From carlos.pardo at gtz.de Mon Dec 1 05:49:39 2008 From: carlos.pardo at gtz.de (Pardo Carlosfelipe GTZ CO) Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 20:49:39 +0000 Subject: [sustran] Re: R2W and increase in business incomes In-Reply-To: <4932891f.0c636e0a.2eb7.1878@mx.google.com> References: <4932891f.0c636e0a.2eb7.1878@mx.google.com> Message-ID: <4932FC63.2040508@gtz.de> Dear Kanthi, Please find detailed information of impacts and characteristics of various pedestrian zones in the 180- page module "Carfree development" by Lloyd Wright, published by GTZ SUTP. You can download it from www.sutp.org (you must register first, at no cost) - sourcebook section. Best regards, Carlosfelipe Pardo Coordinador de Proyecto- Project Coordinator GTZ - Proyecto de Transporte Sostenible (SUTP, SUTP-LAC) Mobile: +44 (0) 7954 251 709 carlos.pardo@gtz.de www.gtz.de (carlos.pardo@sutp.org www.sutp.org ) skype: carlosfpardo Kanthi Kannan wrote: > Dear all > > > > We in the Right to Walk Foundation are trying to get 'Evidence' that benefit > of sidewalks reach all sections of society. We are trying to get therefore > evidence regarding China and the effect of pedestrianisation there. In our > city the politicians would be against sidewalks because they will get the > traders to go on a strike if we get sidewalks made. > > > > Can any of you help us in this endeavour? We are trying to submit a petition > to the Chief Minister of our State regarding the necessity of having > sidewalks and pedestrian crossings. > > > > Thanks and Warm Regards > > > > Kanthi Kannan > > > > The Right to Walk Foundation > > > > www.right2walk.com > > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------- > IMPORTANT NOTE to everyone who gets sustran-discuss messages via YAHOOGROUPS. > > Please go to http://list.jca.apc.org/manage/listinfo/sustran-discuss to join the real sustran-discuss and get full membership rights. The yahoogroups version is only a mirror and 'members' there cannot post to the real sustran-discuss (even if the yahoogroups site makes it seem like you can). Apologies for the confusing arrangement. > > ================================================================ > SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of people-centred, equitable and sustainable transport with a focus on developing countries (the 'Global South'). > > Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH; Sitz der Gesellschaft/Registered Office Eschborn/Taunus, Germany; Registergericht/Registered at Amtsgericht Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Eintragungs-Nr./Registration no. HRB 12394; Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates/Chairman of the Supervisory Board: Erich Stather, State Secretary; Geschaeftsfuehrer/Managing Directors: Dr. Bernd Eisenblaetter, Wolfgang Schmitt From paulbarter at nus.edu.sg Mon Dec 1 08:46:51 2008 From: paulbarter at nus.edu.sg (Paul Barter) Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 07:46:51 +0800 Subject: [sustran] Ending fuel price controls in Asia? Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://list.jca.apc.org/public/sustran-discuss/attachments/20081201/b3f8a938/attachment.html From eric.britton at ecoplan.org Tue Dec 2 00:31:07 2008 From: eric.britton at ecoplan.org (Eric Britton) Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 16:31:07 +0100 Subject: [sustran] Nudging People to Make Better Choices: Transport Applications Message-ID: <007101c953c9$da381450$8ea83cf0$@britton@ecoplan.org> This to my mind is my mind one of the very important tool sets for creating a New Mobility Agenda that works. We hope that Erel will be sharing with us the key papers and results of this session. Transport Studies Unit Open Seminar Wednesday 10 December 2008 - 3pm, Boardroom, OUCE, Dyson Perrins Building, South Parks Road, Oxford Nudging People to Make Better Choices: Transport Applications Dr Erel Avineri, Reader in Travel Behaviour, Centre for Transport & Society, University of the West of England, Bristol. Abstract Travel behaviour has been an area of great interest to practitioners and researchers ever since forecasting user choice was identified as crucial in the planning and management of transport systems. Travel behaviour arising from the choices of individuals is perhaps the most significant determinant of performance of transport systems and effectiveness of transport schemes. Realising that individuals' travel behaviour and choices do not necessarily lead to economic, social and environmental wellbeing, governments all over the world have been taking measures to change travel behaviour for the benefit of society - usually by regulating the transport market, reform pricing to improve efficiency, or (more recently) changing attitudes towards transport alternatives. Much of the behavioural theories in transport context are based on the assumption the individual traveller is a 'homo economicus', a rational economic human beings who, through choice-making, maximise her utilities. On the other hand, recent empirical studies provide much evidence that in real life the behaviour of travellers is typified by bounded rationality ('homo psychologicus'). It has been argued that travellers' limited cognitive resources have a strong effect on their travel-choice behaviour. Inspired by the works of cognitive psychologists (such as Tversky & Kahneman) and behavioural economists (such as Thaler & Sunstein) Dr Avineri and his colleagues tested some of the paradigms in travel behaviour and developed alternative models of travel-choice behaviour that can incorporate awkward but important aspects of travel behaviour. It was found that while travellers' choices can not be anticipated in a standard economic framework, they can be explained and predicted by cognitive psychology models. Moreover, it opens the opportunity to change travellers' behaviour towards better alternatives - in a way that does not limit their freedom of choice (or, as it is fashionable to say, people are 'nudge-able'). The seminar will provide theoretical background, empirical findings and potential applications in areas such as demand management, travel information systems, travel plans and traffic calming. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jca.apc.org/public/sustran-discuss/attachments/20081201/566ddf7d/attachment.html From whook at itdp.org Tue Dec 2 00:50:34 2008 From: whook at itdp.org (Walter Hook) Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 10:50:34 -0500 Subject: [sustran] Re: BRT plans in Xian In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5148AB2D64C2476FAC346993A3BF5481@DFJLYL81> Dongquan, Karl, and Shomik, Do you know of the status of BRT in Xian, as per the request for info below? Thanks Walter -----Original Message----- From: sustran-discuss-bounces+whook=itdp.org@list.jca.apc.org [mailto:sustran-discuss-bounces+whook=itdp.org@list.jca.apc.org] On Behalf Of Sudhir Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2008 10:42 PM To: Global 'South' Sustainable Transport Cc: Cornie Huizenga Subject: [sustran] BRT plans in Xian Dear All, We are updating our records on BRT and were interested on information on BRT plans in Xian, China? Does any body know about the status? best regards Sudhir Gota Transport Specialist CAI-Asia Center Unit 3510, 35th Floor, Robinsons-Equitable Tower, ADB Avenue, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Metro Manila, Philippines 1605 Tel: +63-2-395-2843 Fax: +63-2-395-2846 http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia Skype : sudhirgota -------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT NOTE to everyone who gets sustran-discuss messages via YAHOOGROUPS. Please go to http://list.jca.apc.org/manage/listinfo/sustran-discuss to join the real sustran-discuss and get full membership rights. The yahoogroups version is only a mirror and 'members' there cannot post to the real sustran-discuss (even if the yahoogroups site makes it seem like you can). Apologies for the confusing arrangement. ================================================================ SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of people-centred, equitable and sustainable transport with a focus on developing countries (the 'Global South'). From sudhir at cai-asia.org Tue Dec 2 15:49:13 2008 From: sudhir at cai-asia.org (Sudhir) Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 14:49:13 +0800 Subject: [sustran] Flexible Working Hours from Jakarta? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Puput Date: 2008/11/28 Subject: [cai-asia] Flexible Working Hours from Jakarta? To: Clean Air Initiative -- Asia Dear all, With regard to solve the problem of traffic jam and to reduce its impact on the air pollution, Governor of the Greater Jakarta set to implement new (flexible?) working hours system (see the article bellow: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2008/11/21/jakarta-set-new-school-and-working-hours.html). Any experience in other countries/cities toward the effectiveness of the system? Please your feedback. Thank you. Regards, Puput --------------------------------------------------- Indonesian Lead Information Center 3rd Floor Ranuza Building Jalan Timor 10 Menteng Jakarta 10340 INDONESIA Ph: +62-21-3190 6807 F: +62-21-315 3401 Mobile: +62-816 897959* * Jakarta to set new school and working hours *The Jakarta Post* | Fri, 11/21/2008 5:58 PM | Jakarta Jakarta city administration is set to issue a regulation to make school hours begin half an hour earlier (6.30 a.m.) as of Jan. 1, to ease morning and noon traffic congestion around the city. "We will propose this new arrangement to Governor Fauzi Bowo. If he approves, it will take effect in Jan. 1," Vice Governor Prijanto said after a meeting with related city agencies on Friday. The administration will also issue a non-mandatory instruction for private companies in Jakarta to rearrange their operating hours according to the location of their offices. "For private offices, we urge those located in North and Central Jakarta to begin at 7.30 a.m.; 8 a.m. for offices in West and East Jakarta and 9 a.m. for those in South Jakarta," Prijanto said. The starting time for civil servants would remain at 7.30, he said. According to a recent survey commissioned by the city administration, some 20.7 million people travel through the city every day, with about 3 percent relying on trains, 40 percent on bicycles or on foot, and 57 percent on motorized vehicles. They survey also showed that about 32 percent of all the destinations were workplaces, 30 percent schools, 12 percent shopping malls and 26 percent others. (anb) --- You are currently subscribed to cai-asia as: sudhir@cai-asia.org. To view archived messages, go to http://groups.google.com/group/cai-asia. Important note: This is a moderated listserv. If you encounter problems, or if you would like to remove your name from our listserv, email Mike Co [mike.co(at)cai-asia(dot)org] AND Gianina Panopio [gianina.panopio(at)cai-asia(dot)org] Please do not email your complaints directly to the listserv. -- Sudhir Gota Transport Specialist CAI-Asia Center Unit 3510, 35th Floor, Robinsons-Equitable Tower, ADB Avenue, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Metro Manila, Philippines 1605 Tel: +63-2-395-2843 Fax: +63-2-395-2846 http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia Skype : sudhirgota -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jca.apc.org/public/sustran-discuss/attachments/20081202/ff3d15da/attachment.html From Patrick.Daude at stuttgart.de Tue Dec 2 22:54:30 2008 From: Patrick.Daude at stuttgart.de (Patrick.Daude at stuttgart.de) Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 14:54:30 +0100 Subject: [sustran] Antwort: Re: CDM Projects (Clean Development Mechanism) - public tran In-Reply-To: <492FD6EC.2070105@greenidea.eu> Message-ID: Hi Todd, thanks for your answer and your comments. At first view I understand that it might appear unusual the way these companies are involved in the network. But you should take into account that the automobile companies in Stuttgart have invested over the years enormous amounts of money in the development of environmentally-friendly technologies, also for public transport. Besides, Stuttgart and its region are traditionally linked to the topic of mobility. So when our city started "Cities for Mobility" we did not have to make a huge effort to convince these companies and the other actors to support the network. In the region of Stuttgart there is also a large number of research institutes and other organizations from the private sector that are active in the field of mobility and support our city. Stuttgart offers these actors a platform for establishing new contacts and exchanging experiences with their counterparts world wide. Contrary to other networks and international organisations, Cities for Mobility doesn't have any bureaucratic structure (like steering groups or committees) where these companies could take a decisive role in determining the strategy and topics of the network. If you have a look at our website, especially at our last World Congress ( http://www.cities-for-mobility.net/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=93&Itemid=131) you will notice that the topics ranged from the promotion of bicycles and pedestrian to traffic management at mega events, motorized individual transport and public transport. So if we were making lobby for the automobile industry I would say that we are not doing a good job. BR, Patrick Coordinator Global Network "Cities for Mobility" City Hall of Stuttgart, Germany Mayor's Policy Office Policy Coordination and Planning Rathaus, Marktplatz 1 D-70173 Stuttgart Telephone: +49 711/ 216 - 85 01 Fax: +49 711/ 216 - 61 05 E-Mail: patrick.daude@stuttgart.de Website: http://www.cities-for-mobility.org "Todd Edelman, Green Idea Factory" 28.11.2008 12:33 Bitte antworten an edelman@greenidea.eu An Patrick.Daude@stuttgart.de, Sustran Resource Centre Kopie rothfuss@cities-for-mobility.net, N.Leyva@stuttgart.de, Wolfgang.Forderer@stuttgart.de Thema Re: [sustran] Re: CDM Projects (Clean Development Mechanism) - public tran Hi Patrick, hi all, I thank you for the invite to Stuttgart. I believe I understand how it works there, and I have been to a lot of professional sustainable transport-related events, and I know people who attend CfM events. I have already explained my reasons for opting out, and will hopefully explain this more precisely in my delayed response to Rainer. Just one comment for now, see below. Patrick.Daude@stuttgart.de wrote: Dear Todd, [...] Our Premium Partners do note have any influence on the topics that are treated within the network. [...] PLEASE, can you help explain their rationale for being involved? Successful businesses don't just randomly create and place imagery related to their brand and products. I may ask Rainer the same question - and I encourage others on this List etc. to answer it - but I will keep this email short. Thanks, T Best wishes, Patrick Daude Coordinator Global Network "Cities for Mobility" City Hall of Stuttgart, Germany Mayor's Policy Office Policy Coordination and Planning Rathaus, Marktplatz 1 D-70173 Stuttgart Telephone: +49 711/ 216 - 85 01 Fax: +49 711/ 216 - 61 05 E-Mail: patrick.daude@stuttgart.de Website: http://www.cities-for-mobility.org ----- Weitergeleitet von Patrick Daude/OB-S/LHS/DE am 27.11.2008 11:30 ----- "pdaude78" Gesendet von: notify@yahoogroups.com 27.11.2008 10:33 An patrick.daude@stuttgart.de, wolfgang.forderer@stuttgart.de, n.leyva@stuttgart.de Kopie Thema Fwd: Re: [sustran] Re: CDM Projects (Clean Development Mechanism) - public tran --- In Cities-for-Mobility@yahoogroups.com, "Dr. Rainer Rothfuss" wrote: Dear Todd Edelmann, sorry for expressing myself so directly but your evaluation of "Cities for Mobility" has absolutely nothing to do with the reality: You say: "I am convinced that the whole project - no matter how inclusive-seeming - is in large part a greenwashing exercise for the Stuttgart-based automobile industry" CfM is a municipal initiative and we, as masterminds behind the network, feel 100% committed to greening urban mobility and not feeding any kind of industry. But, to be honest, without the money we receive from some private firms, including our local car producers, we could not work without membership fees and invite members from Africa, Asia and Latina America for free (other city networks charge 8.000 Euros per year, no matter from where you are!). The companies that help us to finance the work of the Municipality of Stuttgart within the framework of CfM have agreed to give us their support without asking anything in return. There is not even a council or something where they could bring in their views or make their voices heard in order to influence the work of the network. To be honest, our somewhat depressing perception was that they don't even care about us as we, with our almost 500 partners from over 60 countries, are not at all important for companies that