From dmohan at cbme.iitd.ernet.in Wed Oct 1 13:16:35 2003 From: dmohan at cbme.iitd.ernet.in (Dinesh Mohan) Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 09:46:35 +0530 Subject: [sustran] International Course on Transportation Planning and Safety References: <42F08B8662756D428F2811F53C6A93F579DC4E@MBXSRV04.stf.nus.edu.sg> Message-ID: <3F7A5523.FE7E4EA4@cbme.iitd.ernet.in> Introduction The Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Programme (WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Safety Technology) at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, is organizing a seven day "International Course on Transportation Planning and Safety". The course will be held in Delhi, India, 08-14 December 2003. The Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Programme (TRIPP) at the Indian Institute of Technology will be the host Institution. Course Objectives This seven day Course will bring together professionals working in the area of transportation planning and safety promotion to acquaint them with the state-of-the-art information in the field. The Course is especially designed for an interdisciplinary audience of law enforcers, police officers, traffic and road engineers, behavioral scientists, and mechanical engineers. The contents of the Course are especially focused to give a global perspective to the road safety and injury control problems. By the end of the Course the participants should: know about the latest findings in methodologies for traffic planning prevention of traffic accident and injuries be aware of policies and methods which have been shown to be successful or have not worked in the past be able to improve or start their own programmes on traffic planning and safety promotion. Details and Registration Form available at: http://www.iitd.ac.in/tripp/course/rightframe.htm ======================================================================= TRIPP website http://www.iitd.ac.in/tripp/ READ THE DECLARATION ON PEOPLE'S RIGHT TO SAFETY http://www.iitd.ac.in/tripp/righttosafety/rightframe.html [IMORTANT: if this server gives you trouble in sending a mail to me, you can use temporarily.] ======================================================================= Dinesh Mohan Henry Ford Professor for Biomechanics and Transportation Safety Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Programme Room MS 808, Main Building Indian Institute of Technology Hauz Khas New Delhi 110016 Phone: (+91 11) 2659 1147 FAX: (+91 11) 2685 8703 Home: (+91 11) 2649 4910 Email: dmohan@cbme.iitd.ernet.in ======================================================================= From pendakur at interchange.ubc.ca Wed Oct 1 21:58:40 2003 From: pendakur at interchange.ubc.ca (pendakur) Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 05:58:40 -0700 Subject: [sustran] Re: International Course on Transportation Planning and Safety References: <42F08B8662756D428F2811F53C6A93F579DC4E@MBXSRV04.stf.nus.edu.sg> <3F7A5523.FE7E4EA4@cbme.iitd.ernet.in> Message-ID: <003801c3881c$67877be0$145d4540@novustelecom.net> Dinesh, congratulations. I will circulate this to a few people in several Asian countries. Best wishes. Setty. Dr. V. Setty Pendakur President Pacific Policy and Planning Associates 702--1099 Marinaside Crescent Vancouver, BC. Canada V6Z 2Z3 Voice:604-263-3576, Fax:604-263-6493 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dinesh Mohan" To: "Asia and the Pacific sustainable transport" Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 9:16 PM Subject: [sustran] International Course on Transportation Planning and Safety > Introduction > The Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Programme (WHO > Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Safety Technology) at > the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, is organizing a seven day > "International Course on Transportation Planning and Safety". The course > will be held in Delhi, India, 08-14 December 2003. The Transportation > Research and Injury Prevention Programme (TRIPP) at the Indian Institute > of Technology will be the host Institution. > > Course Objectives > This seven day Course will bring together professionals working in the > area of transportation planning and safety promotion to acquaint them > with the state-of-the-art information in the field. The Course is > especially designed for an interdisciplinary audience of law enforcers, > police officers, traffic and road engineers, behavioral scientists, and > mechanical engineers. The contents of the Course are especially focused > to give a global perspective to the road safety and injury control > problems. > > By the end of the Course the participants should: > > know about the latest findings in methodologies for traffic planning > prevention of traffic accident and injuries > be aware of policies and methods which have been shown to be successful > or have not worked in the past > be able to improve or start their own programmes on traffic planning and > safety promotion. > > Details and Registration Form available at: > http://www.iitd.ac.in/tripp/course/rightframe.htm > > > ======================================================================= > TRIPP website http://www.iitd.ac.in/tripp/ > > READ THE DECLARATION ON PEOPLE'S RIGHT TO SAFETY > http://www.iitd.ac.in/tripp/righttosafety/rightframe.html > > [IMORTANT: if this server gives you trouble in sending a mail to me, > you can use temporarily.] > ======================================================================= > Dinesh Mohan > Henry Ford Professor for Biomechanics and Transportation Safety > Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Programme > Room MS 808, Main Building > Indian Institute of Technology > Hauz Khas > New Delhi 110016 > > Phone: (+91 11) 2659 1147 > FAX: (+91 11) 2685 8703 > Home: (+91 11) 2649 4910 > Email: dmohan@cbme.iitd.ernet.in > ======================================================================= > > > From dmohan at cbme.iitd.ernet.in Thu Oct 2 14:15:12 2003 From: dmohan at cbme.iitd.ernet.in (Dinesh Mohan) Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 10:45:12 +0530 Subject: [sustran] Re: International Course on Transportation Planning and Safety References: <42F08B8662756D428F2811F53C6A93F579DC4E@MBXSRV04.stf.nus.edu.sg> <3F7A5523.FE7E4EA4@cbme.iitd.ernet.in> <003801c3881c$67877be0$145d4540@novustelecom.net> Message-ID: <3F7BB460.81DC48A3@cbme.iitd.ernet.in> Thanks. Cheers! Dinesh pendakur wrote: > Dinesh, congratulations. I will circulate this to a few people in > several > Asian countries. > > Best wishes. Setty. > Dr. V. Setty Pendakur > President > Pacific Policy and Planning Associates > 702--1099 Marinaside Crescent > Vancouver, BC. Canada V6Z 2Z3 > Voice:604-263-3576, Fax:604-263-6493 > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dinesh Mohan" > To: "Asia and the Pacific sustainable transport" > > Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 9:16 PM > Subject: [sustran] International Course on Transportation Planning and > > Safety > > > Introduction > > The Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Programme (WHO > > Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Safety Technology) > at > > the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, is organizing a seven day > > > "International Course on Transportation Planning and Safety". The > course > > will be held in Delhi, India, 08-14 December 2003. The > Transportation > > Research and Injury Prevention Programme (TRIPP) at the Indian > Institute > > of Technology will be the host Institution. > > > > Course Objectives > > This seven day Course will bring together professionals working in > the > > area of transportation planning and safety promotion to acquaint > them > > with the state-of-the-art information in the field. The Course is > > especially designed for an interdisciplinary audience of law > enforcers, > > police officers, traffic and road engineers, behavioral scientists, > and > > mechanical engineers. The contents of the Course are especially > focused > > to give a global perspective to the road safety and injury control > > problems. > > > > By the end of the Course the participants should: > > > > know about the latest findings in methodologies for traffic planning > > > prevention of traffic accident and injuries > > be aware of policies and methods which have been shown to be > successful > > or have not worked in the past > > be able to improve or start their own programmes on traffic planning > and > > safety promotion. > > > > Details and Registration Form available at: > > http://www.iitd.ac.in/tripp/course/rightframe.htm > > > > > > > ======================================================================= > > > TRIPP website http://www.iitd.ac.in/tripp/ > > > > READ THE DECLARATION ON PEOPLE'S RIGHT TO SAFETY > > http://www.iitd.ac.in/tripp/righttosafety/rightframe.html > > > > [IMORTANT: if this server gives you trouble in sending a mail to