[sustran] Re: Information on 'Bike Taxi'

[Carlos Felipe Pardo V.]

The bike taxi initiative is interesting. The United States has some in small cities, Barcelona has beautiful models and ITDP has designed some for India (specifically, bicycle rickshaws). Bogotá had some very good ideas but there was a legislation that banned them from the streets. They were even being "feeders" to the TransMilenio system!
I don't know of any cost/benefit analysis, though ITDP people must have these. I will send you some pictures and documents to your personal email.

"Anil K. Raut" <ankraut at wlink.com.np> wrote:
Dear Friends:
 
Could anyone help me finding out information on 'Bike Taxi'? I have seen it in Bangkok. Are there other cities using it? What are the environmental benefit/cost of these bike taxies?
 
More importantly, do they play role on congested cities and are their role important on 'Transport Management'?
 
If possible, I would like to have some pictures of these taxies.
 
Thank you for your help.
 
Regards,
 
Anil K. Raut
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Anil K. Raut
P. O. Box 8846
Kathmandu, NEPAL
E-mail: ankraut at wlink.com.np; anil at environmentnepal.com.np
Tel: 977-1-4232761 (Res.)/977-9841233941 (Mobile)


Carlos F. Pardo V.
Pardinus Research
pardinus at yahoo.com



		
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