently hinge the system to a foreign company and production lines abroad from an engineering perspective. The cost projected is also very high. Bangalore has, after an initial foray for foreign consultancy, asked the Chennai Metropolitan Transport Project (MTP) people to draw up a scheme for that city. I am building a website giving an overview of the Chennai MTP project, its progress, prospects and problems. It will be up shortly. The current operating system, called the MRTS, is offering services over roughly 13 km, but is largely running empty due to higher tariff compared to buses, lack of marketing by the Railways and failure to integrate with the bus-autorickshaw modes. The MTP (MRTS) can be contacted in Chennai at Tel: + 91 44 5323097 and 5323098. The technical part is handled by Mr.R.Ramanathan, Chief Engineer. Unfortunately, they do not have E-mail. G.Ananthakrishnan, Chennai-based journalist, Tel: + 91 44 8413942 (work) 4834848 (home) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: SUSTRAN Resource Centre To: Cc: Prof S L Dhingra Sent: Monday, August 02, 1999 9:02 AM Subject: [sustran] fwd: MRTS Thane > Explanatory note from forwarder: > Thane is in the Mumbai (formerly Bombay) metropolitan region. Mumbai is > unusually rail oriented for a low-income city (and is one of the most > densely settled urban areas in the world). It's suburban railways are > heavily used and form a significant part of the transport system. > Presumably this proposed MRTS Thane is meant to complement the Mumbai > suburban rail system. > Paul. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 13:07:50 +0530 (IST) > From: Prof S L Dhingra > Subject: MRTS Thane > > Dear Friends, > We are in the process of installing the study for MRTS Thane. > Basically it will be an LRT of 18 Kms+ circular elevated line mainly on > the west of the existing main line and slightly on the east. The capacity > augumented will be to the tune of 40000 passengers per hour per direction. > The demand is enough now and may be more in the future.What one will know > like to know the justification for Broad Gauge (5 ft 6 in) vs Standard > Gauge ( 4 ft 8 1/2 in). We are in the process of calling tenders for > taking up the detailed study up to DPR (Detailed Project Report) and > management consultancy during construction. can any body give the > comparative evaluation of these two gauges keeping in mind this as the > circular railway with proper turning radius and also in the cotext of > developing countries with lot of passenger demand? > > With warm compliments, > Sincerely, > dhingra > ***********end of message******************* > * Dr S. L DHINGRA * > * Prof. of TRANSP. SYSTEMS ENGG. (TSE) * > * HEAD, CIVIL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT * > * INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY * > * POWAI,BOMBAY-400 076,INDIA * > * VOICE:091-022-5782545 EXTN 7329/7300(Off)* > * 5786530 .. 7348(LAB) * > * 8329(RES) * > * 5767300/01(O)/8329(R) DID * > * 5777001(RES) Private * > * FAX :091-022-5767302/5783480 * > * GRAMS:TECHNOLOGY,BOMBY,INDIA * > * TELEX:011-72313 IITB IN * > * EMAIL:dhingra@gemini.civil.iitb.ernet.in * > * URL:http://www.civil.iitb.ernet.in/ * > * civil_people/faculty_dir/dhingra/ * > * index.html * > ******************************************** > From kwood at central.co.nz Tue Aug 3 06:08:39 1999 From: kwood at central.co.nz (Kerry Wood) Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 09:08:39 +1200 Subject: [sustran] Re: fwd: MRTS Thane Message-ID: Dear Friends I am far from being a railway expert but I can at least give an opinion on Professor Dhingra's track gauge problem for Mumbai (Bombay). 1 Use 4 ft 8.5 ", only 1435 mm and nothing but 4 ft 8.5". 2 Ignore rule (1) only if there are cost advantages in going down to metre gauge (unlikely for 40 000 passengers/ hour one way) or if inter-operability is a deciding factor. Standard gauge - 1435 mm - does not seem to limit railway size or speed. It is used by the European high speed trains and the Australian iron ore railways. The South Africans have shown that even 1067 mm track can handle very heavy trains. Loading gauge is a different matter, and for a busy system, wide vehicles may be a good choice. Broad gauge - 5 ft 6" (1676 mm) - will impose large curve radii on a system. Light rail in the UK uses a minimum curve radius of 25 m, but the European metre gauge systems are perfectly happy to go down to 18 m - and if you think of a parallel axle bogie on curved track, those two figures are geometrically equivalent. So is 29 m for 1676 mm track. A busy and fast system will normally use much larger radius curves on the running tracks, but may not want to be forced to use them for crossovers, sidings and the depot. Curve radii are generally larger or much larger on systems without street running - 6 km is a tight turn on very high speed rail running tracks. A key factor is that standard vehicle designs are much cheaper than a special design, especially if the initial order is small, and there are no standard designs for 1676 mm gauge. Local manufacturers may prefer broad gauge because they are used to it and overseas competitors are not, but they may in the end be better advised to develop something more marketable overseas - perhaps in collaboration with an overseas company. So to come back to rule (2), if running metro trains on existing broad gauge track is necessary, or may in future be necessary, broad gauge has to be the answer. But if broad gauge running is merely convenient, such as sharing a depot or overcoming vehicle delivery problems, then the 1435 mm standard gauge is the way to go. Dual gauge track may be an option in some places, such as a depot access track. And if broad gauge is merely thought better, forget it. Here in New Zealand we are pushing (or hoping) for lighty rail in our main cities, and I expect that we will be able to use standard metre gauge equipment, with the wheel rims modified to run on our 1067 mm (3 ft 6") track. Best wishes, Professor, with your studies. Kerry Wood MIPENZ, MCIT Transport Consulting Engineer Phone/fax + 64 4 801 5549 e-mail kwood@central.co.nz 1 McFarlane St Wellington 6001 New Zealand From sustran at po.jaring.my Tue Aug 3 10:18:05 1999 From: sustran at po.jaring.my (SUSTRAN Resource Centre) Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 09:18:05 +0800 Subject: [sustran] fwd: MARKET ENVIRONMENTS SURVEY FOR PUBLIC TRANSPORT (BUS) OPERATIONS Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19990803091805.00800330@relay101.jaring.my> Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 15:55:17 +0100 (GMT) Subject: MARKET ENVIRONMENTS SURVEY FOR PUBLIC TRANSPORT (BUS) OPERATIONS From: Masa Law To: utsg@mailbase.ac.uk Dear Colleagues, A research team at the Transport Operations Research Group, Newcastle University is undertaking a study into the Characteristics of market environments for public transport operations in non-European countries. We are particularly interested in USA, Australia/New Zealand, Japan, S Korea, China/Hongkong/Taiwan, India, Latin America, and South Africa. If you are willing and able to take part by completing a short questionnaire, and you would like to know a few more details, simply reply directly to masa.law@newcastle.ac.uk. We will post or e-mail a copy of the questionnaire to you. All you have to do is tick or circle the relevant items that apply to the bus services in your country (or the country you have selected for this survey). Also any suggestions of contact details for experts in public transport for the above countries are gratefully received. We thank you in advance for your help in this matter. Yours faithfully Dr. Masa Law Dr. Jenny Mageean Dr. John Nelson +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dr Masa Law Department of Civil Engineering Transport Operations Research Group Claremont Tower University of Newcastle Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, UK Tel: +44 191 222 5152 Fax: +44 191 222 8352 masa.law@newcastle.ac.uk From joel at xs4all.nl Tue Aug 3 14:13:21 1999 From: joel at xs4all.nl (J.H. Crawford) Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 06:13:21 +0100 Subject: [sustran] Re: fwd: MRTS Thane In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19990803061321.00690340@pop.xs4all.nl> >I am far from being a railway expert but I can at least give an opinion on >Professor Dhingra's track gauge problem for Mumbai (Bombay). Me, either, but: >1 Use 4 ft 8.5 ", only 1435 mm and nothing but 4 ft 8.5". > >2 Ignore rule (1) only if there are cost advantages in going down to >metre gauge (unlikely for 40 000 passengers/ hour one way) or if >inter-operability is a deciding factor. Absolutely agree. If you want a sure-fire, excellent, and inexpensive solution, use PCC streetcars, most of which were manufactured to standard gauge. The design is more than 60 years old, the cars were designed to be cheap to manufacture, and were, and they provide fast, quiet service. The only design I know of that actually improves on the PCC is the EuroTram from ADtranz, and these must be very expensive. (The PCC car actually has much better acceleration than the EuroTram.) All the patents on the PCC design must long since have expired. It might make sense to replace the original 99-step controllers with solid-state controllers for better energy efficiency; the old ones give an excellent ride quality that probably cannot be improved on. Tatra in the Cechz Republic was still making PCC cars the last I knew. They should be a low-cost supplier. It's also possible that enough cars could be bought second-hand and refurbished. Ten of thousands of these cars were made, I believe. Best of luck! ### J.H. Crawford joel@xs4all.nl http://www.carfree.com/ From skhan at khan.CUDenver.EDU Wed Aug 4 00:09:09 1999 From: skhan at khan.CUDenver.EDU (Sarosh Khan) Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 09:09:09 -0600 Subject: [sustran] Re: fwd: MARKET ENVIRONMENTS SURVEY FOR PUBLIC TRANSPORT (BUS) OPERATIONS In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990803091805.00800330@relay101.jaring.my> Message-ID: <002201beddc2$23086820$083ec284@trans3.cudenver.edu> Interested in participating, for the following countries: India and Bangladesh (not on your list). Currently working on transport research: traffic flow modeling and transit issues. I will also be going to both these countries in December for data collection on bus, two-wheelers, three-wheelers and trucks. For transit will be collecting data on transit services, including operating and performance characteristics. If you can send more info on the survey, scope of work, etc., I can take a look and respond more specifically. Thanks, ___________________________________________ Sarosh Khan Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering University of Colorado, Campus Box 113, PO Box 173364 Denver, Colorado 80217-3364, USA (303) 556-2724, (303) 556-2368 (fax) > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-sustran-discuss@jca.ax.apc.org > [mailto:owner-sustran-discuss@jca.ax.apc.org]On Behalf Of SUSTRAN > Resource Centre > Sent: Monday, August 02, 1999 7:18 PM > To: sustran-discuss@jca.ax.apc.org > Cc: Masa Law > Subject: [sustran] fwd: MARKET ENVIRONMENTS SURVEY FOR PUBLIC TRANSPORT > (BUS) OPERATIONS > > > Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 15:55:17 +0100 (GMT) > Subject: MARKET ENVIRONMENTS SURVEY FOR PUBLIC TRANSPORT (BUS) OPERATIONS > From: Masa Law > To: utsg@mailbase.ac.uk > > Dear Colleagues, > > A research team at the Transport Operations Research Group, Newcastle > University is undertaking a study into the Characteristics of market > environments for public transport operations in non-European countries. We > are particularly interested in USA, Australia/New Zealand, Japan, S > Korea, China/Hongkong/Taiwan, India, Latin America, and South Africa. > > If you are willing and able to take part by completing a short > questionnaire, and you would like to know a few more details, simply reply > directly to masa.law@newcastle.ac.uk. We will post or e-mail a copy of the > questionnaire to you. All you have to do is tick or circle the relevant > items that apply to the bus services in your country (or the country you > have selected for this survey). Also any suggestions of contact details > for experts in public transport for the above countries are gratefully > received. > > We thank you in advance for your help in this matter. > > Yours faithfully > > Dr. Masa Law > Dr. Jenny Mageean > Dr. John Nelson > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Dr Masa Law > Department of Civil Engineering > Transport Operations Research Group > Claremont Tower > University of Newcastle > Newcastle upon Tyne > NE1 7RU, UK > Tel: +44 191 222 5152 > Fax: +44 191 222 8352 > masa.law@newcastle.ac.uk > From debi.beag at SoftHome.net Wed Aug 4 13:15:39 1999 From: debi.beag at SoftHome.net (Debi Goenka) Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 09:45:39 +0530 Subject: [sustran] Commercialisation of road space underneath flyovers Message-ID: <37A7BE6B.D80570B6@SoftHome.net> We are looking for information on the commercial utilisation of space under flyovers. We are specifically opposing the commercialisation of space under a 1.5 km. long flyover being constructed along the Western Express Highway (i.e. the Bombay Ahmedabad Highway) at Andheri in Bombay. This flyover will cross over three major intersections. The earlier proposal was to construct two split flyovers on either side of the road, but this has also been changed and a massive flyover is now under construction on the centre of the road. Also, the height of the flyover has also been increased to accomodate an extra floor. Any reports, documents, references on the problems associated with commercialisation of space under flyovers would be appreciated. Cheers Debi Goenka -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: debi.beag.