me, > > > you can use temporarily.] > > > ======================================================================= > > > Dinesh Mohan > > Henry Ford Professor for Biomechanics and Transportation Safety > > Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Programme > > Room MS 808, Main Building > > Indian Institute of Technology > > Hauz Khas > > New Delhi 110016 > > > > Phone: (+91 11) 2659 1147 > > FAX: (+91 11) 2685 8703 > > Home: (+91 11) 2649 4910 > > Email: dmohan@cbme.iitd.ernet.in > > > ======================================================================= > > > > > > > -- ======================================================================= TRIPP website http://www.iitd.ac.in/tripp/ READ THE DECLARATION ON PEOPLE'S RIGHT TO SAFETY http://www.iitd.ac.in/tripp/righttosafety/rightframe.html [IMORTANT: if this server gives you trouble in sending a mail to me, you can use temporarily.] ======================================================================= Dinesh Mohan Henry Ford Professor for Biomechanics and Transportation Safety Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Programme Room MS 808, Main Building Indian Institute of Technology Hauz Khas New Delhi 110016 Phone: (+91 11) 2659 1147 FAX: (+91 11) 2685 8703 Home: (+91 11) 2649 4910 Email: dmohan@cbme.iitd.ernet.in ======================================================================= From Regina_Therese_MANZO at ura.gov.sg Thu Oct 2 17:43:09 2003 From: Regina_Therese_MANZO at ura.gov.sg (Regina_Therese_MANZO@ura.gov.sg) Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 16:43:09 +0800 Subject: [sustran] paper: Env'l Impact of Transport Subsidies Message-ID: I'm forwarding a useful study I just came across, though it's from Nov 2002: The Environmental Impact of Transport Subsidies, by Nash, Bickel, Friedrich, Link and Stewart. From last year's OECD workshop on Environmentally Harmful Subsidies. http://www1.oecd.org/agr/ehsw/SG-SD-RD(2002)1r1.pdf If you have trouble accessing the pdf link, the paper can also be found on the following page: http://www1.oecd.org/agr/ehsw/meeting_doc.htm Best regards, Gina Manzo, AICP Regina Therese Manzo, AICP ? Executive Planner ? Urban Redevelopment Authority ? Singapore 069118 ? tel: +65 6321-8305 ? fax: +65 6226-3546 ? Privileged/Confidential information may be contained in this message. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not copy, distribute or use it for any purpose, nor disclose its contents to any other person. Please notify the sender immediately if you receive this in error ? http://www.ura.gov.sg From whook at itdp.org Fri Oct 3 06:03:13 2003 From: whook at itdp.org (Walter Hook) Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 17:03:13 -0400 Subject: [sustran] Re: parking policies References: Message-ID: <011301c38928$9a6ae620$6801a8c0@WALTER> Does anyone have any good references for parking policy as a TDM measure? its one of those simple things that have slipped my attention. walter hook From ericbruun at earthlink.net Fri Oct 3 06:03:05 2003 From: ericbruun at earthlink.net (Eric Bruun) Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 17:03:05 -0400 Subject: [sustran] Re: parking policies References: <011301c38928$9a6ae620$6801a8c0@WALTER> Message-ID: <000501c38928$96773dc0$d75e79a5@earthlink.net> The place to always begin is with Todd Litman's great website at the Victoria Transportation Policy Institute, www.vtpi.org. He always has a good reference list. Eric ----- Original Message ----- From: "Walter Hook" To: "Asia and the Pacific sustainable transport" Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 5:03 PM Subject: [sustran] Re: parking policies > Does anyone have any good references for parking policy as a TDM measure? > its one of those simple things that have slipped my attention. > > walter hook > From litman at vtpi.org Fri Oct 3 09:28:06 2003 From: litman at vtpi.org (Todd Alexander Litman) Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 17:28:06 -0700 Subject: [sustran] Re: parking policies In-Reply-To: <011301c38928$9a6ae620$6801a8c0@WALTER> References: Message-ID: <5.1.1.6.0.20031002172345.01e46d40@mail.highspeedplus.com> You are right, parking policy reform can have important impacts on both travel and land use development patterns. See the following chapters in our Online TDM Encyclopedia: "Parking Management" (http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm28.htm) "Parking Pricing" (http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm26.htm) "Parking Solutions" (http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm72.htm) "Parking Evaluation" (http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm73.htm) I am currently writing a book "Parking Management Best Practices" for Planners Press. I believe it will be the most comprehensive resource of its kind. I can send you a draft if you promise to review it and send comments. Best wishes, -Todd Litman At 05:03 PM 10/2/2003 -0400, you wrote: >Does anyone have any good references for parking policy as a TDM measure? >its one of those simple things that have slipped my attention. > >walter hook 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 sujit at vsnl.com Fri Oct 3 15:54:41 2003 From: sujit at vsnl.com (Sujit Patwardhan) Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 12:24:41 +0530 Subject: [sustran] Re: parking policies In-Reply-To: <000501c38928$96773dc0$d75e79a5@earthlink.net> References: <011301c38928$9a6ae620$6801a8c0@WALTER> <000501c38928$96773dc0$d75e79a5@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.0.20031003121445.027c5b20@mail.vsnl.com> 3 October 2003 Dear Walter, I agree with Eric. Only yesterday I looked up Todd Litman's invaluable website and went through the 22 pages devoted to "Parking". There is also a 1998, BBC film shown in the PANORAMA programme called "U-Turn" that describes the change in official perspective from "More roads" to "TDM" and there are some examples of how "reducing" or "discouraging" excessive parking areas plays an important part in reducing "car dependency". -- Sujit Patwardhan At 02:33 AM 10/3/2003, you wrote: >The place to always begin is with Todd Litman's great website at the >Victoria Transportation Policy Institute, >www.vtpi.org. He always has a good reference list. > >Eric > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Walter Hook" >To: "Asia and the Pacific sustainable transport" > >Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 5:03 PM >Subject: [sustran] Re: parking policies > > > > Does anyone have any good references for parking policy as a TDM measure? > > its one of those simple things that have slipped my attention. > > > > walter hook > > -- Sujit Patwardhan sujit@vsnl.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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From WENDYT at wri.org Fri Oct 10 01:05:09 2003 From: WENDYT at wri.org (Wendy Tao) Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 12:05:09 -0400 Subject: [sustran] Gender issues in urban transport Message-ID: Hello everyone. I would like to do a research project on gender issues in urban transport, specifically focused on Vietnam (Hanoi and HCMC). As Hanoi and HCMC begin to plan their transport networks to accommodate the rapidly increasing urban area, an often overlooked component that transport planners must face is the role of gender in the design, implementation, communications, and marketing of a system that should meet the practical and strategic needs of both men and women. If gender issues are ignored in transportation planning, there is a risk that women's access to the workplace is stifled, efficiency in public transport design is not maximized, and economic and social gains for a large part of the population is not captured. Does anyone have recommendations on literature or institutes focused on these sorts of issues? If anyone works on these gender and transport issues themselves, I would love to connect and get some feedback on a few ideas. Thanks. WT Wendy Tao EMBARQ, The WRI Center for Transport and the Environment World Resources Institute 10 G Street, NE Suite 800 Washington, DC 20002 (phone) 202.729.7649 (fax) 202.729.7798 www.embarq.org From whook at itdp.org Fri Oct 10 01:17:56 2003 From: whook at itdp.org (Walter Hook) Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 12:17:56 -0400 Subject: [sustran] Re: Gender issues in urban transport References: Message-ID: <012701c38e80$e6e91960$6801a8c0@WALTER> deike peters, now at the technical university of berlin, did a gender and transport toolkit for the world bank under the auspices of Michael Bamberger. That would be a good place to start. IFRTD's web site also probably has a lot of materials, and did some publications on the topic, though they are more rural in their orientation. there is also some first world work done by kerry hamilton in the UK. my contact info is out of date. w. hook ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wendy Tao" To: "<" Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 12:05 PM Subject: [sustran] Gender issues in urban transport > Hello everyone. > > I would like to do a research project on gender issues in urban > transport, specifically focused on Vietnam (Hanoi and HCMC). > > As Hanoi and HCMC begin to plan their transport networks to accommodate > the rapidly increasing urban area, an often overlooked component that > transport planners must face is the role of gender in the design, > implementation, communications, and marketing of a system that should > meet the practical and strategic needs of both men and women. If gender > issues are ignored in transportation planning, there is a risk that > women's access to the workplace is stifled, efficiency in public > transport design is not maximized, and economic and social gains for a > large part of the population is not captured. > > Does anyone have recommendations on literature or institutes focused on > these sorts of issues? If anyone works on these gender and transport > issues themselves, I would love to connect and get some feedback on a > few ideas. > > Thanks. > WT > > > Wendy Tao > EMBARQ, The WRI Center for Transport and the Environment > World Resources Institute > 10 G Street, NE Suite 800 > Washington, DC 20002 > (phone) 202.729.7649 > (fax) 202.729.7798 > www.embarq.org From priyanthi.fernando at ifrtd.org Fri Oct 10 02:02:45 2003 From: priyanthi.fernando at ifrtd.org (priyanthi.fernando@ifrtd.org) Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 18:02:45 +0100 Subject: [sustran] Re: Gender issues in urban transport In-Reply-To: <012701c38e80$e6e91960$6801a8c0@WALTER> Message-ID: <3F85A2C5.24618.642AFC2@localhost> Hi Walter I am surprised that you are not quoting any 'good practice' examples of gender mainstreaming into urban transport planning from your own or others experience? We've been a long time discussing these issues... I have the following email address for Kerry Hamilton k.hamilton@uel.ac.uk Priyanthi IFRTD On 9 Oct 2003 at 12:17, Walter Hook wrote: > deike peters, now at the technical university of berlin, did a gender > and transport toolkit for the world bank under the auspices of Michael > Bamberger. That would be a good place to start. IFRTD's web site > also probably has a lot of materials, and did some publications on the > topic, though they are more rural in their orientation. there is also > some first world work done by kerry hamilton in the UK. my contact > info is out of date. > > w. hook > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Wendy Tao" > To: "<" > Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 12:05 PM > Subject: [sustran] Gender issues in urban transport > > > > Hello everyone. > > > > I would like to do a research project on gender issues in urban > > transport, specifically focused on Vietnam (Hanoi and HCMC). > > > > As Hanoi and HCMC begin to plan their transport networks to > > accommodate the rapidly increasing urban area, an often overlooked > > component that transport planners must face is the role of gender in > > the design, implementation, communications, and marketing of a > > system that should meet the practical and strategic needs of both > > men and women. If gender issues are ignored in transportation > > planning, there is a risk that women's access to the workplace is > > stifled, efficiency in public transport design is not maximized, and > > economic and social gains for a large part of the population is not > > captured. > > > > Does anyone have recommendations on literature or institutes focused > > on these sorts of issues? If anyone works on these gender and > > transport issues themselves, I would love to connect and get some > > feedback on a few ideas. > > > > Thanks. > > WT > > > > > > Wendy Tao > > EMBARQ, The WRI Center for Transport and the Environment > > World Resources Institute > > 10 G Street, NE Suite 800 > > Washington, DC 20002 > > (phone) 202.729.7649 > > (fax) 202.729.7798 > > www.embarq.org > > Priyanthi Fernando Executive Secretary, IFRTD 113-114Spitfire Studios, 63-71 Collier Street London N1 9BE. United Kingdom Tel: +44 20 7713 6699 Fax: +44 20 7713 8290 Email: priyanthi.fernando@ifrtd.org OR ifrtd@ifrtd.org Web: www.ifrtd.org IFRTD provides a framework for collaboration between individuals and organisations interested in issues of access & mobility as they affect the lives of rural people in developing countries. From whook at itdp.org Fri Oct 10 04:28:11 2003 From: whook at itdp.org (Walter Hook) Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 15:28:11 -0400 Subject: [sustran] Re: Gender issues in urban transport References: <3F85A2C5.24618.642AFC2@localhost> Message-ID: <015e01c38e9b$7a90f060$6801a8c0@WALTER> well, our projects to modernize cycle rickshaws in india and indonesia benefit women who represent the majority of the passengers, but the operators who get the income boost are men. we held a tour des femmes bike ride in Senegal that got a lot of women cycling for the first time, but the numbers are not that impressive. the jinja bike ambulances done by Fabio have some impressive effects on women's health by getting them to the hospital during medical emergencies, but we were not involved. in non-motorized transport master planning efforts we are working on we sometimes have household survey data that is broken down by gender, and find that focusing in the safety of short trips to markets and schools would be one way to prioritize traffic system interventions that benefit women. how about ifrtd, do you have any new best practices to share? i heard that the women-owned bus cooperative in sri lanka eventually failed. walter ----- Original Message ----- From: To: "Walter Hook" ; "Asia and the Pacific sustainable transport" Cc: "Wendy Tao" Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 1:02 PM Subject: Re: [sustran] Re: Gender issues in urban transport > Hi Walter > > I am surprised that you are not quoting any 'good practice' examples > of gender mainstreaming into urban transport planning from your own > or others experience? We've been a long time discussing these > issues... > > I have the following email address for Kerry Hamilton > k.hamilton@uel.ac.uk > > Priyanthi > IFRTD > > On 9 Oct 2003 at 12:17, Walter Hook wrote: > > > deike peters, now at the technical university of berlin, did a gender > > and transport toolkit for the world bank under the auspices of Michael > > Bamberger. That would be a good place to start. IFRTD's web site > > also probably has a lot of materials, and did some publications on the > > topic, though they are more rural in their orientation. there is also > > some first world work done by kerry hamilton in the UK. my contact > > info is out of date. > > > > w. hook > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Wendy Tao" > > To: "<" > > Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 12:05 PM > > Subject: [sustran] Gender issues in urban transport > > > > > > > Hello everyone. > > > > > > I would like to do a research project on gender issues in urban > > > transport, specifically focused on Vietnam (Hanoi and HCMC). > > > > > > As Hanoi and HCMC begin to plan their transport networks to > > > accommodate the rapidly increasing urban area, an often overlooked > > > component that transport planners must face is the role of gender in > > > the design, implementation, communications, and marketing of a > > > system that should meet the practical and strategic needs of both > > > men and women. If gender issues are ignored in transportation > > > planning, there is a risk that women's access to the workplace is > > > stifled, efficiency in public transport design is not maximized, and > > > economic and social gains for a large part of the population is not > > > captured. > > > > > > Does anyone have recommendations on literature or institutes focused > > > on these sorts of issues? If anyone works on these gender and > > > transport issues themselves, I would love to connect and get some > > > feedback on a few ideas. > > > > > > Thanks. > > > WT > > > > > > > > > Wendy Tao > > > EMBARQ, The WRI Center for Transport and the Environment > > > World Resources Institute > > > 10 G Street, NE Suite 800 > > > Washington, DC 20002 > > > (phone) 202.729.7649 > > > (fax) 202.729.7798 > > > www.embarq.org > > > > > > > Priyanthi Fernando > Executive Secretary, IFRTD > 113-114Spitfire Studios, > 63-71 Collier Street > London N1 9BE. United Kingdom > Tel: +44 20 7713 6699 > Fax: +44 20 7713 8290 > Email: priyanthi.fernando@ifrtd.org OR ifrtd@ifrtd.org > Web: www.ifrtd.org > > IFRTD provides a framework for collaboration between individuals > and > organisations interested in issues of access & mobility as they affect > the > lives of rural people in developing countries. > > From jean-michel.cusset at let.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr Fri Oct 10 15:19:15 2003 From: jean-michel.cusset at let.