[sustran] thesis topic

[Roselle Rivera]

Dear Nguyen of Mahidol University, Thailand 

The city streets of Vietnam were very very beautiful  years
back..........with the poetry of the cadence of people on their 
bicycles...........
no noise pollution, no air pollution...............
before the nightmare of the motorcycles began.............Progress, so
they say.........

 
Have you seen the master plan for transportation for HCMC? 
Does it have anything serious to say about non motorized transport in the
whole scheme? 
( You said your background is environmental science........NMT is
definitely very environmental........)
Based on the experiences of many developing countries, most master plans
are not the end all, be all blueprints anyway. 
In many cases, there is some space for maneuvering somehow, somewhere. 

Would really want to be informed. Please share with us in  this
egroup some insights on this  master plan, especially knowing that JICA
"helped"  craft it.


maraming salamat ( thank you in pilipino)

roselle


ROSELLE LEAH K RIVERA
PhD Fellow
Institute of Social Studies
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2518 AX
The Hague, Netherlands
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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.





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