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 385 bytes Desc: Card for Debi Goenka Url : http://list.jca.apc.org/manage/private/sustran-discuss/attachments/19990804/78fb2c5a/debi.beag.vcf From sustran at po.jaring.my Wed Aug 4 15:25:31 1999 From: sustran at po.jaring.my (SUSTRAN Resource Centre) Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 14:25:31 +0800 Subject: [sustran] fwd: city bus subsidy policy question Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19990804142531.007a3ea0@relay101.jaring.my> Dear colleagues and friends I have received a request for information from Taipei. I was not able to help in any detail myself but I have obtained Yu-han Lin's permission to pass on the request to sustran-dicsuss and utsg. If you reply to the list, please cc your reply to Yu-han Lin as well. > >Dr.Barter, > >I am Yu-han Lin, working for the Bureau of Transportation in Taipei city >government. .... > >With advent of Mass Rapid Transportation System (MRT), city bus companies >face to a tremendous change in route-operating. They compete with each >other for the connecting routes with MRT and are comparatively apathetic to >the low-occupancy ones. To keep the services and provide more access to >the residents, a sound and effective bus subsidy policy is in urgent. > >I need to get mass transit policies from other cities in order to take their >experiences as references. Hence I am willing to know if I can get access >to the data you have. Since I need to present a draft of city bus subsidy >policy in early September, please reply my e-mail as soon as you are >convenient. Your help is very much appreciated. > >Thanks for your time and patience. > >Best regards, > >Yuhan Lin >UCLA graduate (Policy Studies) >summer intern of BOT >Phone: 886+2+27488822 ext. 317 >Fax: 886+2+27486600 >E-mail:carol@ms1.thi.com.tw > PLEASE NOTE NEW 8 DIGIT TELEPHONE/FAX NUMBER A. Rahman Paul BARTER Sustainable Transport Action Network for Asia and the Pacific (SUSTRAN) P.O. Box 11501, Kuala Lumpur 50748, Malaysia. TEL/FAX: +60 3 2274 2590 E-mail: sustran@po.jaring.my Web: http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Canopy/2853/ From ajain at kcrc.com Wed Aug 4 15:53:09 1999 From: ajain at kcrc.com (Jain Alok) Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 14:53:09 +0800 Subject: [sustran] Re: Commercialisation of road space underneath flyovers Message-ID: <199908040648.PAA10103@mail.jca.apc.org> > Surprising that you are opposing something but you do not know why. Am I > missing something? > > There can be many reasons in favor of (or for that matter, against) > flyovers (or elevated roadways), but I do not see why the space underneath > could not or should not be commercialised. In a number of places, such > space is used for parking. At least it is better than leaving the space > unutilised which leads to unauthorised occupation (in India, such spaces > generally lead to the location of slum type development). > > Alok Jain > ---------- > From: Debi Goenka[SMTP:debi.beag@SoftHome.net] > Sent: August 4, 1999 12:15 PM > To: Sustran > Subject: [sustran] Commercialisation of road space underneath > flyovers > > <> > We are looking for information on the commercial utilisation > of space under flyovers. > We are specifically opposing the commercialisation of space > under a 1.5 km. long flyover being constructed along the > Western Express Highway (i.e. the Bombay Ahmedabad Highway) > at Andheri in Bombay. This flyover will cross over three > major intersections. > The earlier proposal was to construct two split flyovers on > either side of the road, but this has also been changed and > a massive flyover is now under construction on the centre of > the road. > Also, the height of the flyover has also been increased to > accomodate an extra floor. > Any reports, documents, references on the problems > associated with commercialisation of space under flyovers > would be appreciated. > Cheers > Debi Goenka > From ajain at kcrc.com Wed Aug 4 16:58:09 1999 From: ajain at kcrc.com (Jain Alok) Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 15:58:09 +0800 Subject: [sustran] Re: fwd: city bus subsidy policy question Message-ID: <199908040754.QAA13113@mail.jca.apc.org> In Hong Kong where a number of new railways have been planned (some are under construction), the Government is envisaging a similar scenario and undertaking a study on co-ordination of public transport services with special emphasis on the railway corridor. I, however, cannot think why this should lead to bus subsidy, if there is none already. Basically, a proper planning of competing as well as feeder routes is what you need for effective utilisation of the whole public transport system. Competing bus services provides, choice of modes to the people (and avoid monopoly of the railway, as some prefer to put it) while feeder routes can supplement to a "mass" carrier, which is promoted for its qualities towards the environment (pollution-free), reliability (dedicated right-of-way) and speed. A co-ordinated approach also minimises the "wasteful competition" and eventually leads to a hierarchical public transport system. For more details, you can contact Transport Department of Hong Kong through HK Government's web page http://www.info.gov.hk/ Alok Jain > ---------- > From: SUSTRAN Resource Centre[SMTP:sustran@po.jaring.my] > Sent: August 4, 1999 2:25 PM > To: sustran-discuss@jca.ax.apc.org; utsg@mailbase.ac.uk > Subject: [sustran] fwd: city bus subsidy policy question > > Dear colleagues and friends > > I have received a request for information from Taipei. I was not able to > help in any detail myself but I have obtained Yu-han Lin's permission to > pass on the request to sustran-dicsuss and utsg. If you reply to the > list, > please cc your reply to Yu-han Lin as well. > > > > > >Dr.Barter, > > > >I am Yu-han Lin, working for the Bureau of Transportation in Taipei city > >government. > .... > > > >With advent of Mass Rapid Transportation System (MRT), city bus companies > >face to a tremendous change in route-operating. They compete with > each > >other for the connecting routes with MRT and are comparatively apathetic > to > >the low-occupancy ones. To keep the services and provide more access to > >the residents, a sound and effective bus subsidy policy is in urgent. > > > >I need to get mass transit policies from other cities in order to take > their > >experiences as references. Hence I am willing to know if I can get > access > >to the data you have. Since I need to present a draft of city bus > subsidy > >policy in early September, please reply my e-mail as soon as you are > >convenient. Your help is very much appreciated. > > > >Thanks for your time and patience. > > > >Best regards, > > > >Yuhan Lin > >UCLA graduate (Policy Studies) > >summer intern of BOT > >Phone: 886+2+27488822 ext. 317 > >Fax: 886+2+27486600 > >E-mail:carol@ms1.thi.com.tw > > > > > PLEASE NOTE NEW 8 DIGIT TELEPHONE/FAX NUMBER > > A. Rahman Paul BARTER > Sustainable Transport Action Network > for Asia and the Pacific (SUSTRAN) > P.O. Box 11501, Kuala Lumpur 50748, Malaysia. > TEL/FAX: +60 3 2274 2590 > E-mail: sustran@po.jaring.my > Web: http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Canopy/2853/ > From rogerh at foe.co.uk Wed Aug 4 19:20:13 1999 From: rogerh at foe.co.uk (Roger Higman) Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 10:20:13 +0000 Subject: [sustran] Re: Commercialisation of road space underneath flyovers In-Reply-To: Debi Goenka "[sustran] Commercialisation of road space underneath flyovers" (Aug 4, 9:45am) References: <37A7BE6B.D80570B6@SoftHome.net> Message-ID: <990804102016.ZM9735@unknown.zmail.host> Debi The most celebrated British example of this sort of development is the construction of whole series of offices, shops and community facilities (sports centres, meeting places etc) underneath the A40(M) Westway in west London. This construction was carried out by a not-for-profit body called the North Kensington Amenity Trust whose offices are not under the motorway at 1 Thorpe Close, London W10. Their telephone number is + 44 181 969 7511. I'm sorry but I haven't got a fax or e-mail for them. Roger Higman "A thorn in the side of Senior Campaigner (Atmosphere and Transport) the motor industry" Friends of the Earth (E,W+NI), Car Magazine 26-28 Underwood Street, London, N1 7JQ Tel + 44 171 566 1661 Fax + 44 171 490 0881 E-mail rogerh@foe.co.uk http://www.foe.co.uk From dmohan at cbme.iitd.ernet.in Wed Aug 4 18:32:43 1999 From: dmohan at cbme.iitd.ernet.in (Dinesh Mohan) Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 15:02:43 +0530 Subject: [sustran] Re: Commercialisation of road space underneath flyovers References: <199908040648.PAA10103@mail.jca.apc.org> Message-ID: <37A808BA.536EAE85@cbme.iitd.ernet.in> What are the reasons against? Any studies? Dinesh Mohan Jain Alok wrote: > > Surprising that you are opposing something but you do not know why. > Am I > > missing something? > > > > There can be many reasons in favor of (or for that matter, against) > > flyovers (or elevated roadways), but I do not see why the space > underneath > > could not or should not be commercialised. In a number of places, > such > > space is used for parking. At least it is better than leaving the > space > > unutilised which leads to unauthorised occupation (in India, such > spaces > > generally lead to the location of slum type development). > > > > Alok Jain > > ---------- > > From: Debi Goenka[SMTP:debi.beag@SoftHome.net] > > Sent: August 4, 1999 12:15 PM > > To: Sustran > > Subject: [sustran] Commercialisation of road space underneath > > flyovers > > > > <> > > We are looking for information on the commercial utilisation > > of space under flyovers. > > We are specifically opposing the commercialisation of space > > under a 1.5 km. long flyover being constructed along the > > Western Express Highway (i.e. the Bombay Ahmedabad Highway) > > at Andheri in Bombay. This flyover will cross over three > > major intersections. > > The earlier proposal was to construct two split flyovers on > > either side of the road, but this has also been changed and > > a massive flyover is now under construction on the centre of > > the road. > > Also, the height of the flyover has also been increased to > > accomodate an extra floor. > > Any reports, documents, references on the problems > > associated with commercialisation of space under flyovers > > would be appreciated. > > Cheers > > Debi Goenka > > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5th World Conference on Injury Control http://www.ciionline.org/fiwoco If you have trouble sending mail to this server you may use **************************************************************************** Professor Dinesh Mohan Coordinator, Transportation Research & Injury Prevention Programme, Head, WHO Collaborating Centre, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi 110016, India Office: (91 11) 659 1147 FAX: (91 11) 685 8703 & 685 1169 E-mail: dmohan@cbme.iitd.ernet.in Home: (91 11) 649 4910 **************************************************************************** From debi.beag at SoftHome.net Thu Aug 5 10:10:01 1999 From: debi.beag at SoftHome.net (Debi Goenka) Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 06:40:01 +0530 Subject: [sustran] Re: Commercialisation of road space underneath flyovers References: <199908040648.PAA10103@mail.jca.apc.org> Message-ID: <37A8E469.1D2C5535@SoftHome.net> We are opposing this because our information is that the proposed commercial complex itself would attract about 30,000 pcus per day. Also, the total parking space provided is for about 400 cars. Traffic studies indicate that only about 38% of the vehicles would use the flyover. It would also create problems for public transport users (BEST buses etc.) since bus stops would have to be relocated. We are basically looking for other case studies or examples. I hope this clarifies the missing links. Cheers Debi Jain Alok wrote: > > > Surprising that you are opposing something but you do > not know why. Am I > > missing something? > > > > There can be many reasons in favor of (or for that > matter, against) > > flyovers (or elevated roadways), but I do not see why > the space underneath > > could not or should not be commercialised. In a number > of places, such > > space is used for parking. At least it is better than > leaving the space > > unutilised which leads to unauthorised occupation (in > India, such spaces > > generally lead to the location of slum type > development). > > > > Alok Jain > > ---------- > > From: Debi Goenka[SMTP:debi.beag@SoftHome.net] > > Sent: August 4, 1999 12:15 PM > > To: Sustran > > Subject: [sustran] Commercialisation of road space > underneath > > flyovers > > > > <> > > We are looking for information on the commercial > utilisation > > of space under flyovers. > > We are specifically opposing the commercialisation of > space > > under a 1.5 km. long flyover being constructed along the > > Western Express Highway (i.e. the Bombay Ahmedabad > Highway) > > at Andheri in Bombay. This flyover will cross over three > > major intersections. > > The earlier proposal was to construct two split flyovers > on > > either side of the road, but this has also been changed > and > > a massive flyover is now under construction on the > centre of > > the road. > > Also, the height of the flyover has also been increased > to > > accomodate an extra floor. > > Any reports, documents, references on the problems > > associated with commercialisation of space under > flyovers > > would be appreciated. > > Cheers > > Debi Goenka > > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: debi.beag.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 385 bytes Desc: Card for Debi Goenka Url : http://list.jca.apc.org/manage/private/sustran-discuss/attachments/19990805/a148602a/debi.beag.vcf From mobility at igc.apc.org Fri Aug 6 07:50:41 1999 From: mobility at igc.apc.org (ITDP) Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 18:50:41 -0400 Subject: [sustran] ITDP QUARTERLY EMAIL UPDATE - SUMMER 1999 Message-ID: <37AA1540.D2B5B36C@igc.apc.org> ITDP QUARTERLY EMAIL UPDATE - SUMMER 1999 Dear ITDP friends and supporters, The latest edition of "TransportActions," ITDP's quarterly news update, is now available on our website. Visit www.ITDP.org to see these new articles: - Indonesian Crisis Increases Smog, But Opens Door to Non-Motorized Transport - India Cycle Rickshaw Improvement Project Update - China: Bike Use Plummets While Promised Bus Lanes Fail to Materialize - Organizing the Bicycle Industry to Tackle Tariffs - ITDP Investigates Bulgarian Connection - Creating Jobs With Bikes in Haiti - Panama's Corredor Sur: Still a Bad Idea It's been an exciting year in sustainable transport advocacy, and the upcoming issue of Sustainable Transport magazine (#10), appearing in mid-September, will reflect that. Among the featured topics in ST#10 are: - a sustainable transport system success story in Quito, Ecuador - women leading the sustainable transport advocacy movement in Tunisia - Bulgaria and the geopolitics of Caspian Sea oil - taking bicycles seriously in Brazil and South Africa Our 1998 Annual Report has also recently been printed. You will soon be able to read it in Adobe .PDF format on our website, or you can contact us to have a printed copy mailed to you. Please note, we are in the process of consolidating our mailing list, which we use solely for this quarterly email update. If you know someone who would like to be on our mailing list, or if you would like to be taken off, please contact us at mobility@igc.org. Sustainably yours, Daniel Lerch ITDP Administrative Director -- Access ITDP's New Website: www.ITDP.org The Institute for Transportation and Development Policy 115 W. 30th Street - Suite 1205 - New York, NY 10001 - USA tel: (212) 629-8001 fax: (212) 629-8033 From tjb at pc.jaring.my Mon Aug 9 21:35:55 1999 From: tjb at pc.jaring.my (Tony Barry) Date: Mon, 09 Aug 1999 20:35:55 +0800 Subject: [sustran] Re: Social Impact Assessment for Highway Development In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990707125551.007ce2f0@relay101.jaring.my> Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19990809203555.007c6ae0@pop3.jaring.my> At 12:55 7/7/99 +0800, you wrote: >Dear sustran-discussers > >I have had a request for information from a Malaysian NGO about Social >Impact Assessment for Highway Development > >Tamaddun Research Trust has been commissioned to look into this for a new >proposed intercity expressway in the eastern part of Peninsular Malaysia. >The terrain involved will include mainly rural areas but will cut accross >some urban areas, on flat as well as hilly or even mountainous terrain, and >may also involve displacement of people as well as natural habitats. > >They are at an early stage on exploring this issue and it is not my >speciality. Can anyone please suggest some key references, useful websites >or contacts to help them with this. > >I have one book from the World Bank, with a helpful section on social >impacts. It is "Roads and the Environment: A Handbook", September 1994, >Report TWU 13, The World Bank. It has a section on "Human and Social >Environment". Any additional references would be most appreciated. > > > I managed the first World Bank EIA on a road project back in 1991 for the Jamuna Road (Bangla Desh) and somewhere have a variety of World Bank publications from that time - I know they are not so easy to identify or obtain so - if you have not got a comprehensivbe list of World Bank publications I could look out mine _ after I move next week. ------------ Tony Barry FICE EValue Engineering Sdn Bhd www.evalueco.com Kuala Lumpur From tjb at pc.jaring.my Mon Aug 9 21:13:00 1999 From: tjb at pc.jaring.my (Tony Barry) Date: Mon, 09 Aug 1999 20:13:00 +0800 Subject: [sustran] Re: Transportation investments and real estate values In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990619101622.0086d100@relay101.jaring.my> References: <000701beb968$94552d20$e7e1fea9@cybercable.fr> Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19990809201300.007c6580@pop3.jaring.my> Just catching up with my unread email: At 10:16 19/6/99 +0800, you wrote: >At 18:25 18/06/99 -0400, Tony Plumbe wrote: >>The Light Rail Transit new lines in Kuala Lumpur are >>partly financed I understand by allowing the private >>companies developing the lines also to develop shopping >>centres at selected stations and recoup their costs >>through rental of the shops. The same principles are >>used in many BOT type contracts in Asia. > snipped >I don't know if the second LRT system, PUTRA LRT, has rights to develop >real-estate around stations. It may be so, at least indirectly, since PUTRA >is owned by a large business conglomerate called Renong. There are at least >two major new developments that have been begun since the line began to be >constructed (at the Taman Jaya station and the huge KL Sentral development) >but I don't know their ownership situation. I'm not familiar with Taman Jaya - but the KLCC Station site is a JV development between PUTRA and another party, and I believe the working site to the west of Jalan Sultan Ismail is also a building development. The Masjid Jamek site has - or is intended to have) first floor retail development also (I forget the neme of the development but have it on file somewhere). >A third system, the PRT monorail, the CBD phase of which is under >construction, was going to be associated with a MAJOR real-estate >development, namely the Linear City development which was to have straddled >the Klang River over several kilometres. Maybe this is the example that you >were referring to? I believe the same corporation was involved in both. >However, I beleive that the Linear City project is either cancelled or >postponed indefinitely. Yes to both those. And no land development on the PRT route which is essentially totally along public highway. > >The Malaysian Railways (Keratapi Tanah Melayu - KTM) has operated electric >commuter trains (suburban heavy rail) here since 1995 and does have >extensive land holdings apparently. I don't know how many of the land >holdings are at appropriate stations. The KL Sentral development must be >directly helping KTM to some extent, since it is going up where their old >marshalling yards and warehouses used to be. There is at least one other >development taking place along this system (in southern Petaling Jaya) with >a major shopping centre to be built over and around a new station. This one >is certainly an example. Well KTM is now (did it actually go through?) owned by Renong and Bolton Properties who intended to develop railway land - including the notorious Kenny Hills site. > >A rail line to the new airport is under construction (express rail link >ERL). I have not heard of any joint-development arrangements. The city >terminus is at the huge KL Sentral development and one station will be in >central Putrajaya (the new administrative centre for Malaysia) and there >should be enormous development potential there. I have no knowledge if the >company is actually involved in such joint developments however. There have >been no explicit announcements on it as far as I know. The YTL/Siemens JV is dealing solely with the rail link - but knowing YTL's business acumen they will not miss the opportunities to capitalise on the route development. You missed the KL elevated pedestrian network - but that's another story :) ------------ Tony Barry FICE EValue Engineering Sdn Bhd www.evalueco.com Kuala Lumpur From sustran at po.jaring.my Tue Aug 10 10:34:00 1999 From: sustran at po.jaring.my (SUSTRAN Resource Centre) Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 09:34:00 +0800 Subject: [sustran] from Masyarakat Transportasi Indonesia (Transport Community of Indonesia) Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19990810093400.007ae100@relay101.jaring.my> An extract from "berita kota untuk semua edisi 3" (City News for All 3rd edition) from Indonesia's Urban Poor Consortium. It highlights news from Harun al-Rasyid Sorah Lubis of a new Indonesian NGO "Masyarakat Transportasi Indonesia" (Transport Community of Indonesia). Harun is also a transport academic and participant in sustran-discuss. Maybe he can send us more news from Masyarakat Transportasi Indonesia from time to time? I have added brief translations of certain small sections - sorry no time to translate the whole thing (not fluent enough to do it quickly and easily). A. Rahman Paul Barter ---------------------------------------------- Pemberdayaan angkutan umum [strengthening public transport] Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 10:26:06 +0700 From: "Harun al-Rasyid Sorah Lubis" Konkritnya, khusus kawan2 yang ada di Jawa Barat, kami dari Masyarakat Transportasi Indonesia, Daerah Jawa Barat, pada awal september nanti akan mengadakan seminar sehari dengan tema: PERMBERDAYAAN ANGKUTAN UMUM. [In early Sept. we from Masyarakat Transportasi Indonesia in West Java will hold a one-day seminar with the theme "Strengthening Public Transport")....] Ajakan untuk yang lain di Jabar, bila ada yang ingin menyemarakkan waktu2 tersebut, dengan beberapa kampanye penyadaran lingkungan maupun keselamatan berlalu lintas, bisa kita sinergi kan bersama. Ditunggu respons nya bagi yang berminat !!! Wajah angkutan umum, di kota2 besar di Indonesia sedemikian parahnya. Bayangkan, misal di Bogor, untuk berbelanja masyarakat terpaksa menghindari kesemrawutan yang ada di tengah kota, dan mending belanja jauh sampai mendekati tol. Armada angkutan kota, tidak bisa lagi dikendalikan oleh aparat, yang kelihatannya hanya senang mengurusi lisensi trayek, tanpa menghiraukan tumpahan dan luapannya armada angkutan umum di jalan2. Ekonomi tengah kota Bogor sangat rawan akan mati, bila situasi tersebut terus berlanjut. Di Bandung pun, tidak kalah jeleknya. Dan sering jadi guyonan, koq tempat orang2 pintar, malah transportasinya tidak bisa diberesi. Atau yang ngurusi, tidak berminat untuk memberesi ? Semuanya benarrrrr...... [The state of public transport in the large cities of Indonesia is dire....examples given of Bogor and Bandung - the lack of public transport is threatening the viability of businesses in the city centres and causing many to relocate to more accessible locations....] Yang pasti, fragmentasi dan terkotak2nya penanganan dari masing2 dinas/sektoral, menjadikan wajah angkutan dan transportasi kita di banyak kota di Indonesia semakin terpuruk, dari sisi biaya angkut, polusi, kecelakaan, yang semuanya menghabiskan biaya sosial, yang tak pernah terlintas di kepala pemakai/pengguna nya. Hal ini ditambah dengan interest kelompok2 antara lain pengusaha, developer dan kalangan industri otomotif, yang enggan merubah diri dengan alasan kehilangan pasar yang sudah terlanjur nikmat selama ini. UU Pemda bagussss, tapi sayang UU PKPD (keuangan) belum serius mencerminkan dan mengimbanginya. Resource/dana perlu diadakan untuk mengurusi tetek bengek transportasi kota. Kalau resource tidak ada atau kurang, dan ini yang paling mungkin situasinya, dalam jangka menengah perlu diusahakan bagaimana caranya agar ada akumulasi 'public funding khusus' untuk mengurusi sarana/prasarana transportasi kota. Ketergantungan pada mobil pribadi, walaupun Indonesia masih dalam tingkat pemilikan rendah, tapi di kota2 angka pemilikan sudah mencapai 200 s/d 300 mobil per seribu penduduk. [There is dependence on private vehicles, even though Indonesia still has a low ownership level, but in the cities private vehicle ownership has reached 200 to 300 per 1000 people. Visi pengembangan prasarana transportasi kota tidak bisa, diisi dengan semangat "predict and provide " membangun jalan terussss. Karena terbukti, justeru bangun jalan menambah kemacetan. Di masa depan perlu diberdayakan pilihan2 angkutan lainnya: jalan kaki, naik sepeda, angkutan umum, dst. Permberdayaan pada rantai penggantian antar moda perlu diperhatikan, biar orang yang memiliki mobil, juga sedikat ter "rayu" untuk sesekali memarkir mobilnya di rumah, dan menggunakan angkutan alternatif. Sayang perencana transportasi dan yang mengurusinya termasuk aktivist kota, sehari-harinya lebih akrab dengan mobil pribadi. Cobalah, satu kali dalam dua bulan, parkir mobil anda di rumah. Jadi bisa mencoba 6 kali dalam setahun untuk melakukan perjalanan dengan 6 tujuan perjalanan yang berbeda, dan menggunakan angkutan alternatif. Coba sekali ke kantor, kemudian coba berbelanja, coba rekreasi, coba ngantar anak ke sekolah, coba., dst........, semuanya tanpa pakai mobil. Dan rasakan betapa tidak menariknya tidak naik mobil pribadi !!!!! Harun al-Rasyid Lubis. Sekretaris Masyarakat Transportasi Indonesia, JAWA BARAT. From eric.britton at ecoplan.org Tue Aug 10 17:40:40 1999 From: eric.britton at ecoplan.org (Eric Britton) Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 10:40:40 +0200 Subject: [sustran] Linking Transportation Invest-ments to Land Values - First results of a group enquiry Message-ID: Dear Friends, Some weeks back I posted a note on this forum with a brief statement of a topic on which we wished to exchange ideas and information with others on this list. In all, we received about twenty responses, the contents of which I have followed up and integrated into a short report on this topic which will be posted today on our new @Access - Sustainable Transportation Forum at http://www.ecoplan.org/access. You will see it there under LINKS, where it has been placed for your handy use and eventual comment. I attach the draft summary for your eventual comments and reactions - and of course we would be interested to continue these conversations either here on this list or on the @Access Forum which exists for these purposes. Indeed, the main finding of our enquiry, as you will see below, is that there may be excellent reasons for giving this particular topic more time, thought and work. Moreover, it offers a great training ground for young transport planners, students of cities, and even investigative journalists. Finally - might any of you be interested in participating in a voice conference on this topic? If you go into @Access you will see that we have a handy device for doing just this, along with a full set of instructions which some of you may be interested in looking at. If there is any interest at all, I thought that we might consider an informal session toward the end of the day on Thursday the 12th - which would be at a time in which we could be joined by any eventual North American colleagues. I look forward to sharing what you have to say or suggest on this, and would like to thank those of you who have already replied with your ideas and input for your kindness in doing just that. And of course if you wish to share this note with any colleagues whom you feel it might serve, kindly do. With all good wishes, Eric Britton ecopl@n ___ technology, economy, society ___ Le Frene, 8/10 rue Joseph Bara, 75006 Paris, France postmaster@ecoplan.org URL www.ecoplan.org Tel: +331.4326.1323 Videoconference +331.4441.6340 (1-4) 24 hour fax/voicemail hotline: In Europe +331 5301 2896 In North America +1 888 522 6419 (toll free) LINKING TRANSPORTATION INVESTMENTS TO LAND VALUES Summary: * Robert Ayres, a professor of environment and management at INSEAD, asked Eric Britton of ecopl@n if useful information might be found via the Internet on a specific subject: the availability of data drawn from experience showing eventual relationships between specific transportation investments and projects, and real estate values in the place where they were supposed to have beneficial impacts.1 (The following thirty page report recapitulates the result of this search.) * The main finding of this brief international electronic inquiry is that there does not appear to be very much around by way of solid data on the topic. * Around the world the idea of improving real estate values is often given great play in the build up of a new transport project or investment, but once the funds have been acquired and the project actually built, few sponsors, agencies or places appear to make the effort to verify what has actually taken place in that instance. * It is understood that such analyses are not necessarily so easy to do nor so clear in their findings, since a city is not a laboratory and the conditions of ceteris paribus simply do not hold. That said, the means for carrying our this sort of ex post analysis are not hard to come by, and indeed it would be most useful for transportation researchers and policy makers to have access to solid data on this subject. * The actual technique of study however is likely to depend on a good dose of detective work in each place, since much of the needed data will have to be ferreted out fro non-published sources (real estate ads in papers, interviews with key sources in that place, inspection of transactions records, etc.). * Solid international data on this subject could be highly useful, including for making the case of the sort of "softer" transportation projects and investments that so often can make a real difference in the quality of life in a place (traffic calming, strategic parking, pedestrian policies, public transport realignment, home zones, play streets and the like). * We do not know of the existence of any models that may have been constructed to permit the easy manipulation and analysis of such project data for planning or other purposes, but it is not hard to see that such a model could be quite useful. * We have opened up a special discussion forum on this topic which we intend to maintain over the remainder of the year on the @Access - Sustainable Transportation Forum at http://www.ecoplan.org/access, in an attempt to build on and extend these first exchanges on a transportation matter which we consider to be in the public interest. This first report is being posted there for use and comment. From sustran at po.jaring.my Tue Aug 10 20:52:00 1999 From: sustran at po.jaring.my (SUSTRAN Resource Centre) Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 19:52:00 +0800 Subject: [sustran] redraft of World Bank resettlement policy Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19990810195200.007dc9e0@relay101.jaring.my> Dear sustran-discussers, [The WB resettlement policy is being reviewed. See new item below - an excerpt from the ACHR E-News July 1999 No 20. This is highly relevant to those of you who are concerned about transport-related evictions and resettlement issues. Paul.] Asian Coalition for Housing Rights ACHR E-News for July 1999 No 20 ....... 1. RE-DRAFT OF WORLD BANK’S RESETTLEMENT POLICY The World Bank is re-drafting its practice on RESETTLEMENT policy and it is expected to be issued in December 1999. Until September 1999, it is offering the opportunity for us to register views and outstanding concerns on the proposed policy. The draft policy can be accessed through the World Bank’s website at www.worldbank.org by clicking the “For NGOs/Civil Society” page. Comments can be provided by electronic mail to Resettlement_Help_Desk@worldbank.org or fax to + 1 202 522 3247. If you have difficulty accessing the document contact ACHR for a copy. ... [Paul: And incidentally, another excerpt from the same newsletter will be of interest to those who know Anwar Fazal who has been a key player in establishing SUSTRAN and many other regional initiatives.] f. Anwar Fazal, has been awarded the Honorary Doctorate (Philosophy) by University Sains Malaysia (USM). He is the sole recipient this year. The award was given to honour and in recognition of Dato' Anwar's contribution for the development and progress of issues related to consumerism, civil society, environment, health and good governance. Well done Anwar. Contact: anwar.fazal@undp.org ..... Contributions are encouraged to make the news as interactive as possible. News or comments (brief 150 - 200 words) for the next bulletin can be sent to achrsec@email.ksc.net. Feel free to distribute the news to relevant groups and let us know e-mail addresses of any contacts who express interest in receiving it. E-Mail: achrsec@email.ksc.net Personal: maurice76@hotmail.com Asian Coalition for Housing Rights 73 Soi Sonthiwattana 4 Ladprao 110, Ladprao Rd, Bangkok 10310, Thailand Tel [66 2] 538 0919 Fax [66 2] 539 9950 From t9802 at cc.