From cpardo at cable.net.co Thu Sep 1 01:11:01 2005 From: cpardo at cable.net.co (Carlos F. Pardo) Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:11:01 -0500 Subject: [sustran] New Training Course on Non-motorised transport (SUTP) Message-ID: <0IM2000VQP1JGK40@nexus.cable.net.co> Dear all, The GTZ SUTP project has released the new Training Course on Non motorised transport, developed by Walter Hook and in close cooperation with Oscar Diaz,Michael King (Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates), Dr. J?rgen Heyen-Perschon (Africa Regional Director ITDP Europe) and Roelof Wittink (Director Interface for Cycling Expertise, The Netherlands). It expands the information given on the original module 3d (Preserving and Expanding the Role of Nonmotorised Transport). The document is available from our website at www.sutp.org/download/trainingmat.php . All comments or suggestions are welcome at sutp@sutp.org . Please forward this email to anyone interested. Best regards, Carlos F. Pardo Project Coordinator GTZ Sustainable Urban Transport Project (SUTP) Room 0942, Transport Division, UN-ESCAP ESCAP UN Building Rajadamnern Nok Rd. Bangkok 10200, Thailand Tel: +66 (0) 2 - 288 2576 (during August- September: +57 1 635 9048) Fax: +66 (0) 2 - 280 6042 (during August- September: +57 1 635 9015) Mobile: +66 (0) 1 - 772 4727 (during August- September: +57 3 15 802 4115) e-mail: carlos.pardo@sutp.org Website: www.sutp.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jca.apc.org/manage/private/sustran-discuss/attachments/20050831/5bbcddc1/attachment.html From Manfred.Breithaupt at gtz.DE Thu Sep 1 02:04:01 2005 From: Manfred.Breithaupt at gtz.DE (Breithaupt Manfred GTZ 4413) Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 19:04:01 +0200 Subject: [sustran] urgent: New Training Course on Non-motorised transport (SUTP) Message-ID: This nmt course it s not new! This PDF is the same as the HTML version, which we have already on the web. But some typing errors from the HTML were eliminated. But better don t call the anouncement back. Possibly noone will notice. But pl anounce it correctly when you go through other channels. Thks. Stefan: by when can you also correct the HTML version ? just those typing errors. With best regards, Manfred ***************************************************************************** Manfred Breithaupt Deutsche Gesellschaft f?r Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH (German Technical Cooperation) Transport and Mobility Division 44 - Environment and Infrastructure P.O. Box 5180 65726 Eschborn Tel. + 49 6196 79-1357 Fax + 49 6196 79-80 1357 Email: manfred.breithaupt@gtz.de http://www.gtz.de/transport gtz ***************************************************************************** -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- Von: sustran-discuss-bounces+manfred.breithaupt=gtz.de@list.jca.apc.org [mailto:sustran-discuss-bounces+manfred.breithaupt=gtz.de@list.jca.apc.org] Im Auftrag von Carlos F. Pardo Gesendet: Mittwoch, 31. August 2005 18:11 An: sustran-discuss@list.jca.apc.org; NewMobilityCafe@yahoogroups.com; carfree_cities@yahoogroups.com Betreff: [sustran] New Training Course on Non-motorised transport (SUTP) Dear all, The GTZ SUTP project has released the new Training Course on Non motorised transport, developed by Walter Hook and in close cooperation with Oscar Diaz,Michael King (Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates), Dr. J?rgen Heyen-Perschon (Africa Regional Director ITDP Europe) and Roelof Wittink (Director Interface for Cycling Expertise, The Netherlands). It expands the information given on the original module 3d (Preserving and Expanding the Role of Nonmotorised Transport). The document is available from our website at www.sutp.org/download/trainingmat.php . All comments or suggestions are welcome at sutp@sutp.org . Please forward this email to anyone interested. Best regards, Carlos F. Pardo Project Coordinator GTZ Sustainable Urban Transport Project (SUTP) Room 0942, Transport Division, UN-ESCAP ESCAP UN Building Rajadamnern Nok Rd. Bangkok 10200, Thailand Tel: +66 (0) 2 - 288 2576 (during August- September: +57 1 635 9048) Fax: +66 (0) 2 - 280 6042 (during August- September: +57 1 635 9015) Mobile: +66 (0) 1 - 772 4727 (during August- September: +57 3 15 802 4115) e-mail: carlos.pardo@sutp.org Website: www.sutp.org ________________________________________________________ 30 Years GTZ. Partner for the Future. Worldwide. GTZ Spotlight 2005: Focus - Fascination - Future: Designing tomorrow's cities. http://www.gtz.de/spotlight -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jca.apc.org/manage/private/sustran-discuss/attachments/20050831/d79b7b73/attachment.html From Lew.Fulton at unep.org Thu Sep 1 07:01:17 2005 From: Lew.Fulton at unep.org (Lew Fulton) Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 01:01:17 +0300 Subject: [sustran] Lew Fulton/UNEP/NBO/UNO is out of the office. Message-ID: I will be out of the office starting 29/08/2005 and will not return until 05/09/2005. I will try to respond to your message while travelling - if not, I will when I return. From hfabian at adb.org Thu Sep 1 18:33:14 2005 From: hfabian at adb.org (hfabian@adb.org) Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 17:33:14 +0800 Subject: [sustran] [cai-asia] Forum on Improving Pedestrian Facilities and Bikeways in Metro Manila - 6 September 1-6pm Message-ID: Dear all, We're trying to come up with a presentation on international experience in improving pedestrian facilities and providing bikeways that we can share with local stakeholders in Metro Manila. As some of you may be aware, this is currently a hot topic in Manila due to the Metro Manila Development Authority's announcement of their new project dubbed as the Metro Bikeways and Walkways Project. The Partnership for Clean Air has organized a forum to encourage stakeholders to participate in the implementation/ design of the project and help ensure that it comes to fruition. We have gathered plenty of materials that we can use to showcase international experience on bike ways as gathered from the GTZ-SUTP sourcebook and I-Ce. We would like to know if you can point us to materials showcasing experiences in improving pedestrian facilities in Asia and its integration to the transport system. Thanks! Best regards, Bert Herbert G. Fabian Transport Researcher Clean Air Initiative for Asian Cities Asian Development Bank, Manila tel: + 63 2 632 4444 loc. 7666 fax: + 63 2 636 2381 e-mail: hfabian@adb.org http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia ----- Forwarded by Herbert Fabian/Consultants/ADB on 09/01/2005 05:19 PM ----- mpleno@adb.org 08/31/2005 06:49 PM Please respond to cai-asia To: "Clean Air Initiative -- Asia" cc: Subject: [cai-asia] Forum on Improving Pedestrian Facilities and Bikeways in Metro Manila - 6 September 1-6pm The promotion of cycling and improved pedestrian access has resurfaced in Metro Manila in the past month. The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) has recently announced their plan to create a network of bikeways and footpaths in the metropolis. Other local government units have already adopted initiatives in improving pedestrian facilities in some areas, notable of which are initiatives undertaken by Makati City in improving its walkways and Manila City for closing some roads in favor of pedestrians, such as Avenida from Carriedo to Recto. A comprehensive bikeway network has been constructed in Marikina and in the process of further expansion. It is said to have enticed some 10,000-bike commuters daily. The provision of bikeways will entice commuters via public/ private transport to shift to cycling, especially to those people within comfortable cycling zones. On the other hand, improving pedestrian facilities and linking these to a systematic public transport system will greatly help commuters and entice private car users to use the public transport system. Reducing the use of private cars and increasing the public transport patronage will help alleviate traffic congestion and improve air quality. The Partnership for Clean Air (PCA), with support from the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Clean Air Initiative for Asian Cities (CAI-Asia) and the Firefly Brigade, is organizing a forum on non-motorized transportation. The objective of the forum is to know more about the experiences and plans of these local government agencies and multilateral agencies on providing bikeways and improving pedestrian facilities in the metropolis. The forum will also provide an opportunity to discuss the difficulties and issues encountered by bike commuters in areas without bikeway facilities. It is hoped that by doing so, other stakeholders will be encouraged to participate and contribute to the implementation of such projects. The forum is open to mayors, city engineers/ planners, advocacy groups, academe, business community, and multilateral/bilateral stakeholders. Some of the key presentations in the forum include the following: ? Sustainable Urban Transportation in Asian Cities: Experiences in providing bikeways and improving pedestrian access. ? Metro Bike and Walk Ways Project by Ms. Corazon Cruz, Assistant General Manager, Metropolitan Manila Development Authority ? Marikina Bikeways Network and Bike-to-Work Program by Ms. Carlota Contreras, Bikeways Officer, Marikina City Development Authority ? Experience of Bike Commuters by Firefly Brigade ? Experience of Makati CBD in improving and expanding pedestrian facilities by Mr. Salvador Tan, Ayala Land Inc. The discussion will be facilitated by Ms. Bebet Gozun, former secretary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and board member of PCA For further information and to confirm your attendance, contact either Ms. Aurora Ables at telephone no. 632-4444 local 70820 or Ms Agatha Diaz, at telephone no. 632-4444 local 70300; email: aables@adb.org or adiaz@adb.org. SEATS ARE LIMITED. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jca.apc.org/manage/private/sustran-discuss/attachments/20050901/3959f709/attachment-0001.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/gif Size: 17406 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://list.jca.apc.org/manage/private/sustran-discuss/attachments/20050901/3959f709/attachment-0001.gif From whook at itdp.org Fri Sep 2 01:22:06 2005 From: whook at itdp.org (Walter Hook) Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 12:22:06 -0400 Subject: [sustran] Re: [cai-asia] Forum on Improving Pedestrian Facilities andBikeways in Metro Manila - 6 September 1-6pm References: Message-ID: <00b801c5af11$4b9cf6d0$7701a8c0@WALTER> Jakarta just upgraded the sidewalks along part of the TransJakarta BRT system. They are not perfect, but they are a real revolution for Jakarta. Ibu Yani of the department of landscaping and parks was largely responsible. she is a very nice person and very committed, and could perhaps give a presentation at this workshop. Perhaps we along w/ instran and pelangi could help her do a little study about how many additional short walking trips have been generated in the corridor. it must be large because the taxi drivers are complaining. Jakarta plans to widen all sidewalks on all BRT corridors, and the governor has promised to finish 6 corridors before he leaves office. I have some nice photos, if someone wants them. walter Walter Hook, Ph.D. Executive Director Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) 127 West 26th Street, Suite 1003 New York, NY 10001 Ph: (212) 629-8001 Fax: (212) 629-8033 Promoting environmentally sustainable and equitable transportation worldwide Visit http://www.itdp.org ----- Original Message ----- From: hfabian@adb.org To: sustran-discuss@list.jca.apc.org Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 5:33 AM Subject: [sustran] [cai-asia] Forum on Improving Pedestrian Facilities andBikeways in Metro Manila - 6 September 1-6pm Dear all, We're trying to come up with a presentation on international experience in improving pedestrian facilities and providing bikeways that we can share with local stakeholders in Metro Manila. As some of you may be aware, this is currently a hot topic in Manila due to the Metro Manila Development Authority's announcement of their new project dubbed as the Metro Bikeways and Walkways Project. The Partnership for Clean Air has organized a forum to encourage stakeholders to participate in the implementation/ design of the project and help ensure that it comes to fruition. We have gathered plenty of materials that we can use to showcase international experience on bike ways as gathered from the GTZ-SUTP sourcebook and I-Ce. We would like to know if you can point us to materials showcasing experiences in improving pedestrian facilities in Asia and its integration to the transport system. Thanks! Best regards, Bert Herbert G. Fabian Transport Researcher Clean Air Initiative for Asian Cities Asian Development Bank, Manila tel: + 63 2 632 4444 loc. 7666 fax: + 63 2 636 2381 e-mail: hfabian@adb.org http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia ----- Forwarded by Herbert Fabian/Consultants/ADB on 09/01/2005 05:19 PM ----- mpleno@adb.org 08/31/2005 06:49 PM Please respond to cai-asia To: "Clean Air Initiative -- Asia" cc: Subject: [cai-asia] Forum on Improving Pedestrian Facilities and Bikeways in Metro Manila - 6 September 1-6pm The promotion of cycling and improved pedestrian access has resurfaced in Metro Manila in the past month. The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) has recently announced their plan to create a network of bikeways and footpaths in the metropolis. Other local government units have already adopted initiatives in improving pedestrian facilities in some areas, notable of which are initiatives undertaken by Makati City in improving its walkways and Manila City for closing some roads in favor of pedestrians, such as Avenida from Carriedo to Recto. A comprehensive bikeway network has been constructed in Marikina and in the process of further expansion. It is said to have enticed some 10,000-bike commuters daily. The provision of bikeways will entice commuters via public/ private transport to shift to cycling, especially to those people within comfortable cycling zones. On the other hand, improving pedestrian facilities and linking these to a systematic public transport system will greatly help commuters and entice private car users to use the public transport system. Reducing the use of private cars and increasing the public transport patronage will help alleviate traffic congestion and improve air quality. The Partnership for Clean Air (PCA), with support from the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Clean Air Initiative for Asian Cities (CAI-Asia) and the Firefly Brigade, is organizing a forum on non-motorized transportation. The objective of the forum is to know more about the experiences and plans of these local government agencies and multilateral agencies on providing bikeways and improving pedestrian facilities in the metropolis. The forum will also provide an opportunity to discuss the difficulties and issues encountered by bike commuters in areas without bikeway facilities. It is hoped that by doing so, other stakeholders will be encouraged to participate and contribute to the implementation of such projects. The forum is open to mayors, city engineers/ planners, advocacy groups, academe, business community, and multilateral/bilateral stakeholders. Some of the key presentations in the forum include the following: . Sustainable Urban Transportation in Asian Cities: Experiences in providing bikeways and improving pedestrian access. . Metro Bike and Walk Ways Project by Ms. Corazon Cruz, Assistant General Manager, Metropolitan Manila Development Authority . Marikina Bikeways Network and Bike-to-Work Program by Ms. Carlota Contreras, Bikeways Officer, Marikina City Development Authority . Experience of Bike Commuters by Firefly Brigade . Experience of Makati CBD in improving and expanding pedestrian facilities by Mr. Salvador Tan, Ayala Land Inc. The discussion will be facilitated by Ms. Bebet Gozun, former secretary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and board member of PCA For further information and to confirm your attendance, contact either Ms. Aurora Ables at telephone no. 632-4444 local 70820 or Ms Agatha Diaz, at telephone no. 632-4444 local 70300; email: aables@adb.org or adiaz@adb.org. SEATS ARE LIMITED. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ================================================================ SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of people-centred, equitable and sustainable transport with a focus on developing countries (the 'Global South'). Because of the history of the list, the main focus is on urban transport policy in Asia. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jca.apc.org/manage/private/sustran-discuss/attachments/20050901/432a5eed/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/gif Size: 17406 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://list.jca.apc.org/manage/private/sustran-discuss/attachments/20050901/432a5eed/attachment.gif From czegras at MIT.EDU Wed Sep 7 21:59:10 2005 From: czegras at MIT.EDU (P. Christopher Zegras) Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 08:59:10 -0400 Subject: [sustran] Fuel Costs: Welcome Perspective of Chilean Minister of Finance In-Reply-To: <922JiFLca7824S07.1126007160@cmsweb15.cms.usa.net> Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20050907082605.031dd250@po9.mit.edu> The Chilean Ministry of Finance, Nicol?s Eyzaguirre, was recently quoted (thanks to Lake Sagaris for highlighting this): "If gasoline is more expensive, people need to modify their conduct and consume less gasoline, for example organizing themselves and in place of going by automobile take a taxi as a group, use more public transport. We cannot be promoting the consumption of a good that we do not produce and that is each day more expensive. In no case will a generalized subsidy for gasoline be passed and, as such, a clear message to auto users is if fuel costs continue increasing they will have to in some way change their conduct, use less the auto, prefer public transport or bicycles." [my translation, see: http://www.lanacion.cl/prontus_noticias/site/artic/20050830/pags/20050830161148.html] Any similar sentiments expressed from other frank public officials from around the world? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jca.apc.org/manage/private/sustran-discuss/attachments/20050907/b73607c0/attachment.html From operations at velomondial.net Wed Sep 7 22:12:50 2005 From: operations at velomondial.net (Pascal van den Noort) Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:12:50 +0200 Subject: [sustran] Velo Mondial 2006: MORE SPACE FOR MARKET PLACE PAPERS AVAILABLE Message-ID: <078a01c5b3ad$d944dc50$9b00000a@PASCAL> VELO MONDIAL 2006 CAPE TOWN, MARCH 2006 INTERNATIONAL BICYCLE PLANNING CONFERENCE IMPORTANT NOTICE: WE HAVE MORE SPACE FOR MARKET PLACE PAPERS There is more space available on the programme schedule and therefore we can accept more papers for the Marketplace Sessions. The Velo Mondial 2006 Technical Committee is therefore renewing its invitation for paper proposals on the following topics: AFFORDABLE MOBILITY | ACCESSIBILITY | ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES |POVERTY ALLEVIATION | CLEANER AIR | PLANNED CITIES | SAFER ROADS |DIGNIFIED SPACES | HEALTHIER LIFESTYLES | RECREATIONAL CHOICES The Marketplace Sessions are similar to traditional Poster or Technical Sessions, where a broad range of specialist subjects will be addressed in detail. The difference is in the open setting which will encourage dialogue and interaction, but each presentation will be scheduled, so delegates will know who, what, where and when! Please visit www.velomondial2006.com to submit your paper proposal (abstract), or contact the Conference Secretariat via email on info@velomondial2006.com. Many thanks to those that have already submitted proposals. 