have an annual turnover bigger than several small national economies together!! But, yes you are rigth, we also work on the topic of motorized individual mobility. But we don't tell anyone what Stuttgart's car makers would like to hear but just what we need in order to achieve real benefits for the environmental situation in cities. To cover 100% of all mobility demands by non-motorized mobility would be ideal - you may be right! But the fact is that motorized individual mobility will allways be there. So the crucial question is how we can green it (e.g. electric mobility with light vehicles and renewable energies - that's what we are dealing with in ongoing projects). We just dare facing this up to now inevitable motorized 90% share of the mobility reality that many others seem to ignore thinking that this way it will disappear... How about you? In general, I'm convinced it's better to go there and ask people what they think and want and really do before you judge them in public... But yes, I agree, it's good to have different platforms for working on the same issues. Each one will bring in new and valuable aspects. The big question for me just is whether we shall stick to a typical German way of thinking, I would say, that there is only one right answer and only one solution to such a complex problem and reality as is mobility, asking the rest of the world to obey, stop thinking and to follow it... So I'd be glad if you acknowledged also the value of the work we have been doing in the past years within CfM for the same cause as yours. Thanks! Regards, Rainer Rothfuss ----------------------- Join the Cities for Mobility online forum: http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/Cities-for-Mobility Cities-for-Mobility-subscribe@yahoogroups.com ----------------------- Dr. Rainer Rothfuss Coordinator of International Relations ----------------------- Coordination Office Cities for Mobility State Capital Stuttgart ----------------------- Postal address: D-70161 Stuttgart GERMANY Tel.: +49-8381-891-68 38 Fax: +49-8381-891-68 39 Mob: +49-177-894 08 04 Skype: rainer.rothfuss rothfuss@... www.cities-for-mobility.netMessage from "Todd Edelman, Green Idea Factory" : > Hi Aashish, > > This is an important question - which could perhaps include "Lots Less > Cars" - and I am sure the three different > administrator/co-administrators will answer it soon. > > For me it is clear that Sustran is about developing world/Global South > issues. Very often the same messages go out on both New Mobility Cafe > and Lots Less Cars, and while there are guidelines to make it simple > for me what I usually do is if it something interesting and useful I > send it to Lots Less and if even more exciting, revolutionary and > important/critical I also send to New Mobility. And of course also to > Sustran if applicable. > > I know that Eric works very hard at keeping the discussion lean and > focused and while I sometimes object if a post I make - especially if > I take a lot of time with it - is rejected, I see the reason for this. > We can always post anything we want on our own Blogs, or of course > start our own discussions. > > Sustran, New Mobility/Lots Less and Sustran also originate in three > different institutions/entities, and perhaps some differences between > them are fundamental. As for me, I do not participate in Cities for > Mobility. It seems that the discussions held there could be useful but > I am convinced that the whole project - no matter how inclusive-seeming > - is in large part a greenwashing exercise for the Stuttgart-based > automobile industry. Cities for Mobility has as one of its "mobility > columns" the private urban car, and in (not just) my eyes this is Old > Mobility and thus presents a fundamental difference from - and > obviously a challenge to - the philosophy behind/purpose of the other > lists. > > Regards, > T > > > > > > Aashish Gupta wrote: >> Dear Eric >> I have gained much from the discussions at New moility cafe, >> Cities-for-Mobility and sustrans. I have a suggestion. Cant we integrate all >> the lists, since all of them have a common focus. It would be much easier, >> as well as enlarge the discussion. >> >> Aashish Gupta >> Department of Humanities and Social Sciences >> Indian Institute of Technology Madras >> >> On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Eric Britton >> wrote: >> >> >>> That's a good question Roland. I just tried Knoogling it and came up with >>> some interesting responses. You might wish to give it a try at >>> http://knoogle.net . (And if you have suggestions for us as to sources or >>> other details to improve its operation ,please do . . . Eric Britton >>> >>> >>> >>> On Behalf Of Roland Sapsford >>> Sent: Sunday, 23 November 2008 00:11 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Hi >>> >>> Is anyone aware of any work underway through the CDM, or in negotiations >>> around its successors, to make it easier for transport projects to be >>> included. >>> >>> As far as I know, the only public transport project so far granted CDM >>> credits is the TransMilenio busway in Bogota. The main barrier is that >>> transport projects usually involve policy and planning changes as well as >>> projects, and the methodological tests for additionality are hard to meet. >>> >>> Curiously yours >>> Roland Sapsford >>> >>> >>> >>> Roland Sapsford >>> Sustainability Solutions Consulting >>> >>> Climate Change, Cities, Energy, Transport >>> >>> >>> PO Box 11-708, Manners St, Wellington 6142, New Zealand >>> +64-4-9341106(w); +64-4-3851105(h); +64-21-651105(m) >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Dr. Rainer Rothfuss wrote: >>> >>> >>> A trav?s del instrumento CDM se pueden financiar proyectos para reducir >>> emisiones de CO2 - tambi?n en el ?rea del transporte. >>> >>> >>> M?s informaciones: http://www.cdm-cooperation.de/7.0.html >>> >>> Para saber m?s del los proyectos ya implementados en los diferentes pa?ses >>> de Am?rica Latina hay que registrarse como usuario (gratuito). >>> >>> >>> Clean Development Mechanism >>> >>> >>> The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is a project-based mechanism, laid >>> down in the Kyoto Protocol within the United Nations Framework Convention >>> on >>> Climate Change (UNFCCC ) in 1997. On the one >>> hand, >>> it serves as a tool for the achievement of companies? or state?s emission >>> targets under minimum costs. On the other hand, it provides an economic >>> incentive for investments in technologies aiming at climate protection. >>> >>> Best regards, >>> >>> Rainer Rothfuss >>> >>> >>> ----------------------- >>> Join the Cities for Mobility online forum: >>> http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/Cities-for-Mobility >>> Cities-for-Mobility-subscribe@yahoogroups.com< http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/Cities-for-MobilityCities-for-Mobility-subscribe@yahoogroups.com > >>> >>> >>> >>> -------------- next part -------------- >>> A non-text attachment was scrubbed... >>> Name: not available >>> Type: application/octet-stream >>> Size: 823 bytes >>> Desc: not available >>> Url : >>> http://list.jca.apc.org/public/sustran-discuss/attachments/20081123/e813df6f/attachment.bin >>> -------------------------------------------------------- >>> IMPORTANT NOTE to everyone who gets sustran-discuss messages via >>> YAHOOGROUPS. >>> >>> Please go to http://list.jca.apc.org/manage/listinfo/sustran-discuss to >>> join the real sustran-discuss and get full membership rights. 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Apologies for the confusing arrangement. >> >> ================================================================ >> SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of >> people-centred, equitable and sustainable transport with a focus >> on developing countries (the 'Global South'). > > > -- > -------------------------------------------- > > Todd Edelman > Green Idea Factory > > Urbanstr. 45 > D-10967 Berlin > Germany > > Skype: toddedelman > Mobile: ++49 0162 814 4081 > Home/Office: ++49 030 7554 0001 > > edelman@... > www.greenidea.eu > www.flickr.com/photos/edelman > > Green Idea Factory is a member of World Carfree Network > www.worldcarfree.net > > CAR is over. If you want it. > > "Fort mit der Autostadt und was Neues hingebaut!" - B. Brecht (with > slight modification) --- End forwarded message --- -- -------------------------------------------- Todd Edelman Green Idea Factory Urbanstr. 45 D-10967 Berlin Germany Skype: toddedelman Mobile: ++49 0162 814 4081 Home/Office: ++49 030 7554 0001 edelman@greenidea.eu www.greenidea.eu www.flickr.com/photos/edelman Green Idea Factory is a member of World Carfree Network www.worldcarfree.net CAR is over. If you want it. "Fort mit der Autostadt und was Neues hingebaut!" - B. Brecht (with slight modification) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jca.apc.org/public/sustran-discuss/attachments/20081202/cb092ce4/attachment.html From litman at vtpi.org Wed Dec 3 01:37:16 2008 From: litman at vtpi.org (Todd Alexander Litman) Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:37:16 -0800 Subject: [sustran] Re: Flexible Working Hours from Jakarta? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <6.2.3.4.2.20081202083207.109f8350@mail.islandnet.com> See the "Alternative Work Schedules" (http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm15.htm ) chapter of our Online TDM Encyclopedia (http://www.vtpi.org/tdm ). Many organizations have staggered work hour (for example, factories with various shifts) to reduce congestion, and some allow or require condensed workweeks (such as four 10-hour days instead of five 8-hour days per week). Even better is flextime, which allows individual worker flexibility in their schedules, if feasible with their particular jobs. It is generally ineffective to force schedule changes on organizations or individuals. Doing so tends to create problems and inefficiencies. Best wishes, -Todd Litman At 10:49 PM 01/12/2008, Sudhir wrote: >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >From: Puput <puput@kpbb.org> >Date: 2008/11/28 >Subject: [cai-asia] Flexible Working Hours from Jakarta? >To: Clean Air Initiative -- Asia ><cai-asia@lists.worldbank.org> > > >Dear all, > >With regard to solve the problem of traffic jam and to reduce its >impact on the air pollution, Governor of the Greater Jakarta set to >implement new (flexible?) working hours system (see the article >bellow: >http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2008/11/21/jakarta-set-new-school-and-working-hours.html). >Any experience in other countries/cities toward the effectiveness of >the system? Please your feedback. Thank you. > >Regards, >Puput >--------------------------------------------------- >Indonesian Lead Information Center >3rd Floor Ranuza Building >Jalan Timor 10 Menteng >Jakarta 10340 >INDONESIA >Ph: +62-21-3190 6807 >F: +62-21-315 3401 >Mobile: +62-816 897959 > > >Jakarta to set new school and working hours > > > >The Jakarta Post | Fri, 11/21/2008 5:58 PM | Jakarta >Jakarta city administration is set to issue a regulation to make >school hours begin half an hour earlier (6.30 a.m.) as of Jan. 1, to >ease morning and noon traffic congestion around the city. > >"We will propose this new arrangement to Governor Fauzi Bowo. If he >approves, it will take effect in Jan. 1," Vice Governor Prijanto >said after a meeting with related city agencies on Friday. > >The administration will also issue a non-mandatory instruction for >private companies in Jakarta to rearrange their operating hours >according to the location of their offices. > >"For private offices, we urge those located in North and Central >Jakarta to begin at 7.30 a.m.; 8 a.m. for offices in West and East >Jakarta and 9 a.m. for those in South Jakarta," Prijanto >said. The starting time for civil servants would remain at 7.30, he said. > >According to a recent survey commissioned by the city >administration, some 20.7 million people travel through the city >every day, with about 3 percent relying on trains, 40 percent on >bicycles or on foot, and 57 percent on motorized vehicles. > >They survey also showed that about 32 percent of all the >destinations were workplaces, 30 percent schools, 12 percent >shopping malls and 26 percent others. 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A BRTS has been proposed from Rethibowli to Kukatpally via Gachibowli covering about 19 km and another from Mehdipatnam to Uppal, a distance of about 20 km to connect the Inner Ring Road (IRR) and Outer Ring Road (ORR). The state government has decided to have BRTS only on ORR and IRR where the roads are 150 ft wide as the city roads are congested. For starters, BRTS is a dedicated bus corridor on the road for special buses. The project has been a success in cities like Bogota, capital of Colombia, and is cited as a model the worldover. As part of the proposal, the GHMC has proposed BRTS in seven routes in the city. Moosarambagh bridge to Chaderghat Bridge along Musi South Bank (3.5 km), Punjagutta to Erragadda (4.5 km), Mehdipatnam to Uppal (17 km), Moosarambagh Bridge to Chaderghat North Bank of Musi (3.5 km), Owaisi Hospital-Chandrayanagutta, Bandlaguda and Aramghar junction (9.5 km) and Bapughat to Chaderghat (12 kms). The estimated project cost is Rs 496 crore. The GHMC has sent the proposal to the Centre to get funds under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). The corporation has asked traffic experts of IIT Delhi and the Administrative Staff College of India to study a corridor - Uppal to Mehdipatnam - and submit a report on the viability. *Under the BRTS model, a dedicated lane with 63 ft width should be left for BRTS buses. However, most of the city roads are 100 ft wide except some roads like SP Road where the width is 150 ft. If 63 ft are left for BRTS buses, hardly 40 ft is left for two wheelers and four wheelers including RTC buses, insufficient to take normal traffic. Sources said the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is proposing BRTS on some more roads on the IRR which will be finalised soon. **It may be recalled that the BRTS project in the city was shelved after accidents were reported in BRTS corridors in New Delhi and Pune a few months ago. After that the government put off proposals in New Delhi except a pilot road.* -- Sudhir Gota Transport Specialist CAI-Asia Center Unit 3510, 35th Floor, Robinsons-Equitable Tower, ADB Avenue, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Metro Manila, Philippines 1605 Tel: +63-2-395-2843 Fax: +63-2-395-2846 http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia Skype : sudhirgota -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jca.apc.org/public/sustran-discuss/attachments/20081203/1b792be1/attachment.html From whook at itdp.org Wed Dec 3 09:38:25 2008 From: whook at itdp.org (whook at itdp.org) Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 19:38:25 -0500 Subject: [sustran] Re: Hyderabad Metro and BRTS Message-ID: <380-22008123303825349@M2W037.mail2web.com> they have been talking about brt on these outer ring roads for a long time. there is no congestion, very few origins and few destinations. the attitude of the govt seems to be that they can only build BRT where it is not needed. w Original Message: ----------------- From: Sudhir sudhir@cai-asia.org Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 08:30:58 +0800 To: sustran-discuss@list.jca.apc.org Subject: [sustran] Hyderabad Metro and BRTS Dear All, Just to update more on Hyderabad Public Transportation Improvements. Few months back they started planning metro with private sector involvement and and now the city will also have a BRTS. ( make sure you have a look at this article especially the end portion and try to understand the "media factor" ) http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Hyderabad/Govt_plans_BRTS_to_connect_ring _roads/articleshow/3771047.cms HYDERABAD: With road widening being the main problem among others for a Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) in the city, the state government has now proposed a BRTS in the surrounding areas of the city to ease congestion and improve connectivity. A BRTS has been proposed from Rethibowli to Kukatpally via Gachibowli covering about 19 km and another from Mehdipatnam to Uppal, a distance of about 20 km to connect the Inner Ring Road (IRR) and Outer Ring Road (ORR). The state government has decided to have BRTS only on ORR and IRR where the roads are 150 ft wide as the city roads are congested. For starters, BRTS is a dedicated bus corridor on the road for special buses. The project has been a success in cities like Bogota, capital of Colombia, and is cited as a model the worldover. As part of the proposal, the GHMC has proposed BRTS in seven routes in the city. Moosarambagh bridge to Chaderghat Bridge along Musi South Bank (3.5 km), Punjagutta to Erragadda (4.5 km), Mehdipatnam to Uppal (17 km), Moosarambagh Bridge to Chaderghat North Bank of Musi (3.5 km), Owaisi Hospital-Chandrayanagutta, Bandlaguda and Aramghar junction (9.5 km) and Bapughat to Chaderghat (12 kms). The estimated project cost is Rs 496 crore. The GHMC has sent the proposal to the Centre to get funds under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). The corporation has asked traffic experts of IIT Delhi and the Administrative Staff College of India to study a corridor - Uppal to Mehdipatnam - and submit a report on the viability. *Under the BRTS model, a dedicated lane with 63 ft width should be left for BRTS buses. However, most of the city roads are 100 ft wide except some roads like SP Road where the width is 150 ft. If 63 ft are left for BRTS buses, hardly 40 ft is left for two wheelers and four wheelers including RTC buses, insufficient to take normal traffic. Sources said the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is proposing BRTS on some more roads on the IRR which will be finalised soon. **It may be recalled that the BRTS project in the city was shelved after accidents were reported in BRTS corridors in New Delhi and Pune a few months ago. After that the government put off proposals in New Delhi except a pilot road.