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr (Jean-Michel CUSSET) Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 08:19:15 +0200 Subject: [sustran] Re: Gender issues in urban transport In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20031010061436.40B3F3A12E@mail.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr> Le 9 Oct 03, ? 12:05, Wendy Tao a ?crit: > Hello everyone. > > I would like to do a research project on gender issues in urban > transport, specifically focused on Vietnam (Hanoi and HCMC). > > As Hanoi and HCMC begin to plan their transport networks to accommodate > the rapidly increasing urban area, an often overlooked component that > transport planners must face is the role of gender in the design, > implementation, communications, and marketing of a system that should > meet the practical and strategic needs of both men and women. If gender > issues are ignored in transportation planning, there is a risk that > women's access to the workplace is stifled, efficiency in public > transport design is not maximized, and economic and social gains for a > large part of the population is not captured. > > Does anyone have recommendations on literature or institutes focused on > these sorts of issues? If anyone works on these gender and transport > issues themselves, I would love to connect and get some feedback on a > few ideas. > > Thanks. > WT > > > Wendy Tao > EMBARQ, The WRI Center for Transport and the Environment > World Resources Institute > 10 G Street, NE Suite 800 > Washington, DC 20002 > (phone) 202.729.7649 > (fax) 202.729.7798 > www.embarq.org ---------------- Dear Wendy, Your research project appears for me very exciting. I did and am doing some rearches on urban transport in Vietnam (Hanoi, Saigon) based on households survey (820 households for Hanoi in 2000-2001, 1250 households for HCMC). But these researches were not focused on gender and transport. It is possible to consider travel behaviour and opinion of female population on transport issues according to age, occupation familial status... Japanese consultants had done a bigget household survey for HCMC in 2002 (Houtrans team, we can visit their website) with arond 28,000 households. Why are you so interested by Vietnam ? anh/em la nguoi Viet khong ? Amities Jean Michel CUSSET Directeur de recherche au CNRS Laboratoire d'Economie des Transports e-mail : jean-michel.cusset@let.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr T?l (33) 4 72 72 64 49 fax (33) 4 72 72 64 48 From priyanthi.fernando at ifrtd.org Fri Oct 10 19:03:57 2003 From: priyanthi.fernando at ifrtd.org (priyanthi.fernando@ifrtd.org) Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 11:03:57 +0100 Subject: [sustran] Re: Gender issues in urban transport In-Reply-To: <015e01c38e9b$7a90f060$6801a8c0@WALTER> Message-ID: <3F86921D.17518.9E9C3CD@localhost> Thanks Walter...IFRTD as an information sharing and advocacy network and not an implementing organisation, has to rely on its members to yield 'good practice'. Our knowledge of what is happening on the ground points to many examples of micro interventions that have aimed to address women's needs some with more success and others. The challenge in the rural context is to identify ways and means of promoting the ownership of affordable transport means among women for tasks that have no immediate financial return. There is also some good practice of integrating women into labour based road construction. >From what we know there are few occasions where gender is mainstreamed into larger scale transport planning - and by mainstreaming I guess we mean understanding the potential differential impact of interventions on men and women and making decisions accordingly. It ought to mean more initiatives of disaggregating data such as you have in the non-motorised transport master planning that you have described. This is very encouraging - and we would welcome ideas about how this can be more widely promoted...IFRTD members are consciously trying to integrate gender into processes of integrated rural accessibility planning - this is another encouraging development. I am not aware of a women-owned bus cooperative in Sri Lanka. the Lanka Forum on Rural Transport Development (LFRTD)supported a community-owned bus initiative in Sri Lanka, which is still going on (I travelled in the bus last year!) but which is constrained by the community's lack of finances and political influence to get the local authorities to maintain the road... this has limited the route the bus can take...There are also other issues that make the initiative unsustainable. Meanwhile there are other spontaneous community transport programmes that have emerged in different parts of the island. The Lanka Forum is trying to use the lessons from this 'failure' and from the other community based schemes to encourage a rural transport policy that will support intermediate public transport and better network planning and maintenance at the decentralised level. You can contact the coordinator of the LFRTD on lfrtd@eol.lk for more info. Best wishes Priyanthi 9 Oct 2003 at 15:28, Walter Hook wrote: > well, our projects to modernize cycle rickshaws in india and indonesia > benefit women who represent the majority of the passengers, but the > operators who get the income boost are men. we held a tour des femmes > bike ride in Senegal that got a lot of women cycling for the first > time, but the numbers are not that impressive. the jinja bike > ambulances done by Fabio have some impressive effects on women's > health by getting them to the hospital during medical emergencies, but > we were not involved. in non-motorized transport master planning > efforts we are working on we sometimes have household survey data that > is broken down by gender, and find that focusing in the safety of > short trips to markets and schools would be one way to prioritize > traffic system interventions that benefit women. how about ifrtd, do > you have any new best practices to share? i heard that the > women-owned bus cooperative in sri lanka eventually failed. > > walter > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: > To: "Walter Hook" ; "Asia and the Pacific sustainable > transport" Cc: "Wendy Tao" > Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 1:02 PM Subject: Re: > [sustran] Re: Gender issues in urban transport > > > > Hi Walter > > > > I am surprised that you are not quoting any 'good practice' examples > > of gender mainstreaming into urban transport planning from your own > > or others experience? We've been a long time discussing these > > issues... > > > > I have the following email address for Kerry Hamilton > > k.hamilton@uel.ac.uk > > > > Priyanthi > > IFRTD > > > > On 9 Oct 2003 at 12:17, Walter Hook wrote: > > > > > deike peters, now at the technical university of berlin, did a > > > gender and transport toolkit for the world bank under the auspices > > > of Michael Bamberger. That would be a good place to start. > > > IFRTD's web site also probably has a lot of materials, and did > > > some publications on the topic, though they are more rural in > > > their orientation. there is also some first world work done by > > > kerry hamilton in the UK. my contact info is out of date. > > > > > > w. hook > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Wendy Tao" > > > To: "<" > > > Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 12:05 PM > > > Subject: [sustran] Gender issues in urban transport > > > > > > > > > > Hello everyone. > > > > > > > > I would like to do a research project on gender issues in urban > > > > transport, specifically focused on Vietnam (Hanoi and HCMC). > > > > > > > > As Hanoi and HCMC begin to plan their transport networks to > > > > accommodate the rapidly increasing urban area, an often > > > > overlooked component that transport planners must face is the > > > > role of gender in the design, implementation, communications, > > > > and marketing of a system that should meet the practical and > > > > strategic needs of both men and women. If gender issues are > > > > ignored in transportation planning, there is a risk that women's > > > > access to the workplace is stifled, efficiency in public > > > > transport design is not maximized, and economic and social gains > > > > for a large part of the population is not captured. > > > > > > > > Does anyone have recommendations on literature or institutes > > > > focused on these sorts of issues? If anyone works on these > > > > gender and transport issues themselves, I would love to connect > > > > and get some feedback on a few ideas. > > > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > WT > > > > > > > > > > > > Wendy Tao > > > > EMBARQ, The WRI Center for Transport and the Environment > > > > World Resources Institute > > > > 10 G Street, NE Suite 800 > > > > Washington, DC 20002 > > > > (phone) 202.729.7649 > > > > (fax) 202.729.7798 > > > > www.embarq.org > > > > > > > > > > > > Priyanthi Fernando > > Executive Secretary, IFRTD > > 