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This prompts me to mention that the IEA has a new book out called "Saving Oil in a Hurry", with some ideas and analysis on what governments can do to achieve rapid oil use reductions. It's available at their website www.iea.org, though it's not free unfortunately, but the pdf version isn't too pricey. Lew Fulton |---------+------------------------------------------------------------> | | "P. Christopher Zegras" | | | Sent by: | | | sustran-discuss-bounces+lew.fulton=unep.org@list.| | | jca.apc.org | | | | | | | | | 07/09/2005 15:59 | | | Please respond to Asia and the Pacific | | | sustainable transport | | | | |---------+------------------------------------------------------------> >----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | | | To: WorldTransport@yahoogroups.com, sustran-discuss@list.jca.apc.org | | cc: | | Subject: [sustran] Fuel Costs: Welcome Perspective of Chilean Minister of Finance | >----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| The Chilean Ministry of Finance, Nicol?s Eyzaguirre, was recently quoted (thanks to Lake Sagaris for highlighting this): "If gasoline is more expensive, people need to modify their conduct and consume less gasoline, for example organizing themselves and in place of going by automobile take a taxi as a group, use more public transport. We cannot be promoting the consumption of a good that we do not produce and that is each day more expensive. In no case will a generalized subsidy for gasoline be passed and, as such, a clear message to auto users is if fuel costs continue increasing they will have to in some way change their conduct, use less the auto, prefer public transport or bicycles." [my translation, see: http://www.lanacion.cl/prontus_noticias/site/artic/20050830/pags/20050830161148.html] Any similar sentiments expressed from other frank public officials from around the world? ================================================================ SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of people-centred, equitable and sustainable transport with a focus on developing countries (the 'Global South'). Because of the history of the list, the main focus is on urban transport policy in Asia. From thomas.cr at gmail.com Thu Sep 8 00:58:48 2005 From: thomas.cr at gmail.com (Thomas C) Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 17:58:48 +0200 Subject: [sustran] Re: Fuel Costs: Welcome Perspective of Chilean Minister of Finance In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <704c1e4a0509070858d10fb6@mail.gmail.com> hmmm... it used to be online i believe. i guess that'll teach me not to save things instead of relying on them to around. you can still get the draft from http://www.stcwa.org.au/journal/210405/files/background_IEA.pdf the measures studied include carpool lanes, working from home, 4 day weeks, reduced speed limits, driving bans, free transit they're evaluated in terms of cost and efficiency (depending on the country). tc On 9/7/05, Lew Fulton wrote: > Thanks Chris. This prompts me to mention that the IEA has a new book out > called "Saving Oil in a Hurry", with some ideas and analysis on what > governments can do to achieve rapid oil use reductions. It's available at > their website www.iea.org, though it's not free unfortunately, but the pdf > version isn't too pricey. > > Lew Fulton > > > > |---------+------------------------------------------------------------> > | | "P. Christopher Zegras" | > | | Sent by: | > | | sustran-discuss-bounces+lew.fulton=unep.org@list.| > | | jca.apc.org | > | | | > | | | > | | 07/09/2005 15:59 | > | | Please respond to Asia and the Pacific | > | | sustainable transport | > | | | > |---------+------------------------------------------------------------> > >----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| > | | > | To: WorldTransport@yahoogroups.com, sustran-discuss@list.jca.apc.org | > | cc: | > | Subject: [sustran] Fuel Costs: Welcome Perspective of Chilean Minister of Finance | > >----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| > > > > > The Chilean Ministry of Finance, Nicol?s Eyzaguirre, was recently quoted > (thanks to Lake Sagaris for highlighting this): > > "If gasoline is more expensive, people need to modify their conduct and > consume less gasoline, for example organizing themselves and in place of > going by automobile take a taxi as a group, use more public transport. We > cannot be promoting the consumption of a good that we do not produce and > that is each day more expensive. > > In no case will a generalized subsidy for gasoline be passed and, as such, > a clear message to auto users is if fuel costs continue increasing they > will have to in some way change their conduct, use less the auto, prefer > public transport or bicycles." > > [my translation, see: > http://www.lanacion.cl/prontus_noticias/site/artic/20050830/pags/20050830161148.html] > > > Any similar sentiments expressed from other frank public officials from > around the world? > > ================================================================ > SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of people-centred, > equitable and sustainable transport with a focus on developing countries > (the 'Global South'). Because of the history of the list, the main focus is > on urban transport policy in Asia. > > > > > ================================================================ > SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of people-centred, equitable and sustainable transport with a focus on developing countries (the 'Global South'). Because of the history of the list, the main focus is on urban transport policy in Asia. > From Armin.Wagner at gtz.de Thu Sep 8 23:02:30 2005 From: Armin.Wagner at gtz.de (Wagner Armin GTZ 4413) Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 16:02:30 +0200 Subject: [sustran] International Fuel Prices 2005 Message-ID: NEW: International Fuel Prices 2005 Due to the increasing oil prices several developing countries had to reduce their subsidies on fuel in the recent weeks which lead to serious public unrest. In Yemen, 22 people died and hundreds of people were injured during clashes between the Yemeni military and protesters forcing the government to revise its decision. In Indonesia, large protests and strikes by public transportation employees were triggered and in numerous other countries such as Nigeria, Malaysia, and Bangladesh disapproval by the population provides dangerous potential for further agitation. However, most of the affected countries do not have a choice but to reduce subsidies if they do not want to be overwhelmed with its financial burden. For example, according to recent projections for Indonesia oil subsidisation will require up to 13.5 bn. US-$ in FY2005 leading to a budget deficit three times as large as initially planned and amounts to more than 25% of Indonesia's public expenditures. As a consequence, there will be significantly less money available for social infrastructure which will particularly harm the poor. The only possible conclusion from these events for the countries concerned is that they must change their oil price policy. Subsidisation must be removed gradually ideally leading to a system of fuel taxation in the medium term. During this process it is crucial to communicate especially to the weak groups in society that in the long run fuel subsidies hurt poor households economically rather than assisting them. Due to the tremendous relevance of this topic, the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) publishes the comprehensive study "International Fuel Prices 2005" in order to provide data which facilitate well-informed decision making. The most recent publication "International Fuel Prices 2005" (Author Dr Gerhard P Metschies) contains the following information: - Diesel Prices of 172 countries - Gasoline Prices of 172 countries - Time Series of Price Trends - Fuel Taxation for State Financing - Fuel Subsidies - Fuel Prices and Purchasing Power - Contraband of Fuel Worldwide - Government Tax Calculation The publication is available on: The reader may note that this survey is based on a crude oil price of 43 $ per barrel - far lower than today's prices. However, all conclusions remain valid. In addition, a monthly newsletter will be released by the mid-September. The newsletter aims at supporting government officials as well as decision makers from NGO's and the private sector in developing and implementing sustainable oil price policies. If you are interested in receiving the newsletter please send an email to Majordomo@mailserv.gtz.de that contains the line "subscribe fuelprices ". Please make sure to delete all other contents from the mail body, so that your request can be processed. For further information feel free to contact us ( armin.wagner@gtz.de ) or visit our web page . Sorry for cross-posting. Best regards, Armin Wagner ***************************** Transport Policy Advisor Deutsche Gesellschaft f?r Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH (German Technical Cooperation) Division 44 - Environment and Infrastructure Transport and Mobility P.O. Box 5180 65726 Eschborn, Germany Tel. + 49 6196 79- 6467 Fax. +49 6196 79-80 6467 E-Mail:Armin.Wagner@gtz.de http://www.gtz.de/transport ________________________________________________________ 30 Years GTZ. Partner for the Future. Worldwide. GTZ Spotlight 2005: Focus - Fascination - Future: Designing tomorrow's cities. http://www.gtz.de/spotlight ________________________________________________________ 30 Years GTZ. Partner for the Future. Worldwide. GTZ Spotlight 2005: Focus - Fascination - Future: Designing tomorrow's cities. http://www.gtz.de/spotlight From eric.britton at ecoplan.org Fri Sep 9 00:03:28 2005 From: eric.britton at ecoplan.org (Eric Britton) Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 17:03:28 +0200 Subject: [sustran] Paying for PDF files of work done by funded agencies on the topic of sustainable development in all its variants. In-Reply-To: <704c1e4a0509070858d10fb6@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Last week our colleague Lew Fulton in full innocence and helpfulness wrote us all a note about an energy study which the agency has carried out (remember you and I paid for it with our taxpayer dollars), which the IEA is flogging on their web site. (Hey, they want ? 60 for this virtual report. Life is sweet eh?) I want to make a BIG DEAL out of this and I hope that a good number of you will join with me on this. These agencies should not be trying to hustle up some odd bucks by selling these kinds of reports over the web. It costs them nothing and there are plenty of people out there in the world who may want to have a look and maybe even a very close one in order to build on it so as to be able to take a next step toward a more sustainable and fairer world. I am sure that they will bellyache that they need the money and that the only way they can pay the rent is if they have these additional streams of income. Hmm. At least needs to be looked at. We here at The Commons and the New Mobility Agenda, and a very large number of our concerned colleagues and grasp world wide, share our results without asking for a dime. Maybe we're nuts? Am I entirely wrong on this? Your views. On 9/7/05, Lew Fulton wrote: > Thanks Chris. This prompts me to mention that the IEA has a new book out > called "Saving Oil in a Hurry", with some ideas and analysis on what > governments can do to achieve rapid oil use reductions. It's available at > their website www.iea.org, though it's not free unfortunately, but the pdf version isn't too pricey. From schipper at wri.org Fri Sep 9 00:21:14 2005 From: schipper at wri.org (Lee Schipper) Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 11:21:14 -0400 Subject: [sustran] Re: Paying for PDF files of work done by funded agencies on thetopic of sustainable developmen Message-ID: In defence of the IEA, where I was for 6 years, the "taxpayer dollars" do not really cover all the IEA expenses. Member countries want studies and action but won't fork over the taxpayer dollars required to do all of that work. Indeed the US has for years maintained the IEA budget will not rise even in current dollars -- I don't know whether that is still true, but I can say when we said to the members "Give us funds to really nail down key issues like automobile use and fuel economy (and CO2 emissions) they would not appropriate extra funds to do that. The nights and weekends I spent on work the members wanted attests to my own appreciation for getting t hese figures right and out to the public. Consequently the IEA found that it had to sell many of its recent publications to make things go together. Try Eric to pry loose the data that go into the Paris mobile source emissions inventory. We and the IEA were given the run around for years. Ask ADEME if they will provide you the publicly funded yearly studies of space heating in French households. "Client Confidential" says the CEREN, who does the work. ADEME publishes bits and pieces. So they are NOT hustling odd bucks, they are bucking a trend of underfinancing of these kinds of efforts. I think making the pdf available inexpensively was a good move, and saves air pollution since it need not be mailed anywhere! Note this is MY opinion today, not that of the IEA (nor necessarily of the IEA when I was there.) >>> eric.britton@ecoplan.org 9/8/2005 11:03:28 AM >>> Last week our colleague Lew Fulton in full innocence and helpfulness wrote us all a note about an energy study which the agency has carried out (remember you and I paid for it with our taxpayer dollars), which the IEA is flogging on their web site. (Hey, they want ? 60 for this virtual report. Life is sweet eh?) I want to make a BIG DEAL out of this and I hope that a good number of you will join with me on this. These agencies should not be trying to hustle up some odd bucks by selling these kinds of reports over the web. It costs them nothing and there are plenty of people out there in the world who may want to have a look and maybe even a very close one in order to build on it so as to be able to take a next step toward a more sustainable and fairer world. I am sure that they will bellyache that they need the money and that the only way they can pay the rent is if they have these additional streams of income. Hmm. At least needs to be looked at. We here at The Commons and the New Mobility Agenda, and a very large number of our concerned colleagues and grasp world wide, share our results without asking for a dime. Maybe we're nuts? Am I entirely wrong on this? Your views. On 9/7/05, Lew Fulton wrote: > Thanks Chris. This prompts me to mention that the IEA has a new book out > called "Saving Oil in a Hurry", with some ideas and analysis on what > governments can do to achieve rapid oil use reductions. It's available at > their website www.iea.org, though it's not free unfortunately, but the pdf version isn't too pricey. ================================================================ SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of people-centred, equitable and sustainable transport with a focus on developing countries (the 'Global South'). Because of the history of the list, the main focus is on urban transport policy in Asia. From thomas.cr at gmail.com Fri Sep 9 00:45:55 2005 From: thomas.cr at gmail.com (Thomas C) Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 17:45:55 +0200 Subject: [sustran] Re: Paying for PDF files of work done by funded agencies on the topic of sustainable development in all its variants. In-Reply-To: References: <704c1e4a0509070858d10fb6@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <704c1e4a050908084548f5867f@mail.gmail.com> I agree... Two possible explanations: - citizens should not get involved in certain topics ("too complicated", "would misunderstand", "none of their business") - tax transfers between governments can be a big deal (ex. local municipalities to national agencies (ex. CERTU), etc) In the case of this report, the first explanation seems likely... There have been some governmental reports on this topic but i'm not an expert (off the top of my head, in France, circulaire balladur in 1994 and rapport mandelkern in 1999). It's true of reports but it's a problem with many other types of "public" data. Concerning transit agencies for example, many operators (at least in france) believe that data regarding their bus network (schedules, stops...) are sensitive commercial data that should not be publicly available (elsewhere than on bus stops ;) ). It's one of the main reasons why there's still no intermodal itinerary services. looking forward to a society where information will be free... in the mean time (might take a while), you can still read the draft: http://www.stcwa.org.au/journal/210405/files/background_IEA.pdf thomas On 9/8/05, Eric Britton wrote: > Last week our colleague Lew Fulton in full innocence and helpfulness wrote > us all a note about an energy study which the agency has carried out > (remember you and I paid for it with our taxpayer dollars), which the IEA is > flogging on their web site. (Hey, they want ? 