[sustran] Re: [NewMobilityCafe] World Technology Award for the Environment - 2004 Webcast now on line

Craig Townsend townsend at alcor.concordia.ca
Sat Dec 11 05:05:10 JST 2004


I have been teaching my urban transport geography students that it was 
French economist Pigou who first proposed road pricing in The Economics of 
Welfare, published in 1920. Surely someone on this list has read the 
relevant works and can give us an authoritative answer!

On another matter, has anyone on the list participated in travel surveys of 
university students/staff and/or university campus transport planning? If 
you could direct me to any relevant studies, etc, I would be most 
appreciative. Please respond to my personal email address: 
townsend at alcor.concordia.ca

Craig Townsend (not an economist!)



At 01:56 PM 08/12/2004, you wrote:

>Sorry Eric  -
>As always our Ken got it right re Milton Friedman.
>(It would appear that both Milton Friedman and William Vickerey were
>suggesting road pricing in the 1950s).
>Merry Xmas
>
>Dave
>Dave Wetzel; Vice-Chair; Transport for London..
>
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>Roads in a Market Economy. - book reviews
>Reason <http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1568> ,   August-Sept,
><http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1568/is_n4_v28> 1996  by Robert
><http://www.findarticles.com/p/search?tb=art&qt=%22Robert+W.+Poole%2C+Jr.%22> 
>W. Poole, Jr.
>
>.................one of the unexpected delights of this book is a heretofore
>unpublished essay, included as an epilogue, by Milton Friedman and Daniel
>Boorstin, dating from the early 1950s, proposing both private ownership and
>market pricing for roads. As usual, Friedman was way ahead of most of the
>rest of us. Fortunately, with the publication of Gabriel Roth's book, these
>ideas will gain the kind of hearing they have long deserved.
>
>Publisher Robert W. Poole Jr. (bobp at reason.org) is president of the Reason
>Foundation and a transportation policy adviser and consultant.
>
>COPYRIGHT 1996 Reason Foundation
>COPYRIGHT 2004 Gale Group
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: EcoPlan, Paris [mailto:eric.britton at ecoplan.org]
>Sent: 08 December 2004 17:36
>To: NewMobilityCafe at yahoogroups.com; Sustran-discuss at jca.ax.apc.org
>Subject: [NewMobilityCafe] World Technology Award for the Environment - 2004
>Webcast now on line
>
>
>
>Subject: World Technology Award for the Environment - 2004 Webcast now on
>line
>
>
>
>To follow up on that last paragraph of my email of this morning concerning
>the World Technology Award for the Environment that was given this year to
>Mayor Ken Livingstone and his team for their Congestion Charging project, we
>can now give you the URL where you can see both the Webcast for the 2004
>World Technology Award ceremony in San Francisco in October:
>http://www.wtn.net/webcast/2004/summit/launch.html
><http://www.wtn.net/webcast/2004/summit/launch.html>
>
>
>
>Now if you do go there, I would suggest that you first pop the Award link at
>the bottom of the home page, which sets off a very long Webcast indeed.  If
>your time is short - and whose isn't? - you may just want to have a quick
>gander at the first several minutes in which the energetic WTN president
>James Clark explains the philosophy behind these awards (definitely
>interesting and quite innovative since he has set some rather challenging
>goals).  And then if you wish to see the short acceptance speech by Jared
>Blumenfeld who is Director Department of the Environment of SF and who
>accepted the award in the good mayor's name, you can get there by setting
>the little slide that controls the presentation to about 80% of the way to
>its end.  And there you'll have it.
>
>
>
>There is also an acceptance speech by Mayor Livingstone which is gracious
>and well informed and which you will be able to click to on the bottom
>right.  (In actual fact, Ken misses the correct attribution to the origins
>of thinking and theory behind road pricing, which was not Milton Friedman in
>1952. Rather it was his fellow Nobel Lauriat the wonderful, innovative and
>very kind William Vickerey who got his idea when living in lower Manhattan,
>watching traffic pile up in from of the Lincoln tunnel.  I know that for a
>fact because Professor Vickerey, who was my theory professor many years ago,
>told me the story himself over coffee one morning after our class at
>Columbia University.  I guess since we are a small family that I should also
>go on record by saying that no matter what a great teacher he was, as he
>was, he and the rest of the faculty there still were not able to turn me
>into an economist.
>
>
>
>There you have it.
>
>
>
>Eric Britton
>
>"Almost an economist"

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