[sustran] Re: rail in solving KL transport problems

[Ashish Varma (99404003)]

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 at civil.iitb.ernet.in"
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