60 for this virtual report. > Life is sweet eh?) > > I want to make a BIG DEAL out of this and I hope that a good number of you > will join with me on this. > > These agencies should not be trying to hustle up some odd bucks by selling > these kinds of reports over the web. It costs them nothing and there are > plenty of people out there in the world who may want to have a look and > maybe even a very close one in order to build on it so as to be able to take > a next step toward a more sustainable and fairer world. > > I am sure that they will bellyache that they need the money and that the > only way they can pay the rent is if they have these additional streams of > income. Hmm. At least needs to be looked at. > > We here at The Commons and the New Mobility Agenda, and a very large number > of our concerned colleagues and grasp world wide, share our results without > asking for a dime. Maybe we're nuts? > > Am I entirely wrong on this? Your views. > > > > > On 9/7/05, Lew Fulton wrote: > > Thanks Chris. This prompts me to mention that the IEA has a new book out > > called "Saving Oil in a Hurry", with some ideas and analysis on what > > governments can do to achieve rapid oil use reductions. It's available at > > their website www.iea.org, though it's not free unfortunately, but the pdf > version isn't too pricey. > > > From pendakur at interchange.ubc.ca Fri Sep 9 02:06:16 2005 From: pendakur at interchange.ubc.ca (V. Setty Pendakur) Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 10:06:16 -0700 Subject: [sustran] Re: Paying for PDF files of work done by funded agencies onthetopic of sustainable developmen References: Message-ID: <002a01c5b497$a15dfd40$d45d4540@vqo1g195m03x39> Yet, many will not buy these documents unless it has some thing unique which other sources on the web do not. IEA work may be good and have lots good data but there are many other sources which are free. Many agencies are finding the selling of documents a not so revenue raising measure. Cheers. Setty. Dr. V. Setty Pendakur Professor Emeritus, University of BC Honorary Professor, National Academy of Sciences of the PRC Chair, TRB-ABE90 & Director, ITDP President Pacific Policy and Planning Associates 702--1099 Marinaside Crescent Vancouver, BC, Canada V6Z 2Z3 Phone: 604-263-3576; Fax:604-263-6493 ----- Original Message ----- From: Lee Schipper To: eric.britton@ecoplan.org ; sustran-discuss@list.jca.apc.org ; NewMobilityCafe@yahoogroups.com Cc: czegras@MIT.EDU ; Lew.Fulton@unep.org Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 8:21 AM Subject: [sustran] Re: Paying for PDF files of work done by funded agencies onthetopic of sustainable developmen In defence of the IEA, where I was for 6 years, the "taxpayer dollars" do not really cover all the IEA expenses. Member countries want studies and action but won't fork over the taxpayer dollars required to do all of that work. Indeed the US has for years maintained the IEA budget will not rise even in current dollars -- I don't know whether that is still true, but I can say when we said to the members "Give us funds to really nail down key issues like automobile use and fuel economy (and CO2 emissions) they would not appropriate extra funds to do that. The nights and weekends I spent on work the members wanted attests to my own appreciation for getting t hese figures right and out to the public. Consequently the IEA found that it had to sell many of its recent publications to make things go together. Try Eric to pry loose the data that go into the Paris mobile source emissions inventory. We and the IEA were given the run around for years. Ask ADEME if they will provide you the publicly funded yearly studies of space heating in French households. "Client Confidential" says the CEREN, who does the work. ADEME publishes bits and pieces. So they are NOT hustling odd bucks, they are bucking a trend of underfinancing of these kinds of efforts. I think making the pdf available inexpensively was a good move, and saves air pollution since it need not be mailed anywhere! Note this is MY opinion today, not that of the IEA (nor necessarily of the IEA when I was there.) >>> eric.britton@ecoplan.org 9/8/2005 11:03:28 AM >>> Last week our colleague Lew Fulton in full innocence and helpfulness wrote us all a note about an energy study which the agency has carried out (remember you and I paid for it with our taxpayer dollars), which the IEA is flogging on their web site. (Hey, they want ? 60 for this virtual report. Life is sweet eh?) I want to make a BIG DEAL out of this and I hope that a good number of you will join with me on this. These agencies should not be trying to hustle up some odd bucks by selling these kinds of reports over the web. It costs them nothing and there are plenty of people out there in the world who may want to have a look and maybe even a very close one in order to build on it so as to be able to take a next step toward a more sustainable and fairer world. I am sure that they will bellyache that they need the money and that the only way they can pay the rent is if they have these additional streams of income. Hmm. At least needs to be looked at. We here at The Commons and the New Mobility Agenda, and a very large number of our concerned colleagues and grasp world wide, share our results without asking for a dime. Maybe we're nuts? Am I entirely wrong on this? Your views. On 9/7/05, Lew Fulton wrote: > Thanks Chris. This prompts me to mention that the IEA has a new book out > called "Saving Oil in a Hurry", with some ideas and analysis on what > governments can do to achieve rapid oil use reductions. It's available at > their website www.iea.org, though it's not free unfortunately, but the pdf version isn't too pricey. ================================================================ SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of people-centred, equitable and sustainable transport with a focus on developing countries (the 'Global South'). Because of the history of the list, the main focus is on urban transport policy in Asia. ================================================================ SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of people-centred, equitable and sustainable transport with a focus on developing countries (the 'Global South'). Because of the history of the list, the main focus is on urban transport policy in Asia. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jca.apc.org/manage/private/sustran-discuss/attachments/20050908/7bbbb198/attachment.html From ajplumbe at hotmail.com Fri Sep 9 03:22:54 2005 From: ajplumbe at hotmail.com (Tony Plumbe) Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 18:22:54 +0000 Subject: [sustran] Re: International Fuel Prices 2005 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hello Mr Wagner, One needs to be a little cautious in interpreting the impact of fuel price hikes on the public budgets of developing countries as it all depends upon whether or not those countries are themselves oil and gas producers. Three of the countries you cite, Indonesia, Malaysia and Nigeria, are very substantial oil and gas producers and the net effect on their national budgets of increases in the price of crude oil and gas can actually be an increase in government net revenue while domestic fuel prices are kept constant and the subsidy bill rises. Thus the government can have greater capacity to subsidise end user fuel prices. In the case of Indonesia as an example, the rising international oil and gas prices on exports mean they nearly cancel out the increasing burden of the domestic subsidy of end user fuel prices if domestic prices remain unchanged as far as the national budget is concerned. Your conclusions below regarding Indonesia are, I believe, fundamentally wrong by reporting only part of the outcome. Whether end user fuel subsidies should exist, and if so at what level, are quite other issues. Whether the international fuel price hikes should be used as a pretext to implement the reduction or removal of subsidies is also another issue. Whether cross subsidies should exist on jointly produced fuel products is another issue. Whether removed subsidies will result in more of government budgets being re-allocated to poverty relief is a further issue. Your comments below contain many assumptions that do not stand up to objective consideration. A useful question to ask is how many developing countries that are not substantial oil producers have overall fuel subsidies in today's post structural adjustment world? One has to be aware that the spot price (cited by journalists and others) is not the price at which all oil at a particular time is trading. For the latter one needs to take account of the spectrum of forward and long-term contracts weighted by the quantities involved. There are of course several benchmark spot prices at any one time for different types of crude oil. What governments often need to do, but frequently fail to manage, is to convey to their populations that fuel is only a small proportion of total transport costs. That applies even in developing countries with low labour costs. Hence increases in transport costs at the same percentage rates as increases in end user fuel costs are not justified, yet this is what usually happens in practice as operators (and many other traders) seek to exploit the situation. Inflationary pressures that result from this behaviour are rightly of major concern to governments. You may like to note that in one of the countries with the highest level of taxation on fuel - the UK -the government is facing a public revolt concerning fuel price increases as I write. The website you identify is a very useful resource into which I hope GTZ can put sufficient resources for its maintenance to ensure it stays up to date on a monthly basis in the current situation. Tony Plumbe International Development Consultant >From: "Wagner Armin GTZ 4413" >Reply-To: Asia and the Pacific sustainable transport > >To: ,, >, >Subject: [sustran] International Fuel Prices 2005 >Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 16:02:30 +0200 > > >NEW: International Fuel Prices 2005 > >Due to the increasing oil prices several developing countries had to reduce >their subsidies on fuel in the recent weeks which lead to serious public >unrest. In Yemen, 22 people died and hundreds of people were injured during >clashes between the Yemeni military and protesters forcing the government >to revise its decision. In Indonesia, large protests and strikes by public >transportation employees were triggered and in numerous other countries >such as Nigeria, Malaysia, and Bangladesh disapproval by the population >provides dangerous potential for further agitation. > >However, most of the affected countries do not have a choice but to reduce >subsidies if they do not want to be overwhelmed with its financial burden. >For example, according to recent projections for Indonesia oil >subsidisation will require up to 13.5 bn. US-$ in FY2005 leading to a >budget deficit three times as large as initially planned and amounts to >more than 25% of Indonesia's public expenditures. As a consequence, there >will be significantly less money available for social infrastructure which >will particularly harm the poor. > >The only possible conclusion from these events for the countries concerned >is that they must change their oil price policy. Subsidisation must be >removed gradually ideally leading to a system of fuel taxation in the >medium term. During this process it is crucial to communicate especially to >the weak groups in society that in the long run fuel subsidies hurt poor >households economically rather than assisting them. > >Due to the tremendous relevance of this topic, the German Technical >Cooperation (GTZ) on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic >Cooperation and Development (BMZ) publishes the comprehensive study >"International Fuel Prices 2005" in order to provide data which facilitate >well-informed decision making. > >The most recent publication "International Fuel Prices 2005" (Author Dr >Gerhard P Metschies) contains the following information: > >- Diesel Prices of 172 countries >- Gasoline Prices of 172 countries >- Time Series of Price Trends >- Fuel Taxation for State Financing >- Fuel Subsidies >- Fuel Prices and Purchasing Power >- Contraband of Fuel Worldwide >- Government Tax Calculation > >The publication is available on: > > >The reader may note that this survey is based on a crude oil price of 43 $ >per barrel - far lower than today's prices. However, all conclusions remain >valid. > >In addition, a monthly newsletter will be released by the mid-September. >The newsletter aims at supporting government officials as well as decision >makers from NGO's and the private sector in developing and implementing >sustainable oil price policies. > >If you are interested in receiving the newsletter please send an email to >Majordomo@mailserv.gtz.de that contains >the line "subscribe fuelprices ". Please make sure to >delete all other contents from the mail body, so that your request can be >processed. For further information feel free to contact us ( >armin.wagner@gtz.de ) or visit our web page >. > >Sorry for cross-posting. > >Best regards, > >Armin Wagner > >***************************** >Transport Policy Advisor >Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH >(German Technical Cooperation) >Division 44 - Environment and Infrastructure >Transport and Mobility >P.O. Box 5180 >65726 Eschborn, Germany >Tel. + 49 6196 79- 6467 >Fax. +49 6196 79-80 6467 >E-Mail:Armin.Wagner@gtz.de >http://www.gtz.de/transport > > > >________________________________________________________ > >30 Years GTZ. Partner for the Future. Worldwide. >GTZ Spotlight 2005: Focus - Fascination - Future: Designing tomorrow's >cities. http://www.gtz.de/spotlight > >________________________________________________________ > >30 Years GTZ. Partner for the Future. Worldwide. >GTZ Spotlight 2005: Focus - Fascination - Future: Designing tomorrow's >cities. http://www.gtz.de/spotlight > > >================================================================ >SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of people-centred, >equitable and sustainable transport with a focus on developing countries >(the 'Global South'). Because of the history of the list, the main focus is >on urban transport policy in Asia. From hfabian at adb.org Fri Sep 9 20:15:21 2005 From: hfabian at adb.org (hfabian@adb.org) Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 19:15:21 +0800 Subject: [sustran] Re: [cai-asia] Forum on Improving Pedestrian Facilities andBikeways in Metro Manila - 6 September 1-6pm Message-ID: For those interested, the results of the Forum can be found on this link Over-all, the forum was able to generate more active support from the participants to help the realization of this plan. Suggestions/ inputs from bike commuters were also taken into consideration in the planned metro-wide bike and walk ways project of the MMDA. Thanks! Best regards, Bert "Walter Hook" Sent by: sustran-discuss-bounces+hfabian=adb.org@list.jca.apc.org 09/02/2005 12:22 AM Please respond to Walter Hook; Please respond to Asia and the Pacific sustainable transport To: "Asia and the Pacific sustainable transport" cc: John Ernst Subject: [sustran] Re: [cai-asia] Forum on Improving Pedestrian Facilities andBikeways in Metro Manila - 6 September 1-6pm Jakarta just upgraded the sidewalks along part of the TransJakarta BRT system. They are not perfect, but they are a real revolution for Jakarta. Ibu Yani of the department of landscaping and parks was largely responsible. she is a very nice person and very committed, and could perhaps give a presentation at this workshop. Perhaps we along w/ instran and pelangi could help her do a little study about how many additional short walking trips have been generated in the corridor. it must be large because the taxi drivers are complaining. Jakarta plans to widen all sidewalks on all BRT corridors, and the governor has promised to finish 6 corridors before he leaves office. I have some nice photos, if someone wants them. walter Walter Hook, Ph.D. Executive Director Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) 127 West 26th Street, Suite 1003 New York, NY 10001 Ph: (212) 629-8001 Fax: (212) 629-8033 Promoting environmentally sustainable and equitable transportation worldwide Visit http://www.itdp.org ----- Original Message ----- From: hfabian@adb.org To: sustran-discuss@list.jca.apc.org Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 5:33 AM Subject: [sustran] [cai-asia] Forum on Improving Pedestrian Facilities andBikeways in Metro Manila - 6 September 1-6pm Dear all, We're trying to come up with a presentation on international experience in improving pedestrian facilities and providing bikeways that we can share with local stakeholders in Metro Manila. As some of you may be aware, this is currently a hot topic in Manila due to the Metro Manila Development Authority's announcement of their new project dubbed as the Metro Bikeways and Walkways Project. The Partnership for Clean Air has organized a forum to encourage stakeholders to participate in the implementation/ design of the project and help ensure that it comes to fruition. We have gathered plenty of materials that we can use to showcase international experience on bike ways as gathered from the GTZ-SUTP sourcebook and I-Ce. We would like to know if you can point us to materials showcasing experiences in improving pedestrian facilities in Asia and its integration to the transport system. Thanks! Best regards, Bert Herbert G. Fabian Transport Researcher Clean Air Initiative for Asian Cities Asian Development Bank, Manila tel: + 63 2 632 4444 loc. 7666 fax: + 63 2 636 2381 e-mail: hfabian@adb.org http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia ----- Forwarded by Herbert Fabian/Consultants/ADB on 09/01/2005 05:19 PM ----- mpleno@adb.org 08/31/2005 06:49 PM Please respond to cai-asia To: "Clean Air Initiative -- Asia" cc: Subject: [cai-asia] Forum on Improving Pedestrian Facilities and Bikeways in Metro Manila - 6 September 1-6pm The promotion of cycling and improved pedestrian access has resurfaced in Metro Manila in the past month. The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) has recently announced their plan to create a network of bikeways and footpaths in the metropolis. Other local government units have already adopted initiatives in improving pedestrian facilities in some areas, notable of which are initiatives undertaken by Makati City in improving its walkways and Manila City for closing some roads in favor of pedestrians, such as Avenida from Carriedo to Recto. A comprehensive bikeway network has been constructed in Marikina and in the process of further expansion. It is said to have enticed some 10,000-bike commuters daily. The provision of bikeways will entice commuters via public/ private transport to shift to cycling, especially to those people within comfortable cycling zones. On the other hand, improving pedestrian facilities and linking these to a systematic public transport system will greatly help commuters and entice private car users to use the public transport system. Reducing the use of private cars and increasing the public transport patronage will help alleviate traffic congestion and improve air quality. The Partnership for Clean Air (PCA), with support from the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Clean Air Initiative for Asian Cities (CAI-Asia) and the Firefly Brigade, is organizing a forum on non-motorized transportation. The objective of the forum is to know more about the experiences and plans of these local government agencies and multilateral agencies on providing bikeways and improving pedestrian facilities in the metropolis. The forum will also provide an opportunity to discuss the difficulties and issues encountered by bike commuters in areas without bikeway facilities. It is hoped that by doing so, other stakeholders will be encouraged to participate and contribute to the implementation of such projects. The forum is open to mayors, city engineers/ planners, advocacy groups, academe, business community, and multilateral/bilateral stakeholders. Some of the key presentations in the forum include the following: ? Sustainable Urban Transportation in Asian Cities: Experiences in providing bikeways and improving pedestrian access. ? Metro Bike and Walk Ways Project by Ms. Corazon Cruz, Assistant General Manager, Metropolitan Manila Development Authority ? Marikina Bikeways Network and Bike-to-Work Program by Ms. Carlota Contreras, Bikeways Officer, Marikina City Development Authority ? Experience of Bike Commuters by Firefly Brigade ? Experience of Makati CBD in improving and expanding pedestrian facilities by Mr. Salvador Tan, Ayala Land Inc. The discussion will be facilitated by Ms. Bebet Gozun, former secretary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and board member of PCA For further information and to confirm your attendance, contact either Ms. Aurora Ables at telephone no. 632-4444 local 70820 or Ms Agatha Diaz, at telephone no. 632-4444 local 70300; email: aables@adb.org or adiaz@adb.org. 