* -- Sudhir Gota Transport Specialist CAI-Asia Center Unit 3510, 35th Floor, Robinsons-Equitable Tower, ADB Avenue, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Metro Manila, Philippines 1605 Tel: +63-2-395-2843 Fax: +63-2-395-2846 http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia Skype : sudhirgota -------------------------------------------------------------------- myhosting.com - Premium Microsoft? Windows? and Linux web and application hosting - http://link.myhosting.com/myhosting From sujitjp at gmail.com Thu Dec 4 15:30:42 2008 From: sujitjp at gmail.com (Sujit Patwardhan) Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 12:00:42 +0530 Subject: [sustran] Crisis and Opportunity In-Reply-To: <49371c35.0603c00a.21fc.ffffa976SMTPIN_ADDED@mx.google.com> References: <49371c35.0603c00a.21fc.ffffa976SMTPIN_ADDED@mx.google.com> Message-ID: <4cfd20aa0812032230y28991332w614e6f646fd19ceb@mail.gmail.com> I think this is relevant to the SUSTRAN list. -- Sujit In the Public Interest by Ralph Nader In ancient China, the character for "crisis" was associated with "opportunity." This month Congress will be faced with both challenges from General Motors, Ford and Chrysler, whose CEOS are begging for a very rapid $34 billion in emergency government loans. The three auto giants have few cards to play other than the domino effect on the economy, should they collapse into bankruptcy and liquidation. Once Congress signals that, on behalf of its sullen taxpayers, going into this abyss will not happen, our national legislature will hold all the cards. So if Congress and George W. Bush agree to have Uncle Sam bail out the auto bosses and their tanking companies, important reforms and models can emerge from this multi-faceted mega rescue. Let it be called the coming of a vigorous government capitalism, based on rigorous conventional reciprocity. First, since the government is contributing tax dollars, taxpayers should receive taxpayer warrants and preferred shares held by the Treasury Department, for stock in the companies. Second, since the government would be a senior creditor, it should exercise restructuring powers to remove the top executives and the Boards of Directors along with other functional re-alignments. Third, since the government is essentially performing as an insurer, basic standards of loss prevention should be applied. In this context, this means stronger fuel efficiency, emission-control and safety standards to enhance sales and increase the pressure on foreign auto companies. This insurance-driven requirement would further long-existing federal statutory missions in three areas of engineering performance. In the past ten weeks, "government capitalism" has been a patsy, absorbing huge taxpayer dollars and liabilities to save an assortment of Wall Street financial corporations. Washington is guaranteeing a clutch of securitized mortgages and consumer loans and even guaranteeing, for the first time, 4 trillion dollars of money market funds. The bailout of Citigroup illustrates the paucity of reciprocity. It is a sweetheart deal. With Citigroup's co-executive. Robert Rubin rushing to Washington to structure the deal to save his bank and his own stock portfolio, the Bush regime took on $20 billion in preferred shares and put taxpayers at risk for over $300 billion in the big bank's loan portfolio. Earlier in October, taxpayers were compelled to buy $25 billion in Citi preferred shares. Whereas the Feds earlier took a potential 79% ownership of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae to save those companies, for Citi the government only took 7.8% stake and left the management and board of directors intact. Since these enormous bailouts and revisions of bailouts largely occur over weekends in frantic secret huddles between government officials formerly from Wall Street and their former colleagues from Wall Street, the actual agreements are not disclosed. They are considered official secrets, assuming they even have been finalized beyond mere memoranda of understanding. Since all these deals, and more seem to be coming from other commercial and industrial pleaders, are general and appear to be open-ended, resourceful government capitalism can advance shareholder rights across the board and compel a variety of corporate reforms and accountabilities long-desired by progressives and conservatives alike. At least the auto companies are being subjected to public Congressional hearings for this latest bailout round. In contrast, the CEOs of the financial goliaths got private roundtable treatment at the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve for far greater rescue packages, revealed in brief statements on Monday morning. Let's have a level playing field here and treat all corporate welfare demanders under equal procedural rules shaped on Capitol Hill. Remember the Constitution. It says all spending bills start with the House of Representatives and then go to the Senate and then to the President. Secret taxpayer bailouts by Executive Branch press releases are not what the framers had in mind when they wrote the Constitution. With the installation of a new president and a new Congress next month, the process must be reversed and these White House-corporate "understandings" have to be reconsidered and, if maintained, revised. This is a rare moment in American economic history. Just as the multinational corporations were about to complete the entrenchment of the corporate state in Washington, D.C., -- what President Franklin Delano Roosevelt described in 1939 as a condition of fascism?their speculative greed, recklessness, mismanagement and de-regulatory license turned them into massive supplicants at the taxpayers' trough. In early October, Washington has Wall Street over a Congressional barrel. Still, Wall Street rolled Washington into a $700 billion bailout barrel and rolled it back to New York City. With a supposedly reformist Democratically dominated Congress and Obama in the White House, the balance of power for the people of our country can turn. But it will take prompt new exertions by the people, citizen groups, organized investors, taxpayers and workers. Seize the moment. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Tell your friends to visit Nader.Org and sign up for E-Alerts. To unsubscribe, e-mail: alerts-unsubscribe@lists.nader.org For additional commands, e-mail: alerts-help@lists.nader.org -- ------------------------------------------------------ Sujit Patwardhan sujitjp@gmail.com "Yamuna", ICS Colony, Ganeshkhind Road, Pune 411 007 India Tel: +91 20 25537955 Cell: +91 98220 26627 ----------------------------------------------------- Hon. 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We could start by taking six critical step *George Monbiot* The Guardian, Tuesday December 2 2008 Lord Turner has two jobs. The first, as chair of the Financial Services Authority, is to save capitalism. The second, as chair of the committee on climate change, is to save the biosphere from the impacts of capitalism. I have no idea how well he is discharging the first task, but if his approach to the second one is anything to go by, you should dump your shares and buy gold. His climate change report, published yesterday, is long, detailed and impressive. It has the admirable objective of trying to cap global warming at two degrees or a little more. This, it says, means that greenhouse gas pollution in the UK should fall by 80% by 2050 and by 31% by 2020. But there's a problem. There is no longer any likely relationship between an 80% cut and two degrees of warming. This gets a little complicated, but please bear with me while I explain why Turner's proposal is about as likely to stop runaway climate change as the Maginot Line was to hold back the Luftwaffe. The 80% cut he recommends for the UK more or less matches a global target of 50% by 2050. A 50% global cut, the report says, would make roughly two degrees of warming a "central expectation" and would reduce the probability of four degrees (which it calls "extremely dangerous climate change") to less than 1%. Turner claims that to keep the temperature rise close to two degrees, the world's greenhouse gas emissions must peak in 2016 then fall by either 3% or 4% a year. A 3% rate of decline is most likely to deliver a temperature rise of 2.2 degrees this century; a 4% annual cut would produce about a 2.1 degree rise. That's more or less consistent with his 2050 targets. So far so good. But a recent paper in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, using the same sources, comes to completely different conclusions. It agrees that to deliver a reasonable chance of preventing more than two degrees of warming, greenhouse gases in the atmosphere need to stabilise at a maximum of 450 parts per million, carbon dioxide equivalent (ppmCO2e). But it shows that to achieve this, global emissions of greenhouse gases from the parts of the system we can control need to peak by 2015, then fall by 6%-8% a year between 2020 and 2040, leading to "full decarbonisation sometime soon after 2050". Even this, it shows, relies on an optimistic reading of the current data. Turner's suggested cuts are more likely to produce four degrees of warming than two degrees. The difference between the two reports comes down to this: Turner assumes that greenhouse gases can rise to 500 ppmCO2e before falling back to 450. The other paper shows that this is a dangerous assumption. Not only does this mean that the cut comes far too late but, far from falling back, the enhanced levels in the atmosphere are likely to trigger more emissions as the biosphere starts producing more greenhouse gases than it absorbs. We cannot afford to overshoot. Last week a paper published in Geophysical Research Letters produced what could be the first hard evidence that runaway global feedback has begun. In 2007 methane levels in the atmosphere, which had previously levelled off, began rising again. The most likely reason is that the Siberian permafrost is melting, as a result of the runaway warming of the Arctic. This wasn't supposed to begin for another 80 years. The great global meltdown appears to have started, yet Turner proposes that we carry on with the old plan as if nothing has changed. We're still digging trenches, even as the sky fills with bomber planes. My reading of the new projections suggests that to play its part in preventing two degrees of global warming, the UK needs to cut greenhouse gases by roughly 25% from current levels by the end of 2012 - a quarter in four years. But how the heck could this be done? Here is a list of measures that could be enacted almost immediately. They require no economic or technological miracles; but they do demand that the government is brave enough to govern. *1* Immediately renegotiate the European Emissions Trading Scheme, imposing a lower cap on carbon pollution and the mandatory sale of all emissions permits to the industries covered by the scheme (currently over 90% are given away). *2 *Use the money this raises for: a. A crash programme for training builders. As the major component of a green new deal - delivering jobs as well as carbon cuts - the government will immediately launch training schemes for tens of thousands of specialist builders, insulators, window-fitters, plasterers and decorators. b. A home improvement scheme like Germany's, but twice as fast. Every year between January 2010 and 2020, 10% of homes will be fully insulated and fitted with good windows or secondary glazing, at state expense. Landlords will have a legal obligation to join, or lose their right to take tenants. Announce that when the scheme is complete, gas and electricity bills will be subject to an escalating tariff: the more you use, the more you will have to pay for every unit. *3 *Announce that incandescent lightbulbs will no longer be sold in the UKfrom next April. Announce that no fridge or freezer with an energy rating below grade A++, and no other appliance rated below grade A, will be sold from next July. *4* Increase vehicle excise duty for the most polluting cars to ?3,000 a year (from the current ?400). Use the money this raises to: a. Start closing key urban streets to private cars and dedicating them to public transport and cycling. b. Increase the public subsidy for bus and train journeys. Oblige the bus companies to sign contracts providing a wider range of services. Give us the integrated low-carbon transport we have long been promised, in which buses are scheduled to meet trains, buses and trains carry bicycles, and safe cycle lanes connect with each other across entire cities. c. Train thousands of new coach drivers and public transport operators. Create coach lanes on all motorways and start moving coach stations from the city centres to the motorway junctions, to enable coach travel to become as fast and efficient as car travel. Link them to city centres with dedicated bus lanes. d. Scrap the airport expansion programme. Set a cap on the number of landing slots, which will fall every year until it reaches 5% of current capacity. *5 *Stop the burning of moorland because this exposes and oxidises peat. Grouse shoots (which are mostly responsible) produce a staggering proportion of the UK's emissions. *6 *Stop all opencast coal mining and rescind planning permission for new works. Impose stonking taxes on the extraction of all fossil fuels. Is this enough? No. But it puts us on the right track. It's all a gamble from now on: the only reliable advice is that we shouldn't start from here. But two decades of procrastination ensure that only emergency measures now have a chance of preventing a climate disaster. What Turner's report - polite, measured and impressive as it is - proposes is more procrastination. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/dec/02/climate-change-lord-turner -- ------------------------------------------------------ Sujit Patwardhan sujitjp@gmail.com "Yamuna", ICS Colony, Ganeshkhind Road, Pune 411 007 India Tel: +91 20 25537955 Cell: +91 98220 26627 ----------------------------------------------------- Hon. Secretary: Parisar www.parisar.org ------------------------------------------------------ Founder Member: PTTF (Pune Traffic & Transportation Forum) www.pttf.net ------------------------------------------------------ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We would require your inputs on this discussion paper. what do you think about the two and three wheelers? Would they continue to dominate? Are they part of problem or solution? What kind of technological and traffic solutions can help in making them more safer and efficient mode of Transportation? How to prevent the jump of NMT users to two and three wheelers? Would you allow them in bike lanes? How do you solve these problems??? there are lot of questions which needs to be answered and many stakeholders like CAI-Asia,PCFV, ITDP and ICCT are looking in this issue. please help us know your views on this so that proper policies can be framed for two and three wheelers. best regards Sudhir Gota -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jca.apc.org/public/sustran-discuss/attachments/20081204/dc657da4/attachment.html From rothfuss at cities-for-mobility.net Thu Dec 4 17:29:35 2008 From: rothfuss at cities-for-mobility.net (Dr. Rainer Rothfuss) Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:29:35 +0100 Subject: [sustran] Re: Cities for Mobility strategy discussion In-Reply-To: <492FD6EC.2070105@greenidea.eu> References: <492FD6EC.2070105@greenidea.eu> Message-ID: <20081204092935.sur7pgc62o44w88w@webmail.df.eu> Dear Todd: let me answer your question ("PLEASE, can you help explain their rationale for being involved? Successful businesses don't just randomly create and place imagery related to their brand and products.") briefly: There are different reasons, I suppose: a) Mayor Dr. Schuster urged the CEOs of these companies from Stuttgart to support this initiative of the City of Stuttgart, so they hardly could say no; b) These companies have also understood that new solutions to mobility problems need to be found - we seek those solutions within Cities for Mobility; c) These companies surely hope to have a sort of greenwashing effects and a contribution to their corporate social responsibility efforts from being Premium Partner of Cities for Mobility. No matter what reasons exactly made them join our network, the important thing is what we are doing here. CfM is an open platform, i.e. means you are invited to enrich it with your (better) initiatives. But if you're not interested in CfM then please stop also drawing a negative picture of our work without knowing it. I liked that saying that I heard once as it perfectly fits to the decentralised approach of a network where many pro-active leaders are needed: "Either lead, follow, or get out of my way!" ;-) Regards, Rainer ----------------------- Join the Cities for Mobility online forum: http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/Cities-for-Mobility Cities-for-Mobility-subscribe@yahoogroups.com ----------------------- Dr. Rainer Rothfuss Coordinator of International Relations ----------------------- Coordination Office Cities for Mobility State Capital Stuttgart ----------------------- Postal address: D-70161 Stuttgart GERMANY Tel.: +49-8381-891-68 38 Fax: +49-8381-891-68 39 Mob: +49-177-894 08 04 Skype: rainer.rothfuss rothfuss@cities-for-mobility.net www.cities-for-mobility.netMessage from "Todd Edelman, Green Idea Factory" : > Hi Patrick, hi all, > > I thank you for the invite to Stuttgart. I believe I understand how it > works there, and I have been to a lot of? professional sustainable > transport-related events, and I know people who attend CfM events. I > have already explained my reasons for opting out, and will hopefully > explain this more precisely in my delayed response to Rainer. Just one > comment for now, see below. > > Patrick.Daude@stuttgart.de wrote: >> >> Dear Todd, >> >> [...] > >> Our Premium Partners do note have any influence on the topics that? >> are treated within the network. > > [...] > > PLEASE, can you help explain their rationale for being involved? > Successful businesses don't just randomly create and place imagery > related to their brand and products. I may ask Rainer the same question > - and I encourage others on this List etc. to answer it - but I will > keep this email short. > > Thanks, > T > > >> Best wishes, >> Patrick Daude >> >> >> Coordinator Global Network "Cities for Mobility" >> City Hall of Stuttgart, Germany >> Mayor's Policy Office >> Policy Coordination and Planning >> Rathaus, Marktplatz 1 >> D-70173 Stuttgart >> >> Telephone: +49 711/ 216 - 85 01 >> Fax: +49 711/ 216 - 61 05 >> E-Mail: patrick.daude@stuttgart.de >> Website: http://www.cities-for-mobility.org >> >> ----- Weitergeleitet von Patrick Daude/OB-S/LHS/DE am 27.11.2008 11:30 ----- >> *"pdaude78" * >> Gesendet von: notify@yahoogroups.com >> >> 27.11.2008 10:33 >> >> >> An >> ? ? ? ? patrick.daude@stuttgart.de, >> wolfgang.forderer@stuttgart.de,? n.leyva@stuttgart.de >> Kopie >> >> Thema >> ? ? ? ? Fwd:? Re: [sustran] Re: CDM Projects (Clean Development >> Mechanism)? - public tran >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> --- In Cities-for-Mobility@yahoogroups.com, "Dr. Rainer Rothfuss" >> wrote: >> >> >> >> ? Dear Todd Edelmann, >> >> ? sorry for expressing myself so directly but your evaluation of? ? >> "Cities for Mobility" has absolutely nothing to do with the reality: >> >> ? You say: "I am convinced that the whole project - no matter how? ? >> inclusive-seeming - is in large part a greenwashing exercise for? >> the? Stuttgart-based automobile industry" >> >> ? CfM is a municipal initiative and we, as masterminds behind the? ? >> network, feel 100% committed to greening urban mobility and not? ? >> feeding any kind of industry. But, to be honest, without the money? >> we? receive from some private firms, including our local car? >> producers, we could not work without membership fees and invite? >> members from Africa,? Asia and Latina America for free (other city? >> networks charge 8.000? Euros per year, no matter from where you? >> are!). >> >> ? The companies that help us to finance the work of the >> Municipality? ? of Stuttgart within the framework of CfM have >> agreed to give us? their? support without asking anything in >> return. There is not even? a council or something where they could >> bring in their views or? make their? voices heard in order to >> influence the work of the? network. To be? honest, our somewhat >> depressing perception was that? they don't even? care about us as >> we, with our almost 500 partners? from over 60? countries, are not >> at all important for companies? that have an annual? turnover >> bigger than several small national? economies together!! >> >> ? But, yes you are rigth, we also work on the topic of motorized? ? >> individual mobility. But we don't tell anyone what Stuttgart's car? ? >> makers would like to hear but just what we need in order to >> achieve? ? real benefits for the environmental situation in cities. >> To cover? 100% of all mobility demands by non-motorized mobility >> would be? ideal - you? may be right! But the fact is that >> motorized? individual mobility will? allways be there. So the >> crucial question? is how we can green it (e.g.? electric mobility >> with light vehicles? and renewable energies - that's? what we are >> dealing with in? ongoing projects). We just dare facing? this up to >> now inevitable? motorized 90% share of the mobility reality? that >> many others seem? to ignore thinking that this way it will? >> disappear... How about you? >> >> ? In general, I'm convinced it's better to go there and ask people? ? >> what they think and want and really do before you judge them in? ? >> public... >> >> ? But yes, I agree, it's good to have different platforms for? >> working? on the same issues. Each one will bring in new and? >> valuable aspects.? The big question for me just is whether we >> shall? stick to a typical? German way of thinking, I would say, >> that there? is only one right? answer and only one solution to such >> a complex? problem and reality as? is mobility, asking the rest of >> the world? to obey, stop thinking and? to follow it... So I'd be >> glad if you? acknowledged also the value of? the work we have been >> doing in the? past years within CfM for the same? cause as yours. >> Thanks! >> >> ? Regards, >> >> ? Rainer Rothfuss >> >> ----------------------- >> Join the Cities for Mobility online forum: >> http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/Cities-for-Mobility >> Cities-for-Mobility-subscribe@yahoogroups.com >> ----------------------- >> >> Dr. Rainer Rothfuss >> Coordinator of International Relations >> ----------------------- >> Coordination Office >> Cities for Mobility >> State Capital Stuttgart >> ----------------------- >> Postal address: >> D-70161 Stuttgart >> GERMANY >> Tel.: +49-8381-891-68 38 >> Fax: +49-8381-891-68 39 >> Mob: +49-177-894 08 04 >> Skype: rainer.rothfuss >> rothfuss@... >> www.cities-for-mobility.netMessage from "Todd Edelman, Green Idea? ? >> Factory" : >> >>> Hi Aashish, >>> >>> This is an important question - which could perhaps include "Lots Less >>> Cars" - and I am sure the three different >>> administrator/co-administrators will answer it soon. >>> >>> For me it is clear that Sustran is about developing world/Global South >>> issues. Very often the same messages go out on both New Mobility Cafe >>> and Lots Less Cars, and while there are guidelines to make it simple >>> for me what I usually do is if it something interesting and useful I >>> send it to Lots Less and if even more exciting, revolutionary and >>> important/critical I also send to New Mobility. And of course also to >>> Sustran if applicable. >>> >>> I know that Eric works very hard at keeping the discussion lean and >>> focused and while I sometimes object if a post I make - especially if >>> I take a lot of time with it - is rejected, I see the reason for this. >>> We can always post anything we want on our own Blogs, or of course >>> start our own discussions. >>> >>> Sustran, New Mobility/Lots Less and Sustran also originate in three >>> different institutions/entities, and perhaps some differences between >>> them are fundamental. As for me, I do not participate in Cities for >>> Mobility. It seems that the discussions held there could be useful but >>> I am convinced that the whole project - no matter how inclusive-seeming >>> - is in large part a greenwashing exercise for the Stuttgart-based >>> automobile industry. Cities for Mobility has as one of its "mobility >>> columns" the private urban car, and in (not just) my eyes this is Old >>> Mobility and thus presents a fundamental difference from - and >>> obviously a challenge to - the philosophy behind/purpose of the other >>> lists. >>> >>> Regards, >>> T >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Aashish Gupta wrote: >>>> Dear Eric >>>> I have gained much from the discussions at New moility cafe, >>>> Cities-for-Mobility and sustrans. I have a suggestion. Cant we >> integrate all >>>> the lists, since all of them have a common focus. It would be much >> easier, >>>> as well as enlarge the discussion. >>>> >>>> Aashish Gupta >>>> Department of Humanities and Social Sciences >>>> Indian Institute of Technology Madras >>>> >>>> On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Eric Britton? >> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> That's a good question Roland. I just tried Knoogling it and came >> up with >>>>> some interesting responses. You might wish to give it a try at >>>>> http://knoogle.net . (And if you have suggestions for us as to >> sources or >>>>> other details to improve? its operation ,please do . . . Eric Britton >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Behalf Of Roland Sapsford >>>>> Sent: Sunday, 23 November 2008 00:11 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Hi >>>>> >>>>> Is anyone aware of any work underway through the CDM, or in >> negotiations >>>>> around its successors, to make it easier for transport projects to be >>>>> included. >>>>> >>>>> As far as I know, the only public transport project so far granted CDM >>>>> credits is the TransMilenio busway in Bogota.? The main barrier is >> that >>>>> transport projects usually involve policy and planning changes as >> well as >>>>> projects, and the methodological tests for additionality are hard >> to meet. >>>>> >>>>> Curiously yours >>>>> Roland Sapsford >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Roland Sapsford >>>>> Sustainability Solutions Consulting >>>>> >>>>> Climate Change, Cities, Energy, Transport >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> PO Box 11-708, Manners St, Wellington 6142, New Zealand >>>>> +64-4-9341106(w); +64-4-3851105(h); +64-21-651105(m) >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Dr. Rainer Rothfuss wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> A trav?s del instrumento CDM se pueden financiar proyectos para >> reducir >>>>> emisiones de CO2 - tambi?n en el ?rea del transporte. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> M?s informaciones: http://www.cdm-cooperation.de/7.0.html >>>>> >>>>> Para saber m?s del los proyectos ya implementados en los >> diferentes pa?ses >>>>> de Am?rica Latina hay que registrarse como usuario (gratuito). >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Clean Development Mechanism >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is a project-based >> mechanism, laid >>>>> down in the Kyoto Protocol within the United Nations Framework >> Convention >>>>> on >>>>> Climate Change (UNFCCC ) in 1997. On the one >>>>> hand, >>>>> it serves as a tool for the achievement of companies? or state?s >> emission >>>>> targets under minimum costs. On the other hand, it provides an >> economic >>>>> incentive for investments in technologies aiming at climate >> protection. >>>>> >>>>> Best regards, >>>>> >>>>> Rainer Rothfuss >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ----------------------- >>>>> Join the Cities for Mobility online forum: >>>>> http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/Cities-for-Mobility >>>>> >> Cities-for-Mobility-subscribe@yahoogroups.com >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -------------- next part -------------- >>>>> A non-text attachment was scrubbed... >>>>> Name: not available >>>>> Type: application/octet-stream >>>>> Size: 823 bytes >>>>> Desc: not available >>>>> Url : >>>>> >> http://list.jca.apc.org/public/sustran-discuss/attachments/20081123/e813df6f/attachment.bin >>>>> -------------------------------------------------------- >>>>> IMPORTANT NOTE to everyone who gets sustran-discuss messages via >>>>> YAHOOGROUPS. >>>>> >>>>> Please go to >> http://list.jca.apc.org/manage/listinfo/sustran-discuss to >>>>> join the real sustran-discuss and get full membership rights. 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Apologies for >> the confusing arrangement. >>>> >>>> ================================================================ >>>> SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of? >> >> people-centred,? equitable and sustainable transport with a focus? ? >> >> on developing? countries (the 'Global South'). >>> >>> >>> -- >>> -------------------------------------------- >>> >>> Todd Edelman >>> Green Idea Factory >>> >>> Urbanstr. 45 >>> D-10967 Berlin >>> Germany >>> >>> Skype: toddedelman >>> Mobile: ++49 0162 814 4081 >>> Home/Office: ++49 030 7554 0001 >>> >>> edelman@... >>> www.greenidea.eu >>> www.flickr.com/photos/edelman >>> >>> Green Idea Factory is a member of World Carfree Network >>> www.worldcarfree.net >>> >>> CAR is over. If you want it. >>> >>> "Fort mit der Autostadt und was Neues hingebaut!" - B. 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URL: http://list.jca.apc.org/public/sustran-discuss/attachments/20081204/520965e0/attachment.html From Chris.Dias at EMITEC.COM Thu Dec 4 18:29:16 2008 From: Chris.Dias at EMITEC.COM (Chris.Dias at EMITEC.COM) Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:29:16 +0100 Subject: [sustran] Re: Motorized Two and Three Wheelers In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4937F044.5707.002C.0@EMITEC.COM> Dear Sudhir. Thank you for your note & mail. As was seen at the BAQ2008, 2&3-wheelers are here to stay in Asia and moreover offer a number of benefits both in terms of transport effeciency, per capital fuel effeciency & CO2 emissions, and overall emission loads. There is of course some ground to cover with tightening legislation in many asian countries. But I do not see any concern in meeting tighter emission legislation with the availability of improved powertrain & cost effective after-treatment technology solutions. One issue that will remain is the treatment of the existing vehicle population. Here too retro-fitted after-treatment technology solutions & devices are available. All that is required is a workable policy to be mandated with a supporting control infrastructure. The other issue that will need to be resolved lies in the domain of traffic management experts as to how to best integrate this cheap, efficient and clean transport mode into the existing traffic system. As I have always said, the solution to this too can be more easily found if we start to accept that all other modes of transport are in conflict with the motorcycle and not vice-versa. In case any of your readers desire, I would be happy to circulate details of after-treatment technology solutions available in the EMITEC product program and how these can effectively benefit cost & clean mobility. With Regards. Chris Dias Chris Dias Managing Director Emitec Emission Control Technologies India P.Ltd; Regd.Office Address:6,Manali; 421B,Gokhale Road, Pune 411016. India. 