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp Wed Aug 11 12:24:32 1999 From: t9802 at cc.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (Mohsin J. Sarker) Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 12:24:32 +0900 Subject: [sustran] Data on Road infrastructure. References: <3.0.6.32.19990707125551.007ce2f0@relay101.jaring.my> Message-ID: <001201bee3a9$0786b740$0500a8c0@mohsin> Hi! everybody Very much thanks to all who responsed to my request regarding road area ratio. Recently I went through the book of Newman & Kenworthy, titled "Cities and Automobile Dependence: A Source book", and I found data on road network of several cities in the unit of length (km). In other sources also I found the same data in length unit. My question in this regard is that whether this data ignored the road width (e.g. lane number) or not. If road width was not ignored, then how it was considered. I have one more thing to request. Does any one know any reference, or paper for calculating demand of urban road infrastructure (road) and parking spaces of a city. I am not saying about the demand of road and parking for a certain small portion of city or for a certain activity location. I am considering the whole city. I will be very grateful if you please let me know about these matters. Thanking you all in anticipation. Mohsin J. Sarker Regional Planning Utsunomiya University t9802@cc.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp From pascal at pop.gn.apc.org Wed Aug 11 18:35:41 1999 From: pascal at pop.gn.apc.org (Pascal Desmond) Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 09:35:41 +0000 Subject: [sustran] SACTRA 99 Message-ID: The Standing Advisory Committee on Trunk Road Assessment has just issued its new report on 'Transport and the Economy' The report [isbn 011-753507-9. London: The Stationery Office] is 300 pages and costs 30 pounds The executive summary is avaialble at http://www.roads.detr.gov.uk/roadnetwork/heta/sactra98.htm From sustran at po.jaring.my Wed Aug 11 19:12:11 1999 From: sustran at po.jaring.my (SUSTRAN Resource Centre) Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 18:12:11 +0800 Subject: [sustran] SUSTRAN News Flash #34: People-centred and sustainable transport news Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19990811181211.00835d50@relay101.jaring.my> Sustainable Transport Action Network for Asia and the Pacific (SUSTRAN) P.O. Box 11501, 50748 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Tel/Fax: +(60 3) 2274 2590 PLEASE NOTE NEW 8 DIGIT NUMBER E-mail: sustran@po.jaring.my, Web: http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Canopy/2853/ SUSTRAN NEWS FLASH #34 11 August 1999 People-centred and sustainable transport news CONTENTS 1. SUSTRAN-DISCUSS LIST 2. WORLD BANK RESETTLEMENT POLICY REDRAFT 3. THAILAND DISABLED ACCESS CAMPAIGN 4. PROFILES OF ACTIVE GROUPS 5. JAKARTA PEDICAB DRIVERS NETWORK 6. POLLUTION INSIDE VEHICLES HIGHER THAN OUTSIDE 7. RESOURCES 8. INTERNET RESOURCES 9. EVENTS 10. QUICK QUOTE 11. LIGHTER SIDE 1. SUSTRAN-DISCUSS LIST If you find SUSTRAN News Flashes useful or interesting, then please consider joining the sustran-discuss list. It is an email-based discussion list that focuses on transport issues in developing countries, especially in Asia and the Pacific. It is a more interactive and immediate way to keep up, contribute, debate or ask questions. Many of the news items in the SUSTRAN News Flashes began as postings to sustran-discuss. Contact us for more information. We are especially keen to have more participants from Asia, Pacific islands, Latin America, Africa and eastern Europe. We are also keen to help anyone who might be interested in starting up local email-discussion groups within specific countries to discuss transport issues. There are now a number of free services which make such lists very easy to set up. 2. WORLD BANK RESETTLEMENT POLICY REDRAFT The World Bank is re-drafting its practice on RESETTLEMENT policy and it is expected to be issued in December 1999. Until September 1999, it is offering the opportunity for us to register views and outstanding concerns on the proposed policy. The draft policy can be accessed through the World Bank's web-site at http://www.worldbank.org by clicking the "For NGOs/Civil Society" page. Comments can be provided by electronic mail to Resettlement_Help_Desk@worldbank.org or fax to + 1 202 522 3247. 3. THAILAND DISABLED ACCESS CAMPAIGN Since 1992, activists promoting better access for people with disabilities have been campaigning in Bangkok for a new mass transit system, Bangkok Skytrain, to be accessible. With the system about to go into operation they recently launched a last-ditch effort. Their appeal for letters of support went out internationally by e-mail and SUSTRAN helped spread the word via our contacts and through the sustran-discuss list. The activists also held demonstrations in Bangkok. As a result, there is a promise to install 11 lifts (elevators) at 5 out of 23 stations (although the source of the funding for these lifts is still not clear). These 5 "key stations" are to connected to other system such as the Bangkok Subway (under construction) and intercity bus terminals. More details on the campaign can be seen in the Bangkok Post on-line editions (http://www.bangkokpost.net) of June 4, 1999; June 22, 1999; and July 8,1999. SUSTRAN's involvement in spreading the e-mail appeal from the Thai activists has helped to put many activists on this issue around the world into contact with each other. Further collaborations seem to be starting up as a result. The Bangkok activist have had another recent success. On August 5, the Bangkok Mass Transit Authority (BMTS) launched 4 new wheelchair-accessible buses (with lifts installed). They are running as a pilot project on 2 key bus routes. News on this is at http://www.bangkokpost.net on August.6.99. [Contact: Mr Topong Kulkhanchit, Access Officer, DPI-Thailand, dpith@loxinfo.co.th]. 4. PROFILES OF ACTIVE GROUPS Please send us your latest details and news if you would like your group to be profiled in future Flashes. Sustainable Transport Network of the Philippines (STN) In 1998 Philippine NGOs that had already been meeting informally for two years under the Sustainable Transport Forum decided to form an advocacy network called the Sustainable Transport Network of the Philippines. (STN). Their first initiative was to invite George Esquerra, Director of the Department of Transport and Communications, to present the JICA-funded master plan for Metro Manila to the SUSTRAN General Assembly meeting in June 1998. Delegates were somewhat shocked by the massive road-building plans in the study. STN is advocating more pro-poor and sustainable transport policies in Manila and other Philippine settlements. SUSTRAN News Flash #33 highlighted a cycling demonstration in Manila. Recently, STN member Ramon Fernan of Cycling Advocates has been engaged as part of a team to provide bicycle planning input for a World Bank-funded project in Marikina City in Metro Manila. Members of STN include: Alternative Planning Initiatives (Alterplan); Citizens Alliance for Consumer Protection (CACP); Co Multiversity/COTRAIN; Cycling Advocates (CYCAD); Green Forum; and the Philippine Greens. [Contact: Green Forum (Mr Gil Reoma or Mr Sam Ferrer), 14 Mabait St., Teachers' Village, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines. Tel: +632 925-3738, Fax: +632 925-3739, E-mail: GreenFm@phil.gn.apc.org or Mr Ramon Fernan, CYCAD, E-mail: heckler@quickweb.com.ph]. 5. JAKARTA PEDICAB DRIVERS NETWORK Last June, Jakarta's newly-appointed Governor Sutiyoso announced that pedicabs would again be allowed to operate after 10 years of being banned from the city. He did this without first repealing the old law, though, and faced strong criticism from the city council. Thousands of pedicab drivers came flooding in, and by July, more than 5,000 pedicabs were on the city's streets. But after only one week of free pedicabbing, pressure from opponents in the government and in the motor transport lobby reversed the policy. Pedicabs were again confiscated, leaving thousands of men without jobs - this time hopelessly in debt. When pedicabs were confiscated, drivers dealt with the crisis alone, and most never get their vehicles back. During the ban, the Urban Poor Consortium and other Indonesian NGOs began working with pedicab drivers in five communities. They organised rallies, which provided a platform for drivers to meet, organise themselves and discuss strategies for dealing with eviction squads, negotiating with the municipality. The Pedicab Drivers Network now includes 3,000 drivers in 24 communities, and has initiated a weekly savings scheme. The ban is still on, but pedicabs are still on the street. A big demonstration in October 1998, which resulted in the release of all confiscated pedicabs to their owners, has given a big boost to the drivers' struggle for their right to work. A video documentary produced by Urban Poor Consortium (UPC) describes the life of Gopur, one of Jakarta's pedicab drivers, and looks at how the government's pedicab policy flip- flops have affected his life and the lives of thousands of others like him. [Source: newsletter of the Asian Coalition for Housing Rights (ACHR) 73 Soi Sonthiwattana 4, Ladprao 110, Ladprao Rd, Bangkok 10310, Thailand. E-Mail: achrsec@email.ksc.net, Tel (66 2) 538 0919 Fax (66 2) 539 9950. Contact: Urban Poor Consortium (Konsorsium Kemiskinan Kota), Billy Moon Blok H-I/7 Jakarta 13450, Indonesia. Phone/Fax: (62.21) 8642915, e-mail: upc@centrin.net.id Urban Poor Website: http://welcome.to/urbanpoor] 6. POLLUTION INSIDE VEHICLES HIGHER THAN OUTSIDE A study funded by the California Air Resources Board (ARB) and the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) has found that exposure to some air pollutants and toxic compounds may be ten times higher inside vehicles than in ambient air. The two-year, $440,000 study is the first to gather particulate data inside vehicles and the first to collect real-time information under a range of traffic and driving conditions. The study measured the direct exposure of motor vehicle occupants to gaseous pollutants, diesel soot and other fine particles. Researchers found levels of hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide were between two and ten times higher inside vehicles than at roadside or fixed monitoring stations. The variations depended on the pollutant, the type of road and the level of traffic. Researchers found that as much as half of the pollutants inside test cars were emitted by the vehicle ahead. In general, levels pollutants are higher inside vehicles because cars are surrounded by emissions from other vehicles on freeways and streets. Motorists who used air conditioning systems and those who drove with their air vents open were exposed to similar amounts of pollution. The report can be accessed at: 7. RESOURCES The latest edition of the Asian Coalition for Housing Rights' excellent newsletter, "Housing by People in Asia", No. 12, April 1999, has several inspiring items on transport issues for the urban poor. [Contact: Asian Coalition for Housing Rights (ACHR) 73 Soi Sonthiwattana 4, Ladprao 110, Ladprao Rd, Bangkok 10310, Thailand. E-Mail: achrsec@email.ksc.net, Tel (66 2) 538 0919 Fax (66 2) 539 9950]. "The Real Price of Gas" by the Campaign on Auto Pollution (CAP), 310 D St., N.E., Washington, DC 20002. For a copy of the full report, contact: CTA at +1 202-547-9359, or www.icta.org More specifically, it can be downloaded at http://www.icta.org/projects/trans/ However they warn that "This is a large file that may take some time to download". "Save the City" (nine minute video). By UITP (International Union (Association) of Public Transport), with the support of the International Commission on Traffic and Urban Planning. It shows in an amusing and entertaining way how urban planning must include Public Transport to improve the quality of life in cities. Contact: UITP, International Union of public Transport-UITP, Avenue Herrmann-Debroux 17, B-1160 Bruxelles, Belgium. Tel: +32 2 673 61 00, Fax: +32 2 660 10 72. E-mail: library@uitp.com "PARKING POLICY: State of the Art" (UITP, February 1999). Examines how to control parking in dense urban zones, parking charges, how to regulate the construction of parking spaces in new buildings, measures for limiting free parking, and P+R schemes near stations and stops around the public transport network. Several case studies (London, Greater Paris Ile-de-France Region, Vienna and Bern). Trilingual (English + French + German) edition. D/1999/0105/1, Price 500 BEF or 12 EUR (excl. VAT, Postal & Bank charges). [Contact: UITP - see above]. "Measuring the Unmeasurable: Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation of Networks". Edited by Marilee Karl with Anita Anand, Floris Blankenberg, Allert van den Ham and Adrian Saldanha. This book offers case studies of networks and a discussion on how to plan, monitor and evaluate. Shows how various networks -- national, regional and international - have agonised over these questions, searched for solutions, and implemented change. ISBN 81-90 1005-0-6. Price: US$ 30.00 plus postage. [To order: Tel 91-11-4629886, 4632546. Fax 91-11-4611138. Email wfsdel@giasdl01.vsnl.net.in, Cheques may be made payable to The Women's Feature Service. The Women's Feature Service is located at 269 Varick Street, #2G, Jersey, City, NJ 07302 USA, tel. 1.201.433.1922, fax 1.201.433.1781, e-mail: gsidhu@igc.org]. The latest edition of the journal, "Accident Analysis & Prevention" (Vol 31, Issue 4) is a SPECIAL ISSUE ON DEVELOPING COUNTRIES and includes a number of transport-related articles, including: * "Urban development and traffic accidents in Brazil" by EA Vasconcellos * "Risky behavior of bus commuters and bus drivers in Karachi, Pakistan" by S Mirza, M Mirza, H Chotani, S Luby * "Pedestrian environment and behaviour in Karachi, Pakistan" by FM Khan, M Jawaid, H Chotani, S Luby For Accident Analysis & Prevention subscription details or purchase information for the above special issue please send an email to s.iannacci@elsevier.co.uk 8. INTERNET RESOURCES "World Bank must do more to develop safe and sustainable transportation systems", by Ian Roberts. BMJ 1999;318 1694. http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/318/7199/1694 Pedestrian signs from around the world. An amazing collection by Bartolomeo Mec?nico: http://www.ips.be/_wbm/rkid02.htm "TransportActions" quarterly news update of the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) is at http://www.ITDP.org. Latest articles include: * Indonesian Crisis Increases Smog, But Opens Door to Non-Motorized Transport * India Cycle Rickshaw Improvement Project Update * China: Bike Use Plummets While Promised Bus Lanes Fail to Materialize * Organizing the Bicycle Industry to Tackle Tariffs * ITDP Investigates Bulgarian Connection * Creating Jobs With Bikes in Haiti * Panama's Corredor Sur: Still a Bad Idea Pedestrian Council of Australia. Email: walking@walk.com.au, Ph +61 02 - 9968 4544, Fax +61 02 - 9968 4566, http://www.ozemail.com.au/~walking/ The UK DETR has just put up pages on Green Transport Plans at http://www.local-transport.detr.gov.uk/gtp/index.htm "City Routes, City Rights: Building Livable Neighbourhoods and Environmental Justice by Fixing Transportation" http://www.tlcnetwork.org/download.html. "Vehicle Travel Speeds and Incidence of Fatal Pedestrian Collisions, volume 1" by the Australian Federal Office of Road Safety. (www.dot.gov.au/fors/index.htm). Shows that a small reduction in speeding has a great influence on accident rates. Resources on "Parking Cash Out" schemes (thanks to Todd Litman for this list). Parking Cash Out means that if employees who drive receive free parking, employees who don't drive should receive transit subsidies or cash for those who rideshare, walk or bicycle. It's one of the most effective TDM strategies available, typically reducing automobile trips by 10-20%. For information see: * The USEPA Commuter Choice Program, (http://www.epa.gov/orcdizux/transp/comchoic/f98029.htm) * Don Shoup, "Congress Okays Cash Out," Access, Vol. 13, (http://sacrates.berkeley.edu/~uctc), Fall 1998, pp. 2-8. * Win-Win Transportation Management Strategies, VTPI (http://www.islandnet.com/~litman) 9. EVENTS "Pemberdayaan angkutan umum" [strengthening public transport], A one-day seminar in West Java in early September 1999. [Contact: Harun al-Rasyid Sorah Lubis, of "Masyarakat Transportasi Indonesia" (Transport Community of Indonesia), a new transport-focused NGO. E-mail: halubis@trans.si.itb.ac.id]. "Global City-Regions Conference", Los Angeles, October 21 - 23, 1999. Hosted by the UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research. For sponsorship information, please contact the Conference Coordinator, Dr. Nga Scott, telephone: 1+(310) 825-8682; fax: 1+(310) 206-5773; e-mail: nscott@ucla.edu. Global City-Regions Conference UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research, 3250 Public Policy Building, Box 951656, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1656, Tel: 1 + (310) 794-5477, Fax: 1 + (310) 267-0282, Email: globalcityregions@sppsr.ucla.edu "CODATU IX World Congress on Urban Transportation" - central theme: Urban Transportation and the Environment, Mexico City 11-14 April 2000 [Contact: CODATU IX Scientific Committee, Christian JAMET, 9/11, Av. De Villars 75007 Paris, France. Fax: +33 1 44 18 78 04, E-mail: christian.jamet@stp-paris.fr]. VELO MONDIALE 2000 REMINDER - V?lo Mondial 2000 now has an internet site at: http://www.velomondial2000.nl/ - including 'call for contributions'. The deadline is looming - don't delay! 