113-114Spitfire Studios, > > 63-71 Collier Street > > London N1 9BE. United Kingdom > > Tel: +44 20 7713 6699 > > Fax: +44 20 7713 8290 > > Email: priyanthi.fernando@ifrtd.org OR ifrtd@ifrtd.org > > Web: www.ifrtd.org > > > > IFRTD provides a framework for collaboration between individuals and > > organisations interested in issues of access & mobility as they > > affect the lives of rural people in developing countries. > > > > > > Priyanthi Fernando Executive Secretary, IFRTD 113-114Spitfire Studios, 63-71 Collier Street London N1 9BE. United Kingdom Tel: +44 20 7713 6699 Fax: +44 20 7713 8290 Email: priyanthi.fernando@ifrtd.org OR ifrtd@ifrtd.org Web: www.ifrtd.org IFRTD provides a framework for collaboration between individuals and organisations interested in issues of access & mobility as they affect the lives of rural people in developing countries. From jeffreymturner at hotmail.com Fri Oct 10 19:08:10 2003 From: jeffreymturner at hotmail.com (jeff turner) Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 11:08:10 +0100 Subject: [sustran] Gender issues in urban transport Message-ID: Dear Ms Tao, I agree, this sounds like a very interesting and much needed project. You may be interested in work that myself and Professor Margaret Grieco of the UK's Napier University have undertaken in recent years on gender and transport, including papers on the point you make about the need to include gender from the initial stages of the transport planning process. This work is at: http://www.geocities.com/transport_research and http://www.geocities.com/transport_and_society/genderedjourneys/ You may also be interested to know that the UK's Transport Research Laboratory (who I work for), IFRTD and the Japanes consultants ICNET have been undertaking a project for the World Bank on Integrating Gender into the Bank's Transport Investment Programme. This study has undertaken 10 case studies of issues around integrating gender into the transport planning process. This is not yet complete and we can't release any publications from it but it does include a Vietnamese partner who conducted research in Vietnam, who you may wish to contact. She is called Vu Ngoc Uyen and her e-mail is vnuyen@fpt.vn. The project officer for the project at the Bank is Rakhi Basu at rbasu@worldbank.org. In addition, for further resources and information you may be interested in the site developed by City & Shelter, an Belgian NGO, on Gender and Mobilty at: http://www.cityshelter.org/13_mobil/start-mobil.htm Hope this helps Cheers Jeff Turner Jeff Turner Transport & Social Development Consultancy Ltd 2 Parkside Avenue Meanwood Leeds LS6 4JD UK Tel +44 (0)113 278 1994 Fax +44 (0)709 239 1156 >Hello everyone. >I would like to do a research project on gender issues in urban >transport, specifically focused on Vietnam (Hanoi and HCMC). >As Hanoi and HCMC begin to plan their transport networks to accommodate >the rapidly increasing urban area, an often overlooked component that >transport planners must face is the role of gender in the design, >implementation, communications, and marketing of a system that should >meet the practical and strategic needs of both men and women. If gender >issues are ignored in transportation planning, there is a risk that >women's access to the workplace is stifled, efficiency in public >transport design is not maximized, and economic and social gains for a >large part of the population is not captured. >Does anyone have recommendations on literature or institutes focused on >these sorts of issues? If anyone works on these gender and transport >issues themselves, I would love to connect and get some feedback on a >few ideas. >Thanks. >WT >Wendy Tao >EMBARQ, The WRI Center for Transport and the Environment >World Resources Institute >10 G Street, NE Suite 800 >Washington, DC 20002 >(phone) 202.729.7649 >(fax) 202.729.7798 >www.embarq.org _________________________________________________________________ Sign-up for a FREE BT Broadband connection today! http://www.msn.co.uk/specials/btbroadband From priyanthi.fernando at ifrtd.org Fri Oct 10 20:18:58 2003 From: priyanthi.fernando at ifrtd.org (priyanthi.fernando@ifrtd.org) Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 12:18:58 +0100 Subject: [sustran] (Fwd) Re: Gender issues in urban transport Message-ID: <3F86A3B2.9177.A2E735E@localhost> This bounced back, sorry.. Priyanthi ------- Forwarded message follows ------- From: Self To: "Wendy Tao" , sustran- discuss-bounces+priyanthi.fernando=ifrtd.org@list.jca.apc.org Subject: Re: [sustran] Gender issues in urban transport Date sent: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 17:14:41 +0100 Dear Wendy The IFRTD has recently worked with IC Net Japan, the Transport Research Laboratory, UK on a World Bank funded project on a project that ws looking for best practice on integrating gender into the transport sector. There was a case study on transport and gender in Vietnam. Suggest you get in touch with Rakhi Basu at the World Bank who is the task manager for this project (rbasu@worldbank.org) and the lead researchers IC Net (try Mika Kuneida on "Mika Kunieda" ) for more information. You may also like to get in touch with Annabel Davis of the TRL who is working on integrating social benefits in transport sector decision making and is carrying out, or developing, a case study in Vietnam. Other people who might make good use of your interest are the Simon Lucas in DFID in Hanoi (s-lucas@dfid.gov.uk) or Simon Ellis, working for the World Bank in Hanoi (sellis1@worldbank.org) Hope this helps. Do let me know how you get on - Priyanthi Fernando, IFRTD Bestwishs OP Oulod You On 9 Oct 2003 at 12:05, Wendy Tao wrote: > Hello everyone. > > I would like to do a research project on gender issues in urban > transport, specifically focused on Vietnam (Hanoi and HCMC). > > As Hanoi and HCMC begin to plan their transport networks to > accommodate the rapidly increasing urban area, an often overlooked > component that transport planners must face is the role of gender in > the design, implementation, communications, and marketing of a system > that should meet the practical and strategic needs of both men and > women. If gender issues are ignored in transportation planning, there > is a risk that women's access to the workplace is stifled, > efficiency in public transport design is not maximized, and economic > and social > gains for a large part of the population is not captured. > > Does anyone have recommendations on literature or institutes focused > on these sorts of issues? If anyone works on these gender and > transport issues themselves, I would love to connect and get some > feedback on a few ideas. > > Thanks. > WT > > > Wendy Tao > EMBARQ, The WRI Center for Transport and the Environment > World Resources Institute > 10 G Street, NE Suite 800 > Washington, DC 20002 > (phone) 202.729.7649 > (fax) 202.729.7798 > www.embarq.org > Priyanthi Fernando Executive Secretary, IFRTD 113-114Spitfire Studios, 63-71 Collier Street London N1 9BE. United Kingdom Tel: +44 20 7713 6699 Fax: +44 20 7713 8290 Email: priyanthi.fernando@ifrtd.org OR ifrtd@ifrtd.org Web: www.ifrtd.org IFRTD provides a framework for collaboration between individuals and organisations interested in issues of access & mobility as they affect the lives of rural people in developing countries. ------- End of forwarded message ------- Priyanthi Fernando Executive Secretary, IFRTD 113-114Spitfire Studios, 63-71 Collier Street London N1 9BE. United Kingdom Tel: +44 20 7713 6699 Fax: +44 20 7713 8290 Email: priyanthi.fernando@ifrtd.org OR ifrtd@ifrtd.org Web: www.ifrtd.org IFRTD provides a framework for collaboration between individuals and organisations interested in issues of access & mobility as they affect the lives of rural people in developing countries. _______________________________________________________ _____________ Priyanthi Fernando Executive Secretary International Forum for Rural Transport and Development 2 Spitfire Studios 63-71 Collier Street London N1 9BE UK Tel: +44 (0)20 7713 6699 Fax: +44 (0)20 7713 8290 Web page:www.ifrtd.org From whook at itdp.org Tue Oct 14 01:36:34 2003 From: whook at itdp.org (Walter Hook) Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 12:36:34 -0400 Subject: [sustran] monorial in malaysia References: <3F86A3B2.9177.A2E735E@localhost> Message-ID: <00f901c391a8$2aa02f20$6801a8c0@WALTER> does anyone have the low down on this monorail project in Kuala Lumpur? The company, Mtrans Holding, has tied up with some indonesian companies and is promising to invest $400 million into a monorail in Jakarta. Mtrans Holding seems to be the manufacturer of the rolling stock. i assume they are insulated from the financial consequences of a bankrupcy in the operations. does anyone understand the mechanism for this? walter hook From townsend at central.murdoch.edu.au Tue Oct 14 12:07:20 2003 From: townsend at central.murdoch.edu.au (Craig Townsend) Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 