[sustran] Re: RSVP Today for 2007 Sustainable Transport Award
Ceremony in DC, Jan 22
Matthew Sholler
msholler at itdp.org
Mon Jan 8 22:53:08 JST 2007
RSVP Today
2007 Sustainable Transport Award
Ceremony and Reception
in honor of Guayaquil, Ecuador
Monday, January 22, 2007
6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
The Palladian Room
Omni Shoreham Hotel
2500 Calvert St, NW
Washington, DC 20008
Jaime Nebot, the Mayor of Guayaquil, Ecuador will be honored with the 2007
Sustainable Transport Award for his leadership in dramatically enhancing
Guayaquil's livability through improvements to its mass transportation
system and public spaces.
In Guayaquil, a city in which 84% of its 2.3 million residents had made
trips using private cars or a 20 year-old fleet of buses, Mayor Nebot has
opened the Metrovia bus rapid transit system to provide cleaner, higher
quality service that reduces travel time in key corridors and that is
expected to grow to serve almost half a million passengers daily by 2008.
Under his leadership, previously deteriorated public spaces like Guayaquil's
waterfront and the Santa Ana district were successfully pedestrianized and
revitalized. In addition, Guayaquil celebrated its first Car-Free Sunday in
September 2006, closing streets to traffic that allowed thousands of
residents to enjoy the city by walking and riding bicycles.
Each year, the Sustainable Transport Award is given to a city that provides
an international example for enhancing the livability of its community by
reducing transport emissions and accidents, increasing access for bicyclists
and pedestrians, or improving the mobility of the poor. The 2006
Sustainable Transport Award was given to Mayor Myung-Bak Lee of Seoul,
Korea.
Cities that will receive Honorable Mention at the 2007 Award ceremony for
their sustainable transport initiatives include:
Mexico City – for introducing ultra-low sulfur diesel, for continued
improvements in vehicle inspection and maintenance, and for the Metrobus BRT
corridor
Pereira, Colombia – for opening a BRT system through its city center, the
first city in Colombia to emulate the success of TransMilenio in Bogotá
Quito, Ecuador – for efforts to re-establish exclusive bus priority on its
Trolebus BRT system, after initially re-opening lanes to cars and taxis
Jakarta, Indonesia – for extending its TransJakarta BRT system from one to
three corridors in 2006, modernizing interchanges and improving corridor
sidewalks
Beijing, China – for expanding its BRT system and overcoming some
operational challenges, significantly increasing ridership
Hangzhou, China – for opening a near-BRT bus priority system complete with
improved facilities for cyclists and pedestrians
The award selection and ceremony are organized by ITDP, Environmental
Defense, the US Transportation Research Board Committee on Transportation in
Developing Countries, the regional Clean Air Initiatives for Asia, Latin
America, and Africa; GTZ and the United Nations Centre for Regional
Development.
Seating for this event is limited.
Please RSVP on-line by clicking here:
https://app.etapestry.com/hosted/ITDP-InstituteForTransport/OnlineRegistrati
on.html
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Directions from Other TRB Meeting Hotels
and Locations:
>From Marriott Wardman Park Hotel:
walking - exit from lobby level onto Calvert Street,
cross the street and turn left, Omni Shoreham will be
on the right (5 minutes)
>From Hilton Washington Hotel:
walking - right on Connecticut Avenue, cross Taft Bridge,
left on Calvert Street, Omni Shoreham on left side
(approx. 20 minutes); or taxi ($7-8)
Nearest Metro stop: Woodley Park/National Zoo, Red Line
Access a Google map of the Omni Shoreham Hotel here:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=2500+Calvert+Street+Nw,+Washington,+DC
For directions to the Omni Shoreham from points outside the DC area, call
202-756-5141.
For additional questions about the award ceremony,
call 212-629-8001 or e-mail smayers at itdp.org.
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Matthew Sholler
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Institute for Transportation and Development Policy
127 West 26th Street, Suite 1002
New York, NY 10001 USA
Tel. (212) 629-8001
Fax (212) 629-8033
Promoting environmentally sustainable and equitable transportation worldwide
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1. hi (anirudh singh bais)
2. Car Boom Puts Europe on Road to a Smoggy Future
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Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 13:16:57 +0530
From: "anirudh singh bais" <anirudhsingh1 at gmail.com>
Subject: [sustran] hi
To: sustran-discuss at list.jca.apc.org
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Hi,
A very Happy New Year to all.