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Lew Thomas C com> cc: Asia and the Pacific sustainable transport , NewMobilityCafe@yahoogroups.com, czegras@mit.edu, 08/09/2005 18:45 Lew.Fulton@unep.org Subject: Re: Paying for PDF files of work done by funded agencies on the topic of sustainable development in all its variants. I agree... Two possible explanations: - citizens should not get involved in certain topics ("too complicated", "would misunderstand", "none of their business") - tax transfers between governments can be a big deal (ex. local municipalities to national agencies (ex. CERTU), etc) In the case of this report, the first explanation seems likely... There have been some governmental reports on this topic but i'm not an expert (off the top of my head, in France, circulaire balladur in 1994 and rapport mandelkern in 1999). It's true of reports but it's a problem with many other types of "public" data. Concerning transit agencies for example, many operators (at least in france) believe that data regarding their bus network (schedules, stops...) are sensitive commercial data that should not be publicly available (elsewhere than on bus stops ;) ). It's one of the main reasons why there's still no intermodal itinerary services. looking forward to a society where information will be free... in the mean time (might take a while), you can still read the draft: http://www.stcwa.org.au/journal/210405/files/background_IEA.pdf thomas On 9/8/05, Eric Britton wrote: > Last week our colleague Lew Fulton in full innocence and helpfulness wrote > us all a note about an energy study which the agency has carried out > (remember you and I paid for it with our taxpayer dollars), which the IEA is > flogging on their web site. (Hey, they want ? 60 for this virtual report. > Life is sweet eh?) > > I want to make a BIG DEAL out of this and I hope that a good number of you > will join with me on this. > > These agencies should not be trying to hustle up some odd bucks by selling > these kinds of reports over the web. It costs them nothing and there are > plenty of people out there in the world who may want to have a look and > maybe even a very close one in order to build on it so as to be able to take > a next step toward a more sustainable and fairer world. > > I am sure that they will bellyache that they need the money and that the > only way they can pay the rent is if they have these additional streams of > income. Hmm. At least needs to be looked at. > > We here at The Commons and the New Mobility Agenda, and a very large number > of our concerned colleagues and grasp world wide, share our results without > asking for a dime. Maybe we're nuts? > > Am I entirely wrong on this? Your views. > > > > > On 9/7/05, Lew Fulton wrote: > > Thanks Chris. This prompts me to mention that the IEA has a new book out > > called "Saving Oil in a Hurry", with some ideas and analysis on what > > governments can do to achieve rapid oil use reductions. It's available at > > their website www.iea.org, though it's not free unfortunately, but the pdf > version isn't too pricey. > > > From Armin.Wagner at gtz.de Tue Sep 13 00:28:49 2005 From: Armin.Wagner at gtz.de (Wagner Armin GTZ 4413) Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 17:28:49 +0200 Subject: [sustran] Re: International Fuel Prices 2005 Message-ID: Dear Mr. Plumbe, Thank you for your comments on the newsletter from Sept. 8th. It is correct that the net effect of oil price hikes on a country's budget depends upon whether it is an oil producer itself or not. In certain oil-producing countries (Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Russia) windfall oil revenues from increased oil prices on the world market are high enough to overcompensate the rising subsidy bill while domestic end user fuel prices can be kept stable. However, this scenario does not seem to apply to Indonesia, Malaysia and Nigeria: Due to aging oil fields and weak investment in the recent years, Indonesia's domestic supply of oil is constrained and will not suffice to deflect losses from the budget. Moreover, the price of refined oil which Indonesia imports rises faster than the price of crude oil which Indonesia exports. These factors burden the budget to an extent that threatens the very macroeconomic stability that the country achieved over the recent years. Hence it would be negligent to support Indonesia in its ruinous subsidisation policy. According to the Malaysian government, the country's oil reserves are projected to last for another 19 years. Thus, Malaysia is by no means a "very substantial" oil producer. In fact, due to surging domestic demand, the country might be forced to become a net oil importer even earlier. The government has to respond to this trend swiftly and adjust its fiscal policy accordingly. In Nigeria the financial burden of subsidization is carried by the state-owned oil company (NNPC). Currently NNPC faces bankruptcy since it also not capable of generating enough revenues to cover the costs of subsidisation. It is justified to question the extent to which financial resources will be reallocated from fuel subsidies to social infrastructure. It is very unlikely that a dollar saved on subsidisation will translate into a dollar spent on schools, roads and health facilities, since bureaucratic inefficiencies and corruption potentially cause leakages of public funds during this process (as the experience from the absence of a post cold war "peace dividend" illustrates). However, fiscal sustainability is the precondition for long-term economic growth and poverty reduction. Thus, in order not to undermine the socio-economic and political progress that has largely taken place in these countries in the recent years, fuel subsidies have to be gradually removed. For further analysis related to this topic please refer to the Asian Development Bank website (http://www.adb.org/) In addition to its impact on national budgets, artificially low fuel prices have problematic implications for the transport sector, since they provide wrong incentives: high demand for fuel-inefficient vehicles, sub-urbanisation, and high levels of car-ownership systematically result from subsidized fuel prices because they do not reflect the internal and external costs of fuel and the transport sector. In respect to your question regarding countries which have fuel subsidies while not being substantial oil producers I would like to refer you to our "International Fuel Price Study 2005" ( ). With best regards F?d?ric Holm-Hadulla -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- Von: sustran-discuss-bounces+armin.wagner=gtz.de@list.jca.apc.org [mailto:sustran-discuss-bounces+armin.wagner=gtz.de@list.jca.apc.org]Im Auftrag von Tony Plumbe Gesendet: Donnerstag, 8. September 2005 20:23 An: sustran-discuss@list.jca.apc.org; NewMobilityCafe@yahoogroups.com; cai-asia@lists.worldbank.org; fuelprices@mailserv.gtz.de Betreff: [sustran] Re: International Fuel Prices 2005 Hello Mr Wagner, One needs to be a little cautious in interpreting the impact of fuel price hikes on the public budgets of developing countries as it all depends upon whether or not those countries are themselves oil and gas producers. Three of the countries you cite, Indonesia, Malaysia and Nigeria, are very substantial oil and gas producers and the net effect on their national budgets of increases in the price of crude oil and gas can actually be an increase in government net revenue while domestic fuel prices are kept constant and the subsidy bill rises. Thus the government can have greater capacity to subsidise end user fuel prices. In the case of Indonesia as an example, the rising international oil and gas prices on exports mean they nearly cancel out the increasing burden of the domestic subsidy of end user fuel prices if domestic prices remain unchanged as far as the national budget is concerned. Your conclusions below regarding Indonesia are, I believe, fundamentally wrong by reporting only part of the outcome. Whether end user fuel subsidies should exist, and if so at what level, are quite other issues. Whether the international fuel price hikes should be used as a pretext to implement the reduction or removal of subsidies is also another issue. Whether cross subsidies should exist on jointly produced fuel products is another issue. Whether removed subsidies will result in more of government budgets being re-allocated to poverty relief is a further issue. Your comments below contain many assumptions that do not stand up to objective consideration. A useful question to ask is how many developing countries that are not substantial oil producers have overall fuel subsidies in today's post structural adjustment world? One has to be aware that the spot price (cited by journalists and others) is not the price at which all oil at a particular time is trading. For the latter one needs to take account of the spectrum of forward and long-term contracts weighted by the quantities involved. There are of course several benchmark spot prices at any one time for different types of crude oil. What governments often need to do, but frequently fail to manage, is to convey to their populations that fuel is only a small proportion of total transport costs. That applies even in developing countries with low labour costs. Hence increases in transport costs at the same percentage rates as increases in end user fuel costs are not justified, yet this is what usually happens in practice as operators (and many other traders) seek to exploit the situation. Inflationary pressures that result from this behaviour are rightly of major concern to governments. You may like to note that in one of the countries with the highest level of taxation on fuel - the UK -the government is facing a public revolt concerning fuel price increases as I write. The website you identify is a very useful resource into which I hope GTZ can put sufficient resources for its maintenance to ensure it stays up to date on a monthly basis in the current situation. Tony Plumbe International Development Consultant >From: "Wagner Armin GTZ 4413" >Reply-To: Asia and the Pacific sustainable transport > >To: ,, >, >Subject: [sustran] International Fuel Prices 2005 >Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 16:02:30 +0200 > > >NEW: International Fuel Prices 2005 > >Due to the increasing oil prices several developing countries had to reduce >their subsidies on fuel in the recent weeks which lead to serious public >unrest. In Yemen, 22 people died and hundreds of people were injured during >clashes between the Yemeni military and protesters forcing the government >to revise its decision. In Indonesia, large protests and strikes by public >transportation employees were triggered and in numerous other countries >such as Nigeria, Malaysia, and Bangladesh disapproval by the population >provides dangerous potential for further agitation. > >However, most of the affected countries do not have a choice but to reduce >subsidies if they do not want to be overwhelmed with its financial burden. >For example, according to recent projections for Indonesia oil >subsidisation will require up to 13.5 bn. US-$ in FY2005 leading to a >budget deficit three times as large as initially planned and amounts to >more than 25% of Indonesia's public expenditures. As a consequence, there >will be significantly less money available for social infrastructure which >will particularly harm the poor. > >The only possible conclusion from these events for the countries concerned >is that they must change their oil price policy. Subsidisation must be >removed gradually ideally leading to a system of fuel taxation in the >medium term. During this process it is crucial to communicate especially to >the weak groups in society that in the long run fuel subsidies hurt poor >households economically rather than assisting them. > >Due to the tremendous relevance of this topic, the German Technical >Cooperation (GTZ) on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic >Cooperation and Development (BMZ) publishes the comprehensive study >"International Fuel Prices 2005" in order to provide data which facilitate >well-informed decision making. > >The most recent publication "International Fuel Prices 2005" (Author Dr >Gerhard P Metschies) contains the following information: > >- Diesel Prices of 172 countries >- Gasoline Prices of 172 countries >- Time Series of Price Trends >- Fuel Taxation for State Financing >- Fuel Subsidies >- Fuel Prices and Purchasing Power >- Contraband of Fuel Worldwide >- Government Tax Calculation > >The publication is available on: > > >The reader may note that this survey is based on a crude oil price of 43 $ >per barrel - far lower than today's prices. However, all conclusions remain >valid. > >In addition, a monthly newsletter will be released by the mid-September. >The newsletter aims at supporting government officials as well as decision >makers from NGO's and the private sector in developing and implementing >sustainable oil price policies. > >If you are interested in receiving the newsletter please send an email to >Majordomo@mailserv.gtz.de that contains >the line "subscribe fuelprices ". Please make sure to >delete all other contents from the mail body, so that your request can be >processed. For further information feel free to contact us ( >armin.wagner@gtz.de ) or visit our web page >. > >Sorry for cross-posting. > >Best regards, > >Armin Wagner > >***************************** >Transport Policy Advisor >Deutsche Gesellschaft f?r Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH >(German Technical Cooperation) >Division 44 - Environment and Infrastructure >Transport and Mobility >P.O. Box 5180 >65726 Eschborn, Germany >Tel. + 49 6196 79- 6467 >Fax. +49 6196 79-80 6467 >E-Mail:Armin.Wagner@gtz.de >http://www.gtz.de/transport > > > >________________________________________________________ > >30 Years GTZ. Partner for the Future. Worldwide. >GTZ Spotlight 2005: Focus - Fascination - Future: Designing tomorrow's >cities. http://www.gtz.de/spotlight > >________________________________________________________ > >30 Years GTZ. Partner for the Future. Worldwide. >GTZ Spotlight 2005: Focus - Fascination - Future: Designing tomorrow's >cities. http://www.gtz.de/spotlight > > >================================================================ >SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of people-centred, >equitable and sustainable transport with a focus on developing countries >(the 'Global South'). Because of the history of the list, the main focus is >on urban transport policy in Asia. ________________________________________________________ 30 Years GTZ. Partner for the Future. Worldwide. GTZ Spotlight 2005: Focus - Fascination - Future: Designing tomorrow's cities. http://www.gtz.de/spotlight From cpardo at cable.net.co Fri Sep 16 07:44:21 2005 From: cpardo at cable.net.co (Carlos F. Pardo) Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 17:44:21 -0500 Subject: [sustran] GTZ- UITP Workshop on Sustainable transport, air quality and integration Message-ID: <0IMU00LUMZ8PM130@epicac.cable.net.co> Dear all, The ESCAP TTD, UITP and the GTZ SUTP project will deliver a workshop on sustainable transport, air quality and integration during October 25 and 26th, 2005. Full details are in the following links: Workshop details: http://www.sutp.org/BKKWS.htm Workshop preliminary programme: http://www.sutp.org/docs/BANGKOK_WORKSHOP_PROGRAMME.pdf Workshop registration form: http://www.sutp.org/docs/BANGKOK_WORKSHOP_REGISTRATION.doc Please diffuse among all parties interested. More details are available from sutp@sutp.org or in our website. Best regards, Carlos F. Pardo Project Coordinator GTZ Sustainable Urban Transport Project (SUTP) Room 0942, Transport Division, UN-ESCAP ESCAP UN Building Rajadamnern Nok Rd. Bangkok 10200, Thailand Tel: +66 (0) 2 - 288 2576 (during August- September: +57 1 635 9048) Fax: +66 (0) 2 - 280 6042 (during August- September: +57 1 635 9015) Mobile: +66 (0) 1 - 772 4727 (during August- September: +57 3 15 802 4115) e-mail: carlos.pardo@sutp.org Website: www.sutp.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jca.apc.org/manage/private/sustran-discuss/attachments/20050915/1323c351/attachment.html From Lew.Fulton at unep.org Fri Sep 16 17:19:11 2005 From: Lew.Fulton at unep.org (Lew Fulton) Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 11:19:11 +0300 Subject: [sustran] Re: GTZ- UITP Workshop on Sustainable transport, air quality and integration Message-ID: Carlos, workshop looks interesting, best of luck with that. Unfortunately I won't be able to make it as we have an annual review meeting here on those dates. But hopefully I can make it to Bangkok at some point, maybe if we get a project going there. Regards, Lew From Lew.Fulton at unep.org Fri Sep 16 18:18:09 2005 From: Lew.Fulton at unep.org (Lew Fulton) Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 12:18:09 +0300 Subject: [sustran] sorry, and a question Message-ID: Whoops - sorry about that last email folks! I'll take the opportunity to make a real post - a request for info. A particular employer just outside Nairobi, I won't say who, is in dire need of some traffic control measures around their large suburban compound. Given the suburban, fairly car-dependent location, they are not surprsingly experiencing a choking surge in single-occupant vehicles (SOVs) (not to mention SUVs) comming to work each day. There is increasingly bad traffic in the area and the expansive parking lot is getting pretty full. I would like to help them out with developing a plan to alleviate the problems, and so I am looking for ideas. I have seen many studies and policy papers on this type of situation in the places like the US, but not for a developing country context. Maybe the solution isn't very different - the primary difference, I think, is that here only about half the employees own a car - the other half already come to work by bus. The basic ideas I'm starting with are: -start charging for parking - use the funds to pay for: - minivan commuter service for nearby neighborhoods - bike lane construction where possible in vicinity. Would be a first for Nairobi. - car ride matching service on their intranet Thanks for any other suggestions, or any relevant analyses and experiences you can point me toward... Lew From litman at vtpi.org Fri Sep 16 22:58:26 2005 From: litman at vtpi.org (Todd Alexander Litman) Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 06:58:26 -0700 Subject: [sustran] Re: sorry, and a question In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <6.2.3.4.2.20050916065005.03639ef0@mail.islandnet.com> If you haven't looked at it previously, I suggest that you read the "TDM in Developing Countries" (http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm75.htm ) chapter of our Online TDM Encyclopedia (http://www.vtpi.org/tdm ), which contains a variety of resources on this subject. Other good resources include: "Sustainable Transportation: A Sourcebook for Policy-Makers in Developing Countries," (http://www.sutp.org/download/sourcebookhome.php ). The Rural Transport Knowledge Base (www.transport-links.org/rtkb/English\Intro.htm). Parking pricing and public transportation subsidies are a good start. Others include road space reallocation to favor walking, cycling, vans and buses, urban traffic calming, and improved traffic law enforcement. Best wishes, -Todd Litman At 02:18 AM 9/16/2005, Lew Fulton wrote: >Whoops - sorry about that last email folks! > >I'll take the opportunity to make a real post - a request for info. A >particular employer just outside Nairobi, I won't say who, is in dire need >of some traffic control measures around their large suburban compound. >Given the suburban, fairly car-dependent location, they are not surprsingly >experiencing a choking surge in single-occupant vehicles (SOVs) (not to >mention SUVs) comming to work each day. There is increasingly bad traffic >in the area and the expansive parking lot is getting pretty full. I would >like to help them out with developing a plan to alleviate the problems, and >so I am looking for