11:07:20 +0800 Subject: [sustran] Re: monorial in malaysia In-Reply-To: <00f901c391a8$2aa02f20$6801a8c0@WALTER> References: <3F86A3B2.9177.A2E735E@localhost> Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.0.20031014105343.00b4ddc8@central.murdoch.edu.au> Walter, I know a bit about the project, but I would be interested to learn more if anyone else could add anything (or if anything I've written is inaccurate), particularly concerning which entity owns and runs the KL monorail, who owns the technology, its performance since opening, etc. In 1982, a Swiss firm was hired by a government-linked Malaysian company to develop a 5 kilometre cableway, an aerial tram running on cables 20 feet above the central business and shopping district. In 1983 a Transport Planning Committee set up by the Federal Territory Ministry officially approved the overhead cable car system which was to be developed by Swiss companies, and a technical appraisal of an "Aerobus Pilot Line" was produced in the same year. The project didn't progress much further, and in the 1990s a turnkey concession contract was signed between the Malaysian government and Hitachi of Japan to build a monorail in the same general alignment. The project was under construction when the 1997/8 financial crisis hit, and liquidity problems for the project led to government assistance and "nationalization" to a Malaysian company run by Vincent Tan, a Chinese Malaysian tycoon with close links to Prime Minister Mahathir. More recently, the Malaysian government has been seeking new projects at home and abroad for transport infrastructure companies, including companies involved with the monorail and the LRTs. Malaysian road building/maintenance companies have picked up some contracts in Australia and India. The national government has also been pursuing road and bridge projects in Penang, where there has been some local opposition to the projects. Some government ministers have also suggested that KL-type LRTs could be built in Penang, although locals there have been arguing for less capital-intensive public transport projects. Craig At 12:36 PM 13/10/2003 -0400, you wrote: >does anyone have the low down on this monorail project in Kuala Lumpur? The >company, Mtrans Holding, has tied up with some indonesian companies and is >promising to invest $400 million into a monorail in Jakarta. Mtrans Holding >seems to be the manufacturer of the rolling stock. i assume they are >insulated from the financial consequences of a bankrupcy in the operations. >does anyone understand the mechanism for this? > >walter hook From ebrighton at earthlink.net Tue Oct 14 11:53:55 2003 From: ebrighton at earthlink.net (maglevinfo) Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 02:53:55 -0000 Subject: [sustran] Fwd: "A joint project to build a monorail in Jakarta" MM Lebanon 9/8 (MTrans, Message-ID: fyi --- In UrbanMaglev@yahoogroups.com, MagNews wrote: Malaysia will reportedly provide Indonesia with technological expertise to construct a 20-kilometer monorail system in Jakarta costing 400 million dollars. The project would begin in 2004 and be completed by mid-2006, Al-Jeffery Ibrahim, a director of the Kuala Lumpur Infrastructure group, told reporters. A memorandum of understanding (MOU) on the project was witnessed by Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri on the sidelines of a meeting in Kuching, Malaysia. The MOU was signed by Jakarta Governor Sutiyoso on behalf of Jakarta City and PT Indonesia Transit Central. Malaysia's MTrans Holdings was represented by David Chew, its chairman. The Kuala Lumpur Infrastructure group, which is building a monorail system in Kuala Lumpur, is the parent company of MTrans. Al-Jeffery said MTrans was eying similar projects in Pakistan, Sri Lanka and China. Photo attached: A monorail train travelling above a busy street in downtown Kuala Lumpur. The KL Monorail was launched at the end of last month and it cost 1.18 billion ringgit (311 million dollars). The Malaysian-designed-and-built system is expected to carry some 120,000 passengers a day by 2005. http://www.mmorning.com/ArticleC.asp?Article=571&CategoryID=7 A joint project to build a monorail in Jakarta --- End forwarded message --- From whook at itdp.org Tue Oct 14 23:11:40 2003 From: whook at itdp.org (Walter Hook) Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 10:11:40 -0400 Subject: [sustran] Re: monorial in malaysia References: <3F86A3B2.9177.A2E735E@localhost> <5.2.1.1.0.20031014105343.00b4ddc8@central.murdoch.edu.au> Message-ID: <00ad01c3925d$171f7fe0$6801a8c0@WALTER> interesting. thanks. we are working with Jakarta on a bus rapid transit system, and of course this monorail caused the usual confusion. i ran into this malaysian company in Kunming, where they were also proposing an elevated structure. It sounds like part of Malaysia's industrial policy to try and prop up this failed company which they now own. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig Townsend" To: "Asia and the Pacific sustainable transport" Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 11:07 PM Subject: [sustran] Re: monorial in malaysia > Walter, > > I know a bit about the project, but I would be interested to learn more if > anyone else could add anything (or if anything I've written is inaccurate), > particularly concerning which entity owns and runs the KL monorail, who > owns the technology, its performance since opening, etc. > > In 1982, a Swiss firm was hired by a government-linked Malaysian company to > develop a 5 kilometre cableway, an aerial tram running on cables 20 feet > above the central business and shopping district. In 1983 a Transport > Planning Committee set up by the Federal Territory Ministry officially > approved the overhead cable car system which was to be developed by Swiss > companies, and a technical appraisal of an "Aerobus Pilot Line" was > produced in the same year. The project didn't progress much further, and in > the 1990s a turnkey concession contract was signed between the Malaysian > government and Hitachi of Japan to build a monorail in the same general > alignment. The project was under construction when the 1997/8 financial > crisis hit, and liquidity problems for the project led to government > assistance and "nationalization" to a Malaysian company run by Vincent Tan, > a Chinese Malaysian tycoon with close links to Prime Minister Mahathir. > > More recently, the Malaysian government has been seeking new projects at > home and abroad for transport infrastructure companies, including companies > involved with the monorail and the LRTs. Malaysian road > building/maintenance companies have picked up some contracts in Australia > and India. The national government has also been pursuing road and bridge > projects in Penang, where there has been some local opposition to the > projects. Some government ministers have also suggested that KL-type LRTs > could be built in Penang, although locals there have been arguing for less > capital-intensive public transport projects. > > Craig > > > At 12:36 PM 13/10/2003 -0400, you wrote: > >does anyone have the low down on this monorail project in Kuala Lumpur? The > >company, Mtrans Holding, has tied up with some indonesian companies and is > >promising to invest $400 million into a monorail in Jakarta. Mtrans Holding > >seems to be the manufacturer of the rolling stock. i assume they are > >insulated from the financial consequences of a bankrupcy in the operations. > >does anyone understand the mechanism for this? > > > >walter hook > > From fjellstrom at un.org Wed Oct 15 00:00:23 2003 From: fjellstrom at un.org (Karl Fjellstrom) Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 22:00:23 +0700 Subject: [sustran] notification about SUTP-Asia and the Sourcebook Message-ID: <000901c39263$e78d7190$700210ac@KFOffice> Dear all, The Sustainable Urban Transport Project in Asia (SUTP-Asia) is carried out in cooperation between GTZ, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, CITYNET and the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration. SUTP-Asia focuses on dissemination of information about international experience in sustainable urban transport. A website, www.sutp.org, has been established as a resource centre. In addition, GTZ's Sustainable Transport Sourcebook for Policy-makers in Developing Cities is now available in print, with order forms at http://www.sutp.org/docs/sourcebook/order.aspx. Several modules, including Overview, Economic Instruments, Bus Rapid Transit, and Inspection & Maintenance, are available for download as .pdfs. It is expected all modules will be available for download by end of 2003. Translations of several modules have been completed and are in progress. All translations will be made available on the website as PDFs. Karl Fjellstrom GTZ SUTP-Asia Room 0942, Transport Division, United Nations ESCAP, United Nations Building Rajadamnern Nok Avenue, Bangkok 10200, Thailand Phone +66 (0)2 2881435, Fax +66 (0)2 2806042 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jca.apc.org/manage/private/sustran-discuss/attachments/20031014/f523d5d4/attachment.htm From karl at dnet.net.id Wed Oct 15 11:36:20 2003 From: karl at dnet.net.id (Karl Fjellstrom) Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:36:20 +0700 Subject: [sustran] Re: monorial in malaysia In-Reply-To: <00ad01c3925d$171f7fe0$6801a8c0@WALTER> Message-ID: <000001c392c5$20009eb0$700210ac@KFOffice> Walter and Craig, thanks for the information below. I can add that Transcoach, a subsidiary of the MTrans Group, has a 51% owned factory in Kunming. Originally the concessionaire for the monorail controlled by Vincent Chan and David Chew. But now the monorail, which is still the only non-government rail operator in KL (though it has received very substantial govt assistance to stay afloat) is owned by KL Infrastructure Group which is in turn owned by MTrans. MTrans is controlled by David Chew and are aggressively trying to expand their monorail business. Originally there was a turnkey contract with Itochu (which subcontracted Hitachi and Toyo Engineering to build the monorail system) but after 1998 the government decided to cut costs by building the system locally. MTrans are now marketing themselves as the only monorail builder outside Japan. The familiar pattern (e.g. with STAR and PUTRA) involves an initially private operator on some kind of BOT arrangement which during the construction of the system makes a fat margin as a contractor. The private sector investor's equity investment in the operator of the system is guaranteed by the government and it quickly became apparent with STAR and PUTRA that there was no realistic chance of commercial viability or a return on the investment (let alone repayment of loans) during the operating phase. Therefore the operators had little incentive to operate efficiently or try to take innovative measures which might have a short term impact on revenues but a longer term benefit, such as better integration facilities. In the end what happened with both STAR and PUTRA was that the government had to bail them out in Nov 2001 and take ownership. A subsidiary of the MOF is now the operator. With PUTRA after 3 years of operation debts were more than US1.4bn. Another interesting facet of the PUTRA arrangement was that Renong, a politically very well-connected conglomerate, was a major contractor during construction, the operator, one of the major bankers financing the system, as well as apparently the supplier of the Independent Checking Engineer who not surprisingly failed to shed light on massive cost overruns during the construction of the system. Typically many of the aspects of the arrangements whereby the government guarantees the operators are a bit murky. The end result, sadly, is that the government bears the risk of very aggressive ridership forecasts and ends up being consigned to redeeming ill-conceived projects. These projects are a massive financial burden for the country and city, and don't meet the mobility needs of the people. STAR, PUTRA and the monorail together, which amount to about 65km of rail, won't carry much more than about 2% of motorised trips in KL; much less than the existing and severely neglected bus system. Another undesirable side-effect is that such govt guarantees provide an incentive for high cost megaprojects and dilute normal principles of private sector risk in approaching such projects. Monorail's prospects are probably better in that they may at least be able to cover their operating costs given the prime location of the route. I don't know the details of their involvement in Jakarta but presumably they'll be looking for high profit margins on design and construction contracts and some kind of guarantee of their equity investment (or alternatively as with Putra a minimisation of their equity investment by relying almost wholly on debt) in the operator of the system, in case the operator goes bankrupt! Regards, Karl -----Original Message----- From: sustran-discuss-bounces+karl=dnet.net.id@list.jca.apc.org [mailto:sustran-discuss-bounces+karl=dnet.net.id@list.jca.apc.org] On Behalf Of Walter Hook Sent: Tuesday, 14 October 2003 9:12 PM To: Asia and the Pacific sustainable transport Subject: [sustran] Re: monorial in malaysia interesting. thanks. we are working with Jakarta on a bus rapid transit system, and of course this monorail caused the usual confusion. i ran into this malaysian company in Kunming, where they were also proposing an elevated structure. It sounds like part of Malaysia's industrial policy to try and prop up this failed company which they now own. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig Townsend" To: "Asia and the Pacific sustainable transport" Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 11:07 PM Subject: [sustran] Re: monorial in malaysia > Walter, > > I know a bit about the project, but I would be interested to learn > more if anyone else could add anything (or if anything I've written is inaccurate), > particularly concerning which entity owns and runs the KL monorail, > who owns the technology, its performance since opening, etc. > > In 1982, a Swiss firm was hired by a government-linked Malaysian > company to > develop a 5 kilometre cableway, an aerial tram running on cables 20 > feet above the central business and shopping district. In 1983 a > Transport Planning Committee set up by the Federal Territory Ministry > officially approved the overhead cable car system which was to be > developed by Swiss companies, and a technical appraisal of an "Aerobus > Pilot Line" was produced in the same year. The project didn't progress > much further, and in > the 1990s a turnkey concession contract was signed between the > Malaysian government and Hitachi of Japan to build a monorail in the > same general alignment. The project was under construction when the > 1997/8 financial crisis hit, and liquidity problems for the project > led to government assistance and "nationalization" to a Malaysian > company run by Vincent Tan, > a Chinese Malaysian tycoon with close links to Prime Minister > Mahathir. > > More recently, the Malaysian government has been seeking new projects > at home and abroad for transport infrastructure companies, including companies > involved with the monorail and the LRTs. Malaysian road > building/maintenance companies have picked up some contracts in > Australia and India. The national government has also been pursuing > road and bridge projects in Penang, where there has been some local > opposition to the projects. Some government ministers have also > suggested that KL-type LRTs could be built in Penang, although locals > there have been arguing for less capital-intensive public transport > projects. > > Craig > > > At 12:36 PM 13/10/2003 -0400, you wrote: > >does anyone have the low down on this monorail project in Kuala > >Lumpur? The > >company, Mtrans Holding, has tied up with some indonesian companies > >and is > >promising to invest $400 million into a monorail in Jakarta. Mtrans Holding > >seems to be the manufacturer of the rolling stock. i assume they are > >insulated from the financial consequences of a bankrupcy in the operations. > >does anyone understand the mechanism for this? > > > >walter hook > > From kisansbc at vsnl.com Thu Oct 16 11:26:56 2003 From: kisansbc at vsnl.com (Kisan Mehta) Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 07:56:56 +0530 Subject: [sustran] UK Think-tank calls for national congestion charge Message-ID: <005901c3938c$f840b2c0$3226020a@im.eth.net> Dear Colleagues, The following is interesting. In addition to congestion charge to reduce the number of vehicles on the road, we need to levy fairly high pollution tax for reducing air pollution. Developing countries need to take additionally stringent measures to reduce vehicles by making their acquisition difficult. Best wishes Kisan Mehta Tel'Fax: 00 91 22 2414 9688 ******************** Planet Ark : Think-tank calls for national congestion charge UK: October 15, 2003 http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/22543/story.htm LONDON - An influential think-tank has called for the government to introduce a nationwide congestion charge to cut traffic levels and pollution, raising up to 16 billion pounds in the process. A report yesterday by the Institute for Public Policy Research, which has close ties to the Labour party, said Britain should abandon its current road tax, paid annually by motorists, and replace it with a scheme which charged by the kilometre. "Congestion charging could not only help to reduce traffic and cut pollution but also provide a much needed source of revenue for paying for better roads and public transport," the report's author Julie Foley said. The report suggested that motorists in urban areas should pay around 20 pence per kilometre, with cheaper charges for those in rural communities instead of the existing road