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EMITEC prohibits and takes steps to prevent its information systems from being used to view, store or forward offensive or discriminatory material. If this message contains such material, please report it to emitec.india@emitec.com >>> Sudhir 12/4/2008 2:22 PM >>> Dear All, During the recently held Better Air Quality (BAQ) workshop 2008 ( http://www.baq2008.org/), there were lot of discussions on the role of motorized two and three wheelers. The aspects considered were their growth, their role and their impact on the quality of life of people. Two and Three wheelers often have been neglected by policymakers and many contradictory actions have been taken across Asia. Please visit links http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/articles-73129_wheelers.pdf & http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/propertyvalue-21710.html and to access the discussion paper & some of the presentations. We would require your inputs on this discussion paper. what do you think about the two and three wheelers? Would they continue to dominate? Are they part of problem or solution? What kind of technological and traffic solutions can help in making them more safer and efficient mode of Transportation? How to prevent the jump of NMT users to two and three wheelers? Would you allow them in bike lanes? How do you solve these problems??? there are lot of questions which needs to be answered and many stakeholders like CAI-Asia,PCFV, ITDP and ICCT are looking in this issue. please help us know your views on this so that proper policies can be framed for two and three wheelers. best regards Sudhir Gota This e-mail may contain trade secrets or privileged, undisclosed or otherwise confidential information. If you have received this e-mail in error, you are hereby notified that any review, copying or distribution of it is strictly prohibited. Please inform us immediately at +49 (0)2246-109555 and destroy the original transmittal. Thank you for your cooperation. From tom.godefrooij at cycling.nl Thu Dec 4 18:41:15 2008 From: tom.godefrooij at cycling.nl (Tom Godefrooij) Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:41:15 +0100 Subject: [sustran] Betr.: Motorized Two and Three Wheelers In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4937B3CA.8C05.0045.0@cycling.nl> Dear Sudhir, Thank you for your invitation to participate in the exchange on the position of Motorized Two and Three Wheelers. An important issue indeed, and very complex as well. The position of this category of road users and related policy choices will also have an impact on the posistion of non motorised (human powered) transport. Therefore we would be happy to contribute. Do you have any timeline in mind for this debate? Is there a specific deadline for contributions? Best regards, Tom -- Tom Godefrooij executive officer Bicycle Partnership Program Interface for Cycling Expertise Trans 3 3512 JJ Utrecht The Netherlands phone: +31 (0)30 2304521 e-mail: tom.godefrooij@cycling.nl NGO registration KvK41265203 >>> Op Donderdag 4 December 2008 om 9:52 is in bericht door Sudhir geschreven: > Dear All, > > During the recently held Better Air Quality (BAQ) workshop 2008 ( > http://www.baq2008.org/), there were lot of discussions on the role of > motorized two and three wheelers. The aspects considered were their growth, > their role and their impact on the quality of life of people. Two and Three > wheelers often have been neglected by policymakers and many contradictory > actions have been taken across Asia. > > Please visit links > http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/articles-73129_wheelers.pdf & > http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/propertyvalue-21710.html and > to access the discussion paper & some of the presentations. > > We would require your inputs on this discussion paper. what do you think > about the two and three wheelers? Would they continue to dominate? Are they > part of problem or solution? What kind of technological and traffic > solutions can help in making them more safer and efficient mode of > Transportation? How to prevent the jump of NMT users to two and three > wheelers? Would you allow them in bike lanes? How do you solve these > problems??? > > there are lot of questions which needs to be answered and many stakeholders > like CAI-Asia,PCFV, ITDP and ICCT are looking in this issue. please help us > know your views on this so that proper policies can be framed for two and > three wheelers. > > best regards > Sudhir Gota From edelman at greenidea.eu Thu Dec 4 22:21:12 2008 From: edelman at greenidea.eu (Todd Edelman, Green Idea Factory) Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:21:12 +0100 Subject: [sustran] European Union and French Presidency seek to push forward with destructive and unsustainable biofuel target Message-ID: <4937D948.6030904@greenidea.eu> Hi all, It seems clear to me that this "getting-fuels-from-wherever-we-can-never-mind-the-consequences" mentality - for public transport, too - is VERY Old Mobility and not sustainable at all. - T *** Press release by Biofuel Watch, Corporate Europe Observatory, Econexus, Grupo de Reflexi?n Rural, Rettet den Regenwald and Watch Indonesia! [weblinks below] Immediate release: Tuesday 2nd December 2008 European Union and French Presidency seek to push forward with destructive and unsustainable biofuel target Campaigners today (Tuesday) accused the French Presidency and the European Union of pushing ahead with dangerous and unsustainable agrofuel targets, with a view to reaching a deal on the Renewable Energy Directive on Wednesday. The target as proposed [1] would greatly increase the use of agrofuels (biofuels from crops and trees) in Europe, with no credible protection for food supplies, climate, people and the environment. Campaigners are alarmed that current proposals which have been put forward by the Commission and the Presidency not only endorse a 10% biofuel target by 2020, but even remove the possibility of a reviewing this in 2014. The proposals seek to further manipulate greenhouse gas balances of agrofuels by omitting any references at all to the major carbon emissions caused by indirect land use change. As recent peer-reviewed studies have shown, once indirect land use change is taken into account, virtually all agrofuels are worse for the climate than the fossil fuels they replace [2]. The proposal comes shortly after organisations sent an Open Letter to all MEPs in which they warned that eight governments of major agrofuel producer countries had made it clear that they do not accept proposed EU sustainability standards and that even the most basic sustainability ?guarantees? could clearly not be met [3]. Amaranta Herrero, agrofuel campaigner at Corporate Europe Observatory, said: ?A 10% target regardless of impacts would be a disaster for millions of people, exacerbating world hunger and causing untold environmental damage. Demand for agrofuels is already pushing small farmers off their land, affecting food production and aggravating environmental pollution, causing the destruction of natural ecosystems which are essential carbon sinks, including rainforests and peat swamps. The proposals will send signals to the agrofuel developers to expand, whatever the human and environmental cost.? Guadalupe Rodriguez of Rettet den Regenwald added: ?The EU must not ignore calls by hundreds of civil society groups, social movements, politicians and academics for an immediate moratorium on monoculture agrofuels in order to protect climate, people and the environment? . The Brazilian government is already calling for forests with less than 30% canopy cover to be converted for agrofuels - which would lead to a rapid increase in rates of deforestation [4]. Half of the world?s forests currently have canopy cover of less than 20% - and so would be eligible for conversion. Campaigners are calling for the target to be dropped and warn that a deal will lead to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions as more and more forest and pasture land are converted to make way for displaced farmers. The consequences will be disastrous for indigenous people, local communities, and for climate change - as carbon stored in forests and soils is released, campaigners said. Notes: [1] The French presidency is proposing to exclude the possibility of a review of the 2020 biofuel target in 2014, and not to include any emissions from indirect land use change into greenhouse gas calculations from biofuels into the Renewable Energy Directive. [2] Peer-reviewed studies by Timothy Searchinger, Joseph Fargione, Holly Gibbs and others show that the carbon emissions linked to direct and indirect land use change for agrofuels can be so high that, in some cases it would take many centuries of agrofuel use to repay that carbon debt. See http://www.nature.org/initiatives/climatechange/features/art23819.html for comments by one of the lead authors, Joseph Fargione. [3] www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/docs/open_letter_to_meps_020808.pdf [4] Dossier interinstitutionnel: 2008/0016 (COD). 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This year's event focuses on three topics: Bus Rapid Transit, safety and security, and climate change. please find more details @ http://www.embarq.org/en/transforming-transportation-2009 To register for the event- click here http://jotform.com/form/82764514375 For more information, contact Day 1 - TT2009@worldbank.org Day 2 - TT2009@worldbank.org Day 3 - ssanchez@cleanairinstitute.org best regards Sudhir Sudhir Gota Transport Specialist CAI-Asia Center Unit 3510, 35th Floor, Robinsons-Equitable Tower, ADB Avenue, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Metro Manila, Philippines 1605 Tel: +63-2-395-2843 Fax: +63-2-395-2846 http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia Skype : sudhirgota -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The latest: Canada's black gold oil rush - T Sudhir wrote: > > > Transforming Transportation 2009 > > This year EMBARQ, the World Bank, Clean Air Initiative - Asia, Clean > Air Initiative - Latin America, and the Asian Development Bank will > host Transforming Transportation, a multi-day event featuring > transport and planning experts from around the world. This year's > event focuses on three topics: Bus Rapid Transit, safety and security, > and climate change. > > please find more details @ > http://www.embarq.org/en/transforming-transportation-2009 > > To register for the event- click here http://jotform.com/form/82764514375 > > For more information, contact > > Day 1 - TT2009@worldbank.org > Day 2 - TT2009@worldbank.org > Day 3 - ssanchez@cleanairinstitute.org > > > > best regards > Sudhir > > > > Sudhir Gota > Transport Specialist > CAI-Asia Center > Unit 3510, 35th Floor, Robinsons-Equitable Tower, > ADB Avenue, Ortigas Center, Pasig City > Metro Manila, Philippines 1605 > Tel: +63-2-395-2843 > Fax: +63-2-395-2846 > http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia > Skype : sudhirgota > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > -------------------------------------------------------- > IMPORTANT NOTE to everyone who gets sustran-discuss messages via YAHOOGROUPS. > > Please go to http://list.jca.apc.org/manage/listinfo/sustran-discuss to join the real sustran-discuss and get full membership rights. 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URL: http://list.jca.apc.org/public/sustran-discuss/attachments/20081210/09b0c884/attachment.html From sutp at sutp.org Thu Dec 11 05:00:31 2008 From: sutp at sutp.org (Sustainable Urban Transport Project- SUTP) Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:00:31 +0000 Subject: [sustran] SUTP update - September to November 2008 Message-ID: <49401FDF.6040302@sutp.org> /*Sustainable Urban Transport Project (GTZ SUTP) Update*/* * September - November*, 2008* This newsletter gives updates on the SUTP resources, news and events related to our topic of interest. For more information or feedback, please contact sutp@sutp.org , or visit our website at www.sutp.org (China users go to www.sutp.cn ). /******Project related News******/ /(For greater detail of the news below, please click the link below each item)/ GTZ Workshop in Cochin, India 26 November 2008 GTZ-Advisory Services in Environmental Management (ASEM), an environmental program with the Indian government, along with Cities Development Initiative for Asia (CDIA), conducted a workshop titled "Support of GTZ to JNNURM - Focus Urban Transport". The event was conducted on the 24-25th November 2008 in Cochin, Kerala at the Taj Ernakulam. Former Bogot? mayor Mr. Enrique Penalosa addressed the workshop as the chief guest. Dr. Axel Friedrich, Advisor for GTZ, also participated in the workshop and conducted a presentation entitled "Sustainable Transport, Public Transport Institutions and Integration". Link: *http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1335&Itemid=1&lang=uk* GTZ at BAQ2008 14 November 2008 The Better Air Quality 2008 Workshop was held in Bangkok, Thailand during 12-14th November, 2008. As pre-events to this workshop GTZ SUTP conducted two training courses and one pre-event. The training courses were on ?Mass Transit and Bus Rapid Transit Planning? and ?Travel Demand Management? respectively, while the pre-event was on ?Climate and Transport?. Reports on these courses are available upon request. Link: *http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1331&Itemid=1&lang=uk* Overview on Transport Policy and Planning Documents 14 November 2008 GTZ compiled on overview on transport policy and planning documents. The compilation aims at assisting practitioners and decisions-makers in benchmarking and developing sustainable policies in the transport sector. Link: http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1345&Itemid=1&lang=uk GTZ SUTP at CODATU XIII, Vietnam 12 November 2008 Mr. Manfred Breithaupt, GTZ Senior Transport Advisor and Project Director of SUTP, presented at CODATU XIII conference held in Ho Chi Minh City on the 12th November, 2008. His presentation was entitled ?Capacity building and awareness raising on sustainable urban transport in Asia? and is available for download here (registered users). Link: *http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1330&Itemid=1&lang=uk* Kyoto Declaration Signing by Asian Mayors 12 November 2008 The United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD), Ministry of the Environment- Government of Japan, and the Clean Air Initiative for Asian Cities (CAI-Asia), jointly organized the Special Event for the Signing of the Kyoto Declaration by Asian Mayors for the Promotion of EST in Cities,? during the Better Air Quality (BAQ) 2008 Workshop, 12 November 2008. In the Special Event, twelve more Asian cities - Bangkok (Thailand), Baguio (Philippines), Cebu (Philippines), Colombo (Sri Lanka), Batam (Indonesia), Guwahati (India), Karachi (Pakistan), Kathmandu (Nepal), Makassar (Indonesia), Makati (Philippines), Palembang (Indonesia), and Surat (India), signed the Kyoto Declaration. Link: *http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1334&Itemid=1&lang=uk* GTZ-Discussion paper: EXPLOIT FALLING MARKETS ? a contribution to the debate on fuel pricing mechanisms The current phase of sharply declining crude oil and petroleum product prices offers an opportunity for a critical investigation of the absolute level of pump prices for fuel and the nature and manner of adjustment of the price level. This includes the opportunity to move from ad hoc pricing towards formula-based automatic pricing at relatively low political cost. The same applies to the elimination of direct and indirect subsidies which should continue in parallel, and to the imposition of (possibly earmarked) tax on fuel. The discussion paper provides an overview of forms of fuel pricing in the transport sector. Link: http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1341&Itemid=69&lang=uk GTZ at the GTS08 Symposium 10 November 2008 Mr. Manfred Breithaupt, GTZ Senior Transport Advisor, participated and presented at the German Thai Symposium (GTS) 08 held in Bangkok on 10th November 2008. The presentation was titled "Capacity Building and Awareness Raising on Sustainable Urban Transport in Asia" and can be downloaded here. Mr. Torsten Fritsche, GTZ- Thailand, also presented at the event with a presentation titled "Clean Development Mechanism in India ? Preparing a country for a complex global market" Link: *http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1333&Itemid=1&lang=uk* SUTP brochures in Bahasa Indonesia and Thai online 04 November 2008 SUTP users can now download the project brochures in Bahasa Indonesia and Thai. Further, users can also download the International Fuel Prices 2007 and Tackling Climate Change in the Transport Sector brochures in English. Links to download are available here. Link: *http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1326&Itemid=1&lang=uk* GTZ-SUTP training course in Jakarta 23 October 2008 GTZ-SUTP conducted a training course at the Ministry of Transportation, Jakarta, Indonesia on 23rd October 2008. Course participants were invited from various Indonesian cities. The participants were chiefly people working in the city governments responsible for initiating and implementing urban transport projects and policies. Link: *http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1323&Itemid=1&lang=uk* GTZ and Metropolis International Institute - MoU signed 21 October 2008 GTZ signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Metropolis International Institute on 22nd October 2008 in Sydney on the event of the 9th World Congress of Metropolis . The principal objective of the MoU was to collaborate on building and