[sustran] Re: BRT videos - in progress

[Todd Edelman]

Hi Eric,

This is not a link to a video, but to a very high quality presentation, so
perhaps it is useful, especially since it is in the USA?

http://www.mta.net/projects_programs/orangeline/images/ol_interactive.htm

- T


> Dear Colleagues,
>
>
>
> BRT videos:
>
> This - a readily available library of free videos and film clips which
> show how
> BRT works (and why not, where it may not) - may be available somewhere out
> there
> on the web --  but I for one have been unable to uncover anything quite
> like it.
> So we have decided to get to work and see if and how we might make
> something
> along these lines available on the New Mobility Agenda site
> (http://www.newmobility.org <http://www.newmobility.org/> ).
>
>
>
> So if you go the New Mobility site today and look down way at the end of
> the
> left menu, you will see a final slot labeled Brainfood, then More, then
> click to
> BRT videos to see the beginning of this collection.  The goal is to see
> how we
> might all get together to add materials that will be of use to cities,
> groups
> and people who want to know more about how this "new" transportation
> concept
> works.
>
>
>
> So if you have anything that we can add here, please either send it on in
> a form
> that we can then upload to YouTube -- or better yet to it yourself and let
> us
> know when it is on line.
>
>
>
> Let me know what you think about this, including your harsh criticism of
> the
> little introductory video, which as you will immediately see could be
> greatly
> improved. ;-)
>
>
>
> BRT Photos:
>
> Likewise we have started a collection of photos of BRT systems and details
> (that
> being where the devil is), kicking it off with a collection covering
> Paris's
> very nice indeed Mobilien systems - which you can see if you click first
> to the
> Media Library link on the left menu (toward to top) and then quite simply
> Paris
> BRT. But if you have others that you think might help cities and people to
> better grasp what this is all about, please either send us links, the
> images
> themselves, or create your own web album (you'll see how that works on the
> site).
>
>
>
> Eric Britton
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> *
> <http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr?doit=done&url=http://www.ecoplan.or
> g/wtpp/general/in-brief.htm&&lp=en_zt> Chinese
>
> *
> <http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr?doit=done&url=http://www.ecoplan.or
> g/wtpp/general/in-brief.htm&&lp=en_nl> Dutch
>
> *
> <http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr?doit=done&url=http://www.ecoplan.or
> g/wtpp/general/in-brief.htm&&lp=en_en> English
>
> *
> <http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr?doit=done&url=http://www.ecoplan.or
> g/wtpp/general/in-brief.htm&&lp=en_fr> French
>
> *
> <http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr?doit=done&url=http://www.ecoplan.or
> g/wtpp/general/in-brief.htm&&lp=en_de> German
>
> *
> <http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr?doit=done&url=http://www.ecoplan.or
> g/wtpp/general/in-brief.htm&&lp=en_it> Italian
>
> *
> <http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr?doit=done&url=http://www.ecoplan.or
> g/wtpp/general/in-brief.htm&&lp=en_jp> Japanese
>
> *
> <http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr?doit=done&url=http://www.ecoplan.or
> g/wtpp/general/in-brief.htm&&lp=en_ko> Korean
>
> *
> <http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr?doit=done&url=http://www.ecoplan.or
> g/wtpp/general/in-brief.htm&&lp=en_pt> Portuguese
>
> *
> <http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr?doit=done&url=http://www.ecoplan.or
> g/wtpp/general/in-brief.htm&&lp=en_ru> Russian
>
> *
> <http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr?doit=done&url=http://www.ecoplan.or
> g/wtpp/general/in-brief.htm&&lp=en_es> Spanish
>
>
>
> PS. You may or may not have noticed yet, but the entire New Mobility
> Agenda site
> has been massively overhauled to get us ready for the big push that is to
> begin
> in 2007. The year that is going to mark the difference. Stay tuned. Get
> involved. You are part of the solution.
>
>
>
> Machine Translations:  Here is one example of  how we are trying to apply
> simple
> free tools which can open up all the information contents of all these
> sites
> under the Agenda to people who may have some difficulties with the English
> language text here. The attached for example has been taken from the
> opening
> summary page for the New Mobility site, and if you click any of the
> indicated
> languages you will find a rough machine translation that pops up in
> another
> window. Handy, but just to be sure you may wish to click the link to the
> Help
> Desk that appears just below each of these translation boxes.
>
>
>
> [ Opens in own window ]
>  <http://ecoplan.org/general/translate.htm> [Click for * Help desk * ]
>
>
>
>
>
>  PPS. Anyone out that who can tell us if the Korean, Chinese, Japanese and
> Russian 'translations' are working more or less correctly?
>
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