[sustran] Re: FW: H*elp the Shell Foundation to do good with their new Sustainability

[Daryl Oster]

Planning Sustainable, High Benefit To Cost Transportation.
Copyright '01, Daryl Oster, Crystal River FL

The automobile and airplane result in prosperity, that is not sustainable.
Experts see oil production peaking around 2010 (http://www.hubbertpeak.com).
The sustainability movement is based on observations that traditional
planning yields: global warming, acid storm runoff, wildlife harm, bad air,
noise, accidents, crumbling infrastructure, and congestion. A new quantum
leap is needed.

Advocating a return to old ways is popular.  Rail systems are being proposed
as sustainable transportation. Trains are appropriate vehicles to move
elephant sized cargo, not humans; http://www.publicpurpose.com displays the
failure of rail.

Bicycles are sustainable, but weather exposure, meager speed and pathetic
capacity limit use; so the car gains ground.  The "sustainable communities",
and "smart growth" initiatives, are also bids to return to old ways.  They
oppose social expectations of expanding affluence, limiting success.

Evacuated Tube Transport (ETT), Ultra Low Power Vehicles (ULPV), and
Personal Rapid Transport (PRT) are sustainable transportation technologies
that do not challenge social momentum.
ETT is:
* FAST - to 500 kph for regional use, (6000 kph international).
* CONVENIENT- runs continuously without delays.
* EFFICIENT- a human powered ETT can achieve 500kph.
* CLEAN- environmentally benign using renewable energy.
* SAFE- isolated guideway eliminates collisions in any weather.
* ACHIEVABLE- equipment exists to build ETT with common components.
* SCALEABLE - capacity can be inexpensively added as demand grows.
The automated, silent ETT works by removing resistance. Ultra lightweight,
pressurized cabins travel in tubes on thin steel wheels, or P-MagLev.  No
air is in the tube to cause resistance.  Acceleration energy is recovered
when slowing.(See http://www.et3.com/intro.htm )

ULPVs are:
* Under 5kw to minimize energy use and emissions.
* Under 100kg to maximize acceleration, and minimize material use.
* Enclosed for usability in varying conditions.
* Streamlined to reach highway speeds.
* Narrow - double lane capacity with a stripe.
* Low cost without subsidies.
* fit in ETT capsules for fast, distant travel with personal transport
convenience.

Automated PRT costs 10% to build and operate verses light rail, and is twice
as fast. (http://www.artwerkz.com/h/ links to other PRT here as well)

Government and industry must achieve public purpose at minimum cost.
Proposals must be compared on a benefit to cost basis;  and show capital and
energy costs for use factors from 5% up to maximum capacity.  This will show
relative risk if use fails expectations.

Failure to implement high benefit to cost technologies will result in
moribund economies, degrading environment, starvation, and war, as people
struggle to survive without cheap energy.

For a sustainable transportation plan to succeed short term it must offer;
improved convenience, capacity, and speed at lower cost.  For long term, it
must specify systems that offer a tenfold improvement in energy efficiency,
and improve environmental conditions with tenfold reduction in emissions.

Planning and funding a sustainable transit initiative using the appropriate
application of high cost to benefit technologies like ETT, ULPV, and PRT
will yield results unobtainable any other way.






Best Regards,

Daryl Oster, CEO et3.com Inc.

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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-sustran-discuss at jca.ax.apc.org
[mailto:owner-sustran-discuss at jca.ax.apc.org]On Behalf Of Paul Barter
Sent: Monday, May 28, 2001 7:59 PM
To: 'aasust_discuss'
Subject: [sustran] FW: H*elp the Shell Foundation to do good with their new
Sustainability

(this bounced because majordomo thought it was an admin request. So I am
forwarding to the list. Paul)
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From: eric.britton at ecoplan.org
To: "Sustran Resource Centre" <sustran-discuss at jca.ax.apc.org>
Subject: Help the Shell Foundation to do good with their new Sustainability
Transportation program
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 23:24:23 +0200

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

This is to invite you to follow and perhaps if you chose participate
actively in
an international  workshop that is to be held here in Paris next week, on
June
8th, on the topic of sustainable transportation.  The workshop has been
called
by the Shell Foundation who are bringing together a group of about thirty
experts from various places around the world to ask their counsel and
guidance
on some sustainable transportation projects and programs that they are
eventually interested in funding in this important area of society and
technology.

Now, it occurred to us that a certain number of you might like not only to
know
about this but also possibly to make your voice heard.  With this in mind -
and
in the knowledge that our broad community of international colleagues with
some
much valuable experience and such diverse backgrounds and views of this
topics
have much to say that can help the organizers - we have tried to figure out
a
way in which we might be able to convey these views and suggestions to the
organizers.

To this end, we have just set up a little "virtual conference" support
section
in the @New Mobility site which you can now reach via
http://ecoplan.org/access
If you go to the menu and punch June 8th Conference toward the bottom it
should
pretty much explain itself.  And of course if you have other, possibly
better
ideas for us on any of this, please let us hear from you.

I am convinced that this is a great opportunity for the organizers and look
forward with real interest to seeing how this works itself out.


Eric Britton

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