ideas. > >I have seen many studies and policy papers on this type of situation in the >places like the US, but not for a developing country context. Maybe the >solution isn't very different - the primary difference, I think, is that >here only about half the employees own a car - the other half already come >to work by bus. > >The basic ideas I'm starting with are: > >-start charging for parking >- use the funds to pay for: > - minivan commuter service for nearby neighborhoods > - bike lane construction where possible in vicinity. Would be a first >for Nairobi. > - car ride matching service on their intranet > >Thanks for any other suggestions, or any relevant analyses and experiences >you can point me toward... > >Lew > > > >================================================================ >SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of people-centred, >equitable and sustainable transport with a focus on developing >countries (the 'Global South'). Because of the history of the list, >the main focus is on urban transport policy in Asia. Sincerely, Todd Alexander Litman litman@vtpi.org Victoria Transport Policy Institute (www.vtpi.org) 1250 Rudlin Street, Victoria, BC, V8V 3R7, CANADA Phone & Fax 250-360-1560 "Efficiency - Equity - Clarity" -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jca.apc.org/manage/private/sustran-discuss/attachments/20050916/682b6189/attachment.html From whook at itdp.org Sat Sep 17 08:06:43 2005 From: whook at itdp.org (whook@itdp.org) Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 19:06:43 -0400 Subject: [sustran] Re: sorry, and a question Message-ID: <380-22005951623643324@M2W092.mail2web.com> i think i am familiar with the compoound of which you speak. i should think that shared minivan service organized by the large institutions should be quite simple to organize, and like the idea of charging for parking. at least you are only dealing with a limited numbef of institutions to negotiate with! regarding bike lanes, they are desperately needed but my recollectoin is that the security concerns are more than just traffic accidents. w. Original Message: ----------------- From: Lew Fulton Lew.Fulton@unep.org Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 12:18:09 +0300 To: sustran-discuss@list.jca.apc.org Subject: [sustran] sorry, and a question Whoops - sorry about that last email folks! I'll take the opportunity to make a real post - a request for info. A particular employer just outside Nairobi, I won't say who, is in dire need of some traffic control measures around their large suburban compound. Given the suburban, fairly car-dependent location, they are not surprsingly experiencing a choking surge in single-occupant vehicles (SOVs) (not to mention SUVs) comming to work each day. There is increasingly bad traffic in the area and the expansive parking lot is getting pretty full. I would like to help them out with developing a plan to alleviate the problems, and so I am looking for ideas. I have seen many studies and policy papers on this type of situation in the places like the US, but not for a developing country context. Maybe the solution isn't very different - the primary difference, I think, is that here only about half the employees own a car - the other half already come to work by bus. The basic ideas I'm starting with are: -start charging for parking - use the funds to pay for: - minivan commuter service for nearby neighborhoods - bike lane construction where possible in vicinity. Would be a first for Nairobi. - car ride matching service on their intranet Thanks for any other suggestions, or any relevant analyses and experiences you can point me toward... Lew ================================================================ SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of people-centred, equitable and sustainable transport with a focus on developing countries (the 'Global South'). Because of the history of the list, the main focus is on urban transport policy in Asia. -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . From cpardo at cable.net.co Sat Sep 17 08:45:04 2005 From: cpardo at cable.net.co (Carlos F. Pardo) Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 18:45:04 -0500 Subject: [sustran] Re: sorry, and a question In-Reply-To: <380-22005951623643324@M2W092.mail2web.com> Message-ID: <0IMW003I7WPUS360@epicac.cable.net.co> Sometimes employees give bonuses (or some sort of point system) to workers who arrive by bicycle, which could result in a day off or so at the end of the month. However, if infrastructure and security are great concerns, it might not be relevant... unless they arrange groups in which people arrive at the same time to their office on their bikes. It might sound too utopic for this situation, but some variations could be developed. Best regards, Carlos F. Pardo Project Coordinator GTZ Sustainable Urban Transport Project (SUTP) Room 0942, Transport Division, UN-ESCAP ESCAP UN Building Rajadamnern Nok Rd. Bangkok 10200, Thailand Tel:? +66 (0) 2 - 288? 2576 (during August- September: +57 1 635 9048) Fax: +66 (0) 2 - 280? 6042 (during August- September: +57 1 635 9015) Mobile: +66 (0) 1 - 772 4727 (during August- September: +57 3 15 802 4115) e-mail: carlos.pardo@sutp.org Website: www.sutp.org -----Mensaje original----- De: sustran-discuss-bounces+cpardo=cable.net.co@list.jca.apc.org [mailto:sustran-discuss-bounces+cpardo=cable.net.co@list.jca.apc.org] En nombre de whook@itdp.org Enviado el: Viernes, 16 de Septiembre de 2005 06:07 p.m. Para: sustran-discuss@list.jca.apc.org Asunto: [sustran] Re: sorry, and a question i think i am familiar with the compoound of which you speak. i should think that shared minivan service organized by the large institutions should be quite simple to organize, and like the idea of charging for parking. at least you are only dealing with a limited numbef of institutions to negotiate with! regarding bike lanes, they are desperately needed but my recollectoin is that the security concerns are more than just traffic accidents. w. Original Message: ----------------- From: Lew Fulton Lew.Fulton@unep.org Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 12:18:09 +0300 To: sustran-discuss@list.jca.apc.org Subject: [sustran] sorry, and a question Whoops - sorry about that last email folks! I'll take the opportunity to make a real post - a request for info. A particular employer just outside Nairobi, I won't say who, is in dire need of some traffic control measures around their large suburban compound. Given the suburban, fairly car-dependent location, they are not surprsingly experiencing a choking surge in single-occupant vehicles (SOVs) (not to mention SUVs) comming to work each day. There is increasingly bad traffic in the area and the expansive parking lot is getting pretty full. I would like to help them out with developing a plan to alleviate the problems, and so I am looking for ideas. I have seen many studies and policy papers on this type of situation in the places like the US, but not for a developing country context. Maybe the solution isn't very different - the primary difference, I think, is that here only about half the employees own a car - the other half already come to work by bus. The basic ideas I'm starting with are: -start charging for parking - use the funds to pay for: - minivan commuter service for nearby neighborhoods - bike lane construction where possible in vicinity. Would be a first for Nairobi. - car ride matching service on their intranet Thanks for any other suggestions, or any relevant analyses and experiences you can point me toward... Lew ================================================================ SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of people-centred, equitable and sustainable transport with a focus on developing countries (the 'Global South'). Because of the history of the list, the main focus is on urban transport policy in Asia. -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . ================================================================ SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of people-centred, equitable and sustainable transport with a focus on developing countries (the 'Global South'). Because of the history of the list, the main focus is on urban transport policy in Asia. From Lew.Fulton at unep.org Mon Sep 19 15:58:06 2005 From: Lew.Fulton at unep.org (Lew Fulton) Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 09:58:06 +0300 Subject: [sustran] Re: sorry, and a question Message-ID: Excellent, thanks Todd! Hope all goes well with you. Regards, Lew |---------+------------------------------------------------------------> | | Todd Alexander Litman | | | Sent by: | | | sustran-discuss-bounces+lew.fulton=unep.org@list.| | | jca.apc.org | | | | | | | | | 16/09/2005 16:58 | | | Please respond to Asia and the Pacific | | | sustainable transport | | | | |---------+------------------------------------------------------------> >----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | | | To: Asia and the Pacific sustainable transport | | cc: | | Subject: [sustran] Re: sorry, and a question | >----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| If you haven't looked at it previously, I suggest that you read the "TDM in Developing Countries" ( http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm75.htm ) chapter of our Online TDM Encyclopedia ( http://www.vtpi.org/tdm ), which contains a variety of resources on this subject. Other good resources include: "Sustainable Transportation: A Sourcebook for Policy-Makers in Developing Countries," ( http://www.sutp.org/download/sourcebookhome.php ). The Rural Transport Knowledge Base ( www.transport-links.org/rtkb/English\Intro.htm). Parking pricing and public transportation subsidies are a good start. Others include road space reallocation to favor walking, cycling, vans and buses, urban traffic calming, and improved traffic law enforcement. Best wishes, -Todd Litman At 02:18 AM 9/16/2005, Lew Fulton wrote: Whoops - sorry about that last email folks! I'll take the opportunity to make a real post - a request for info. A particular employer just outside Nairobi, I won't say who, is in dire need of some traffic control measures around their large suburban compound. Given the suburban, fairly car-dependent location, they are not surprsingly experiencing a choking surge in single-occupant vehicles (SOVs) (not to mention SUVs) comming to work each day. There is increasingly bad traffic in the area and the expansive parking lot is getting pretty full. I would like to help them out with developing a plan to alleviate the problems, and so I am looking for ideas. I have seen many studies and policy papers on this type of situation in the places like the US, but not for a developing country context. Maybe the solution isn't very different - the primary difference, I think, is that here only about half the employees own a car - the other half already come to work by bus. The basic ideas I'm starting with are: -start charging for parking - use the funds to pay for: - minivan commuter service for nearby neighborhoods - bike lane construction where possible in vicinity. Would be a first for Nairobi. - car ride matching service on their intranet Thanks for any other suggestions, or any relevant analyses and experiences you can point me toward... Lew ================================================================ SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of people-centred, equitable and sustainable transport with a focus on developing countries (the 'Global South'). Because of the history of the list, the main focus is on urban transport policy in Asia. Sincerely, Todd Alexander Litman litman@vtpi.org Victoria Transport Policy Institute (www.vtpi.org) 1250 Rudlin Street, Victoria, BC, V8V 3R7, CANADA Phone & Fax 250-360-1560 ?Efficiency - Equity - Clarity? ================================================================ SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of people-centred, equitable and sustainable transport with a focus on developing countries (the 'Global South'). Because of the history of the list, the main focus is on urban transport policy in Asia. From Lew.Fulton at unep.org Mon Sep 19 16:13:56 2005 From: Lew.Fulton at unep.org (Lew Fulton) Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 10:13:56 +0300 Subject: [sustran] Re: sorry, and a question Message-ID: Thanks for these ideas and information sources folks. Indeed, security (apart from traffic safety) at this particular location is a major concern, so it will probably quite limit the willingness of management to encourage cycling. But we'll push it and see if we can at least get cycle lanes put in in the immediate vicinity. Commuter minivans that serve specific neighborhoods may aslo be cost-effective -the trick will be having them run often enough so that people feel confident they will be able to get to work/home when they want to each day. I agree that traffic calming is also a very important component. Lew |---------+------------------------------------------------------------> | | "Carlos F. Pardo" | | | Sent by: | | | sustran-discuss-bounces+lew.fulton=unep.org@list.| | | jca.apc.org | | | | | | | | | 17/09/2005 02:45 | | | Please respond to Asia and the Pacific | | | sustainable transport | | | | |---------+------------------------------------------------------------> >----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | | | To: "'Asia and the Pacific sustainable transport'" | | | | cc: | | Subject: [sustran] Re: sorry, and a question | >----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| Sometimes employees give bonuses (or some sort of point system) to workers who arrive by bicycle, which could result in a day off or so at the end of the month. However, if infrastructure and security are great concerns, it might not be relevant... unless they arrange groups in which people arrive at the same time to their office on their bikes. It might sound too utopic for this situation, but some variations could be developed. Best regards, Carlos F. Pardo Project Coordinator GTZ Sustainable Urban Transport Project (SUTP) Room 0942, Transport Division, UN-ESCAP ESCAP UN Building Rajadamnern Nok Rd. Bangkok 10200, Thailand Tel:? +66 (0) 2 - 288? 2576 (during August- September: +57 1 635 9048) Fax: +66 (0) 2 - 280? 6042 (during August- September: +57 1 635 9015) Mobile: +66 (0) 1 - 772 4727 (during August- September: +57 3 15 802 4115) e-mail: carlos.pardo@sutp.org Website: www.sutp.org -----Mensaje original----- De: sustran-discuss-bounces+cpardo=cable.net.co@list.jca.apc.org [mailto:sustran-discuss-bounces+cpardo=cable.net.co@list.jca.apc.org] En nombre de whook@itdp.org Enviado el: Viernes, 16 de Septiembre de 2005 06:07 p.m. Para: sustran-discuss@list.jca.apc.org Asunto: [sustran] Re: sorry, and a question i think i am familiar with the compoound of which you speak. i should think that shared minivan service organized by the large institutions should be quite simple to organize, and like the idea of charging for parking. at least you are only dealing with a limited numbef of institutions to negotiate with! regarding bike lanes, they are desperately needed but my recollectoin is that the security concerns are more than just traffic accidents. w. Original Message: ----------------- From: Lew Fulton Lew.Fulton@unep.org Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 12:18:09 +0300 To: sustran-discuss@list.jca.apc.org Subject: [sustran] sorry, and a question Whoops - sorry about that last email folks! I'll take the opportunity to make a real post - a request for info. A particular employer just outside Nairobi, I won't say who, is in dire need of some traffic control measures around their large suburban compound. Given the suburban, fairly car-dependent location, they are not surprsingly experiencing a choking surge in single-occupant vehicles (SOVs) (not to mention SUVs) comming to work each day. There is increasingly bad traffic in the area and the expansive parking lot is getting pretty full. I would like to help them out with developing a plan to alleviate the problems, and so I am looking for ideas. I have seen many studies and policy papers on this type of situation in the places like the US, but not for a developing country context. Maybe the solution isn't very different - the primary difference, I think, is that here only about half the employees own a car - the other half already come to work by bus. The basic ideas I'm starting with are: -start charging for parking - use the funds to pay for: - minivan commuter service for nearby neighborhoods - bike lane construction where possible in vicinity. Would be a first for Nairobi. - car ride matching service on their intranet Thanks for any other suggestions, or any relevant analyses and experiences you can point me toward... Lew ================================================================ SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of people-centred, equitable and sustainable transport with a focus on developing countries (the 'Global South'). Because of the history of the list, the main focus is on urban transport policy in Asia. -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . ================================================================ SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of people-centred, equitable and sustainable transport with a focus on developing countries (the 'Global South'). Because of the history of the list, the main focus is on urban transport policy in Asia. ================================================================ SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of people-centred, equitable and sustainable transport with a focus on developing countries (the 'Global South'). Because of the history of the list, the main focus is on urban transport policy in Asia. From cpardo at cable.net.co Tue Sep 20 05:32:35 2005 From: cpardo at cable.net.co (Carlos F. Pardo) Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 15:32:35 -0500 Subject: [sustran] RV: CNG Gas Message-ID: <0IN200K2V7SQ0Y50@epicac.cable.net.co> Would someone be willing to answer this question? See below: >From salman saeed : "Dear sutp.org team, "I use a car that uses natural gas. Last night I saw a cylinder getting off another car during refuelling. It went off like a missile & did a lot of damage including death of two persons.I am really worried.Please advise me on this.Iam seriously thinking of getting rid of cng as a fuel. Sincerely, Dr Salman Saeed" Carlos F. Pardo Project Coordinator GTZ Sustainable Urban Transport Project (SUTP) Room 0942, Transport Division, UN-ESCAP ESCAP UN Building Rajadamnern Nok Rd. Bangkok 10200, Thailand Tel:? +66 (0) 2 - 288? 2576 (during August- September: +57 1 635 9048) Fax: +66 (0) 2 - 280? 6042 (during August- September: +57 1 635 9015) Mobile: +66 (0) 1 - 772 4727 (during August- September: +57 3 15 802 4115) e-mail: carlos.pardo@sutp.org Website: www.sutp.org -----Mensaje original----- De: sutp.org Feedback Form [mailto:sutp@sutp.org] Enviado el: Domingo, 18 de Septiembre de 2005 03:50 p.m. Para: sutp@sutp.org Asunto: sutp.org Download Area Feedback Feedback from salman saeed : Dear sutp.org team, I use a car that uses natural gas.Last night I saw a cylinder getting off another car during refuelling.It went off like a missile & did a lot of damage including death of two persons.I am really worried.Please advise me on this.Iam seriously thinking of getting rid of cng as a fuel. Sincerely, Dr Salman Saeed From sutp at sutp.org Tue Sep 20 05:32:18 2005 From: sutp at sutp.org (SUTP Sustainable Urban Transport Project) Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 15:32:18 -0500 Subject: [sustran] CNG Gas Message-ID: <20050919203847.9D2F22C5AB@mx-list.jca.ne.jp> Would someone be willing to answer this question? See below: >From salman saeed : "Dear sutp.org team, "I use a car that uses natural gas. Last night I saw a cylinder getting off another car during refuelling. It went off like a missile & did a lot of damage including death of two persons.I am really worried.Please advise me on this.Iam seriously thinking of getting rid of cng as a fuel. Sincerely, Dr Salman Saeed" Carlos F. Pardo Project Coordinator GTZ Sustainable Urban Transport Project (SUTP) Room 0942, Transport Division, UN-ESCAP ESCAP UN Building Rajadamnern Nok Rd. Bangkok 10200, Thailand Tel:? +66 (0) 2 - 288? 