strengthening capacities for local authorities in the field of sustainable mobility. Both organisations will address the objective through assistance to cities in developing and emerging countries by activities such as training, technical assistance and dissemination of international experiences and targeted work. Link: http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1332&Itemid=1&lang=uk GTZ-SUTP training at Metropolis, 2008 Sydney 20 October 2008 GTZ-SUTP in cooperation with Interface for Cycling Enterprise (I-CE) and Technical University Berlin (TU Berlin) offered a 2 day training course titled "Non-Motorised transport in metropolises - the undervalued urban mobility" from 20-21.10.2008, being part of Metropolis 2008. This training course was focussed towards planners, engineers and experts related to urban planning. The course was opened by the Lord Mayor of Sydney Ms. Clover Moore. Link: *http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1299&Itemid=1&lang=uk* Memorandum of Cooperation between GTZ-SUTP and CEPT 26 September 2008 GTZ-Sustainable Urban Transport Project (SUTP) and the Center for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT, Ahmedabad) have signed a memorandum of cooperation at Visakhapatnam on the 26th September, 2008. Under this agreement, both organisations will strengthen cooperation in the area of urban transport development in the South-Asian region. It is also envisaged under this agreement that new programs/training courses and/or material development will be undertaken. Link: *http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1307&Itemid=1&lang=uk* GTZ-SUTP participates at BRTS conference in Visakhapatnam, India 26 September 2008 Mr. Manfred Breithaupt, Senior Transport Advisor and Project Director of the Sustainable Urban Transport Project (SUTP), and Mr. Santhosh Kodukula, Urban Transport Expert of the SUTP participated in a Seminar cum Workshop on Bus Rapid Transit held between 24th to 26th September 2008 at Visakhapatnam, India. The conference was organised by the Indo-German Institute of Advanced Technology and the Gayatri Vidya Parishad Engineering College. It was mainly sponsored by the German Technical Cooperation Agency (GTZ), the Federal Transport Administration (FTA) of the United States of America, the Greater Visakhapatanam Municipal Corporation (GVMC), as well as other sponsors. More than 150 participants attended the event. Link: *http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1306&Itemid=1&lang=uk* GTZ SUTP participates at energy efficiency conference in Sao Paulo 19 September 2008 Carlosfelipe Pardo, project coordinator of GTZ SUTP, delivered a presentation on "Revitalization of public transport in Latin America - some lessons learnt" during the Energy Efficiency and Competitiveness Conference, organized jointly by IDB and GTZ Brazil. Link: *http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1297&Itemid=1&lang=uk* GTZ SUTP hosts a meeting on Ecomobility for Brazil 16 September 2008 GTZ SUTP held a meeting with Brazilian stakeholders from government, NGOs, academia and international organizations to discuss the potential, activities and timeline for an initiative on Ecomobility for Brazil, in partnership with ICLEI Ecomobility Alliance, GTZ Brazil, Secretaria de Verde y Meio Ambiente Sao Paulo, Interface for Cycling Expertise, Institute for Transportation and Development Policy, Clinton Climate Initiative, Pedala Brasil, and other key actors of the topic in Brazil. Link: *http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1298&Itemid=1&lang=uk* Quarterly Newsletter of JIKO 09 September 2008 The quarterly newsletter of the Joint Implementation and Clean Development Mechanism project (JIKO) development 2007-2009) from the Wuppertal Institute is available for download. The project aims at supporting the development of the national organisational structure and procedures that will be necessary for processing future CDM and JI projects. For this reason, the project works close together with JIKO in the German Federal Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety. Link: *http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1293&Itemid=1&lang=uk* Presentation in Cartagena 04 September 2008 Carlos Felipe Pardo from GTZ SUTP gave a presentation on Sustainable Financing for Public Transport, as part of the CONALTUR National Congress in Cartagena on August 29, 2008. The event was held with participation from various international organizations as well as the Colombian President, its Minister of Transport and the Secretary of Mobility of Bogot?. Link: *http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1289&Itemid=1&lang=uk* GTZ at Plock 2008 02 September 2008 Armin Wagner (Transport Policy Advisor GTZ) participated in a joint UNITAR/GTZ workshop on Sustainable Urban Transportation: Transit Options" in Plock / Poland. In his presentation he gave an overview on recent international trends and developments in respect to bus planning. The workshop was attended by participants from local transport authorities from various cities in Central- and Eastern Europe. Link: *http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1294&Itemid=1&lang=uk* /****Upcoming Events about Sustainable Urban Transport*****// //*segregated chronologically/ /Date : 15-12-2008/ /Venue : Beijing, China/ /Title : International workshop on integrated transport and sustainable urban development/ /Link : http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_eventlist&Itemid=56&func=details&did=283&lang=uk/ /Date : 18-12-2008/ /Venue : Bucharest, Romania/ /Title : Spicycles Bucharest Conference/ /Link : http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_eventlist&Itemid=56&func=details&did=285&lang=uk/ /Date : 05-01-2009/ /Venue : Mauritius/ /Title : Sustainability Conference 2009/ /Link : http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_eventlist&Itemid=56&func=details&did=291&lang=uk/ /Date : 14-01-2009/ /Venue : Washington DC, USA/ /Title : Transforming Transportation 2009/ /Link : http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_eventlist&Itemid=56&func=details&did=286&lang=uk/ /Date : 20-01-2009/ /Venue : Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates/ /Title : Global City/ /Link : http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_eventlist&Itemid=56&func=details&did=255&lang=uk/ /Date : 21-01-2009/ /Venue : Amsterdam, Netherlands/ /Title : The Permanent Oil Crisis / /Link : http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_eventlist&Itemid=56&func=details&did=289&lang=uk/ /Date : 22-01-2009/ /Venue : New Mexico, USA/ /Title : 8^th Annual New Partners for Smart Growth/ /Link : http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_eventlist&Itemid=56&func=details&did=292&lang=uk/ /Date : 26-01-2009/ /Venue : Zurich, Switzerland/ /Title : AGS Annual Meeting 2009: //Urban Futures: the Challenge of Sustainability/ /Link : http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_eventlist&Itemid=56&func=details&did=293&lang=uk/ /Date : 26-01-2009/ /Venue : Brussels, Belgium/ /Title : CAST Final Conference: Final results presentation/ /Link : http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_eventlist&Itemid=56&func=details&did=294&lang=uk/ /Date : 28-01-2009/ /Venue : Dhaka, Bangladesh/ /Title : Climate Change and Urban Poverty/ /Link : http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_eventlist&Itemid=56&func=details&did=298&lang=uk/ /Date : 29-01-2009/ /Venue : Mumbai, India/ /Title : 6^th //International Conference on Good Urban Governance for Inclusive and Sustainable Cities/ /Link : http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_eventlist&Itemid=56&func=details&did=297&lang=uk/ /Date : 29-01-2009/ /Venue : Mumbai, India/ /Title : International Conference on Humane Habitat (ICHH) 2009/ /Link : http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_eventlist&Itemid=56&func=details&did=296&lang=uk/ *More events can be viewed from the link below * http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_eventlist&Itemid=56&lang=uk /IMPORTANT NOTE/ /If you haven?t registered to our site or were only registered to the previous website, we would be pleased if you can validate your email and account info just by going to /http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=registers&lang=en / and registering on-line. Alternatively, you can send us the following details to /sutp@sutp.org / and we?ll send you details of your login information:/ /Name: / /Organisation:/ /Position: / /Email address:/ /SUTP username (we suggest using namelastname):/ /Postal Address: / /City:/ /Country:/ / /*Thank you very much for your consideration. SUTP TEAM* From sudhir at cai-asia.org Thu Dec 11 11:37:01 2008 From: sudhir at cai-asia.org (Sudhir) Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 10:37:01 +0800 Subject: [sustran] Excellent article on City of Flyovers- Delhi Message-ID: Dear All, Excellent article - worth reading and sharing . Please share this * http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20081209&fname=debarshi&sid=1&pn=1 * *City Of Flyovers* When I first heard this epithet to describe Delhi's growth aspirations, I laughed it off. But six years on, as I see that vision turning into reality I have frightfully realised how revealing that is of our model of development and how harmful it has been for a vast majority of us.... By Debarshi Dasgupta The first time ? as an undergraduate student in 2002 ? when I heard the epithet "city of flyovers" being used by government officials to describe Delhi's growth aspirations, I laughed it off. I credited the uninspiring and dull description of my city to our bureaucrats and their political bosses. But six years on as I see that vision turning into reality ? Delhi since then either has or is building close to 80 flyovers ? I have frightfully realised how revealing that epithet is of our model of development and how harmful it has been for a vast majority of us. It tells us the story of an India that skirts problems rather than find sustainable solutions for them in pursuit of rapid development. Of how the country has opted for quick-fix solutions that benefit a few in the short-run but end up being problems for most in the long-run. This has led to a model of urban planning that has largely pre-empted the majority of the city's population from developing any stakes in Delhi's well-being. This is equally true of any other Indian city. To go back to Delhi's flyovers, the government has delightedly realised that they are the best way to get rid of the urban chaos that has arisen out of absence of any planning and abundance of greed. Befittingly, public transport in Delhi has always got the short end of the stick. Bus routes were contracted out in return for a certain commission to influential individuals rather than being run by one consortium. This has led to the killer phenomenon we only know so well ? Bluelines, competing buses that run over people as they race on Delhi's congested roads to rake in more passengers. Am I to believe that a government that seeks to build and operate new-age nuclear reactors cannot operate an efficient and safe fleet of buses? Try telling that to the families of hundreds killed by Bluelines. The government may have now gone ahead with the gradual introduction of low-floor buses but it is too late. Cars and two wheelers have already taken over our roads. Jams are inevitable given the vehicular growth and irrespective of the number of flyovers built. A Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) survey found that while private vehicles account for 67.6% of the vehicles in India and occupy 67.1% of the road width, they carry only 37% of the commuters. Buses, on the other hand, make up 24.4% of the vehicles and occupy 38% of the roads. They, however, carry 61% of the commuters. Likewise, blueprints of rotary mode separators, with traffic separation at distinct vertical axes and designed around the comfort of pedestrians, have not been looked at as an alternative to flyovers by the Delhi government..... contd -- Sudhir Gota Transport Specialist CAI-Asia Center Unit 3510, 35th Floor, Robinsons-Equitable Tower, ADB Avenue, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Metro Manila, Philippines 1605 Tel: +63-2-395-2843 Fax: +63-2-395-2846 http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia Skype : sudhirgota -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jca.apc.org/public/sustran-discuss/attachments/20081211/1c914d65/attachment.html From eric.britton at newmobility.org Fri Dec 12 03:17:32 2008 From: eric.britton at newmobility.org (Eric Britton) Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:17:32 +0100 Subject: [sustran] New Mobility Media 2008 + Knoogle + The year ahead Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, ? The purpose of this holiday mailing is to share with you a small handful ?things that I very much hope you will find interesting and possibly even useful. ?Quickly now: ? 1.? New Mobility Media 2008: Over the last several years we have been increasingly engaged in working with expanding group of international partners to create engaging new media in order to advance the sustainable transportation agenda worldwide.? The attached PDF file presents some of the latest films, videos and clips in this collaborative series, together with one-click links which allow you to go directly to each. ?(If you would prefer to pick up the full PowerPoint version, you will find that at www.media-presentation.newmobility.org ) ? 2.? New mobility knowledge environment:With all of the conferences and discussions that are going on these days, one of the things that strikes us most is that, although there are many programs and organizations concerned with the issues of sustainable transportation in the broader climate, resource and economic environments within which they are placed, (a) we are still in most dramatically losing this war on virtually all fronts and (b) the level of creative synergy between all of these programs is impaired by the fact that they are, as the expression goes, overly "siloed".? This is not to argue for centralization or "rationalization" with the thought of removing redundancies, since in fact what may appear to be redundancies are in fact a signal of the richness of the work that is going on to remedy the problems we are addressing.? Redundancy is in any event a necessary condition of robustness. ?And we very much need robust solutions and processes.? With this challenge in mind we set out early last summer under the framework of an informal brainstorming effort which we called the "New Mobility Knowledge Environment" to see if we could get some kind of useful handle on the problem of excessive fragmentation of effort and insufficient interaction, exchange and co-learning. ? 3.? Knoogle New Mobility 1.1. :The only specific advance that we have made thus far has been in a collaborative project undertaken with the help of a small team at theCenter for Advancing Research and Solutions for Society of University of Michigan, which is aimed at creating a handy tool which will allow researchers, policymakers and others concerned to reach across some of the thick walls that separate many of these programs and projects.? The tool is called Knoogle New Mobility 1.1.? It is still in beta form but a number of us are finding it useful for following developments in the field.? I would like to invite you to have a look and should you find it useful to put it to work for your own purposes.? The URL is www.Knoogle.net. ? 4.? The year ahead: there is no doubt in my mind, and I am sure yours, that 2009 is going to be a very important year for new thinking around the world, and certainly I very much hope in the United States. ?I would almost say that this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.? So this is the time to make sure that everything we have done over these last years to create both a vision and the tools needed to move toward a more sustainable future for the planet, the people who live on it, for cities, and for our transportation systems, takes a strong, I would hope a leading role in debate and in the actions to follow. ? As a contribution from here, in early January we shall be sending you the 2009 State of the Commons Message, which as in last year's is largely devoted to outlining progress and intended future work in collaboration for the year ahead. I very much hope you will keep us informed of your projects and programs for the new year, and if you have any thoughts about possible collaboration or exchange, I want you to know that these will be warmly received here. ? It is time to act. ? Eric Britton ? ?????????????????The New Mobility Agenda? ? ??????????????? Technology transforms time and space ??????????????????????????????????? ???????? . . . and our minds ? ? New Mobility Partnerships? ? http://www.newmobility.org ??? ? Europe:?? 8/10 rue Joseph Bara,???? 