Well can somebody help me out to get some information or data regarding
Dynamic P.C.U. Value .
Thanking you
Yours Sincerely
Anirudh Singh Bais
Transport Planning
School Of Planning and Architecture
New Delhi
Email:anirudhsingh1 at gmail.com
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Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 16:18:02 +0100
From: <eric.britton at free.fr>
Subject: [sustran] Car Boom Puts Europe on Road to a Smoggy Future
To: <NewMobilityCafe at yahoogroups.com>, <Sustran-discuss at jca.apc.org>
Cc: 'Lee Schipper' <SCHIPPER at wri.org>, 'Roland RIES' <r.ries at senat.fr>
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[I think that this states the case and the challenge just about as well as
any.
But hey, not one mention of the New Mobility Agenda. Hmm. Well, back to
work.]
Car Boom Puts Europe on Road to a Smoggy Future
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL
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q=19
960101&td=sysdate&sort=newest&ac=ELISABETH%20ROSENTHAL&inline=nyt-per>
Published: January 7, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/world/europe/07cars.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&
page
wanted=all
DUBLIN - Rebecca and Emmet O'Connell swear that they are not car people and
that they worry about
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/science/topics/globalwarming/index.html?
inli
ne=nyt-classifier> global warming. Indeed, they looked miserable one recent
evening as they drove home to suburban Lucan from central Dublin, a crawling
8.5-mile journey that took an hour.
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&pag
ewanted=all#secondParagraph#secondParagraph> Skip to next paragraph
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olbars=no,resizable=yes')> Enlarge This Image
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olbars=no,resizable=yes')>
Eamonn Farrell/Photocall Ireland
The evening traffic jam in Dublin. In Ireland, car ownership has more than
doubled since 1990, and car engines have grown steadily.
Multimedia
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urop
e/20070107_CARS_GRAPHIC.html',%20'482_393',%20'width=482,height=393,location
=no,
scrollbars=yes,toolbars=no,resizable=yes')> The Cost of GrowthGraphic
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e/20070107_CARS_GRAPHIC.html',%20'482_393',%20'width=482,height=393,location
=no,
scrollbars=yes,toolbars=no,resizable=yes')> The Cost of Growth
John McConnico for The International Herald Tribune
A father and son with a multipurpose Christiania bike in Copenhagen.
Bicycles of all types have helped Denmark to reduce the use of cars.
But in this booming city, where the number of cars has doubled in the last
15 years, there is little choice, they said. "Believe me - if there was an
alternative we would use it," said Ms. O'Connell, 40, a textile designer.
"We care about the environment. It's just hard to follow through here."
No trains run to the new suburbs where hundreds of thousands of Dubliners
now live, and the few buses going there overflow with people. So nearly
everyone drives - to work, to shop, to take their children to school - in
what seems like a constant smoggy, traffic jam. Since 1990, emissions from
transportation in Ireland have risen about 140 percent, the most in Europe.
But Ireland is not alone.
Vehicular emissions are rising in nearly every European country, and across
the globe. Because of increasing car and truck use, greenhouse-gas emissions
are increasing even where pollution from industry is waning.
The 23 percent growth in vehicular emissions in Europe since 1990 has
"offset"
the effect of cleaner factories, according to a recent report by the
European Environment Agency. The growth has occurred despite the invention
of far more environmentally friendly fuels and cars.
"What we gain by hybrid cars and ethanol buses, we more than lose because of
sheer numbers of vehicles," said Ronan Uhel, a senior scientist with the
European Environment Agency, which is based in Copenhagen. Vehicles, mostly
cars, create more than one-fifth of the greenhouse-gas emissions in Europe,
where the problem has been extensively studied.
The few places that have aggressively sought to fight the trend have taken
sometimes draconian measures. Denmark, for example, treats cars the way it
treats yachts - as luxury items - imposing purchase taxes that are sometimes
200 percent of the cost of the vehicle. A simple Czech-made Skoda car that
costs $18,400 in Italy or Sweden costs more than $34,000 in Denmark.
The number of bicycles on Danish streets has increased in recent years, and
few people under the age of 30 own cars. Many families have turned to
elaborate three-wheeled contraptions. (Beijing, meanwhile, has restricted
the use of traditional three-wheeled bikes.)