10. QUICK QUOTE Here is an excerpt of a tribute by Christine Dirks in the London Free Press to William Whyte, who passed away earlier this year: "He wrote several books on city life such as The Social Life of Urban Spaces (1980), Cluster Development (1963), The Last Landscape (1968) and City (1988). They grew from his love of the street. The street, he said, is where we come together... Like all great artists, William H. Whyte made the seemingly insignificant significant. The urban theorist and researcher who influenced generations of sociologists, planners, designers, students and any one interested in how people actually behave in public spaces, died in January at the age of 81... 'It is difficult to design a place that will not attract people,' Whyte once wrote. 'What is remarkable is how often this has been accomplished.'" 11. LIGHTER SIDE An American joke which reflects the depth of car culture in the good ol' US of A: "I tell you, women drivers are a hazard to traffic... Driving to work this morning on the freeway, I looked over to my left and there was a woman in a Mustang doing 65 miles per hour with her face up next to her rear view mirror putting on her eyeliner! I looked away for a couple seconds and when I looked back she was halfway over in my lane!! It scared me so bad I dropped my electric shaver in my coffee, and it spilled all over my cell phone!" ----------------------------------------------------- Written and compiled by A. Rahman Paul Barter We rely on you, the participants in the network, for our news. Thank you to all those who have contributed. Please keep the contributions coming. We welcome brief news and announcements from all over the world. The Sustainable Transport Action Network for Asia & the Pacific (SUSTRAN) promotes and popularises people-centred, equitable and sustainable transport with a focus on Asia and the Pacific. From sustran at po.jaring.my Thu Aug 12 13:08:57 1999 From: sustran at po.jaring.my (SUSTRAN Resource Centre) Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 12:08:57 +0800 Subject: [sustran] fwd: OZ Ped Summit & Charter Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19990812120857.00855aa0@relay101.jaring.my> Dear sustran-discussers This is forwarded from the pednet list. Probably of special interest to Australians and New Zealanders on the list. Paul. ----------------------- Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 14:46:16 +1000 From: Keys Young Pty Ltd Subject: pednet: OZ Ped Summit & Charter This message sent to pednet by Keys Young Pty Ltd . The Pedestrian Council of Australia is convening a Pedestrian Summit in Sydney on the 23rd 24th September this year at which a Pedestrian Charter will be debated and, hopefully, endorsed. We will be assisted in the process by Rodney Tolley from the UK and John Moffat from Seattle. Invitations are just about to go out to 100 delegates from around Australia. The list can help in two ways. Firstly, mainly for those of you in this part of the world ( I have noticed a few over the past year), I am looking for nominations for delegates who can make a contribution. We need a balance of people in decision making positions, knowledgable practitioners in a range of fields relating to pedestrian issues, and of course advocates for pedestrians of all ages and abilities. We are trying to get representation from all states of Australia but I would be happy to see representation from New Zealand. We have some sponsorship to put the event on and as a matter of policy don't want cost to be a barrier to the right delegates attending, but where possible would like them to pay their own way. Secondly, for all of you, suggestions for inclusion in a Pedestrian Charter and references to appropriate models would be gratefully received. A few weeks back Chloe Mason posted a reference to the Draft Charter on Transport, Environment and Health from the WHO London99 conference which is proving most useful. It is much better written and far more comprehensive than the '88 European Ped Charter, even if not solely relating to pedestrians. Earlier this year we had Ross Best's more personal March 4th Manifesto,...- where did that get to Ross? Any other suggestions? We will be circulating a draft Charter to delgates prior to the Summit . I may be able to post a version of it here then but will certainly do so after the Summit. While I am on, many thanks to all you pednetters for your contributions. The trouble is, there is now so many of you I have difficulty keeping up, making it difficult to contribute to ongoing threads. It is more like reading last months minutes than being in the meeting itself. Of course much of the material is parochial to N. America but you would be suprised how familiar many of the issues are to us here. I suggest that Charter material could be shared with the list, but nominations for the Summit should be sent direct to me here at Keys Young or at home to Ian Napier, Hon Secy. Pedestrian Council of Australia From eric.britton at ecoplan.org Thu Aug 12 15:15:16 1999 From: eric.britton at ecoplan.org (Eric Britton) Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 08:15:16 +0200 Subject: [sustran] OZ Ped Summit & Charter In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990812120857.00855aa0@relay101.jaring.my> Message-ID: Hello Down There, If you wish you could use some of the capacities of @Access - Sustainable Transportation Forum at http://www.ecoplan.org/access to support your Summit -- and in particular maybe as a collection point for the various charters and comments that you are reviewing and revising for the purposes of your own manifesto. We have already posted a notice of your 23/24 September meeting in the CALENDAR section, as well as having put in your WWW site URL under LINKS. It occurred to me that the "0-Motor" pages might make a useful temporary domicile for your materials during the run up. Finally, you might even want to consider organizing a VOICE CONFERENCE (full detail son the site), though good luck on getting a god time for anything that might also reach into us here in Europe and all those nice slim walking Americans. Good luck. Eric Britton ecopl@n ___ technology, economy, society ___ Le Frene, 8/10 rue Joseph Bara, 75006 Paris, France postmaster@ecoplan.org URL www.ecoplan.org Tel: +331.4326.1323 Videoconference +331.4441.6340 (1-4) 24 hour fax/voicemail hotline: In Europe +331 5301 2896 In North America +1 888 522 6419 (toll free) From sustran at po.jaring.my Thu Aug 12 20:03:30 1999 From: sustran at po.jaring.my (SUSTRAN Resource Centre) Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 19:03:30 +0800 Subject: [sustran] fwd: World Bank must do more to develop safe and sustainable transportation systems Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19990812190330.007c5e40@relay101.jaring.my> Dear SUSTRAN Discussers, Here is the letter mentioned in the latest SUSTRAN News Flash. ("World Bank must do more to develop safe and sustainable transportation systems", by Ian Roberts. BMJ 1999;318 1694. http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/318/7199/1694) Best wishes, Paul. Dr A. Rahman Paul BARTER Sustainable Transport Action Network for Asia and the Pacific (the SUSTRAN Network) P.O. Box 11501, Kuala Lumpur 50748, Malaysia. TEL/FAX: +60 3 2274 2590 E-mail: sustran@po.jaring.my Web: http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Canopy/2853/ The SUSTRAN Network promotes and popularises people-centred, equitable and sustainable transport with a focus on Asia and the Pacific. --------------------------------------- BMJ 1999;318:1694 ( 19 June ) Letters World Bank must do more to develop safe and sustainable transportation systems EDITOR In examinations of the World Bank's role in international health its influence on the development of transportation systems must not be overlooked.1 Each year about one million people die in road traffic accidents, with perhaps 10 million permanently disabled.2 And for most of the world the epidemic of road deaths and injuries is just beginning. It is estimated that by 2020 road traffic accidents will be the third leading cause of disability adjusted life years lost worldwide and the second leading cause in the demographically developing countries.3 The extent of the carnage will depend heavily on the type of transportation infrastructure the bank promotes. The importance of bank policy on transportation is underscored by the fact that 13% of lending is for transportation compared with 11% for health, nutrition, and population.1 Close to 80% of the world's cars are owned and produced by the 15% of the world's population who live in North America, western Europe, and Japan. The same countries hold the greatest voting power at the bank, which may not bode well for the development of safe and sustainable transportation systems. For example, China with its millions of bicycles has one of the most equitable and sustainable transportation systems on the planet.4 With European and North American car markets reaching saturation point, however, car manufacturers are looking east. The epidemic of road deaths in China has yet to begin, but already an estimated 29 000 children are killed on the roads each year.2 The midwife to this new epidemic may well turn out to be the World Bank itself, by conflating motorisation and development and failing to count the true cost of car travel. The neglect of road trauma by the World Health Organisation, and the fact that global funding for research into road safety is lower than that for almost any other cause of human misery, will do nothing to help. Ian Roberts, Director. Child Health Monitoring Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Institute of Child Health, London WC1N 1EH Ian.Roberts@ich.ucl.ac.uk 1. Abbasi K. The World Bank and world health: Changing sides. BMJ 1999; 318: 865-869. (27 March.) 2. Murray CJL, Lopez AD. Global health statistics: a compendium of incidence, prevalence and mortality estimates for over 200 conditions. Harvard School of Public Health, Boston: Harvard University Press , 1996. 3. Murray CJL, Lopez AD. Alternative projections of mortality and disability by cause 1990-2020: global burden of disease study. Lancet 1997; 349: 1498-1504 [Medline]. 4. Roberts I. Letter from Chengdu: China takes to the roads. BMJ 1995; 310: 1311-1313. ? British Medical Journal 1999 From sustran at po.jaring.my Fri Aug 13 13:37:44 1999 From: sustran at po.jaring.my (SUSTRAN Resource Centre) Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 12:37:44 +0800 Subject: [sustran] New Zealand Sustainable Transport Network (STN) Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19990813123744.0082b100@relay101.jaring.my> I have just been contacted by Elizabeth Yeaman of the New Zealand Sustainable Transport Network. This network is an interesting model for anyone trying to start a national network on these issues. In this case, it is someone in a government environmental agency who has taken the initiative. Below is some information from their web site: http://www.eeca.govt.nz/content/ew_government/Sustainable_Transport/Sustaina ble_Network.htm (TIP: you will need to cut and paste the whole web site address into your browser because it is longer than one line of email). The site also has downloadable copies of their newsletter - they are excellent and inspiring. There is a lot happening on sustainable transport in New Zealand! Paul. -------------- Sustainable Transport Network The Sustainable Transport Network is an informal network of groups with a common interest in creating a more sustainable transport future for New Zealand, thereby realising the full range of benefits associated with improving transport energy use in New Zealand. Under the umbrella of "sustainable transport" users are: public transport users pedestrians cyclists car-poolers/ridesharers telecommuters EECA compiles a two monthly e-mail newsletter which includes information on the activities and views of sustainable transport end-user groups alongside those of central and local government and other transport providers. Newsletters [earlier editions available to download at the web site ....] To be added or removed from the e-mailing list for this newsletter, please contact Liz Yeaman, Transport and Local Government Executive at EECA, PO Box 388, Wellington. Ph: 04 470 2228. E-mail: Elizabeth Yeaman Carpooling / Ridesharing EECA has produced a website-based software package to put car drivers and potential passengers in touch with eachother. The aim is to increase vehicle occupancy rates, thereby improving overall transport fuel efficiency and reducing transport fuel emissions, as well as providing a range of other benefits to rideshare users. The EECA Rideshare Software was originally developed and tested as a pilot programme at Lincoln University..... Visit Lincoln University's Lincoln Connection rideshare website (http://www.lincoln.ac.nz/rideshare/) ... Cyclists New Zealand has a national voice for cyclists - the Cycling Advocates' Network (CAN). Can promotes cycling as an enjoyable, healthy, low-cost and environment-friendly activity, and as a key part of an integrated, sustainable transport system. Visit their website (http://www.kennett.co.nz/can/) ..... Pedestrians Ensuring the voice of pedestrians is clearly heard in decision making processes is the objective of work being undertaken by national pedestrian advocate, Reena Kokotailo, under a grant from the Road Safety Trust. The first priority is the development of an informal pedestrian advocacy network for those interested in pedestrian issues, then a more formal national pedestrian association which can provide a strong and informed voice for pedestrians in national roading decision making processes. To be part of a pedestrian network or involved in the development of a national pedestrian organisation contact : Reena Kokotailo (kikotailo@xtra.co.nz) Phone: 09 525 2280 From sustran at po.jaring.my Mon Aug 16 10:34:51 1999 From: sustran at po.jaring.my (SUSTRAN Resource Centre) Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 09:34:51 +0800 Subject: [sustran] (Fwd) Call for Papers for the 9th WCTR in Seoul, 2001 Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19990816093451.0082a100@relay101.jaring.my> forwarded message: Dear WCTR Members or Those who are interested in Transport Research On behalf of the WCTR Society and the Local Organizing Committee of 9th WCTR, we are very pleased to send First Call for Papers for the 9th WCTR conference to be held in Seoul on July 22- 27, 2001. If you need any further information, please visit our web site, http://www.koti.re.kr/~wctr. Thanks for your concerns. Your sincerely, 9th WCTR Conference Director ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- 9TH WCTR CONFERENCE IN SEOUL, 2001 CALL FOR PAPERS 1. 