75006 Paris,? France??? ????? ??T:? +331 4326 1323??or? +339 7044 4179?? Skype: ericbritton ??? ? USA:????? 9440 Readcrest Drive?? Los Angeles, CA? 90210???? ? ???? ???T:? +1 310 601-8468??? 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(Agassi is Israeli). From peter at googlemapsbikethere.org Fri Dec 12 13:45:10 2008 From: peter at googlemapsbikethere.org (Peter Smith) Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:45:10 -0800 Subject: [sustran] Re: Better Place sustainable transportation and business model In-Reply-To: <706937.31700.qm@web56004.mail.re3.yahoo.com> References: <706937.31700.qm@web56004.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Message-ID: I have a view! :) i don't like it. http://bikeblogs.org/sf/2008/12/02/just-so-were-not-confused/ saving cars is bad, and i'm also thinking of the Jevons Paradox, named after William Stanley Jevons: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox less energy on the micro-scale, but much more energy on the macro scale. boo. On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Ramon Fernan wrote: > > Don't know if this topic has been discussed here but what do people think > of Shai Agassi's Better Place business model for promoting electric cars? > More junk on the road? Not even worth considering? Better Place has a > website: www.betterplace.com and Agassi has a blog to promote his ideas: > http://shaiagassi.typepad.com/. Thomas Friedman of the NYT ( > http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/opinion/27friedman.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin) > has lately been promoting his plan to rid the world of dependence on (Arab) > oil. (Agassi is Israeli). > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------- > IMPORTANT NOTE to everyone who gets sustran-discuss messages via > YAHOOGROUPS. > > Please go to http://list.jca.apc.org/manage/listinfo/sustran-discuss to > join the real sustran-discuss and get full membership rights. The > yahoogroups version is only a mirror and 'members' there cannot post to the > real sustran-discuss (even if the yahoogroups site makes it seem like you > can). Apologies for the confusing arrangement. > > ================================================================ > SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of people-centred, > equitable and sustainable transport with a focus on developing countries > (the 'Global South'). > > -- .peter -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jca.apc.org/public/sustran-discuss/attachments/20081211/1855a869/attachment.html From eric.britton at ecoplan.org Fri Dec 12 17:11:13 2008 From: eric.britton at ecoplan.org (Eric Britton) Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 09:11:13 +0100 Subject: [sustran] RTC Seeks Active Transportation Projects- Funding and Training Opportunities! Message-ID: <000401c95c31$418a10d0$c49e3270$@britton@ecoplan.org> Quick <> Timeline Funding Training <> Opportunities RTC Seeks Active Transportation Projects Submissions Due Monday, 12/15/08 - 12:00pm ET In Alta's October eNewsletter we told you about RTC's Campaign for Active Transportation. Here's an update from RTC and a new goal for project submissions: Thank you for the strong response to our October call for ready-to-go bicycle or pedestrian projects for possible inclusion in the federal economic recovery package. With our national partners, we collected hundreds of projects that total $1.2 billion. Parameters have since expanded, and we are again seeking active transportation project submissions . The recovery package will likely be $700 billion or more, aiming to create and maintain 2.5 million jobs over the next two years. This framing is significantly different than previous estimates of $300 billion over a few months-hence our renewed call for projects. Please submit projects to Rails-to-Trails Conservancy (RTC) by visiting our online submission page : http://support.railstotrails.org/submissions Guidelines: 1. Projects should be at least $100,000; 2. RTC must receive submissions by Dec. 15 at noon, eastern time; 3. There is no need to resubmit projects already proposed; and 4. Projects should be able to be completed between four months and two years. Political Background: Congress is considering multiple scenarios for how to distribute the infrastructure funds in this economic recovery package (expected to pass in late January). The House approach simply passes all the money to state Departments of Transportation (DOTs). This course of action will not yield optimal results for active transportation. We face the threat of being left out by funding priorities that follow the mistakes of the past half-century. Your submissions help us make the case with congressional leaders that active transportation projects are in high demand and deserve to be a priority. Thank you. Rails-to-Trails Conservancy P.S. You can help in another way. RTC is currently running an online petition encouraging Congress to specifically fund active transportation projects in the recovery package. We have one week left to hit our target of 10,000 signatures, and we are very close! Please use all applicable lists or newsletters to encourage others to sign the petition-after doing so yourself! You can find the petition online at: http://support.railstotrails.org/recovery _____ SmartTrips Webinar Please join us on December 17th for Jessica Roberts' virtual presentation "Bring SmartTrips Home," hosted by the Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals (APBP). SmartTrips is a great program model that can reduce drive-alone trips by 10% at a cost of about $20 per household. SmartTrips programs use individualized marketing to change trip behavior by offering information and support for shifting some car trips to walking, bicycling and transit trips. Webinar participants will learn about evaluating their communities, resources to find out if SmartTrips is the right approach, which materials, maps and incentives are most effective and why, how to find the right tone and message, evaluation instruments, and how to modify Portland's program for other locales. Webinar presenters are Linda Ginenthal, who oversees Portland's SmartTrips program from her post as manager of the Transportation Options Division at Portland DOT, and Jessica Roberts, Alta Planning + Design, who is working to implement SmartTrips for NTPP communities. More information: APBP webinar "Bring SmartTrips Home" Wednesday, December 17, 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. ET Register for webinars at http://www.bikewalk.org/webinar.php . Cost is $50 per site for APBP members; $60 per site for non-APBP members. You can arrange payment with Deb Goeks at the APBP office at (262) 228-7025, or e-mail her at deb@apbp.org. _____ Cycle Zones Webinar On January 21st Mia Birk will join Portland Bicycle Coordinator Roger Geller for "Cycle Zone Analysis (CZA), A New Bicycle Transportation Planning Tool," discussing how this tool helps Portland planners more accurately assess and improve cycling conditions. The Cycle Zones Analysis webinar looks at a tool used by planners in Portland (Ore.) as they moved away from that city's eight traditional planning areas - defined largely by political boundaries - and instead divided the city into 32 "cycle zones" which describe distinct micro-environments for bicycling. Participants will learn how to define cycle zones, develop a bikeway rating index, and use the resulting analysis to improve cycling conditions. Geller and Birk will discuss adapting the Cycle Zone Analysis tool to other locales, and what would be required to implement this planning tool in your community. More information: APBP webinar "Cycle Zone Analysis (CZA), A New Bicycle Transportation Planning Tool" Wednesday, January 21, 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. ET Register for webinars at http://www.bikewalk.org/webinar.php . Cost is $50 per site for APBP members; $60 per site for non-APBP members. You can arrange payment with Deb Goeks at the APBP office at (262) 228-7025, or e-mail her at deb@apbp.org. About Alta Founded in 1996 and specializing in transportation, recreation, and innovation including bicycle, pedestrian and trail projects, Alta Planning + Design is now the leading firm of its kind in the United States. Our staff includes over 40 planners, engineers, and landscape architects in five states providing a wide array of services. 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Thomas Friedman of the NYT (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/opinion/27friedman.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin ) has lately been promoting his plan to rid the world of dependence on (Arab) oil. (Agassi is Israeli). *** In response, Peter Smith wrote: I have a view! :) i don't like it. http://bikeblogs.org/sf/2008/12/02/just-so-were-not-confused/ saving cars is bad, and i'm also thinking of the Jevons Paradox, named after William Stanley Jevons: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox less energy on the micro-scale, but much more energy on the macro scale. boo. *** To which I add, Hi all, Peter is right, and the one extra thought I had is that - to paraphrase someone whose name is presently elusive - if you keep on repeating the word "sustainable" over and over people will start believing it. George Orwell would be impressed or depressed, depending on how you look at things. The future these folks propose will seem to have just as much congestion, obesity and social isolation in places which are automobile-centred now and of course more in the rest of the world which is still not automobilised. Deaths of vulnerable road users per capita might go down in automobilised countries (because the cars are lighter than current ones) but will go up everywhere else. They talk about renewable energy grids but it will be years before these exist en masse, and as we know current plug-in hybrids take advantage of a network not designed for vehicle use (in regards to taxation), and which in many places is powered by coal. If I may be so bold: "Dear Better Place, We are sorry to report that your project in its current form will not be permitted to carry the New Mobility* label. However, if you propose urban vehicles only for use for carshare, paying a individual motorised transport tax on distance travelled, and with active and passive safety features to protect vulnerable road users as well as speed limiters, in addition to further measures which will define this solution as a minority-partner in a sustainable mobility plan focused strategically on reducing the need for mobility, and tactically on construction of dense housing, de-centralised services, shopping and entertainment plus walking, cycling and mass public transport vehicles, we may reconsider your proposal. Kind regards, People of Earth" * This label does not exist; I am just trying to make a point and would not be the one to authorise its use. For more info please see www.newmobility.org - T p.s. I am half-Israeli -- -------------------------------------------- Todd Edelman Green Idea Factory Urbanstr. 45 D-10967 Berlin Germany Skype: toddedelman Mobile: ++49 0162 814 4081 Home/Office: ++49 030 7554 0001 edelman@greenidea.eu www.greenidea.eu www.flickr.com/photos/edelman Green Idea Factory is a member of World Carfree Network www.worldcarfree.net CAR is over. If you want it. "Fort mit der Autostadt und was Neues hingebaut!" - B. Brecht (with slight modification) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jca.apc.org/public/sustran-discuss/attachments/20081212/f5c09752/attachment.html From eric.britton at ecoplan.org Sat Dec 13 00:08:07 2008 From: eric.britton at ecoplan.org (Eric Britton) Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:08:07 +0100 Subject: [sustran] USA - "How Should the (Transportation) Infrastructure Stimulus Be Spent?" Message-ID: <05c201c95c6b$76af3620$640da260$@britton@ecoplan.org> Michael Replogle, Transportation Director Environmental Defense Fund, draws our attention to an article and "insider discussion" on the topic of "How Should the (Transportation) Infrastructure Stimulus Be Spent?". You can see the discussions thus far, including his submittal to it, if you click to http://transportation.nationaljournal.com/2008/12/how-should-infrastructure- stimulus-be-spent.php I invite you to have a look and if you have any thoughts on the overall thrust of the articles and comments, it would be good to hear from you here on the New Mobility Caf?. You may wish to try as well to see if you can post them to their program site. (I could not see quite how that works.) A quick comment if I may: Clearly when you have the title "infrastructure" right in the middle it more or less automatically channels people's thoughts to I infrastructure, and with the exception of Michael?s submittal and possibly one or two others, just about every one of those insiders is focusing on what we might call the product end as opposed to the service end of our mobility systems. Something like supply-siders if you will. Thus you have lots of talk about the importance of roads, highways, bridges, and various permutations of transportation hardware, along with the occasional call for support to "transit agencies". I for one would like to see this debate -- but more important the much broader debate which is taking place in the run-up to the new administration in the United States -- expand to take a new mobility perspective as we understand it here. To make this point let me close this out with a quick report on a word count exercise that I ran over the content of this article and various contributors. Just below I have taken some of the terms that cropped up most frequently in their home page. Not surprisingly the word infrastructure is right up there at the top of the list. And then . . . ? Infrastructure (46) ? Investment (29) ? Road (19) ? Highway (18) ? Billion (18) ? Transit (15) ? Energy (12) ? Bridges (5) ? Clean (5) Then I have run a quick frequency count for the kinds of things that we talk about most in these new mobility conversations. Here is how this end of the list looked: ? Alternatives (1) ? Biking (1 ? Bus (1) ? Railways (1) ? Sidewalk (1) ? Carshare ? Child, children ? Elderly ? Handicap ? Man ? Needy ? Neighborhood ? Pedestrian ? People ? Public space ? Tram ? Walk ? Women Now, does that mean anything? Perhaps I am being unfair and beside the point. I count on you to put me straight. Once again, comments and suggestions on this are welcome. Eric Britton PS. The above exercise is not quite complete, though I certainly feel that the thrust of the arguments holds overall. Because of the page layout those frequency scans were run only on the opening half of the articles in all cases. One exception is Michael Replogle?s full piece, in which he looks specifically at the question ?Will reckless stimulus investment threaten to undo the cap?? In his piece you will see references to sidewalks, bike lanes, light rail, local street and transit improvements, and emphasis on supporting local government in its key role. So all is not lost but it certainly points up the extent to which this debate is, may I say, being pretty heavily dominated by the old thinking. Hmm. Best we find a way to edge in here? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jca.apc.org/public/sustran-discuss/attachments/20081212/b388d2d5/attachment.html From carlosfpardo at gmail.com Sat Dec 13 06:14:50 2008 From: carlosfpardo at gmail.com (Carlosfelipe Pardo) Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:14:50 +0000 Subject: [sustran] Re: Better Place sustainable transportation and business model In-Reply-To: <49426C8A.7010102@greenidea.eu> References: <706937.31700.qm@web56004.mail.re3.yahoo.com> <49426C8A.7010102@greenidea.eu> Message-ID: <4942D44A.6090008@gmail.com> Maybe the "letter" from the People of the Earth could state that we (who would we be?) are open to cooperate, rather than say that they should do all the work of the overall sustainable mobility plan... but that they should help finance it (at least partially! hehe). Carlos. Todd Edelman, Green Idea Factory wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Ramon Fernan > wrote: > > > Don't know if this topic has been discussed here but what do people think of Shai Agassi's Better Place business model for promoting electric cars? More junk on the road? Not even worth considering? > > Better Place has a website: www.betterplace.com and Agassi has a blog to promote his ideas: http://shaiagassi.typepad.com/. Thomas Friedman of the NYT (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/opinion/27friedman.