[sustran] Re: regarding thesis topic

[Lee Schipper]

Having just returned from my 10th visit to Hanoi, I think you have identified the key issue -- what are the limits to a two-wheeler based mobility, particularly in a city like Hanoi where the majority of riders seem to ignore red lights, lane control, and even the "correct" side of the street for driving? Under what conditions would the Hanoi bus system still experiencing strong growth successfully capture larger and larger shares of existing two-wheeler traffic and not just bear increased numbers of longer trips that bear witness to the city's expansion. Metros are useful, but they rarely take significant numbers of individual existing vehicles off the streets, and they do poorly without careful land use controls and stimuli to build homes, jobs, shopping and free time along the metro axis, something we are only painfully acknowledging now in the outer parts of Washington DC. (Look at Bethesda or Silver Spring Maryland or Arlington Virginia for better examples of how to develop around metro stops.)

can HCMC or Hanoi do all this? Hanoi will see a master plan unveiled shortly, but why not go back to the 1994/5 master plan and analyze what happened - or did not happen -- with the vision created back then.

Lee Schipper

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>>> banmt at yahoo.com 24/12/2006 02:03:05 >>>
Hi everybody,

My name is Nguyen Anh Dung, from Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), Vietnam and I also want to do my master thesis (will start at the mid of 2007) about transportation for HCMC. As you know, traffic is really a problem in my country and it is getting worse. The recent  accidents of two famous professors (1 of US - got injured and 1 of Vietnam - dead) are just few among thousands of accidents every year (almost all caused by motorcycle). 

According to what I read on the net, HCMC has its master plan for transportation (done with the help from Japan International Cooperation Agency - JICA in 2004) and the authority wants to build a metro for the city also. 

Because of the master plan, I am not quite sure what my master thesis can do anything else about this field. Any idea is highly appreciated.

My background is environmental science.

Thank you.

Nguyen Anh Dung
Faculty of Environment and Resource Studies.
Mahidol University, ThaiLand.

Todd Edelman <edelman at greenidea.info> wrote: 
> 23 December 2006
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Sujit, see details below....

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> On 12/23/06, anirudh singh bais  wrote:
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>> I am a student of transport planning doing my P.G. from school of
>> planning and architecture .I have to do my thesis next near starting
>> Jan 2007 and want to do something new.I would appreciate fresh
>> idea's .I want to do something practical and related to ongoing issues
>> in
>> pavement design and highways .
>> Thanking You
>> Anirudh Singh Bais


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