[sustran] Re: Sustran-discuss Digest, Vol 30, Issue 22

[joshua odeleye]

Jonathan,
Please send me a copy of the paper.I will like to
compare your experience to mine in Nigeria.I teach
URBAN TRANSPORT in the institute mentioned below.I
wish you all the best.
Best regards,
JOSHUA ODELEYE.
NIGERIAN INSTITUTE OF TRANSPORT TECHNOLOGY,
P.M.B 1148,ZARIA,NIGERIA.

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> Date: 19 Feb 2006 09:13:35 -0000
> From: "Bina C. Balakrishnan" <binac at rediffmail.com>
> Subject: [sustran] Re: Paper, work!
> To: "Asia and the Pacific sustainable transport"
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> Hi Jonathan,
> 
> Do send me a copy of your paper- I am definitely
> interested in 
> it!
> 
> Bina C. Balakrishnan
> Consultant
> Transportation Planning & Engineering
> Mumbai, India
> e-mail: binac at rediffmail.com
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> 
> On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 Jonathan E.D.Richmond wrote :
> >
> >I have just finished a paper about educating Asians
> to be 
> >professionals in
> >transport-related development work. The paper
> starts with a 
> >review of
> >educational traditions in Asia, the tendency to
> rote learning, 
> >and
> >responses from students and government. I next
> discuss what I did 
> >to try
> >to bring an active and interactive approach to
> teaching transport 
> >in two
> >masters degree courses.
> >
> >If anyone would like to see the draft of the paper
> and provide 
> >comments,
> >please email me. I would be particularly interested
> (in the case 
> >of
> >Asians) to hear if the charcterizations of Asian
> education I 
> >cite
> >hold true in your own country, and the extent to
> which 
> >modernization has
> >taken place.
> >
> >I'll also advertize the fact here that I am
> currently looking for 
> >a new
> >job -- in academia or with an appopriate agency --
> or consulting 
> >work. I
> >returned to the States last September, and have
> since been a 
> >Visiting
> >Scholar at Harvard, where I am writing up the
> research I 
> >conducted in
> >Asia (papers on transport planning in Singapore and
> Bangkok to 
> >follow). I
> >am interested in how to bring more effective
> planning techniques 
> >to
> >Asia, and in how institutional barriers may be
> overcome. I have 
> >also been
> >active in the debate over appropriate urban
> transport 
> >technologies, and
> >am interested in system management issues, such as
> providing 
> >better
> >management of bus and rail systems. I am flexible
> as to location! 
> >Any
> >leads would be appreciated!
> >
> >                                                   
>     
> >--Jonathan
> >-----
> >Jonathan Richmond
> >Visiting Scholar
> >Department of Urban Planning and Design
> >Graduate School of Design
> >Harvard University
> >312 George Gund Hall
> >48 Quincy St.
> >Cambridge MA 02138-3000
> >
> >Mailing address:
> >182 Palfrey St.
> >Watertown MA 02472-1835
> >
> >(617) 395-4360
> >
> >e-mail: richmond at alum.mit.edu
> >http://the-tech.mit.edu/~richmond/
> >
> >
> >
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> >in Asia.
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