9TH WCTR CONFERENCE - Date: July 22~27, 2001 - Venue: ASEM International Convention Center, Seoul, Korea - Co-organizers: Korean Society of Transportation & The Korea Transport Institute 2. KEY DATES - April 15, 2000 Deadline for submission of abstracts - July 15, 2000 Authors notkfied of acceptance/rejection of abstracts - January15, 2000 Deadline for submission of full papers - March 15, 2001 Refereed papers to be returned to authors for revision - May 15, 2001 Deadline for submission of the revised papers and registration - July 22-27, 2001 9th WCTR in Seoul, Korea 3. INTRODUCTION The World Conference on Transport Research (WCTR) has a long and distinguished history: Rotterdam (1978), London (1980), Hamburg (1983), Vancouver (1986), Yokohama (1989), Lyon (1992), Sydney (1995) and Antwerp (1998). This series began with predecessor conferences, the International Conference on Transportation Research at Bruges (1973), and an important research conference in Paris (1975). The WCTR is recognized worldwide as the most important international conference of its kind. The organizers aim at assembling managers, policymakers and academics in one single forum so that they can exchange views on the practice and theory of transport research. The emphasis is on the interface between research results and policy-making. Each of the past eight conferences attracted numerous participants from all over the world and from all sectors of the transport industry and the world of transport in general. By attending this conference, each participant will access an international network in his or her own field and with links to connected fields. At the same time, there will be many opportunities for establishing personal contacts with colleagues and international top executive people. The 9th WCTR Conference is to be held in Seoul on July 22-27, 2001 jointly hosted by Korean Society of Transportation and The Korea Transport Institute. The Local Organizing Committee will do its best to make this conference successful by providing conference participants with technical sessions, technical visits, entertainment programs and sightseeing tours. Also to encourage the highest quality papers, prizes and awards will be offered for top quality papers presented. The year of 2001 will be an excellent time to host WCTR conference in Seoul, especially with the new Inchon International Airport, scheduled to be in operation by the end of 2000. We anticipate that over 2,000 transport professionals will gather in Seoul. We look forward to seeing you in Seoul in 2001! 4. CONFERENCE TOPIC AREAS A. Transport Modes A1. Road and Railway Technology Development A2. Maritime Transport and Ports (SIG) A3. Airports and Aviation (SIG ATRG) A4. Non-motorized Transport A5. Other Modes B. Transport Systems B1. Public Transport and Intermodality B2. Telecommunications and Advanced Information Systems (SIG) B3. Logistics, Freight and Fleet Management (SIG) B4. Modal Interfaces and Combined Freight Transport B5. Urban Goods Movement (SIG) B6. Integrated Supply Chain Management C. Planning, Operation, Management and Control C1. Integrated Planning of Transport Systems C2. Safety Analysis and Policy (SIG) C3. Traffic Control C4. Traffic Management, Pricing Policy and Advanced Debiting C5. Transport Systems Maintenance (SIG) C6. Network Design, Optimal Routing and Scheduling D. Transport Modeling D1. Passenger Transport Demand Modeling D2. Freight Transport Demand Modeling D3. Integrated Supply/Demand Modeling D4. Applied Geographical Information Systems D5. Data Collection Methods D6. Travel and Shipper Behavior Research E. Assessment, Appraisal and Scenarios E1. Assessment and Appraisal Method w.r.t. transport infrastructure projects and transport activities E2. Performance Measurement E3. Valuation of Internal and External Benefits /Costs E4. Ex-Post Evaluation and/or Post-Factum Analysis E5. Speculative Futures E6. Case Studies F. Spatial and Environmental Economics and Engineering F1. Transport and Spatial Development (SIG) F2. Urban Patterns and Transport F3. Transport and the Environment: The Global Challenge (SIG) F4. Transport and the Environment: Regional and Local Impacts (SIG) F5. Criteria for Sustainability (including Backcasting Approaches of Evaluation) G. Transport in Developing Countries G1. Urban Development Problems (SIG) G2. Rural Transport G3. Non-motorized Transport in Developing Countries (SIG) G4. The Role of Transport for Economic Development G5. Transport issues in the Northeast Asian Region G6. Case Studies H. Transport Policy, (De-)regulation, Subvention and/or Investment H1. Public Sector Performance H2. Public/Private Partnerships and Major Infrastructure Projects H3. Deregulation, Privatization and New Institutional Concepts H4. Strategic Changes in Transportation Organizations H5. Transport Information Networks H6. Issues and Perspectives in Korean Transport 5. WCTR SOCIETY AND 9TH WCTR COMMITTEES (1) WCTR SOCIETY - DIRECTORATE WCTRS Chairman, H. Nakamura (J) Secretary General, A. Bonnafous(F) Ex-president, M. Manheim (USA) Nomination, R. Rivier (CH) Site Selection, D. Eberlein (D) Treasurer, R. Vermerght (B) Constitution, A. Huzayyin (ET) Audit, J. Black (AUS) Liaison to International Organization, K. Gwilliam(USA) - SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE(SCC) Chair, W. Rothengatter (D) Vice Chairs Program, Refereeing, E. Van de Voorde(B) Prize, Bursaries & Award, P. Bonsall (GB) Publication, Dissemination, J. Viegas(P) Liaison to Local Program, T. Oum (CDN) Committee Topic Areas A, B, C. Ruijgrok(NL) Topic Areas C, D, E. Cascetta(I) Topic Areas G, H, E. Sharaf(ET) Topic Area E, T. Oum(CDN) Topic Area F, W. Rothengatter(D) - JOURNAL EDITORS Editor-in-Chief, M. Ben-Akiva (USA) Editor, Y. Hayashi (J) Editor, J. Preston(GB) - HONORARY MEMBERS M. Frybourg (F) T. Heaver (CDN) - 9th WCTR CONFERENCE DIRECTOR C. Park (KOR) (2) 9TH WCTR COMMITTEES - CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRPERSON Dong-Deuck Cha Soo-Young Lee - LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Chairperson, Chang-Ho Park - Members: Dae Soon Choi, Sigon Kim, Byung Moo Choi, Ki Jung Kum, Dong Ik Ha, Young-in Kwon, Hun-Koo Ha, Kwanghoon Lee, Deok Hyung Jang, Jaehak Oh, Seung-Pil Kang, Seung Hwoon Oh, Dae Ho Kim, Young Tae Oh, Heung Soo Kim Chihyun Shin - Members: Joong Rae Cho, Sung Soo Kim, Byung-Kuk Choi, Youngchan Kim, Keechoo Choi, Oh-Kyoung Kwon, Gap Seon Hong, Yong Jae Lee, Kee Yeon Hwang, Young Kyun Lee, Kyung-woo Kang, Eun Mi Park, Seung Young Kho, Jongho Rhee, Ikki Kim, Eui Young Shon Soo Cheul Kim, Sun Duck Suh - LOCAL FINANCE COMMITTEE Chairperson, Inwon Lee - Members: Myung Hee Chang, Dae Ho Kim, Hyong In Chin, Yeon Bok Kim, Chun Soo Chung, Chul Koh, Eui Yong Chung, Kyung Koo Kwon, Sung Pyo Hong, Han Joon Lee, Jae Hong Kang, Yong Sang Lee, Wi Hoon Kang, Man Young Ro 6. ABSTRACT SUBMISSION If you wish to present a paper, please: a.. Submit 1,000 word-length abstract in English or French. b.. Include authors affiliation and address with e-mail, phone and/or fax number, paper title and four key words. c.. Indicate the broad topic area (refer to Conference Topic Areas). d.. In the case of a multiple-author abstract, please indicate which author will present the paper. Authors are limited to two presentations of their own papers. If a third or fourth paper by the same author is accepted, it must be presented by another author. e.. Send your abstract to the 9th WCTR Conference Secretariat at the following address. f.. The preferred method of submitting abstracts/papers is via e-mail or Web site. g.. Paper acceptance is conditional upon receipt of the full paper, author's conference registration and payment. Secretariat of 9th WCTR Conference The Korea Transport Institute 2311 Daehwa-Dong, Ilsan-Gu, Koyang-city, Kyonggi-Do, 411-410, KOREA Tel : +82-344-910-3100, Fax: +82-344-910-3200 E-mail: wctr@cis.koti.re.kr, http://www.koti.re.kr/~wctr 7. AWARDS AND PRIZES Two WCTR prizes of US$1,000 each, one open for all submitters, the other only to authors under 35, will be awarded for exceptional papers submitted to WCTR which significantly contribute to the field of transport. The criteria for award of these prizes will include scientific merit, originality, clarity and relevance. The abstract and paper should be written with these criteria in mind. Also a limited number of bursaries will be available for authors of excellent papers, judged on the same criteria as above, whose attendance is otherwise in doubt 8. DEADLINES a.. DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS April 15, 2000 a.. DEADLINE FOR FULL PAPERS January 15, 2001 From sustran at po.jaring.my Tue Aug 17 10:56:08 1999 From: sustran at po.jaring.my (SUSTRAN Resource Centre) Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 09:56:08 +0800 Subject: [sustran] fwd: CSE India - The coke and diesel men Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19990817095608.007e0b10@relay101.jaring.my> (See news on CSE's diesel campaign near the bottom of this essay, which discusses lessons and analogies from Belgium's Coke scare.) ---------------------- From: "webadmin" Organization: Center For Science and Environment Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 15:18:11 +0530 Subject: What's new at CSE ....... A message from our Director, Anil Agarwal The coke and diesel men Indian companies have a lot to learn from the recent Coke scare in Europe. In two separate incidents, more than 100 Belgians fell ill last month after drinking Coke. This scare came after a series of similar incidents had already taken place in Europe from the ?mad cow disease? to the more recent debate over genetically modified foods and the latest scare over poultry products in Belgium being tainted with cancer-causing dioxin. In France, Belgium and the Netherlands, most of the Coke products were banned and in Switzerland, Italy and Spain, health ministers put out public warnings against Coke products coming from the two suspect bottling plants, even though the company does not ship its products to these countries from those plants. The stock market also turned bearish on Coca Cola shares. The company itself was partly to blame. On June 21, in its first advertisement appearing in France, it claimed that the quality of its products was beyond reproach, which many people found to be ?more pompous than apologetic?, as the Financial Times put it. Paul Holmes, editor of Reputation Management, pointed out, ?People like to see companies admit ?we?re human, we can make mistakes and we?re doing the best we can. That?s a much more consumer-friendly message than ?Our products are perfect and we can do no wrong?.? Fortunately, the company recognised its mistake fast and soon came out with a new strategy to undertake damage control. It admitted that the problem had occurred at one plant because of defective carbon dioxide and at another, a foul-smelling fungicide had leaked on to Coke cans. And Coca Cola?s chairperson, Douglas Ivester, himself apologised for any discomfort or inconvenience brought on by its products and that the company will guarantee the quality and safety of its products at every instant that is, at every point of the retail chain. In full-page newspaper advertisements across Belgium, Ivester said, ?To all the Belgian people, I want to say that I?m personally very sorry for any discomfort or inconvenience. My colleagues and I will be working very hard to earn your trust again.? Coke?s products are slowly getting back into the shops. The entire episode was too small to affect Coke?s finances. Belgium, France and the Netherlands make up less than 4 per cent of Coke?s global volume but it could have caused irreparable damage to the company?s reputation. This episode has left Coke management a lot more sobre and mature about how it should handle public concerns. As a US consultant told USA Today, ?The public fundamentally does not trust big companies, and it tends to believe negative health information. Companies should address two questions from their customers: ?Am I going to be okay?? and ?What are you doing about it?? This is an important lesson for Indian companies, too. India?s economic development is still very low and so are its levels of urbanisation, industrialisation, motorisation and agricultural modernisation. All this will pump enormous amounts of poisons into India?s environment, create incredible levels of pollution and seriously affect public health unless serious steps are taken to prevent it. India is already reaching unbearable levels of pollution even though its economy is still one of the poorest in the world. In such a situation, it would help Indian CEOs to understand that public concern over such issues should be dealt with care and caution. Being dismissive of these concerns does not help the image of the companies, especially big companies. But this lesson is yet to be learnt. If it is pointed out that diesel vehicles pose a serious threat, diesel vehicle manufacturers are quick to ask ?but what about petrol cars?? and ?aren?t you being paid by petrol vehicle manufacturers?? Similarly, oil companies claim that they are meeting all fuel quality standards set by the government at their refinery gate. They are not therefore prepared to take responsibility for the huge adulteration that takes place during the transport and retail stage. Oil companies are expected to keep a watch on fuel quality but never find a single case of adulteration even after checks, simply because they don?t see the quality supplied to the consumer as their responsibility. Recently, Down to Earth carried a major story featuring major foreign car manufacturers who had been asked a few simple questions (Down To Earth, Vol 8, No 4, July 15) : Why are you promoting diesel vehicles in a city like Delhi which already has extremely high levels of particulates in its ambient air which kill nearly 10,000 people every year? Are you not aware of these health effects of particulates, especially as most of this research is being done in your own countries? Even if the Indian government does not stop you from making diesel cars, should you not desist from doing so yourself? Not one company gave us a straight answer about the particulate problem from diesel cars. In the so-called ?market?, the rumour is that Down to Earth is being paid off by Korean car companies because they are more hesitant to produce diesel cars. In other words, public concerns grow only when some vested interest is behind it. These companies simply forget that public health and environmental concerns will slowly catch public attention and it is they who will suffer damage to their reputation in the market. It?s best to face the challenge rather than to deny it. ? Anil Agarwal Visit our website at www.cseindia.org or www.oneworld.org/cse and check out what's new. Our website carries our science and environment fortnightly Down To Earth, a weekly Feature Service of articles on environment and a daily environment newsflash by subject categories. We also give regular updates on all of our campaigns on topics like vehicular pollution, climate change, biodiversity, water resources, wildlife, forests etc. Our online library of books, journals, images and videos is searchable through a thesaurus of environmental keywords. From sustran at po.jaring.my Tue Aug 17 11:20:45 1999 From: sustran at po.jaring.my (SUSTRAN Resource Centre) Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 10:20:45 +0800 Subject: [sustran] fwd: US discussion of walkable communities (on-line) Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19990817102045.0080ce20@relay101.jaring.my> >From: "Webster, Kate" >Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 13:51:24 -0400 > >Sustainable USA Network > >Featured Guest Speaker: Mark Fenton, >On Walkable and Livable Communities >August 19th, 1999 at 1 p.m. > >How do you want to live? Are you satisfied with driving everywhere with >windows rolled up and doors locked, fearing for safety, and not even knowing >your neighbors? How long will we as a society tolerate living this way? >Visit the SUNetwork website (www.sustainableusa.org) on Thursday August 19th >at 1p.m.