2576 (during August- September: +57 1 635 9048) Fax: +66 (0) 2 - 280? 6042 (during August- September: +57 1 635 9015) Mobile: +66 (0) 1 - 772 4727 (during August- September: +57 3 15 802 4115) e-mail: carlos.pardo@sutp.org Website: www.sutp.org -----Mensaje original----- De: sutp.org Feedback Form [mailto:sutp@sutp.org] Enviado el: Domingo, 18 de Septiembre de 2005 03:50 p.m. Para: sutp@sutp.org Asunto: sutp.org Download Area Feedback Feedback from salman saeed : Dear sutp.org team, I use a car that uses natural gas.Last night I saw a cylinder getting off another car during refuelling.It went off like a missile & did a lot of damage including death of two persons.I am really worried.Please advise me on this.Iam seriously thinking of getting rid of cng as a fuel. Sincerely, Dr Salman Saeed From litman at vtpi.org Tue Sep 20 23:18:47 2005 From: litman at vtpi.org (Todd Alexander Litman) Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 07:18:47 -0700 Subject: [sustran] "Lessons From Katrina" - New VTPI Paper Message-ID: <6.2.3.4.2.20050920071831.067ca548@mail.islandnet.com> For Immediate Release: 20 September 2005 "Lessons From Katrina: What A Major Disaster Can Teach Transportation Planners" (http://www.vtpi.org/katrina.pdf ) By Todd Litman Summary This paper examines failures in Hurricane Katrina disaster response and their lessons for transportation policy and planning in other communities. It identifies various policy and planning strategies that can help create a more efficient, equitable and resilient transport system. The evacuation plan functioned relatively well for motorists, but failed to serve people who depend on public transit. Transport planners can help prevent future disasters by demanding that emergency response plans devote at least as much attention to the evacuation and care of non-drivers as they do to motorists. Non-drivers include many people with various physical, economic and social problems. Planners need to anticipate these people's needs. This may require special community outreach and communications activities to build understanding and trust among planners and the people they serve. From a transport planning perspective, the greatest mistake in New Orleans was the lack of a detailed action plan to dispatch buses for evacuating transit-dependent residents. Such a plan would include an inventory of all available buses and essential staff, and pre-established procedures to deploy buses when an evacuation order is announced. It is important to understand why many people ignored evacuation orders. Many faced logistical or financial barriers obtaining transport out of the city. Many had nowhere to go and were fearful of emergency shelter conditions. Some stayed to protect their property or pets, or out of bravado. Addressing these objections would increase evacuation order response. A variety of planning policies and programs can help create a more resilient transport system. These increase system diversity and integration, improve user information, prioritize use of infrastructure, and provide special services during emergencies. These can benefit everybody in a community, even people who currently rely on automobile transportation. Sincerely, Todd Alexander Litman Victoria Transport Policy Institute (www.vtpi.org) litman@vtpi.org Phone & Fax 250-360-1560 1250 Rudlin Street, Victoria, BC, V8V 3R7, CANADA "Efficiency - Equity - Clarity" -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jca.apc.org/manage/private/sustran-discuss/attachments/20050920/e04646b0/attachment.html From roelof.wittink at cycling.nl Mon Sep 19 17:43:05 2005 From: roelof.wittink at cycling.nl (roelof.wittink@cycling.nl) Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 10:43:05 +0200 Subject: [sustran] Re: sorry, and a question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <432E9639.7612.5F7D11@localhost> Dear Lew In the Netherlands there is a program running for many years called "Cycle to your work". Employers pay one euro cent for every km on the bike their employees ride to work and back home. The result of the program is being used as a subsidy for programs in developing countries including for cycling promotion. The organisation cooperates with the employers to promote the use of cycling, since this has many benefits for the employers too. There is some info in english on their web site www.cossen.nl. I am sorry that most of the information on the project in only in dutch, but still present the page on their site on this: http://www.fietsnaarjewerk.nl/index.cfm?fuseaction=goededoel.home roelof wittink On 16 Sep 2005 at 12:18, Lew Fulton wrote: > Whoops - sorry about that last email folks! > > I'll take the opportunity to make a real post - a request for info. A > particular employer just outside Nairobi, I won't say who, is in dire > need of some traffic control measures around their large suburban > compound. Given the suburban, fairly car-dependent location, they are > not surprsingly experiencing a choking surge in single-occupant > vehicles (SOVs) (not to mention SUVs) comming to work each day. There > is increasingly bad traffic in the area and the expansive parking lot > is getting pretty full. I would like to help them out with developing > a plan to alleviate the problems, and so I am looking for ideas. > > I have seen many studies and policy papers on this type of situation > in the places like the US, but not for a developing country context. > Maybe the solution isn't very different - the primary difference, I > think, is that here only about half the employees own a car - the > other half already come to work by bus. > > The basic ideas I'm starting with are: > > -start charging for parking > - use the funds to pay for: > - minivan commuter service for nearby neighborhoods > - bike lane construction where possible in vicinity. Would be a > first > for Nairobi. > - car ride matching service on their intranet > > Thanks for any other suggestions, or any relevant analyses and > experiences you can point me toward... > > Lew > > > > ================================================================ > SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of people-centred, > equitable and sustainable transport with a focus on developing > countries (the 'Global South'). Because of the history of the list, > the main focus is on urban transport policy in Asia. > ******************************************************* Roelof Wittink, Director I-ce = Interface for Cycling Expertise Trans 3, 3512 JJ Utrecht, The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)30 2304521 fax: +31 (0)30 2312384 email (general): i-ce@cycling.nl email (personal): roelof.wittink@cycling.nl website: www.i-ce.info ******************************************************* From kennaughkb at yahoo.com.au Wed Sep 21 12:22:20 2005 From: kennaughkb at yahoo.com.au (Kirk Bendall) Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 13:22:20 +1000 (EST) Subject: [sustran] Re: RV: CNG Gas In-Reply-To: <0IN200K2V7SQ0Y50@epicac.cable.net.co> Message-ID: <20050921032220.59578.qmail@web34205.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Hello, gas cylinders should have a bleed off valve, leak stop piping and secure fitting to prevent such problems. Many city buses use CNG in Australia, while most taxis and many fleets vehicels use LPG. New Zealand also had many private CNG vehicles at one time, and they didn't seem to be much worse then petrol vehicles safety wise. Technical Standards for gas vehicles can be found via: http://www.iangv.org/html/sources/sources/standards/ the Australian Natural Gas Vehicle Coalition are at: http://www.ngvc.org/ngv/ngvc.nsf regards, kirk Wollongong Australia "Carlos F. Pardo" wrote: Would someone be willing to answer this question? See below: >From salman saeed : "Dear sutp.org team, "I use a car that uses natural gas. Last night I saw a cylinder getting off another car during refuelling. It went off like a missile & did a lot of damage including death of two persons.I am really worried.Please advise me on this.Iam seriously thinking of getting rid of cng as a fuel. Sincerely, Dr Salman Saeed" Carlos F. Pardo Project Coordinator GTZ Sustainable Urban Transport Project (SUTP) Room 0942, Transport Division, UN-ESCAP ESCAP UN Building Rajadamnern Nok Rd. Bangkok 10200, Thailand Tel: +66 (0) 2 - 288 2576 (during August- September: +57 1 635 9048) Fax: +66 (0) 2 - 280 6042 (during August- September: +57 1 635 9015) Mobile: +66 (0) 1 - 772 4727 (during August- September: +57 3 15 802 4115) e-mail: carlos.pardo@sutp.org Website: www.sutp.org -----Mensaje original----- De: sutp.org Feedback Form [mailto:sutp@sutp.org] Enviado el: Domingo, 18 de Septiembre de 2005 03:50 p.m. Para: sutp@sutp.org Asunto: sutp.org Download Area Feedback Feedback from salman saeed : Dear sutp.org team, I use a car that uses natural gas.Last night I saw a cylinder getting off another car during refuelling.It went off like a missile & did a lot of damage including death of two persons.I am really worried.Please advise me on this.Iam seriously thinking of getting rid of cng as a fuel. 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Outline of project implementation process (project development, design, promotion, evaluation) 3. Listing of car-free resources, including information resources and funding opportunities We look forward to your feedback on this document. Note: it is 15MB, so please try to download it from a broadband Internet service. >From the staff at GTZ-SUTP, have a happy Car-Free Day. Carlos F. Pardo Project Coordinator GTZ Sustainable Urban Transport Project (SUTP) Room 0942, Transport Division, UN-ESCAP ESCAP UN Building Rajadamnern Nok Rd. Bangkok 10200, Thailand Tel: +66 (0) 2 - 288 2576 (during August- September: +57 1 635 9048) Fax: +66 (0) 2 - 280 6042 (during August- September: +57 1 635 9015) Mobile: +66 (0) 1 - 772 4727 (during August- September: +57 3 15 802 4115) e-mail: carlos.pardo@sutp.org Website: www.sutp.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The principal objective of the meeting was to introduce and explain about all the good things they and their associated cites and agencies are doing this year under the ?Clever Commuting? theme that they have chosen for the 2005 events ? to which they added some very interesting discussions of the politics of transportation from the vantage of several mayors who were really very good on the subject . (See http://www.mobilityweek-europe.org/page.php?page=information_presentation&la ng=en for more on this from the EU. And http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/sep2005/2005-09-15-01.asp for a general synopsis from ENS.). But at the end of the day the main purpose of a Car/Free Day or Mobility Week is not only to have a nice time, but to give us all an opportunity to consider how each and every one of us might get ACTIVELY and DIRETLY involved in advancing the New Mobility Agenda. And in this context it struck me that this might be a good opportunity to see if we can now hook the European institutions into all this in a more direct, powerful and shaping way. And what better hook than money, eh? They spend and lend a lot of it in the sector, but can this be done in a way that is more sustainability friendly? That?s the challenge. Here is the proposal that I made off the cup to the closing session of the meeting, rather quickly and without the help of any images or charts which would have helped me make this point. What I noted from the discussions afterwards was that the savvy picked this up without any trouble, but that from the glazed eyes here and there I was too fast and too cryptic for most of those there. So I should now like to see if I can in the next days put before the organizers and all those who attended a convincing page or two which sets out this proposal, which I now am pleased to set before you for your comments, suggestions, rectifications ? and if you think it?s a worthy idea, perhaps you could let us know that you support it as well. Financing Transport Projects in Cities with EU Funding or Guarantees: A Proposal for Action A new look at how transport projects in cities should to be planned and financed in the future. The proposal runs as follows, in particular in the case of financing through any funds make available by any of the institutions which constitute the European Union, and including the European Investment Bank, all of whom have a very important role in the sector. Here in a nutshell is how this might work. 1. No public moneys or guarantees should be made available for projects that do not demonstrate in convincing detail via their technical planning, independent expert evaluation, local outreach and open public review efforts that full provision has been made for accessing each of the main system nodes (think of this perhaps as bus or transit stations) from their respective hinterlands ? and specifically by non motorized transport. Typically this might take the form of a radius around each stop of something on the order of 3-500 meters, possibly more. Here is a crude sketch just to try to get the basic idea across, with the small dots intended to represent a station or stop, and the circles to give an idea of the surrounding hinterland to be served via NMT: 2. Such a proposal offers numerous important advantages for the city and people in question. First, it provides ? and in many places for the first time ? an official recognition and appropriate administrative and jurisdictional space for the full scale planning and implementation of these important mobility, sustainable mobility in fact, components of a livable city. 3. Second, it provide for the first time an appropriate level of funding which takes into account the importance of a structure for integrating these most environmental and ECONOMICALLY friendly means of getting around in our cities. (We should never lose sight of the fact that non-motorized transport, got right, gives by far the most bank per buck of any that is spent in the transport sector.) 4. It is of course not possible at this time and at this level of generality to put a number to the level of funding that will be appropriate for these important access arrangements. But if we were to chose a possibly reasonable target out of a hat, we would put it at the area of 10% of total project budget. But the appropriate detail on this will come in each case out of the specific studies and projects needed in each place. 5. One additional wrinkle in this that is possibly worthy of attention has to do with the fact that if we are talking about, say, 400 media radiuses around each transit stop, in point of fact in many cases these areas of provision for non-motorized access will overlap. . . leading to the possibility of far more extensive overall ?pathing? throughout the city, meaning that it will now be possibly to move safely and efficiently over larger distances by cycle, foot or other non-motorized options. 6. Mikel Murga of MIT and Leber further draws to my attention that each of these surrounding hinterlands needs to be looked at in the planning process not only in terms of offering appropriate and safe access to people moving under their own steam, but that also thought needs to be given to what can be done in each area, if needed, to provide the right kind of public space for this kind of transport. The point here is that for such areas to be convivial and safe they must be more than open shoots which channel people to the stop or station, but that they need to be vibrant areas which offer attractions of their own, commercial and other. (One of the great advantages of this last wrinkle, is that it offers a way to bring more people and intersts, including economic intersts, into the planning and execution stage. Sustainable Mobility needs friends, and this is one way to bring them on board.) Leading by Example: In closing, I would like to mention that in the event that the Commission and the others financial institutions of the European Union adopt this as firm policy for all their own financial support and guarantees in the sector in the future, but that the Commission will also encourage national and other levels of government across Europe to do the same. If we were able to get this onto the books and into practice, there is no doubt that European Mobility Weeks will go down in the record books as one of the great ones. * * * What you can do to help? * Send on your editorial and other suggestions and additions to make this clearer and more convincing. * Your ideas about other places where we should be making similar international peer proposals along these lines. * If you wish to add a short annex and commentary of your own, I am thinking about posting these along with the final proposal to the organizers of last weeks conference, the respective offices of the EU and a few other key places. * And if you think that this is a good idea and wish to go on public record as supporting it, a short note with your name, title, institutional affiliation and address would be most useful. It is my hope that with your suggestions, and eventually your support, that we will be able to do something really important with this. What do you think? 