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[Paul Barter]

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From: "John Whitelegg" <j_whitelegg at hotmail.com>
To: sustran-discuss at jca.ax.apc.org
Subject: Re: [sustran] Re: TDM in Perth, WA - 14% car-driver trip reductio n
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 02:05:49 +0000
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Dear Sustran discussants,

I've just returned from a 3 week, 6 state lecture tour of Australia.  Travel

Smart is fantastic in Perth and is growing in importance elsewhere.  there 
is a really goood scheme in Brisbane.

However please be cautious about all this.  Australian cities are all 
embarking on massive freeway construction, suburbanistaion, sprwal etc and 
the generation of addtional traffic far outweighs the gains in TS.  The 
authorities in Brisbane are especially gung-ho about billions of dollars of 
new highway capacity and rject totally the idea that new capacity will fuel 
the increase in traffic and short distance car trips.

veruy best wishes

John Whitelegg


>From: "Perkins, Alan (TSA)" <Alan.Perkins at transport.sa.gov.au>
>Reply-To: sustran-discuss at jca.ax.apc.org
>To: "'sustran-discuss at jca.ax.apc.org'" <sustran-discuss at jca.ax.apc.org>
>Subject: [sustran] Re: TDM in Perth, WA - 14% car-driver trip reductio  
>n
>Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 16:48:15 +1030
>
>Alan and Sustraners,
>
>I think that there is a long way to go to know how successful these 
>approaches will prove to be in different parts of the world.  
>Small-scale Travel Blending projects were tried in Leeds and 
>Nottingham, but have not been reported on, and may not have been very 
>successful.  What we have learned here is that people's reasons for 
>making travel behaviour changes may be varied.  Time of course is a big 
>issue for many two-worker Australian households with children.  If 
>spending a little time planning the household's travel pays off in more 
>shared car trips and more trip chaining,
>and the neighbours can walk the children to school three mornings a week,
>the time and hassle savings may be sufficient justification.  Is time an
>issue in Dubai?
>
>I guess, petrol in Australia is not expensive by western world 
>standards (around US 50 cents per litre) and incomes are high, so money 
>savings would not be a sufficient reason for most people to reduce car 
>travel.
>
>In Santiago it may be that time is an issue because of congestion, and 
>if public transport is extensive, people may be willing to leave the 
>car at home for some trips - I don't know.  It seems to me that the 
>good thing is that the idea of travel behaviour change projects that 
>cover all household travel is "out of the bag" and many versions may in 
>due course be developed in response to local needs.
>
>If you want to know more specifically about Travel Blending contact Liz
>Ampt
>- l.ampt at sdgworld.net.au - at Steer Davies Gleave.  She's run travel
>blending projects in Adelaide, Brisbane, Santiago, New Jersey and the UK
>examples so far.
>
>Regards,
>
>Alan Perkins
>
>Alan Perkins
>Adviser, Sustainable Transport and Planning
>Transport Policy Group
>Transport SA
>PO Box 1
>Walkerville
>South Australia
>5081
>ph 61 (8) 8343 2436
>fax 61 (8) 8343 2939
>alan.perkins at transport.sa.gov.au
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Alan P Howes [mailto:howes at emirates.net.ae]
>Sent: Friday, 22 February 2002 1:11 AM
>To: sustran-discuss at jca.ax.apc.org
>Subject: [sustran] Re: TDM in Perth, WA - 14% car-driver trip reductio 
>n
>
>
>There's some very interesting stuff being posted lately. I will try to 
>get my Transportation Planning colleagues in Dubai interested. Trouble 
>is, that they still think here that Transportation Planning = Road 
>Planning.
>
>One specific wrt to Alan's Really Useful Posting below - can anyone 
>tell me the price of motor fuel in Santiago? Here it is just about 23 
>cents US per litre, and other costs of running a car are very low - are 
>Travel Blending or Individual marketing likely to make any headway in 
>this context? (While there are a large number of South Asian labourers 
>here on USD 135 per month or less, most people get double that or 
>more.)
>
>[NB: Sems odd quoting gas prices in USD/litre - what's the 
>international standard? The UAE is probably about the last place in the 
>world to sell road fuel in Imperial (not US) gallons!]
>
>
>On Tue, 19 Feb 2002 14:52:51 +1030, "Perkins, Alan (TSA)" 
><Alan.Perkins at transport.sa.gov.au> wrote to 
>"'sustran-discuss at jca.ax.apc.org'" <sustran-discuss at jca.ax.apc.org>:
>
><snip>
> >
> >Of particular interest to Sustraners may be the reported results of 
> >an application of Travel Blending in Santiago (was anyone on the 
> >SUSTRAN network involved in this?).  A 17% reduction in car driver 
> >trips (as a proportion of participating and non-participating 
> >households combined)
>was
> >achieved, with a 23% reduction in car driver kilometres and a 17%
>reduction
> >in time spent travelling (info. provided by the proponents of Travel 
> >Blending, Steer Davies Gleave).
>
>--
>Alan Howes, Dubai, UAE (Otherwise Perthshire, Scotland) 
>alaninthegulf at yahoo.co.uk
>Professional website   (Needs Updating!):
>http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/alanhowes/




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