tax of up to 165 pounds per year. It predicts such a congestion charge would raise 16 billion pounds, more than the 13 billion pounds that national and local government spent on transport in 2002-3. In addition the scheme could cut traffic by 7 percent and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 8 percent, helping Britain meet its climate change target to cut such emissions by 20 percent by 2010. Government forecasts predict that traffic in the U.K. will have grown by 20-25 percent, through lower fuel prices and greater fuel efficiency . Unlike other European countries Britain has few toll roads. However in July Transport Secretary Alistair Darling said a feasibility study would examine the possibility of imposing road user charges. It followed the success of a controversial five pound a day "congestion charge" introduce in London in February to cut traffic in the capital's centre. Traffic driving into the eight-square-mile (21 sq km) central zone covered by the charge fell 16 percent in the first three months. Darling admitted that a national congestion charge would be a technically far more ambitious scheme. REUTERS NEWS SERVICE -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jca.apc.org/manage/private/sustran-discuss/attachments/20031016/09e6ec0f/attachment.htm From 188 at coral.tufts.edu Thu Oct 23 13:49:42 2003 From: 188 at coral.tufts.edu (Gabrielle Hermann) Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 00:49:42 -0400 Subject: [sustran] BRT uptake and political will Message-ID: <1066884582.3f975de6e8ce4@webmail.tufts.edu> Hi, I am writing a paper arguing that political will is the biggest barrier affecting the uptake of BRT technology. I use Quito, Lima, Santiago, and Porto Alegre as case studies. Does anyone have any advice or stories about how to increase the political will of local politicians to do BRT projects? Stories about these cities in particular would be especially appreciated... Thanks, Gabrielle -- Gabrielle Hermann Tufts University Dual Degree Program Fletcher School, Candidate for Masters of Art in Law and Diplomacy (MALD 2005) Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning (MA 2005) From whook at itdp.org Thu Oct 23 23:13:05 2003 From: whook at itdp.org (Walter Hook) Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 10:13:05 -0400 Subject: [sustran] Re: BRT uptake and political will References: <1066884582.3f975de6e8ce4@webmail.tufts.edu> Message-ID: <000d01c3996f$c75b12c0$6801a8c0@WALTER> the newest issue of Sustanable Transport has all we know on the subject. You should be able to download the PDF now from the ITDP web site. www.itdp.org. best walter ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gabrielle Hermann" <188@coral.tufts.edu> To: ; Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 12:49 AM Subject: [sustran] BRT uptake and political will > Hi, > > I am writing a paper arguing that political will is the biggest barrier > affecting the uptake of BRT technology. I use Quito, Lima, Santiago, and > Porto Alegre as case studies. Does anyone have any advice or stories about > how to increase the political will of local politicians to do BRT projects? > Stories about these cities in particular would be especially appreciated... > > Thanks, > > Gabrielle > > -- > Gabrielle Hermann > Tufts University Dual Degree Program > Fletcher School, Candidate for Masters of Art in Law and Diplomacy (MALD 2005) > Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning (MA 2005) > > From zelobo at olimpo.com.br Fri Oct 24 00:17:58 2003 From: zelobo at olimpo.com.br (Ze Lobo) Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 13:17:58 -0200 Subject: [sustran] Re: BRT uptake and political will References: <1066884582.3f975de6e8ce4@webmail.tufts.edu> <000d01c3996f$c75b12c0$6801a8c0@WALTER> Message-ID: <007401c39978$d9e38e00$66a595c8@erika> Hi Mr. Walter, This is Ze Lobo, I am also a member of the SUSTRANS discuss list, where I can listen an learn about sustainable transportation. I'm a bike consultor for the Bicycles Workgroup from the Rio de Janeiro Prefecture. Our coordinator, Roberto Ainbinder, told me that ITDP, is openning an office here in Rio. I am also a director of a NGO that looks for an increment in the use of sustainable tranportations. Our goals are to promote and spread Human Powered kinds of transportation, looking for a healthy city and citizens. Educative Campaigns, Recycle a Bike, Maps, Manuals, Intermodality, that's what we are looking for. I am already reading the SUSTRANS book " Taking Steps " and it is been great for me. It will be a pleasure for me to make contact with the ITDP people. I hope to hear about you soon. Best Regards, Ze Lobo. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Walter Hook" To: ; "Asia and the Pacific sustainable transport" Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 12:13 PM Subject: [sustran] Re: BRT uptake and political will > the newest issue of Sustanable Transport has all we know on the subject. > You should be able to download the PDF now from the ITDP web site. > www.itdp.org. > > best > walter > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gabrielle Hermann" <188@coral.tufts.edu> > To: ; > Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 12:49 AM > Subject: [sustran] BRT uptake and political will > > > > Hi, > > > > I am writing a paper arguing that political will is the biggest barrier > > affecting the uptake of BRT technology. I use Quito, Lima, Santiago, and > > Porto Alegre as case studies. Does anyone have any advice or stories > about > > how to increase the political will of local politicians to do BRT > projects? > > Stories about these cities in particular would be especially > appreciated... > > > > Thanks, > > > > Gabrielle > > -- > > Gabrielle Hermann > > Tufts University Dual Degree Program > > Fletcher School, Candidate for Masters of Art in Law and Diplomacy (MALD > 2005) > > Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning (MA 2005) From gbathan at adb.org Mon Oct 27 22:04:57 2003 From: gbathan at adb.org (gbathan@adb.org) Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 21:04:57 +0800 Subject: [sustran] IMPORTANT UPDATE ON BAQ 2003 Message-ID: Better Air Quality 2003 17-19 December 2003 EDSA Shangri-La Hotel ONLINE REGISTRATION FOR BAQ 2003 WORKSHOP NOW AVAILABLE ..... AND MORE Online registration Participants for the Better Air Quality 2003 workshop can now register ONLINE through the BAQ 2003 website. The online registration form is accessible at http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BAQ2003/BAQRegForm2003.htm Early bird registration extended until 7 November 2003 Participants can avail of early bird registration fee of US$290 until 7 November 2003. So hurry and avail of this discounted rate. Regular registration fee is US$390. Credit card payments (VISA/MASTERCARD/JCB) are accepted. To pay by credit card, complete the credit card authorization form and fax (attention to: Glynda Bathan) at fax number +632 632 636 2198. The form can be downloaded from http://www.worldbank.org/cleanair/caiasia/baq2003/pdf/credit_card.pdf President GMA invited to deliver speech during Opening Session The President of the Philippines, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, has been invited to formally inaugurate the workshop on 17 December 2003. Different government departments in the Philippines have recently undertaken important steps which demonstrate the commitment of the Government towards better air quality management in the Philippines. Examples of these are: the Department of Energy's program of making natural gas available for use as a transport fuel in the Philippines and the reduction of sulfur levels in diesel fuel ahead of schedule. The Department of Environment and Natural Resources recently launched the first of several fully computerized continuous ambient air quality monitoring stations which will provide updated air quality information in Metro Manila to be used for air quality management decision-making. Program for BAQ 2003 is shaping up Visit the BAQ 2003 website to view regular updates of the BAQ 2003 program. Currently, we have about 20 plenary presentations and 120 subworkshop presentations, as well as 50 poster presentations. The program, which is being finalized, is available online at the BAQ 2003 website available at this link http://www.worldbank.org/cleanair/caiasia/baq2003 BAQ 2003 sponsors Various companies across Asia and outside Asia acknowledge the importance of BAQ 2003 as the forum for dialogue on air quality management in Asia and have decided to sponsor BAQ 2003. So far, ETI has decided to sponsor BAQ 2003 at the diamond level; DEKRA, MAHA, Petron, and SGS have joined as platinum sponsors. For more information on how you can become a sponsors of BAQ 2003 as well, please contact Cornie Huizenga (chuizenga@adb.org) or Glynda Bathan (gbathan@adb.org) of the Organizing Committee. 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