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Let me leave it for you to search it out and ponder its implications. *********************************************** GRIDLOCK! By Ralph Blumenthal and David Barstow. From the NY Times, Published: September 24, 2005 Houston, Sept. 23 - At 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, with Hurricane Rita gathering strength and aimed at Texas, Mayor Bill White of Houston ordered mandatory evacuations from low-lying sections of the city while urging voluntary evacuations from flood-prone neighborhoods and mobile homes. His pleas were entirely consistent with the region's established evacuation plans, plans that disaster officials had rehearsed and honed for years. Under those plans, 1.25 million people, at most, were expected to leave. The big worry was whether enough people would heed evacuation orders. Instead, an estimated 2.5 million people took flight, including tens of thousands who lived in relatively safe areas. What was planned as an orderly evacuation produced scenes of gridlock, chaos and mass frustration, with Mayor White warning of "deathtrap" highways. The danger, it turned out, was not that too few would listen, but that too many did. In interviews on Friday, state and local officials acknowledged a glaring flaw in their planning, the failure to account for the psychological effects of Hurricane Katrina, or what was instantly labeled "the Katrina effect." "We had a lot more people evacuated than should have evacuated," said Frank E. Gutierrez, emergency management coordinator of Harris County, which includes Houston. "But because of Katrina, the damage that happened in Louisiana, a lot of people were scared." If anything, well-intentioned officials magnified the effect by repeatedly lacing evacuation pleas with reminders of the death toll and devastation in New Orleans. "Don't follow the example of New Orleans," Mayor White pleaded on Wednesday. As a result, though, state and local disaster officials struggled with problems never envisioned in any evacuation plan, 100-mile-long traffic jams, dehydrated babies in stifling cars and hundreds of motorists who simply ran out of gasoline trying to flee on choked roads. In some cases, government improvised successfully. State employees, for example, delivered free gasoline to thousands of stranded motorists. The Houston bus system, with help from hundreds of volunteers, distributed 45,000 bottles of water to motorists. But there were also numerous examples of a sluggish response. After Mayor White ordered mandatory evacuations, it took nearly 22 hours for officials to order that all lanes of Interstate 45, the city's main evacuation route, be used for traffic leaving Houston. It took an additional five hours for state transportation officials to execute the order. In the case of U.S. 290, another major evacuation route, county officials said there were not enough law enforcement officials available to close feeder streets and safely manage one-way traffic. It remains to be seen whether the traffic problems contributed to the bus explosion outside Dallas early Friday morning that killed at least 24 elderly evacuees from an assisted-living center in Houston. The bus had taken more than 14 hours to make what is usually a five-hour trip. Judge Robert Eckels, the highest elected official in Harris County, defended the overall evacuation effort but acknowledged that officials did too little to prepare residents for huge traffic problems. "The biggest flaw in this plan was communications," Judge Eckels said. "They didn't understand what could happen. They could be 20 hours on the road. 'Don't get up here unless you have a full tank of gas.' We did not do a good enough job of telling people that you get on the road, it may take 20 hours." A spokesman for the State Transportation Department, Mike Cox, offered a different explanation for the preparations. No one could have predicted, Mr. Cox said, how many Texans would be so seriously frightened by Hurricane Katrina. "Not one of our 15,000 employees is a psychologist," he said. In defending the response, Mr. Cox stressed the bottom line that despite nightmarish delays, millions of Texans made it to safety. "This was, as best we can tell, probably the largest evacuation in American history," he said. Indeed, traffic problems eased noticeably throughout the state on Friday. Some motorists simply gave up, turned around and returned home. At the same time, state and local officials tried to tamp down the evacuation, emphasizing that residents should hunker down and ride out the storm if they lived on high ground. Just as Hurricane Katrina prompted a re-examination of planning in Louisiana and Mississippi, Hurricane Rita is likely to focus attention on planning here. Why didn't Texas plan for an evacuation of this magnitude? Greg Evans, a disaster planning expert who directs the Institute for BioSecurity at the St. Louis University School of Public Health, said state disaster officials too often failed to plan for the worst. "People just like to believe things aren't going to be as bad as they are going to be," Dr. Evans said. "Their plans assume that 1.5 million people will evacuate when the reality is that 2.5 million people are evacuating. "All of a sudden, highways are jammed, people are running out of gas. All these things just spiral." In September 2004, Gov. Rick Perry ordered the state's Office of Homeland Security to evaluate evacuation plans. The review, delivered in March, identified weaknesses, particularly in the "Houston-Galveston Evacuation Area." The weaknesses included evacuation routes not wide enough to "handle large-scale movements of evacuees," routes that were too low and flood-prone, radio systems that cannot communicate with one another and inadequate monitoring of congestion. The report made 18 recommendations. State officials said few had put been put into effect. One recommendation was to install traffic counters on evacuation routes to monitor the heaviest traffic flows. Officials said they expected to have a plan for the counters by the end of the month. A spokesman for Mr. Perry did not respond to telephone messages for comment. "There can always be a better plan," Judge Eckels said. "The next time there will be a better plan." The New Mobility Agenda is permanently at http://NewMobility.org To post messages to list: NewMobilityCafe@yahoogroups.com To unsubscribe: NewMobilityCafe-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com Free group video/voice-conferencing via http://newmobilitypartners.org _____ YAHOO! 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URL: http://list.jca.apc.org/manage/private/sustran-discuss/attachments/20050925/e93aeb46/attachment.html From SCHIPPER at wri.org Mon Sep 26 03:58:46 2005 From: SCHIPPER at wri.org (Lee Schipper) Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 14:58:46 -0400 Subject: [sustran] Re: Rita, Texas, traffic - and nine little words Message-ID: This should be good fodder for those US right wingers who proclaim cars were the only way to be saved. in fact it was cars that almost cost so many their lives had they been trapped in a worse situation! >>> eric.britton@ecoplan.org 9/25/2005 10:21:43 PM >>> Dear Friends, Most of the following you will have picked up already, but I want to draw to your attention what I regard as an extremely important, a whoppingly egregious point toward the end of the piece which is sweetly hidden there in no more than nine little words. Words to me at least that scream. And it's not just for Texas, it is but one more sad example of how we are not using our brains and tools in organizing our daily lives. The phrase? Let me leave it for you to search it out and ponder its implications. *********************************************** GRIDLOCK! By Ralph Blumenthal and David Barstow. From the NY Times, Published: September 24, 2005 Houston, Sept. 23 - At 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, with Hurricane Rita gathering strength and aimed at Texas, Mayor Bill White of Houston ordered mandatory evacuations from low-lying sections of the city while urging voluntary evacuations from flood-prone neighborhoods and mobile homes. His pleas were entirely consistent with the region's established evacuation plans, plans that disaster officials had rehearsed and honed for years. Under those plans, 1.25 million people, at most, were expected to leave. The big worry was whether enough people would heed evacuation orders. Instead, an estimated 2.5 million people took flight, including tens of thousands who lived in relatively safe areas. What was planned as an orderly evacuation produced scenes of gridlock, chaos and mass frustration, with Mayor White warning of "deathtrap" highways. The danger, it turned out, was not that too few would listen, but that too many did. In interviews on Friday, state and local officials acknowledged a glaring flaw in their planning, the failure to account for the psychological effects of Hurricane Katrina, or what was instantly labeled "the Katrina effect." "We had a lot more people evacuated than should have evacuated," said Frank E. Gutierrez, emergency management coordinator of Harris County, which includes Houston. "But because of Katrina, the damage that happened in Louisiana, a lot of people were scared." If anything, well-intentioned officials magnified the effect by repeatedly lacing evacuation pleas with reminders of the death toll and devastation in New Orleans. "Don't follow the example of New Orleans," Mayor White pleaded on Wednesday. As a result, though, state and local disaster officials struggled with problems never envisioned in any evacuation plan, 100-mile-long traffic jams, dehydrated babies in stifling cars and hundreds of motorists who simply ran out of gasoline trying to flee on choked roads. In some cases, government improvised successfully. State employees, for example, delivered free gasoline to thousands of stranded motorists. The Houston bus system, with help from hundreds of volunteers, distributed 45,000 bottles of water to motorists. But there were also numerous examples of a sluggish response. After Mayor White ordered mandatory evacuations, it took nearly 22 hours for officials to order that all lanes of Interstate 45, the city's main evacuation route, be used for traffic leaving Houston. It took an additional five hours for state transportation officials to execute the order. In the case of U.S. 290, another major evacuation route, county officials said there were not enough law enforcement officials available to close feeder streets and safely manage one-way traffic. It remains to be seen whether the traffic problems contributed to the bus explosion outside Dallas early Friday morning that killed at least 24 elderly evacuees from an assisted-living center in Houston. The bus had taken more than 14 hours to make what is usually a five-hour trip. Judge Robert Eckels, the highest elected official in Harris County, defended the overall evacuation effort but acknowledged that officials did too little to prepare residents for huge traffic problems. "The biggest flaw in this plan was communications," Judge Eckels said. "They didn't understand what could happen. They could be 20 hours on the road. 'Don't get up here unless you have a full tank of gas.' We did not do a good enough job of telling people that you get on the road, it may take 20 hours." A spokesman for the State Transportation Department, Mike Cox, offered a different explanation for the preparations. No one could have predicted, Mr. Cox said, how many Texans would be so seriously frightened by Hurricane Katrina. "Not one of our 15,000 employees is a psychologist," he said. In defending the response, Mr. Cox stressed the bottom line that despite nightmarish delays, millions of Texans made it to safety. "This was, as best we can tell, probably the largest evacuation in American history," he said. Indeed, traffic problems eased noticeably throughout the state on Friday. Some motorists simply gave up, turned around and returned home. At the same time, state and local officials tried to tamp down the evacuation, emphasizing that residents should hunker down and ride out the storm if they lived on high ground. Just as Hurricane Katrina prompted a re-examination of planning in Louisiana and Mississippi, Hurricane Rita is likely to focus attention on planning here. Why didn't Texas plan for an evacuation of this magnitude? Greg Evans, a disaster planning expert who directs the Institute for BioSecurity at the St. Louis University School of Public Health, said state disaster officials too often failed to plan for the worst. "People just like to believe things aren't going to be as bad as they are going to be," Dr. Evans said. "Their plans assume that 1.5 million people will evacuate when the reality is that 2.5 million people are evacuating. "All of a sudden, highways are jammed, people are running out of gas. All these things just spiral." In September 2004, Gov. Rick Perry ordered the state's Office of Homeland Security to evaluate evacuation plans. The review, delivered in March, identified weaknesses, particularly in the "Houston-Galveston Evacuation Area." The weaknesses included evacuation routes not wide enough to "handle large-scale movements of evacuees," routes that were too low and flood-prone, radio systems that cannot communicate with one another and inadequate monitoring of congestion. The report made 18 recommendations. State officials said few had put been put into effect. One recommendation was to install traffic counters on evacuation routes to monitor the heaviest traffic flows. Officials said they expected to have a plan for the counters by the end of the month. A spokesman for Mr. Perry did not respond to telephone messages for comment. "There can always be a better plan," Judge Eckels said. "The next time there will be a better plan." The New Mobility Agenda is permanently at http://NewMobility.org To post messages to list: NewMobilityCafe@yahoogroups.com To unsubscribe: NewMobilityCafe-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com Free group video/voice-conferencing via http://newmobilitypartners.org _____ YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS * Visit your group "NewMobilityCafe " on the web. * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: NewMobilityCafe-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. _____ From SCHIPPER at wri.org Mon Sep 26 03:58:46 2005 From: SCHIPPER at wri.org (Lee Schipper) Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 14:58:46 -0400 Subject: [sustran] Re: Rita, Texas, traffic - and nine little words Message-ID: This should be good fodder for those US right wingers who proclaim cars were the only way to be saved. in fact it was cars that almost cost so many their lives had they been trapped in a worse situation! >>> eric.britton@ecoplan.org 9/25/2005 10:21:43 PM >>> Dear Friends, Most of the following you will have picked up already, but I want to draw to your attention what I regard as an extremely important, a whoppingly egregious point toward the end of the piece which is sweetly hidden there in no more than nine little words. Words to me at least that scream. And it's not just for Texas, it is but one more sad example of how we are not using our brains and tools in organizing our daily lives. The phrase? Let me leave it for you to search it out and ponder its implications. *********************************************** GRIDLOCK! By Ralph Blumenthal and David Barstow. From the NY Times, Published: September 24, 2005 Houston, Sept. 23 - At 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, with Hurricane Rita gathering strength and aimed at Texas, Mayor Bill White of Houston ordered mandatory evacuations from low-lying sections of the city while urging voluntary evacuations from flood-prone neighborhoods and mobile homes. His pleas were entirely consistent with the region's established evacuation plans, plans that disaster officials had rehearsed and honed for years. Under those plans, 1.25 million people, at most, were expected to leave. The big worry was whether enough people would heed evacuation orders. Instead, an estimated 2.5 million people took flight, including tens of thousands who lived in relatively safe areas. What was planned as an orderly evacuation produced scenes of gridlock, chaos and mass frustration, with Mayor White warning of "deathtrap" highways. The danger, it turned out, was not that too few would listen, but that too many did. In interviews on Friday, state and local officials acknowledged a glaring flaw in their planning, the failure to account for the psychological effects of Hurricane Katrina, or what was instantly labeled "the Katrina effect." "We had a lot more people evacuated than should have evacuated," said Frank E. Gutierrez, emergency management coordinator of Harris County, which includes Houston. "But because of Katrina, the damage that happened in Louisiana, a lot of people were scared." If anything, well-intentioned officials magnified the effect by repeatedly lacing evacuation pleas with reminders of the death toll and devastation in New Orleans. "Don't follow the example of New Orleans," Mayor White pleaded on Wednesday. As a result, though, state and local disaster officials struggled with problems never envisioned in any evacuation plan, 100-mile-long traffic jams, dehydrated babies in stifling cars and hundreds of motorists who simply ran out of gasoline trying to flee on choked roads. In some cases, government improvised successfully. State employees, for example, delivered free gasoline to thousands of stranded motorists. The Houston bus system, with help from hundreds of volunteers, distributed 45,000 bottles of water to motorists. But there were also numerous examples of a sluggish response. After Mayor White ordered mandatory evacuations, it took nearly 22 hours for officials to order that all lanes of Interstate 45, the city's main evacuation route, be used for traffic leaving Houston. It took an additional five hours for state transportation officials to execute the order. In the case of U.S. 290, another major evacuation route, county officials said there were not enough law enforcement officials available to close feeder streets and safely manage one-way traffic. It remains to be seen whether the traffic problems contributed to the bus explosion outside Dallas early Friday morning that killed at least 24 elderly evacuees from an assisted-living center in Houston. The bus had taken more than 14 hours to make what is usually a five-hour trip. Judge Robert Eckels, the highest elected official in Harris County, defended the overall evacuation effort but acknowledged that officials did too little to prepare residents for huge traffic problems. "The biggest flaw in this plan was communications," Judge Eckels said. "They didn't understand what could happen. They could be 20 hours on the road. 'Don't get up here unless you have a full tank of gas.' We did not do a good enough job of telling people that you get on the road, it may take 20 hours." A spokesman for the State Transportation Department, Mike Cox, offered a different explanation for the preparations. No one could have predicted, Mr. Cox said, how many Texans would be so seriously frightened by Hurricane Katrina. "Not one of our 15,000 employees is a psychologist," he said. In defending the response, Mr. Cox stressed the bottom line that despite nightmarish delays, millions of Texans made it to safety. "This was, as best we can tell, probably the largest evacuation in American history," he said. Indeed, traffic problems eased noticeably throughout the state on Friday. Some motorists simply gave up, turned around and returned home. At the same time, state and local officials tried to tamp down the evacuation, emphasizing that residents should hunker down and ride out the storm if they lived on high ground. Just as Hurricane Katrina prompted a re-examination of planning in Louisiana and Mississippi, Hurricane Rita is likely to focus attention on planning here. Why didn't Texas plan for an evacuation of this magnitude? Greg Evans, a disaster planning expert who directs the Institute for BioSecurity at the St. Louis University School of Public Health, said state disaster officials too often failed to plan for the worst. "People just like to believe things aren't going to be as bad as they are going to be," Dr. Evans said. "Their plans assume that 1.5 million people will evacuate when the reality is that 2.5 million people are evacuating. "All of a sudden, highways are jammed, people are running out of gas. All these things just spiral." In September 2004, Gov. Rick Perry ordered the state's Office of Homeland Security to evaluate evacuation plans. The review, delivered in March, identified weaknesses, particularly in the "Houston-Galveston Evacuation Area." The weaknesses included evacuation routes not wide enough to "handle large-scale movements of evacuees," routes that were too low and flood-prone, radio systems that cannot communicate with one another and inadequate monitoring of congestion. The report made 18 recommendations. State officials said few had put been put into effect. One recommendation was to install traffic counters on evacuation routes to monitor the heaviest traffic flows. Officials said they expected to have a plan for the counters by the end of the month. A spokesman for Mr. Perry did not respond to telephone messages for comment. "There can always be a better plan," Judge Eckels said. "The next time there will be a better plan." The New Mobility Agenda is permanently at http://NewMobility.org To post messages to list: NewMobilityCafe@yahoogroups.com To unsubscribe: NewMobilityCafe-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com Free group video/voice-conferencing via http://newmobilitypartners.org _____ YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS * Visit your group "NewMobilityCafe " on the web. * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: NewMobilityCafe-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. _____ From Lew.Fulton at unep.org Mon Sep 26 17:56:53 2005 From: Lew.Fulton at unep.org (Lew Fulton) Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 11:56:53 +0300 Subject: [sustran] Re: Rita, Texas, traffic - and nine little words Message-ID: Or they will use this outcome to justify spending a few $million pork money on widening all the highways in Houston - hey why not in all US cities, they all need to be prepared for any emergency! It is discouraging that in a NYT article there is no mention of the possible role of carpooling, provision of large capacity vehicles like coaches, etc. I'd be curious to know what the average car occupancy rate was during the exodus. It guess it might have been fairly high, assuming families travelled together, but the average size US family is - what - about 2 these days? |---------+------------------------------------------------------------> | | "Lee Schipper" | | | Sent by: | | | sustran-discuss-bounces+lew.fulton=unep.org@list.