From litman at vtpi.org Thu Dec 5 23:37:58 2002 From: litman at vtpi.org (Todd Alexander Litman) Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 06:37:58 -0800 Subject: [sustran] VTPI NEWS - Autumn 2002 Message-ID: <5.1.1.6.0.20021205063756.01d04368@mail.highspeedplus.com> ----------- VTPI NEWS ----------- Victoria Transport Policy Institute "Efficiency - Equity - Clarity" ------------------------------------ Autumn 2002 Vol. 5, No. 4 ---------------------------------- The Victoria Transport Policy Institute is an independent research organization dedicated to developing innovative solutions to transportation problems. The VTPI website (http://www.vtpi.org) has many resources addressing a wide range of transport planning and policy issues. VTPI also provides consulting services. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NOTE: PLEASE USE OUR CURRENT EMAIL ADDRESSES (litman@vtpi.org or info@vtpi.org), RATHER THAN litman@islandnet.com, WHICH WILL BE DISCONTINUED IN THE FUTURE. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TRANSPORTATION COST AND BENEFIT ANALYSIS GUIDEBOOK ================================================== Available free at http://www.vtpi.org/tca. VTPI has posted an Online edition of "Transportation Cost And Benefit Analysis: Techniques, Estimates And Implications." This 350-page guidebook provides comprehensive information on transportation costs and benefits for use in planning and policy analysis. It is one of the most detailed studies of transportation economic, social and environmental impacts, and the only one that is regularly expanded and updated as new information becomes available. It provides estimates of twenty costs for eleven transport modes under three travel conditions in a format designed to easily compare transportation alternatives. It also indicates the distribution of costs. For example, it provides estimates of the internal and external costs of automobile use, and the potential cost savings from a shift to alternative modes under rural, urban-off-peak and urban-peak conditions. The Guidebook reviews previous transportation impact studies, discusses economic evaluation practices, describes how nonmarket impacts are estimated, discusses major findings, evaluates criticisms of transportation costing, and explores implications and applications of this research. It provides extensive reference information, mostly available through the Internet, allowing users to obtain additional information when needed. VTPI ONLINE TDM ENCYCLOPEDIA EXPANSION AND UPDATE =================================================== The VTPI "Online TDM Encyclopedia" is the most comprehensive resource available anywhere to help identify and evaluate innovative solutions to transportation problems. It has dozens of chapters with hundreds of pages of text and thousands of Internet links, providing convenient information for Transportation Demand Management (TDM) planning, evaluation and implementation. It is available free at http://www.vtpi.org/tdm. We have been busy expanding and updating the Encyclopedia. Below are highlights. NEW & UPDATED CHAPTERS ---------------------- * Public Transit Encouragement (http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm112.htm) - This chapter describes various ways to encourage public transit ridership. * TDM in Developing Regions (http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm75.htm) - This chapter discusses the implementation of TDM in developing (i.e., lower-income) areas. It describes many resources available to help implement TDM in developing countries, and additional case studies. * Smart Growth Policy Reforms (http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm95.htm) - This chapter describes various planning, regulatory and fiscal reforms that help create more efficient land use. These reforms correct current practices that encourage lower-density, urban periphery, automobile-dependent development patterns. * Pay-As-You-Drive Vehicle Insurance (http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm79.htm) - This chapter describe pricing reforms that result in more equitable and efficient premiums, and reduce annual vehicle mileage by about 10% among participating motorists. * Transportation Elasticities (http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm11.htm) - This chapter investigates the influence that prices have on travel behavior. It summarizes research on various types of transportation elasticities and describes how to use this information to predict the travel impacts of specific TDM strategies. * TDM Evaluation (http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm14.htm) - This chapter describes transportation evaluation methods and how they can be used to evaluate the value of TDM programs. It now provides more detailed information and more extensive references. * Evaluating Nonmotorized Transport (http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm63.htm) - This chapter has much new information on techniques for measuring walking and cycling conditions and prioritizing improvements. * Fuel Taxes (http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm17.htm) - This chapter provides more information and case studies of fuel tax changes, and the (Fuel Trends Spreadsheet (http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/fueltrends.xls) includes U.S. fuel consumption and price data over four decades. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NEW REPORTS =========== The following new documents are posted at the VTPI website. Todd Litman, "Transit Price Elasticities and Cross-Elasticities: For Urban Transportation Demand Modeling," Victoria Transport Policy Institute (www.vtpi.org), 2003. This paper summarizes price elasticities and cross elasticities for use in public transit planning and modeling. It describes elasticities and how they are used, summarizes previous research on transit elasticities. Commonly used transit elasticity values are largely based on studies of short- and medium-run impacts, performed decades ago when real incomes were lower and a larger portion of the population was transit dependent. As a result, they tend to be lower than appropriate to model long-run impacts. Analysis based on these elasticity values tend to understate the potential of transit fare reductions and service improvements to reduce problems such as traffic congestion and vehicle pollution. They also understate the long-term negative impacts that fare increases and service cuts can have on transit ridership, transit revenue, traffic congestion and pollution emissions. Todd Litman, "Efficient Vehicles Versus Efficient Transportation," (http://www.vtpi.org/cafe.pdf). This paper uses a comprehensive framework to evaluate four potential transportation energy conservation and emission reduction strategies. The analysis takes into account how each strategy affects total vehicle mileage, and therefore mileage-related impacts such as congestion, facility costs, crashes and consumer mobility benefits. Even small mileage changes can have a large impact on the net value of an energy conservation strategy. Fuel efficiency standards and some alternative fuels reduce per-mile vehicle operating costs and so increase mileage (a rebound effect). Mobility management strategies reduce mileage and so can provide additional benefits. This study indicates that conventional evaluation practices tend to overvalue strategies that increase vehicle fuel efficiency and undervalue mobility management strategies by ignoring impacts resulting from changes in vehicle mileage. Todd Litman, "If Health Matters - Integrating Public Health Objectives in Transportation Decision-Making," (http://www.vtpi.org/health.pdf). This article investigates how transportation policy and planning practices must change if public health objectives is to be given greater priority. Conventional transportation decision-making focuses on some health impacts but overlook others. It gives considerable attention to per-mile vehicle crash risk and pollution emissions, but overlooks the safety and pollution problems that result from increased vehicle mileage, and the negative health impacts resulting from less physically active transportation. As a result, transportation agencies tend to undervalue strategies that reduce total vehicle travel and create a more diverse transportation system. Mobility management impacts on traffic safety, pollution emissions and physical activity are evaluated. This analysis suggests that giving greater priority to health objectives in transportation decision-making would reduce roadway and parking facility capacity expansion and increase support for mobility management strategies, particularly those that increase walking and cycling. The following document was produced by VTPI and posted at the website of Island Transformations, an independent community development organization that commissioned the study. Todd Litman, "Light Rail Economic Opportunity Study: Evaluating Light Rail Transit As A Solution To Capital Regional Transportation Problems", Island Transformation (http://www.islandtransformations.org), November 2002. This study investigates the value a Light Rail Transit (LRT) system could provide in the Victoria, BC region, and compares this with other transportation improvement options. It takes into account a wide range of economic, social and environmental impacts. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UPCOMING EVENTS =============== Transportation Research Board ----------------------------- The following events are part of the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, held in Washington DC, January 12-17, 2003. For information see http://www.trb.org. Pedestrian Design Workshop - Economic Valuation of Walking ---------------------------------------------------------- The Human Factors Workshop on pedestrian facility design (workshop 103), to be held January 12 will include the following presentations. (Note, this workshop involves an additional $150 fee.) * Greg Lindsey, Director, Center for Urban Policy and the Environment (www.urbancenter.iupui.edu/container.htm) - will discuss techniques for quantifying transportation and land use decision impacts on urban quality of life, and particularly the value of public trails. * Rune Elvik, Economist, Norwegian Centre for Transport Research (http://www.toi.no/English/default.asp) - will discuss biases in standard cost-benefit analyses of transport projects that tend to undervalue walking and cycling investments. * Robin Blair, Planner, Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority (http://www.mta.net) - shares experience developing walking districts, how changing perceptions of space and distance in the urban environment can encourage walking, and how this affects property values. * Todd Litman, Director, Victoria Transport Policy Institute (www.vtpi.org) will discuss the Economic Value of Walkability and Walking (see paper described above). * Michael Ronkin, Bicycle and Pedestrian Program, Oregon Dept. of Transportation (http://www.odot.state.or.us) will discuss how the design of street crossings and intersections affects pedestrian access and safety, and how urban design can entice pedestrian movement. Other TRB Sessions ------------------ VTPI Director Todd Litman will give the following presentations at TRB. Session 222, Monday, 8:00 AM9:45 AM Sustainable Transportation Symposium, Part 1: Best Local Practice "Measuring Sustainability at the Project Level" This presentation will discuss practical indicators that can be used to evaluate progress toward sustainable transport. Session 452, Tuesday, 10:15 AM12:00 PM Marketing: How Soft Policies Can Solve Hard Transportation Problems "Mobility Management Marketing" This presentation will discuss the increasingly important role of marketing (determining what consumers want, delivering what they want, and letting them know what is available) for transportation problem solving. Session 728, Wednesday, 7:30 PM9:15 PM Walkability Issues of Adult and Child Pedestrians "Economic Value of Walkability" This presentation will discuss the paper "Economic Value of Walkability" (described above) and its implications for transportation planning. Walk21 Conference 2003 Targeted Call for Papers ---------------------------------------- Planning is underway for Walk21 IV: Health, Equity & Environment, the 4th International Conference on Walking in the 21st Century, to be held in Portland, Oregon, USA, 1-3 May 2003. The conference will focus on rethinking the context and perfecting the tools for a walkable world. It is expected to attract advocates, practitioners, academics and policy makers from around the world.Earlybird registration will be available beginning 2 January 2003. The call for papers, which closed in September, netted well over a hundred submissions, a record for the Walk21 conferences to date. While the quality of the accepted abstracts is excellent, the Program Committee did identify some gaps in subject area, and has issued a limited call for additional abstracts on four specific topics: * Pedestrian Travel and Alcohol * Pedestrian Travel and Personal Security * Pedestrian Travel and Training for Practitioners * Pedestrian Travel and Mobility Management The deadline for submissions for this limited call is Friday, December 13, 2002. For more information about the limited call for abstracts or the conference as a whole, visit http://www.walk21.com. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ USEFUL RESOURCES ================ Transport Geography on the Web (http://www.people.hofstra.edu/geotrans) provides access to transport geography information, including academic articles, maps, figures, and datatsets. VTPI will be contributing material to this excellent website. Sustainable Transportation Live (www.movingtheeconomy.ca), by Moving the Economy, is a website that provides information on how to apply sustainable transportation principles to help reduce traffic congestion, facility costs, pollution and other transport problems. CIVITAS (www.civitas-initiative.org) is a European Commission supported initiative to help introduce sustainable urban transport strategies. Smart Growth America (www.smartgrowthamerica.org) is a nationwide coalition promoting new development patterns that protect farmland and open space, revitalize neighborhoods, keeps housing affordable, and provides more transportation choices. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Please let us know if you have comments or questions about any information in this newsletter, or if you would like to be removed from our mailing list. And please pass this newsletter on to others who may find it useful. Sincerely, Todd Litman, Director Victoria Transport Policy Institute "Efficiency - Equity - Clarity" 1250 Rudlin Street Victoria, BC, V8V 3R7, Canada Phone & Fax: 250-360-1560 Email: litman@vtpi.org Website: http://www.vtpi.org From howes at emirates.net.ae Thu Dec 5 23:48:07 2002 From: howes at emirates.net.ae (Alan P Howes) Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 18:48:07 +0400 Subject: [sustran] Testing! In-Reply-To: <20021111183112.75981.qmail@mta569.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20021111183112.75981.qmail@mta569.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Hey, what's happened. This is the last message I have from Sustran. is it me or the list? On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 18:03:55 +0000, ITDP wrote to List Member : >INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON HUMAN MOBILITY >Bogot?: Building a New City >Bogot?, Colombia >February 6 ? 9, 2003 >? >versi?n en Espa?ol (http://www.itdp.org/ISBH/seminario.html) >? >? >The remarkable urban transformation of Bogota, Colombia represents a world-leading example of sustainable urban design. Achievements such as Latin America?s largest network of bicycle ways (270 km), the extraordinary bus rapid transit system called TransMilenio, the world?s longest pedestrian corridor (17 km), and the celebration of the planet?s biggest Car Free Day (covering an entire city of 35,000 hectares) have made Bogota a model for building a more human city. > >The International Seminar on Human Mobility on February 6-9 will be your opportunity to exchange knowledge and experiences with the persons who have led this remarkable transformation. >? >Objectives >The seminar will bring together local professionals along with international participants from four continents to observe and discuss Bogota?s mobility transformation across an array of themes: >? Cycle Ways ? Citizen Involvement >? Bus Rapid Transit ? Use of Public Space >? Car Free Days ? Pedestrian Areas >? Bicycle Sundays ? Car Restraint Measures >? >Sponsoring Organisations >The seminar is led by the Human City Foundation in conjunction with the Municipality of Bogota (Institute for Urban Development), Institute for Transportation & Development Policy, and the World Bank. >? >Who should attend >Those benefiting from the experience will include public officials from local authorities, municipal technical staff, researchers, international development agencies, urban planners, transport and environmental professionals, and all actors from civil society linked to the issue of urban sustainability. >? >Additional information >For more information and registration forms, please visit the following website: > >www.itdp.org/ISBH/index.html > >versi?n en Espa?ol (http://www.itdp.org/ISBH/seminario.html) >? > >_______________________________________________________________________ >Powered by List Builder >To unsubscribe follow the link: >http://lb.bcentral.com/ex/sp?c=20296&s=DC4066E06C5D379F&m=23 -- Alan Howes, Dubai, UAE (Otherwise Perthshire, Scotland) alaninthegulf@yahoo.co.uk Professional website (Needs Updating!): http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/alanhowes/ From ccordero at amauta.rcp.net.pe Sun Dec 22 00:04:32 2002 From: ccordero at amauta.rcp.net.pe (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Carlos_Cordero_Vel=E1squez?=) Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 10:04:32 -0500 Subject: [sustran] diciembre a escala humana Message-ID: <003801c2a902$6f4951e0$32b601c8@ccordero> El Bolet?n del transporte a escala humana Diciembre, 2002 Vida en el amor Todas las cosas se aman. La naturaleza toda tiende hacia un t?. Todos los seres vivos est?n comuni?n unos con otros. El fen?meno del mimetismo hermana a todas las plantas y animales y cosas: hay insectos que imitan a las flores y flores que imitan a los insectos, animales que imitan el agua o las rocas o la arena del desierto o la nieve o los bosques o a los otros animales. Y todos los seres vivos se aman o se comen unos a otros y todos est?n unidos unos a otros en ese vasto proceso del nacimiento y