(EST) when we will be discussing these questions and more. > >This months featured guest, Mark Fenton, Editor at Large of Walking >Magazine, will host an interactive discussion on building healthier, more >walkable communities, as a solution to the growing societal problems >resulting from the unintended consequences of the "mall and sprawl" society >of the 90's. > >Mark is a five-time race walking champion, and an expert on the topic of >walking. Highlighting his knowledge and sharing some of the lessons he has >learned, Mark will provide solutions to promote smart growth and other >important community issues through the development of well-designed >communities that encourage more travel on foot. A growing body of evidence >suggests that people walking in a city or town is a powerful barometer of >that community's economic, environmental, and social health, as well as an >effective catalyst for change. > >Global Environment & Technology Foundation (GETF), host of the SUNetwork, is >using its expertise in sustainability partnership building, information >technology development, and project management to create both a human and >electronic (www.sustainableusa.org) network that allows individuals, >organizations, governments and businesses to leverage existing resources and >more effectively address sustainable development challenges. The SUNetwork >and its partners maximize national, regional, and local investment in >sustainable economic development. > >The SUNetwork is dedicated spotlighting Americans who are striving to >balance economic growth, a healthy environment and keeping America's >sustainable progress moving forward to build the quality of life for us all. >It is about encouraging others, and providing the tools and education >necessary to take steps to build the quality of life in their own >communities. > >Every two weeks experts in sustainability, like Mark Fenton, are >highlighted. Featured speakers and topics are widely diverse. The SUNetwork >aims to bring people together from backgrounds with different expertise but >with a common concern for the future, serving as a means for sharing >information, looking across issues, and building new partnerships. > >This is your opportunity to learn what you can do to take a step in the >right direction. So, come out to http://www.sustainableusa.org on August >19th at 1p.m. EST, and chat with Mark and other Americans who share a >similar concern. If you would like to receive future announcements about >SUNetwork features and events, please add you name to our database at >http://www.sustainableusa.com/feedback/mailinglist.cfm. From eric.britton at ecoplan.org Mon Aug 23 15:27:45 1999 From: eric.britton at ecoplan.org (Eric Britton) Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 08:27:45 +0200 Subject: [sustran] Transportation Investments/Land Values - The missing link Message-ID: @Access ? The Sustainable Transportation Forum at http://www.ecoplan.org/access - Update 1. Linking Transportation Investments to Land Values: At a slight delay you will find on the @Access site now the promised summary and full interim report on the Group Project investigating the topic of data availability on the links between transportation investments or projects and changes in real estate or land values in the targeted area (or others). For the in-process Summary for review and comment, you are invited to click the Joint @Project link toward the top of the @Access menu, perhaps first clicking the small red icon (ball) just before it for a quick explanation of how all that works. 2. Use/Share: We hope not only that you will find this of some use, but also that you will, if you have additional information or suggestions for us, chose to share them with the group. That might be done either by commenting to this mail list, or directly to the @Access group via the mail function there. 3. Future Joint @Access Projects: The present report will be held on the site through September while we gather additional comments and feedbacks, but as of 1 October that slot is going to come open for the next such collaborative group investigation and discussion. Perhaps you have some ideas for a topic for the October program. If so, and if too you have some thoughts about who and how this might be moderated, please let us all know. This is a powerful tool, taking some of the good communications and exchange capabilities that we have on this list a useful step further. 4. @Access Media Program: Somewhat lower down on the left menu, you will see a link with this title. For the most part these pages offer information on some of the books, children?s books, and other media which have been generated by the Access program over its first ten years. Most of what we do is either free or low cost. Have a look, and if you have any ideas for other materials that we might usefully add to this part of the site, we will be pleased to hear from you. 5. Voice Conferencing: It actually works. Click the icon and give it a try. Better yet, if you have a topic and are ready to moderate a group meeting (preferably a very small one until you get the hang of how all this pieces together), come onto the site and put these tools to work. 6. 21st Turtle: Sound unpromising? I dunno. What not go to http://www.ecoplan.org/21t and decide for yourself. Of course if you feel that we are doing just fine on the sustainability agenda, no sense in your wasting your time with this. Eric Britton ecopl@n ___ technology, economy, society ___ Le Frene, 8/10 rue Joseph Bara, 75006 Paris, France postmaster@ecoplan.org URL www.ecoplan.org Tel: +331.4326.1323 Videoconference +331.4441.6340 (1-4) 24 hour fax/voicemail hotline: In Europe +331 5301 2896 In North America +1 888 522 6419 (toll free) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: winmail.dat Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 6436 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://list.jca.apc.org/manage/private/sustran-discuss/attachments/19990823/67837456/winmail.bin From sustran at po.jaring.my Thu Aug 26 11:07:12 1999 From: sustran at po.jaring.my (SUSTRAN Resource Centre) Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 10:07:12 +0800 Subject: [sustran] Transport included in 3rd Urban Poverty Forum Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19990826100712.007c12e0@relay101.jaring.my> This information is from Brian Williams of Habitat in Nairobi. SAFETY in urban transprot has been chosen as one of the four major sub- themes at the Third International Conference of the Internaitonal Forum on Urban Poverty (IFUP) which will be held in Yamoussoukro, Cote d'Ivoire on 11-14 October 1999. With meetings every two years, the forum is a partnership among municipalities, bilateral and multilateral support agencies, private foundations, NGOs and community-based organziations that are active in the struggle against urban poverty and all of its ramifications. The overall theme of this year's conference is "Social Integration and Security for the Urban Poor: Cities for All." Anyone interested in attending the forum should contact: Brian Williams, Transport Focal Point United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat) P.O. Box 30030, Nairobi, Kenya Telephone: (254 2) 623-916 FAX: (254 2) 624-265 EMAIL: Brian.Williams@unchs.org ------------------------------ PLEASE NOTE NEW 8 DIGIT TELEPHONE/FAX NUMBER Dr A. Rahman Paul BARTER Sustainable Transport Action Network for Asia and the Pacific (SUSTRAN) P.O. Box 11501, Kuala Lumpur 50748, Malaysia. TEL/FAX: +60 3 2274 2590 E-mail: sustran@po.jaring.my (old address tkpb@barter.pc.my has been cancelled) Web: http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Canopy/2853/ The SUSTRAN Network promotes and popularises people-centred, equitable and sustainable transport with a focus on Asia and the Pacific. From sustran at po.jaring.my Thu Aug 26 14:23:28 1999 From: sustran at po.jaring.my (SUSTRAN Resource Centre) Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 13:23:28 +0800 Subject: [sustran] rail in solving KL transport problems Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19990826132328.007ec4f0@relay101.jaring.my> Dear sustran-discussers Here are some comments that I sent to a local journalist here in Kuala Lumpur for a piece she is writing on the role of rail systems in solving the Klang Valley's transport problems. (Klang Valley is the wider metropolitan area of Kuala Lumpur with about 3.8 million people.) I thought it might be of interest to the list. Paul. ----------------- Dear Manjeet Here are some comments on how I see the issue of the role of rail in improving public transport ... with comments in brackets about how this relates to the Klang Valley. I am sure this is way too much information but here it is anyway. I have put this together from other things I have written for other purposes. You can pick and choose what you need for this article. BACKGROUND ISSUES Public transport priority and investment is a centre-piece of any integrated package of policies aiming towards people-centred, equitable and sustainable transport. Every city deserves plentiful, affordable public transport. [The Klang Valley generally has affordable but not plentiful public transport.] Perhaps the most important benefit of good public transport is that it reduces the need and desire for private vehicle ownership to some extent and thus can massively reduce the amount of motorised travel. [In the Klang Valley I suspect that many people who can hardly afford cars are probably buying them because they feel that they cannot rely on the inadequate public transport.] Space efficiency is one primary reason that most public transport modes are considered to be very "city friendly". Space is a very precious commodity, especially in inner city areas. It has been said that one single-occupant car requires 75 times the amount of urban space as a pedestrian, 20 times that of a cyclist, and 13-40 times that of rail transit per unit of personal movement achieved (Professor John Whitelegg, 1993). Buses fall somewhere between cyclist and rail in terms of space used. These figures include the space required for parking. There are numerous tried and tested methods of improving public transport. In most cases, the problem is more one of lack of political will, inadequate institutions and lack of determination than technical barriers. PUBLIC TRANSPORT PRIORITY - BUS PRIORITY Even in cities with extensive urban rail systems, buses will always be important and it is vital that they receive priority on the streets to make them immune to traffic congestion as much as possible. Bus lanes are just one of a wide range of methods of giving buses priority. Others include: exemptions from banned turns; bus gates; bus priority streets; and selective vehicle detection (SVD) at traffic signals (so that buses get a green more often or even get a special head-start on the other traffic). In the absence of on-street priority, buses are prone to a VICIOUS CYCLE - as congestion increases, buses become slower and less attractive and even more people desert them for cars and motorcycles, thus making the congestion even worse. With on-street priority, buses can benefit from a VIRTUOUS CYCLE! As congestion worsens, buses with good priority become MORE attractive and their share of passenger traffic can rise. Speeding up the buses can be equivalent to expanding the bus fleet (at low cost!). For example, if bus priority can increase the number of round trips per bus per day from 6 to 7, this it is equivalent of adding 167 new buses to a fleet of 1000 buses. [KL's bus lanes are a good start on providing bus priority. Although there have been some problems with the lanes, the solution is to improve and fine-tune them not abolish them. It is very encouraging to see that the DBKL is experimenting with bus priority. The eventual aim is to "fix" as many as possible of the locations that cause buses significant delay. Bus companies and road authorities can work closely together to identify the locations where buses are suffering the worst delays and to find ways to solve them.] URBAN RAIL Urban rail systems are not a panacea for solving urban transport problems as some people think. However, in suitable cities, the high profile and popularity of rail systems can sometimes help to generate the political will to carry on with the other, less glamorous parts of such a policy package (such as parking policy, getting the prices right, traffic calming, restraining cars in busy central areas, etc). Urban rail systems are well suited to dense urban corridors in relatively large cities if they are able to afford their high capital costs. Large, middle-income cities can often justify rail systems on dense corridors, especially if they are also restraining private vehicle traffic. [The Klang Valley has about 3.8 million people or so and is considered to be upper-middle income. It has an urban density similar to many European and Japanese cities. But it is not doing much to restrain private vehicle traffic. In fact, the building of a large number of expressways is directly encouraging private vehicles. This makes it hard for public transport to compete. It has been argued that KL cannot restrain cars until public transport improves. BUT so long as cars are not restrained, public transport keeps declining in popularity. It is a chicken and egg problem. Cities that have successfully tackled this issue have mostly taken a step-by-step approach - restraining traffic a little and improving public transport a little - gradually over the years. For example, Singapore actually began to restrain private cars in 1972 - a long time before they opened their MRT system in 1986. Hong Kong also started restraining private vehicles in the late 1960s but only began running its mass rapid transit system in 1979. Seoul had very strict restraint of priavte cars throughout the 1960s and 1970s but only opened its first urban rail line in 1974.] LIGHT RAIL Various kinds of light rail systems offer an intermediate-cost rail option, that can be attractive and easily integrated into the urban fabric, especially if they are placed on the ground within road rights-of-way. Unfortunately, most Asian examples so far are very expensive elevated systems. Governments have been very reluctant to take space from traffic to put the systems on the ground. [KL's "light rail" systems are not typical light rail - they are much more expensive than typical light rail and are actually more like "metro" systems (at the low end of metro capacities).] INTEGRATION OF PUBLIC TRANSPORT Integration is a way to dramatically increase the attractiveness of public transport without expensive investment. In an integrated public transport system