On a recent morning in Copenhagen - which is flat, and has bike lanes -
Cristian Eskelund, 35, a government lobbyist, hopped on a clunky bicycle
with a big wooden cart attached to the front. The day before, he had used
the vehicle, a local contraption called a Christiania bike, to carry a
Christmas tree he had bought. This day, he was taking his two children to
school, then heading to the hospital, where his wife was in labor.
"How many children do I have?" Mr. Eskelund said. "Two, perhaps three."
There are high-end options, too. At $2,800, a three-wheeled Nihola bike
costs as much as a used car, but many people insist it is far more
practical. Sleek, lightweight, with a streamlined enclosed bubble in front,
it is good for transporting groceries and children.
High taxes on cars or gasoline of the type levied in Copenhagen are
effective in curbing traffic, experts say, but they scare voters, making
even environmentalist politicians unlikely to propose them. When Britain's
chancellor of the exchequer,
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/gordon_brown/i
ndex
.html?inline=nyt-per> Gordon Brown, revealed his "green" budget proposal, it
included an increase in gas taxes of less than two and a half cents per
quart.
Other cities have tried variations that require fewer absolute sacrifices
from motorists. Rome allows only cars with low emissions ratings into its
historic center. In London and Stockholm, drivers must pay a congestion
charge to enter the city center. Such programs do reduce traffic and
pollution at a city's core, but evidence suggests that car use simply moves
to the suburbs.
But Dublin is more typical of cities around the world, from Asia to Latin
America, where road transport volumes are increasing in tandem with economic
growth. Since 1997, Beijing has built a new ring road every two years, each
new concentric superhighway giving rise to a host of malls and housing
compounds.
In Ireland, car ownership has more than doubled since 1990 and car engines
have grown steadily larger. Meanwhile, new environmental laws have meant
that emissions from electrical plants, a major polluter, have been
decreasing since 2001.
Urban sprawl and cars are the chicken and egg of the environmental debate.
Cars make it easier for people to live and shop outside the center city. As
traffic increases, governments build more roads, encouraging people to buy
more cars and move yet farther away. In Europe alone, 6,200 miles of
motorways were built from 1990 to 2003 and, with the
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/e/europea
n_un
ion/index.html?inline=nyt-org> European Union's enlargement, 7,500 more are
planned. Government enthusiasm for spending on public transportation, which
is costly and takes years to build, generally lags far behind.
For instance, Dublin and Beijing are building trams and subways, but they
will not reach out to the new commuter communities where so many people now
live.
The trend is strongest in newly rich societies, where cars are "caught up in
the aspirations of the 21st century," said Peder Jensen, lead author of the
European Environmental Agency report on traffic.
Peter Daley, a Dublin retiree who has five children, said: "We used to be a
poor country and all the kids used to leave to find work. Now they stay and
they need a car when they're 17. So families that would have had one car 15
years ago, now have three or four."
As a result, traffic limps around Dublin's glorious St. Stephen's Green.
Just as skiers can check out the snow at St. Moritz on the Internet, drivers
can monitor Dublin's traffic through the City Council home page.
In the past two years, the city has completed two light-rail lines. During
the holidays, the police provide extra officers to direct traffic at all
major junctions. But nothing helps much.
When the O'Connells returned from London four years ago, and could not
afford the prices of Dublin's city center, they bought a wood and brick
semi-detached house in one of hundreds of new developments. Today, it seems
that every home has two or three cars out front.
"No one thought, 'How will all these people get home from work?' " said Mr.
O'Connell, an architectural technician, who said the commute took just 20
minutes at first. Ms. O'Connell's job at the National College of Art and
Design in downtown Dublin comes with a parking space. So their gray Toyota
Yaris is their lifeline.
One day a week, Mr. O'Connell does take the bus. But if he does not leave
home by 7:30 a.m., the buses are all full and simply speed by his stop. On a
recent evening, their 18-year-old daughter, Imogen, missed her art class in
town because the bus ride took two hours; when she tried to get home, all
the buses were full, leaving her stranded.
So they drive. "I complain and I moan, but we continue," Ms. O'Connell said.
"I suppose if petrol got really expensive or I lost my free parking, we'd
face up to the fact that we shouldn't be driving so much, and try to figure
something else out."
John MacClain, a cabdriver in Dublin for 20 years, said that on a recent
trip to Prague, he liked the architecture just fine. But what really
impressed him, he said, was "the tram system."
"Now that was beautiful," he said. "I could get everywhere with ease."
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