| | | jca.apc.org | | | | | | | | | 25/09/2005 21:58 | | | Please respond to Asia and the Pacific | | | sustainable transport | | | | |---------+------------------------------------------------------------> >----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | | | To: , , | | | | cc: | | Subject: [sustran] Re: Rita, Texas, traffic - and nine little words | >----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| This should be good fodder for those US right wingers who proclaim cars were the only way to be saved. in fact it was cars that almost cost so many their lives had they been trapped in a worse situation! >>> eric.britton@ecoplan.org 9/25/2005 10:21:43 PM >>> Dear Friends, Most of the following you will have picked up already, but I want to draw to your attention what I regard as an extremely important, a whoppingly egregious point toward the end of the piece which is sweetly hidden there in no more than nine little words. Words to me at least that scream. And it's not just for Texas, it is but one more sad example of how we are not using our brains and tools in organizing our daily lives. The phrase? Let me leave it for you to search it out and ponder its implications. *********************************************** GRIDLOCK! By Ralph Blumenthal and David Barstow. From the NY Times, Published: September 24, 2005 Houston, Sept. 23 - At 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, with Hurricane Rita gathering strength and aimed at Texas, Mayor Bill White of Houston ordered mandatory evacuations from low-lying sections of the city while urging voluntary evacuations from flood-prone neighborhoods and mobile homes. His pleas were entirely consistent with the region's established evacuation plans, plans that disaster officials had rehearsed and honed for years. Under those plans, 1.25 million people, at most, were expected to leave. The big worry was whether enough people would heed evacuation orders. Instead, an estimated 2.5 million people took flight, including tens of thousands who lived in relatively safe areas. What was planned as an orderly evacuation produced scenes of gridlock, chaos and mass frustration, with Mayor White warning of "deathtrap" highways. The danger, it turned out, was not that too few would listen, but that too many did. In interviews on Friday, state and local officials acknowledged a glaring flaw in their planning, the failure to account for the psychological effects of Hurricane Katrina, or what was instantly labeled "the Katrina effect." "We had a lot more people evacuated than should have evacuated," said Frank E. Gutierrez, emergency management coordinator of Harris County, which includes Houston. "But because of Katrina, the damage that happened in Louisiana, a lot of people were scared." If anything, well-intentioned officials magnified the effect by repeatedly lacing evacuation pleas with reminders of the death toll and devastation in New Orleans. "Don't follow the example of New Orleans," Mayor White pleaded on Wednesday. As a result, though, state and local disaster officials struggled with problems never envisioned in any evacuation plan, 100-mile-long traffic jams, dehydrated babies in stifling cars and hundreds of motorists who simply ran out of gasoline trying to flee on choked roads. In some cases, government improvised successfully. State employees, for example, delivered free gasoline to thousands of stranded motorists. The Houston bus system, with help from hundreds of volunteers, distributed 45,000 bottles of water to motorists. But there were also numerous examples of a sluggish response. After Mayor White ordered mandatory evacuations, it took nearly 22 hours for officials to order that all lanes of Interstate 45, the city's main evacuation route, be used for traffic leaving Houston. It took an additional five hours for state transportation officials to execute the order. In the case of U.S. 290, another major evacuation route, county officials said there were not enough law enforcement officials available to close feeder streets and safely manage one-way traffic. It remains to be seen whether the traffic problems contributed to the bus explosion outside Dallas early Friday morning that killed at least 24 elderly evacuees from an assisted-living center in Houston. The bus had taken more than 14 hours to make what is usually a five-hour trip. Judge Robert Eckels, the highest elected official in Harris County, defended the overall evacuation effort but acknowledged that officials did too little to prepare residents for huge traffic problems. "The biggest flaw in this plan was communications," Judge Eckels said. "They didn't understand what could happen. They could be 20 hours on the road. 'Don't get up here unless you have a full tank of gas.' We did not do a good enough job of telling people that you get on the road, it may take 20 hours." A spokesman for the State Transportation Department, Mike Cox, offered a different explanation for the preparations. No one could have predicted, Mr. Cox said, how many Texans would be so seriously frightened by Hurricane Katrina. "Not one of our 15,000 employees is a psychologist," he said. In defending the response, Mr. Cox stressed the bottom line that despite nightmarish delays, millions of Texans made it to safety. "This was, as best we can tell, probably the largest evacuation in American history," he said. Indeed, traffic problems eased noticeably throughout the state on Friday. Some motorists simply gave up, turned around and returned home. At the same time, state and local officials tried to tamp down the evacuation, emphasizing that residents should hunker down and ride out the storm if they lived on high ground. Just as Hurricane Katrina prompted a re-examination of planning in Louisiana and Mississippi, Hurricane Rita is likely to focus attention on planning here. Why didn't Texas plan for an evacuation of this magnitude? Greg Evans, a disaster planning expert who directs the Institute for BioSecurity at the St. Louis University School of Public Health, said state disaster officials too often failed to plan for the worst. "People just like to believe things aren't going to be as bad as they are going to be," Dr. Evans said. "Their plans assume that 1.5 million people will evacuate when the reality is that 2.5 million people are evacuating. "All of a sudden, highways are jammed, people are running out of gas. All these things just spiral." In September 2004, Gov. Rick Perry ordered the state's Office of Homeland Security to evaluate evacuation plans. The review, delivered in March, identified weaknesses, particularly in the "Houston-Galveston Evacuation Area." The weaknesses included evacuation routes not wide enough to "handle large-scale movements of evacuees," routes that were too low and flood-prone, radio systems that cannot communicate with one another and inadequate monitoring of congestion. The report made 18 recommendations. State officials said few had put been put into effect. One recommendation was to install traffic counters on evacuation routes to monitor the heaviest traffic flows. Officials said they expected to have a plan for the counters by the end of the month. A spokesman for Mr. Perry did not respond to telephone messages for comment. "There can always be a better plan," Judge Eckels said. "The next time there will be a better plan." The New Mobility Agenda is permanently at http://NewMobility.org To post messages to list: NewMobilityCafe@yahoogroups.com To unsubscribe: NewMobilityCafe-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com Free group video/voice-conferencing via http://newmobilitypartners.org _____ YAHOO! 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From litman at vtpi.org Tue Sep 27 04:00:04 2005 From: litman at vtpi.org (Todd Alexander Litman) Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 12:00:04 -0700 Subject: [sustran] Re: Rita, Texas, traffic In-Reply-To: <001f01c5c241$0a9978a0$6a01a8c0@Home> References: <001f01c5c241$0a9978a0$6a01a8c0@Home> Message-ID: <6.2.3.4.2.20050926115635.03630d78@mail.islandnet.com> We have just updated our report to include Katrina's little sister Rita, "Lessons From Katrina and Rita: What Major Disasters Can Teach Transportation Planners" (http://www.vtpi.org/katrina.pdf ). Please let me know what you think of it. It does include discussion of the need for emergency plans to be sensitive to people needs. Let me know if you have any specific suggestions for improving the report. Best wishes, -Todd Litman At 07:21 PM 9/25/2005, Eric Britton wrote: >Dear Friends, > >Most of the following you will have picked up >already, but I want to draw to your attention >what I regard as an extremely important, a >whoppingly egregious point toward the end of the >piece which is sweetly hidden there in no more >than nine little words. Words to me at least >that scream. And it's not just for Texas, it is >but one more sad example of how we are not using >our brains and tools in organizing our daily >lives. The phrase? Let me leave it for you to >search it out and ponder its implications. >*********************************************** > > >GRIDLOCK! > >By Ralph Blumenthal and David Barstow. From the >NY Times, Published: September 24, 2005 > >Houston, Sept. 23 - At 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, >with Hurricane Rita gathering strength and aimed >at Texas, Mayor Bill White of Houston ordered >mandatory evacuations from low-lying sections of >the city while urging voluntary evacuations from >flood-prone neighborhoods and mobile homes. > >His pleas were entirely consistent with the >region's established evacuation plans, plans >that disaster officials had rehearsed and honed >for years. Under those plans, 1.25 million >people, at most, were expected to leave. The big >worry was whether enough people would heed evacuation orders. > >Instead, an estimated 2.5 million people took >flight, including tens of thousands who lived in >relatively safe areas. What was planned as an >orderly evacuation produced scenes of gridlock, >chaos and mass frustration, with Mayor White warning of "deathtrap" highways. > >The danger, it turned out, was not that too few >would listen, but that too many did. > >In interviews on Friday, state and local >officials acknowledged a glaring flaw in their >planning, the failure to account for the >psychological effects of Hurricane Katrina, or >what was instantly labeled "the Katrina effect." > >"We had a lot more people evacuated than should >have evacuated," said Frank E. Gutierrez, >emergency management coordinator of Harris >County, which includes Houston. "But because of >Katrina, the damage that happened in Louisiana, a lot of people were scared." > >If anything, well-intentioned officials >magnified the effect by repeatedly lacing >evacuation pleas with reminders of the death >toll and devastation in New Orleans. > >"Don't follow the example of New Orleans," Mayor White pleaded on Wednesday. > >As a result, though, state and local disaster >officials struggled with problems never >envisioned in any evacuation plan, 100-mile-long >traffic jams, dehydrated babies in stifling cars >and hundreds of motorists who simply ran out of >gasoline trying to flee on choked roads. > >In some cases, government improvised >successfully. State employees, for example, >delivered free gasoline to thousands of stranded >motorists. The Houston bus system, with help >from hundreds of volunteers, distributed 45,000 bottles of water to motorists. > >But there were also numerous examples of a sluggish response. > >After Mayor White ordered mandatory evacuations, >it took nearly 22 hours for officials to order >that all lanes of Interstate 45, the city's main >evacuation route, be used for traffic leaving >Houston. It took an additional five hours for >state transportation officials to execute the order. > >In the case of U.S. 290, another major >evacuation route, county officials said there >were not enough law enforcement officials >available to close feeder streets and safely manage one-way traffic. > >It remains to be seen whether the traffic >problems contributed to the bus explosion >outside Dallas early Friday morning that killed >at least 24 elderly evacuees from an >assisted-living center in Houston. The bus had >taken more than 14 hours to make what is usually a five-hour trip. > >Judge Robert Eckels, the highest elected >official in Harris County, defended the overall >evacuation effort but acknowledged that >officials did too little to prepare residents for huge traffic problems. > >"The biggest flaw in this plan was >communications," Judge Eckels said. "They didn't >understand what could happen. They could be 20 >hours on the road. 'Don't get up here unless you >have a full tank of gas.' We did not do a good >enough job of telling people that you get on the road, it may take 20 hours." > >A spokesman for the State Transportation >Department, Mike Cox, offered a different >explanation for the preparations. No one could >have predicted, Mr. Cox said, how many Texans >would be so seriously frightened by Hurricane Katrina. > >"Not one of our 15,000 employees is a psychologist," he said. > >In defending the response, Mr. Cox stressed the >bottom line that despite nightmarish delays, >millions of Texans made it to safety. > >"This was, as best we can tell, probably the >largest evacuation in American history," he said. > >Indeed, traffic problems eased noticeably >throughout the state on Friday. Some motorists >simply gave up, turned around and returned home. >At the same time, state and local officials >tried to tamp down the evacuation, emphasizing >that residents should hunker down and ride out >the storm if they lived on high ground. > >Just as Hurricane Katrina prompted a >re-examination of planning in Louisiana and >Mississippi, Hurricane Rita is likely to focus attention on planning here. > >Why didn't Texas plan for an evacuation of this magnitude? > >Greg Evans, a disaster planning expert who >directs the Institute for BioSecurity at the St. >Louis University School of Public Health, said >state disaster officials too often failed to plan for the worst. > >"People just like to believe things aren't going >to be as bad as they are going to be," Dr. Evans >said. "Their plans assume that 1.5 million >people will evacuate when the reality is that >2.5 million people are evacuating. > >"All of a sudden, highways are jammed, people >are running out of gas. All these things just spiral." > >In September 2004, Gov. Rick Perry ordered the >state's Office of Homeland Security to evaluate >evacuation plans. The review, delivered in >March, identified weaknesses, particularly in >the "Houston-Galveston Evacuation Area." > >The weaknesses included evacuation routes not >wide enough to "handle large-scale movements of >evacuees," routes that were too low and >flood-prone, radio systems that cannot >communicate with one another and inadequate monitoring of congestion. > >The report made 18 recommendations. State >officials said few had put been put into effect. > >One recommendation was to install traffic >counters on evacuation routes to monitor the >heaviest traffic flows. Officials said they >expected to have a plan for the counters by the end of the month. > >A spokesman for Mr. Perry did not respond to telephone messages for comment. > >"There can always be a better plan," Judge >Eckels said. "The next time there will be a better plan." > > > >The New Mobility Agenda is permanently at >http://NewMobility.org >To post messages to list: NewMobilityCafe@yahoogroups.com >To unsubscribe: NewMobilityCafe-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com >Free group video/voice-conferencing via >http://newmobilitypartners.org > > > > > > >---------- >YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS > >? Visit your group >"NewMobilityCafe" on the web. > >? To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > >NewMobilityCafe-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com > >? Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject >to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. > > >---------- > > >================================================================ >SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion >of people-centred, equitable and sustainable >transport with a focus on developing countries >(the 'Global South'). Because of the history of >the list, the main focus is on urban transport policy in Asia. Sincerely, Todd Alexander Litman Victoria Transport Policy Institute (www.vtpi.org) litman@vtpi.org Phone & Fax 250-360-1560 1250 Rudlin Street, Victoria, BC, V8V 3R7, CANADA ?Efficiency - Equity - Clarity? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jca.apc.org/manage/private/sustran-discuss/attachments/20050926/610c0541/attachment-0001.html From aables at adb.org Fri Sep 30 17:37:18 2005 From: aables at adb.org (aables@adb.org) Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 16:37:18 +0800 Subject: [sustran] urban transport statistics please... Message-ID: Dear Sustran friends, Could you help us get the latest data on (a) trips/day (b) cars and motorcycles per 1000 population (c) modal share of non-motorized transport and (d) modal share of public transport for the following territories: Bangkok, Beijing, Kolkata, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Metro Manila, Mumbai, New Delhi, Osaka, Seoul, Busan, Shanghai, Taipei,China, Tokyo, Shanghai, Colombo, Kathmandu, Jakarta, and Ho Chi Minh City? Most of the data at hand are about 8-10 years old. Thanks! Au Aurora Fe Ables Transport Researcher Clean Air Initiative for Asian Cities (CAI-Asia) Asian Development Bank Tel (632) 632-4444 ext. 70820 Fax (632) 636-2198 Email aables@adb.org http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia www.adb.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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