[sustran] Re: FWD:Europe: Commuting Faster in Suburbs than Cities

[Roland Sapsford]

Hi

I have now undertaken a little research.  The EU Urban Audit project 
home page can be found here: http://www.urbanaudit.org/   It covers a 
wide range of indicators for 258 cities within the 27 members of the EU.

The table referenced here: 
http://www.publicpurpose.com/ut-eu15-jtwtime2001.htm deals with a subset 
of the Urban Audit cities. The table has three columns. The left-most 
column is labelled "City Centre" in this table.  This is incorrect.  
These figures are in fact the the data for cities as a whole from the 
Urban Audit site.  They are the only travel time data that I can locate 
on the urban audit site .

The Urban Audit site itself makes no reference to "suburban areas" or 
"metropolitan areas" in its indicator list or elsewhere that I can 
easily locate.  Others may correct me on this. 

One of the presentations given to the urban audit city meeting in March 
of this year refers to Larger Urban Zones as a concept that is being 
incorporated in the current Urban Audit based on 2004 data - this audit 
is not yet available.  Data are also available for some indicators (not 
travel time) for sub-city districts.

There is no published methodology on the the publicpurpose website for 
how the two right hand columns of figures in their table were 
calculated, or indeed to what they refer.  No definitions or data 
sources are provided.

These figures have been circulated in the name of Wendell Cox; I would 
invite him to provide some evidence to support his claims other that 
simply circulating a table which has no obvious provenance in the Urban 
Audit project itself.

Roland Sapsford
Wellington, New Zealand









> Subject: Europe: Commuting Faster in Suburbs than Cities
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> Commentary:
> http://www.fromtheheartland.org/blog/2006/09/europe_commuting_faster_in_sub.
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> Data:http://www.publicpurpose.com/ut-eu15-jtwtime2001.htm
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> Europe: Commuting Faster in Suburbs than Cities
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