all key elements are institutionally required to communicate and to coordinate together (even if they remain under many different authorities). Integration involves: Fare integration - one type of ticket and/or farecard can be used for all modes of public transport, ideally with free transfers; Information integration - the public transport system is marketed as an integrated package. Information for passengers is easy to find and is provided by a single body (eg just one telephone hotline, a single map or information booklet, etc); Physical integration - good transfer facilities and waiting areas are provided for all modes and walking distances for transfers are minimised; Network integration - a comprehensive system of routes and their schedules are well-planned to provide easy transfers and high frequencies of service on popular routes. Better to cope with low demand times or routes with smaller vehicles than with lower frequency of service. [Currently the Klang Valley's public transport is very poorly integrated although I understand that negotiations are underway to improve the level of integration slightly.] URBAN PLANNING AND PUBLIC TRANSPORT Urban Planning can have a dramatic impact on the viability of different modes of transport. For example Transit Oriented Design (or Transit Oriented Development - TOD) is a strategy to plan urban areas in ways that encourage the use of public transport. Policies are needed to make sure that employment-intensive or travel-intensive businesses get located on sites that are easily accessible by public transport, walking and cycling and not just by private vehicles. [In the Klang Valley there are some good examples of big new developments that are being build at railway or LRT stations. These will help to encourage access by public transport. But there are also many more examples of major office and shopping developments in locations that are difficult to get to except by car or motorcycle. These encourage car and motorcycle use and further hurt the viability of public transport. Perhaps, future master plans could include guidelines to encourage transit-oriented development.] PLEASE NOTE NEW 8 DIGIT TELEPHONE/FAX NUMBER Dr A. Rahman Paul BARTER Sustainable Transport Action Network for Asia and the Pacific (SUSTRAN) P.O. Box 11501, Kuala Lumpur 50748, Malaysia. TEL/FAX: +60 3 2274 2590 E-mail: sustran@po.jaring.my (old address tkpb@barter.pc.my has been cancelled) Web: http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Canopy/2853/ The SUSTRAN Network promotes and popularises people-centred, equitable and sustainable transport with a focus on Asia and the Pacific. From eric.britton at ecoplan.org Thu Aug 26 23:45:41 1999 From: eric.britton at ecoplan.org (Eric Britton) Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 16:45:41 +0200 Subject: [sustran] Y2K bug - fix it yourself (Take 1) Message-ID: Hello, Apologies to all who already know this, but just in case you missed it, this helpful note on a necessary housekeeping task from a friend in Israel: Check your computers to make sure the date is set correctly. One of our engineers found this bug by talking to a friend at Microsoft. TEST: 1. Double click on "My Computer". 2. Double click on "Control Panel". 3. Double click on "Regional Settings" icon. 4. Click on the "Date" tab at the top of the page. 5. Where it says, "Short Date Sample" look and see if it shows a "two digit" year. Of course it does. That's the default setting for Windows 95, Windows 98 and NT. 6. This date RIGHT HERE is the date that feeds application software and WILL NOT rollover in the year 2000. It will roll over to 00. 7. Click on the button across from "Short Date Style" and select the Option that shows, mm/dd/yyyy. (Be sure your selection has four Y's showing, not just two). 8. Then click on "Apply" and then click on "OK" at the bottom. Easy enough to fix. However, every single installation (yy) of Windows worldwide is defaulted to fail Y2K rollover. When we ran the check we found that we had not made the adjustment? until this morning. Hmmm. Eric Britton ecopl@n ___ technology, economy, society ___ Le Frene, 8/10 rue Joseph Bara, 75006 Paris, France postmaster@ecoplan.org URL www.ecoplan.org Tel: +331.4326.1323 Videoconference +331.4441.6340 (1-4) 24 hour fax/voicemail hotline: In Europe +331 5301 2896 In North America +1 888 522 6419 (toll free) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: winmail.dat Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 5484 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://list.jca.apc.org/manage/private/sustran-discuss/attachments/19990826/428fe442/winmail.bin From msenior at uswest.net Fri Aug 27 14:58:24 1999 From: msenior at uswest.net (Milnor H. Senior, III) Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:58:24 -0600 Subject: [sustran] Re: Regional NSW References: <003601bedcaf$16258de0$0367868b@com.au> Message-ID: <37C628FF.B4D818@dnvr.uswest.net> Dear Jean-Marc & Wendy, You may wish to view my web site a www.biketrans.com. Sincerely, Milnor H. Senior, III Jean-Marc & Wendy wrote: > Part 1.1 Type: Plain Text (text/plain) > Encoding: quoted-printable From rsashu at civil.iitb.ernet.in Fri Aug 27 19:17:34 1999 From: rsashu at civil.iitb.ernet.in (Ashish Varma (99404003)) Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 15:47:34 +0530 (IST) Subject: [sustran] Re: rail in solving KL transport problems Message-ID: Dear Mr. Paul, I am a research scholar working in the area of Mass transit systems in Mumbai, India. Your comments sent to Kuala lumpur are of much interest to me. I will be more pleased, if you can still more elobrate the below mentioned statistics which you had sent in your comment, especially, how they have been calculated. It has been said that one single-occupant car requires 75 times the amount of urban space as a pedestrian, 20 times that of a cyclist, and 13-40 times that of rail transit per unit of personal movement achieved (Professor John Whitelegg, 1993). Buses fall somewhere between cyclist and rail in terms of space used. These figures include the space required for parking. Thanking you, Ashish Verma Ashish Verma E-mail: "rsashu@civil.iitb.ernet.in" *********************************************************************** * Research Scholar * #218 * 49, Telephone Nagar* * Civil Engg. Dept.(TSE) * Hostel-6 * Kanadia Road * * IIT-Bombay,Powai * IIT-Bombay,Powai * Indore(M.P.) * * Mumbai-400 076 * Mumbai-400 076 * Pin:452001 * * * Ph:(022)5781023 * Ph:(0731)593050 * *********************************************************************** From eric.britton at ecoplan.org Fri Aug 27 23:46:07 1999 From: eric.britton at ecoplan.org (Eric Britton) Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 16:46:07 +0200 Subject: [sustran] (no title) Message-ID: Hello Paul, Since I wrote you that opening note the other day I have done a bit more work on this, and invite you to have a look at The Commons (http://www.ecoplan.org of course), and once their click "Advocates" up top. You'll see a couple of models that we have hammered together by way of example... in the hope that the might encourage you to do better yet. We are trying hard to make it easy to do, and efficient once it gets done. When and if. With all good wishes, Eric P.S. Any other great people for this that you might know and wish to suggest? ecopl@n ___ technology, economy, society ___ Le Frene, 8/10 rue Joseph Bara, 75006 Paris, France postmaster@ecoplan.org URL www.ecoplan.org Tel: +331.4326.1323 Videoconference +331.4441.6340 (1-4) 24 hour fax/voicemail hotline: In Europe +331 5301 2896 In North America +1 888 522 6419 (toll free) From sustran at po.jaring.my Tue Aug 31 17:55:06 1999 From: sustran at po.jaring.my (SUSTRAN Resource Centre) Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 16:55:06 +0800 Subject: [sustran] Child injury prevention article Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19990831165506.007ed1a0@relay101.jaring.my> forwarded from the pednet list an interesting article by IAN ROBERTS and CAROLYN DIGUISEPPI: ------------------------------- Injury prevention Archives of Diseases in Childhood September 1999;81:200-201 Worldwide, some 300 000 children die each year in road traffic crashes, a further 300 000 children drown, and some 100 000 die in fires.1 Many millions of children are seriously injured and hundreds of thousands sustain permanent disabilities. The public health response to this human tragedy is pitiable and raises important questions for child health professionals. Why, for example, is the death of a child following abuse taken as clear evidence of the failure of our collective efforts to protect children, whereas a child pedestrian death represents only the failure of an individual child to stop, look, and listen when crossing the road? And why did medical research "declare war" on cancer and ignore injury, when as many children die from injury as from all forms of cancer combined? Most of the road deaths, particularly those in the developing world, involve children as pedestrians.2 In Britain, the pedestrian injury epidemic peaked in the 1930s with an average of nine deaths each day.3 Since then death rates have fallen, but not necessarily because our roads have become safer. On the contrary, the two most likely explanations for the decline in child pedestrian deaths are the massive reduction in walking that has accompanied increasing traffic volume,4 and the increased survival chances of seriously injured children from improvements in hospital care.5 There can be little doubt that in the struggle for the streets, the pedestrian lost, with tens of thousands of children killed in the process. But for most of the world the battles are just beginning. Like so many Western epidemics, the pedestrian injury epidemic is now being exported to the developing world. European and North American car markets are reaching saturation point and motor manufacturers are looking east. The road death epidemic in China is only just beginning, but already an estimated 29 000 children are killed on the roads each year,1 and the epidemic will generate a mountain of disability. It is estimated that by 2020 road traffic accidents will be the third leading cause of disability adjusted life years (DALY) worldwide, and the second leading cause of DALYs in the demographically developing countries.6 An epidemic of this scale demands an appropriate and timely public health response. It is a matter of urgency that effective strategies are identified for the prevention of road traffic accidents, drowning, fire deaths, and other leading causes of injury, and for the treatment and rehabilitation of injured victims, particularly in low income countries. A logical first step would be to find out what we already know about the effectiveness of injury prevention and injury management by conducting systematic reviews of controlled intervention studies, and of case-control and cohort studies where no intervention studies are available. The Cochrane Injuries Group, an international network that prepares, maintains, and promotes the accessibility of systematic reviews of the effectiveness of interventions in the prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation of injury has been established to facilitate this process.7 To date, findings from systematic reviews include the demonstration that random breath testing reduces road deaths,8 that pool fencing reduces the risk of drowning,9 and that albumin infusion for hypovolaemia following trauma is of no proved benefit and may even increase the risk of death.10 The effectiveness of some prevention strategies is not in doubt, but for many mechanisms of injury the value of preventive measures remain uncertain, and large scale randomised controlled trials are required to determine their effectiveness. For a problem as common as injury, even moderate intervention effects would be important. However, to detect reliably moderate effects, both moderate biases and moderate random errors must be avoided.11 Injury prevention trials must therefore be large enough to avoid moderate random errors and should be designed in such a way that moderate biases are avoided. Some injury prevention interventions cannot be implemented separately for each individual and individual level randomised controlled trials will not be possible. Evaluation of these strategies requires community intervention trials, and recent developments in the methodology of cluster randomised controlled trials will facilitate these.12 Probably the main obstacles to the conduct of such studies are political rather than methodological: first the importance of random allocation in the unbiased assessment of effectiveness is not widely appreciated in areas such as transport, housing, and education; second, injury research is grossly underfunded compared with other health problems.13 The identification of effective injury prevention interventions is necessary but not sufficient to prevent childhood injuries. Many injury prevention strategies require structural change and will encounter strong opposition from vested interests. The strategy for overcoming structural barriers to child health is advocacy. Advocacy is structural therapeutics, which, to date British paediatricians have shown a notable reluctance to prescribe.14 But there are encouraging signs that things are now changing, as evidenced by the support by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health for the Road Traffic Reduction (UK Targets) Bill.15 Striving to make a better world for children does not require a choice between science and activism. It requires both. IAN ROBERTS, CAROLYN DIGUISEPPI Child Health Monitoring Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, UK, email: Ian.Roberts@ich.ucl.ac.uk References 1. Murray CJL, Lopez AD. Global health statistics: a compendium of incidence, prevalence and mortality estimates for over 200 conditions. Harvard School of Public Health, Boston: Harvard University Press, 1996. 2. Jacobs GD, Sayer I. Road accidents in developing countries. Accid Anal Prev 1983;15:337-353. 3. Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions. Road accidents Great Britain 1996. London: The Stationery Office, 1997. 4. Hillman M, Adams J, Whitelegg J. One false move: a study of children's independent mobility. London: Policy Studies Institute, 1991. 5. Roberts I, Hollis S, Campbell F, Yates D. Declining injury rates for children and young adults: the contribution of hospital care. BMJ 1996;313:1239-1241. 6. Murray CJL, Lopez AD. Alternative projections of mortality and disability by cause 1990-2020: global burden of disease study. Lancet 1997;349:1498-1504. 7. Chalmers I, Altman DG, eds. Systematic reviews. London: BMJ Publishing Group, 1995. 8. Peek-Asa C. The effect of random alcohol screening in reducing motor vehicle crash injuries. Am J Prev Med 1999;16(1 suppl):57-67. 9. Thompson DC, Rivara FP. Pool fencing for preventing drowning in children (Cochrane Review). The Cochrane Library, Issue 1, 1999. Oxford. 10. The Cochrane Injuries Group Albumin Reviewers. Human albumin solution for resuscitation and volume expansion in critically ill patients (Cochrane review). The Cochrane Library, Issue 1, 1999. Oxford. 11. Peto R, Collins R, Gray R. Large-scale randomised evidence: large simple trials and overviews of trials. J Clin Epidemiol 1995;48:23-40. 12. Donner A. Some aspects of the design and analysis of cluster randomised trials. Appl Statist 1998;47:95-113. 13. Ad Hoc Committee on Health Research Relating to Future Intervention Options. Investing in health research and development. Geneva: World Health Organisation, 1996. 14. Viner R. Politics, power and paediatrics. Lancet 1999;353:232-234. 15. House of Commons official report (Hansard) Road Traffic Reduction (United Kingdom Targets) Bill. 30 Jan 1998: Column 621. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1999 by Archives of Disease in Childhood www.archdischild.com