del crecimiento y de la reproducci?n y de la muerte. En la naturaleza todo es mutaci?n y transformaci?n y cambio de unas cosas en otras, y todo es abrazo, caricia y beso. Y lo mismo que las leyes que rigen a todos los seres vivos, las leyes que rigen a la naturaleza inerte (que tambi?n est? viva, con una vida imperceptible para nosotros) son tambi?n una misma ley de amor. Todos los fen?menos f?sicos son un mismo fen?meno de amor. Lo mismo la condensaci?n de un copo de nieve que la explosi?n de una "nova", el escarabajo abrazado a su bola de esti?rcol y el amante abrazado a su amada: todo en la naturaleza es un querer rebasar los propios limites, traspasar las barreras de la individualidad, encontrar un t? a quien entregarse, transformarse en otro. Las leyes de la termodin?mica y de la electrodin?mica y de la propagaci?n de la luz y de la gravitaci?n universal son todas una misma ley de amor, y en la naturaleza todo est? incompleto y todo es entrega y abrazo, y los seres son en la intimidad de su esencia y en el m?s profundo misterio de su existir: hambre y sed de amor. Las cosas est?n relacionadas unas con otras y unas est?n comprendidas en otras y estas otras en otras, de modo que todo el universo es una sola cosa vasta. La naturaleza toda se toca y se entrelaza entre s?. Toda la naturaleza se abraza. El viento que me acaricia y el sol que me besa y el aire que respiro y el pez que nada en el agua y la estrella lejana y yo que la miro: todos estamos en contacto. Lo que llamamos los vac?os espacios interestelares est?n formados de la materia que forma los astros, aunque tenue y rarificada, y los astros no son sino una concentraci?n mayor de esa materia interestelar y todo el universo es como una inmensa estrella y todos participamos en este universo de un mismo ritmo: el ritmo de la gravitaci?n universal, que es la fuerza de cohesi?n de la materia ca?tica y la que une a las mol?culas y hace que unas part?culas de materia se re?nan en un punto determinado del universo y que las estrellas sean estrellas, y este es el ritmo del amor... (Ernesto Cardenal, Vida en el amor) Carlos Cordero Vel?squez CICLORED - Centro de Asesor?a y Capacitaci?n para el Transporte y Ambiente Pasaje Lavalle 110 - Lima 04 Per? telf: (51 1) 4671322 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jca.apc.org/manage/private/sustran-discuss/attachments/20021221/ca2ef373/attachment.htm From esg at bgl.vsnl.net.in Sat Dec 28 15:06:24 2002 From: esg at bgl.vsnl.net.in (ESG India) Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 11:36:24 +0530 Subject: [sustran] Delhi metro in 'stay away' plea In-Reply-To: <0709A702109DA844B290CEAA959078BD40CB89@MBXSRV04.stf.nus.edu.sg> Message-ID: BBC News Friday, 27 December, 2002, 17:42 GMT Delhi metro in 'stay away' plea The rush to ride the metro was overwhelming People in the Indian capital, Delhi, are being urged not to use the city's new underground rail system, just two days after it opened. More than a million passengers rode on the initial section of the metro on its first day, Wednesday - six times the number it was built to carry. Metro managers are concerned that even more people may try the capital's latest attraction over the weekend. The metro employs state-of-the-art equipment They have taken out newspaper advertisements urging people to delay "pleasure trips" for now on the air-conditioned carriages. So far most passengers, it seems, have headed underground out of curiosity, rather than necessity. Many have come into Delhi from out of town just for the purpose. But so many have been taking home souvenirs of their day trips that the state-of-the-art metro has now run out of electronic tokens. Drivers have even had to switch off emergency intercoms in the trains because of passengers buzzing them to tell them to go faster. Smart cards Delhi, home to 14 million people, is one of the most crowded cities on earth. The authorities have planned the metro through some of the city's most congested areas, where traditional forms of transport are overcrowded buses or three-wheeler scooter taxis. The initial section - an elevated corridor connecting a north-eastern suburb with the interstate bus terminal in north Delhi - covers eight kilometres (five miles). The metro is expected to carry two million commuters a day when the $2bn first phase is finished in 2005. The fare of four rupees (eight US cents) makes travelling affordable for all - and the system is one of the most sophisticated in the world. All stations are equipped with computerised ticketing systems and automatic turnstiles, with sensors which can detect smart cards. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.431 / Virus Database: 242 - Release Date: 12/17/2002