[sustran] Re: Guangzhou bans electric bicycles

[Sunny]

Dear Sudhir,

Yes you are right the concept of urban planning is flawed but at the 
same time we should not forget tht transport and planning are 
intricately linked and are interdependent. The origin and destination 
distance increases as the plan is done keeping the personal automobiles 
in mind if the govt had considered NMT then a city plan would have been 
compact.

When you said TDM would not work I would disagree becoz TDM is not just 
managing mobility but also having a good planning practice. Smart 
growth, universal design etc...are TDM procedure and when govts 
implement TDM startegies it is not just one strategy they need to 
implement becoz again the techniques are interdependent so other 
techniques are also to be implemented like when a govt implements a 
bicycle plan then ther have to be enough facility for the bicycle 
parking and reduction in parking spaces improvements in public 
transport. just mere implementation of bicycle lanes will do no good.

I would suggest www.vtpi.org for an impressive on-line TDM 
encyclopaedia. You can see the links between TDM techniques in every 
strategy. you can also refer to GTZ-SUTP module on Mobility Management.

cheers
sunny


Sudhir wrote:
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> Dear Sujit,
>
>  
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> The entire concept of urban planning is flawed.
>
> If you have great distance between Origin and Destination than there 
> is no way that NMT would become popular.
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> No matter what TSM and TDM strategies the government would implement, 
> the personal transport is going to increase enormously. 
>
> If during the preparation of Master Plans the concept of sustainable 
> transport is introduced than only we can see some rapid changes.
>
> It is a high time that the government implements master plans with 
> concept of sustainable transport inbuilt in it.
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>  
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> Regards
>
> Sudhir
>

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