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin ) has lately been promoting his plan to rid the world of dependence on (Arab) oil. (Agassi is Israeli). > > *** > > In response, Peter Smith wrote: > > I have a view! :) i don't like it. > > http://bikeblogs.org/sf/2008/12/02/just-so-were-not-confused/ > > saving cars is bad, and i'm also thinking of the Jevons Paradox, named after William Stanley Jevons: > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox > > less energy on the micro-scale, but much more energy on the macro scale. boo. > > *** > > To which I add, > > Hi all, > > Peter is right, and the one extra thought I had is that - to > paraphrase someone whose name is presently elusive - if you keep on > repeating the word "sustainable" over and over people will start > believing it. George Orwell would be impressed or depressed, depending > on how you look at things. > > The future these folks propose will seem to have just as much > congestion, obesity and social isolation in places which are > automobile-centred now and of course more in the rest of the world > which is still not automobilised. Deaths of vulnerable road users per > capita might go down in automobilised countries (because the cars are > lighter than current ones) but will go up everywhere else. > > They talk about renewable energy grids but it will be years before > these exist en masse, and as we know current plug-in hybrids take > advantage of a network not designed for vehicle use (in regards to > taxation), and which in many places is powered by coal. > > If I may be so bold: > > "Dear Better Place, > > We are sorry to report that your project in its current form will not > be permitted to carry the New Mobility* label. > > However, if you propose urban vehicles only for use for carshare, > paying a individual motorised transport tax on distance travelled, and > with active and passive safety features to protect vulnerable road > users as well as speed limiters, in addition to further measures which > will define this solution as a minority-partner in a sustainable > mobility plan focused strategically on reducing the need for mobility, > and tactically on construction of dense housing, de-centralised > services, shopping and entertainment plus walking, cycling and mass > public transport vehicles, we may reconsider your proposal. > > Kind regards, > People of Earth" > > * This label does not exist; I am just trying to make a point and > would not be the one to authorise its use. For more info please see > www.newmobility.org > > - T > > p.s. I am half-Israeli > -- > -------------------------------------------- > > Todd Edelman > Green Idea Factory > > Urbanstr. 45 > D-10967 Berlin > Germany > > Skype: toddedelman > Mobile: ++49 0162 814 4081 > Home/Office: ++49 030 7554 0001 > > edelman@greenidea.eu > www.greenidea.eu > www.flickr.com/photos/edelman > > Green Idea Factory is a member of World Carfree Network > www.worldcarfree.net > > CAR is over. If you want it. > > "Fort mit der Autostadt und was Neues hingebaut!" > - B. Brecht (with slight modification) > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > -------------------------------------------------------- > IMPORTANT NOTE to everyone who gets sustran-discuss messages via YAHOOGROUPS. > > Please go to http://list.jca.apc.org/manage/listinfo/sustran-discuss to join the real sustran-discuss and get full membership rights. The yahoogroups version is only a mirror and 'members' there cannot post to the real sustran-discuss (even if the yahoogroups site makes it seem like you can). Apologies for the confusing arrangement. > > ================================================================ > SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of people-centred, equitable and sustainable transport with a focus on developing countries (the 'Global South'). From edelman at greenidea.eu Sat Dec 13 15:02:13 2008 From: edelman at greenidea.eu (Todd Edelman, Green Idea Factory) Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 07:02:13 +0100 Subject: [sustran] Re: Better Place sustainable transportation and business model In-Reply-To: <4942D44A.6090008@gmail.com> References: <706937.31700.qm@web56004.mail.re3.yahoo.com> <49426C8A.7010102@greenidea.eu> <4942D44A.6090008@gmail.com> Message-ID: <49434FE5.7000700@greenidea.eu> Carlos, Creating a sustainable mobility plan requires cooperation of all actors -- and having them plan or finance it beyond their share in it just gives them the opportunity to greenwash their contribution. But I am not naive and realise that the most important part of my proposal - proposing this solution only for carshare - will not be accepted on their part. Their vision is based on sales to individuals in cities. The private urban car industry is inherently and fundamentally unsustainable. Does anyone disagree? In the medium- to long-term I would argue that only carfree cities, rather than simply carshare cities or carfree neighbourhoods, are sustainable. Any car still takes up too much space and even if tamed in regards to safety and emissions still creates too much road chaos. But key is that a lot of the tasks assigned to carshare cars such as "big shopping" or carrying big things across town, etc can eventually be solved by de-centralisation and localisation and also by automated urban cargo networks. I left the carfree part out of my letter from the "People of Earth" because it seems to go a little beyond the New Mobility agenda and the scope of these lists. - T Until Carlosfelipe Pardo wrote: > Maybe the "letter" from the People of the Earth could state that we (who > would we be?) are open to cooperate, rather than say that they should do > all the work of the overall sustainable mobility plan... but that they > should help finance it (at least partially! hehe). > > Carlos. > > Todd Edelman, Green Idea Factory wrote: > >> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Ramon Fernan > wrote: >> >> >> Don't know if this topic has been discussed here but what do people think of Shai Agassi's Better Place business model for promoting electric cars? More junk on the road? Not even worth considering? >> >> Better Place has a website: www.betterplace.com and Agassi has a blog to promote his ideas: http://shaiagassi.typepad.com/. Thomas Friedman of the NYT (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/opinion/27friedman.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin ) has lately been promoting his plan to rid the world of dependence on (Arab) oil. (Agassi is Israeli). >> >> *** >> >> In response, Peter Smith wrote: >> >> I have a view! :) i don't like it. >> >> http://bikeblogs.org/sf/2008/12/02/just-so-were-not-confused/ >> >> saving cars is bad, and i'm also thinking of the Jevons Paradox, named after William Stanley Jevons: >> >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox >> >> less energy on the micro-scale, but much more energy on the macro scale. boo. >> >> *** >> >> To which I add, >> >> Hi all, >> >> Peter is right, and the one extra thought I had is that - to >> paraphrase someone whose name is presently elusive - if you keep on >> repeating the word "sustainable" over and over people will start >> believing it. George Orwell would be impressed or depressed, depending >> on how you look at things. >> >> The future these folks propose will seem to have just as much >> congestion, obesity and social isolation in places which are >> automobile-centred now and of course more in the rest of the world >> which is still not automobilised. Deaths of vulnerable road users per >> capita might go down in automobilised countries (because the cars are >> lighter than current ones) but will go up everywhere else. >> >> They talk about renewable energy grids but it will be years before >> these exist en masse, and as we know current plug-in hybrids take >> advantage of a network not designed for vehicle use (in regards to >> taxation), and which in many places is powered by coal. >> >> If I may be so bold: >> >> "Dear Better Place, >> >> We are sorry to report that your project in its current form will not >> be permitted to carry the New Mobility* label. >> >> However, if you propose urban vehicles only for use for carshare, >> paying a individual motorised transport tax on distance travelled, and >> with active and passive safety features to protect vulnerable road >> users as well as speed limiters, in addition to further measures which >> will define this solution as a minority-partner in a sustainable >> mobility plan focused strategically on reducing the need for mobility, >> and tactically on construction of dense housing, de-centralised >> services, shopping and entertainment plus walking, cycling and mass >> public transport vehicles, we may reconsider your proposal. >> >> Kind regards, >> People of Earth" >> >> * This label does not exist; I am just trying to make a point and >> would not be the one to authorise its use. For more info please see >> www.newmobility.org >> >> - T >> >> p.s. I am half-Israeli >> -- >> -------------------------------------------- >> >> Todd Edelman >> Green Idea Factory >> >> Urbanstr. 45 >> D-10967 Berlin >> Germany >> >> Skype: toddedelman >> Mobile: ++49 0162 814 4081 >> Home/Office: ++49 030 7554 0001 >> >> edelman@greenidea.eu >> www.greenidea.eu >> www.flickr.com/photos/edelman >> >> Green Idea Factory is a member of World Carfree Network >> www.worldcarfree.net >> >> CAR is over. If you want it. >> >> "Fort mit der Autostadt und was Neues hingebaut!" >> - B. Brecht (with slight modification) >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> -------------------------------------------------------- >> IMPORTANT NOTE to everyone who gets sustran-discuss messages via YAHOOGROUPS. >> >> Please go to http://list.jca.apc.org/manage/listinfo/sustran-discuss to join the real sustran-discuss and get full membership rights. The yahoogroups version is only a mirror and 'members' there cannot post to the real sustran-discuss (even if the yahoogroups site makes it seem like you can). Apologies for the confusing arrangement. >> >> ================================================================ >> SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of people-centred, equitable and sustainable transport with a focus on developing countries (the 'Global South'). >> > -------------------------------------------------------- > IMPORTANT NOTE to everyone who gets sustran-discuss messages via YAHOOGROUPS. > > Please go to http://list.jca.apc.org/manage/listinfo/sustran-discuss to join the real sustran-discuss and get full membership rights. The yahoogroups version is only a mirror and 'members' there cannot post to the real sustran-discuss (even if the yahoogroups site makes it seem like you can). Apologies for the confusing arrangement. > > ================================================================ > SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of people-centred, equitable and sustainable transport with a focus on developing countries (the 'Global South'). > > -- -------------------------------------------- Todd Edelman Green Idea Factory Urbanstr. 45 D-10967 Berlin Germany Skype: toddedelman Mobile: ++49 0162 814 4081 Home/Office: ++49 030 7554 0001 edelman@greenidea.eu www.greenidea.eu www.flickr.com/photos/edelman Green Idea Factory is a member of World Carfree Network www.worldcarfree.net CAR is over. If you want it. "Fort mit der Autostadt und was Neues hingebaut!" - B. Brecht (with slight modification) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jca.apc.org/public/sustran-discuss/attachments/20081213/1fd3e643/attachment.html From eric.britton at ecoplan.org Sat Dec 13 21:23:03 2008 From: eric.britton at ecoplan.org (Eric Britton) Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:23:03 +0100 Subject: [sustran] BIKE-BOGOTA Message-ID: <006401c95d1d$92067020$b6135060$@britton@ecoplan.org> On Behalf Of Carlosfelipe Pardo Spanish original follows untouched Google translation: Below deputy news on the progress of the draft agreement on Bicycle public in Bogota. My only three critical comments to respect: - Wanted to charge an annual fee to users. This is in Europe, but not in Bogota. The value of the annual fee will discourage the Users with low incomes, and even then this is laughable annual fee is half the value of a new bike in Bogota. This is because in Bogota bicycles are produced at very low cost. - Is being justified by comparing the proposed investment in infrastructure for bicycles and their use in terms of travel / users. If the same comparison with the infrastructure for automobiles, conclusion would be that we must put a system CarSharing (orders shared) or that the investment is very high ... - It is promising to implement a 3 months after the signing of the agreement. This is not possible, there is lack of efficiency but planning. If so, the system will have huge problems of implementation. However, at least is getting on the table and promoting an option like this. What we cannot leave is that bad Implementation sink the image of cycling as a means of transportation (even more). Sincerely, Carlos. pd: In addition to the summary below, other news-related information: http://www.elespectador.com/noticias/bogota/articulo97998-se-alquilarian-bicicletas-bogota-50-mil-al-ano Original Message -------- -------- Subject: "FRIENDS OF BICIN-BOGOTA" sent you a message on Facebook ... Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:10:31 -0800 From: Facebook Reply-To: noreply To: Carlos Pardo F Carlos Orlando Ferreira Pinzon sent a message to the members of BICIN-FRIENDS OF BOGOTA. -------------------- Subject: PENALTY TO THE MAYOR: PROPOSED AGREEMENT "BIKE-BOGOTA" The Plenary of the Council of Bogota approved the Draft Agreement authorship of Councilman Carlos Ferreira Orlando, which aims to implement the service transport biking called "BIKE-BOGOTA" to facilitate the exchange modal, as a non-motorized, the Integrated System Public transport in the Capital District, in accordance with the Master Plan for Mobility DC experience that began to deploy with great success in recent years in cities such as Barcelona, Paris, Antwerp, Basel, Berlin, London and Buenos Aires. Cabildante Ferreira's proposal for the case of Bogota, is seeking to be installed bicycle collection stations, where there is greater demand for users (whereabouts of Transmilenio, a future in subway stations, light rail, universities, colleges, malls , Stations neighborhoods, among others), and become part of the 350 miles of bike paths in the city, on the other they reach built and the roads that are empowered for that purpose, constituted in this manner in addition to the system of Public transport in the capital of the Republic. To access this service users must acquire before a prepaid card recharging, could be done through an annual subscription with a fixed fee, which will be deducted from the time of use, an example is that Barcelona has a cost of 24 euros per year. This system will allow them to take rent a bike and go to their intended destination, and then return it at another station or terminal collection. Within the first phase will be made to the bike-Bogota, the urban revolution of two wheels, fits and fit in our capital, taking into account that there is already an infrastructure of bike paths that must be seized as a basis for development since in these is currently underutilized, after which the District Administration from 1998 to date has been investing about $ 124,000 million pesos, so that only 83,436 people use daily, in a city of eight million. The importance of Integrated Bicycles, is ratified with the experiences of different cities such as Buenos Aires reported figures of 30,000 trips by bike on weekdays and 20,000 on holidays, likewise, have traveled 18 million miles (equivalent 45 times to make the journey between the earth and the moon); Barcelona which has an average of 39,500 trips per day (7.8% per cycle) and each bicycle travels about 100,000 miles a year in Paris every day traveling by bike around 400,000 people , A figure that rises on weekends; in Amsterdam 75% of the nearly 750,000 inhabitants has a bicycle and 50% use it daily, also in Stockholm on 10% of urban travel is by bicycle and in some cities Holland, the figure is 50% and in Denmark more than 30% of the population uses it as a means of locomotion daily statistics taken from different observatories that make tracking such systems. This new fashion of the bike includes Bogota as the main purpose that the bicycle is used by citizens of all ages and social classes as a means of transport usual, and daily Mass, while recognizing that it must be an economic, simple, practical, ecological and sustainable over time, where the resident can make short shipments, combined with other mass transit alternatives that will work in the city, creating a security identity, solidarity and rapprochement within the social fabric that is for everything above that for Councilor Carlos Orlando Ferreira this is a useful initiative for the city, which will become a reality for the next 2009. Press Office Tel Councilman Carlos Orlando Ferreira 2 08 82 68 - 69 Marcela Espitia Cel. 310 2 92 00 50 Original text: Abajo adjunto noticias sobre el avance del proyecto de acuerdo sobre bicicletas p?blicas en Bogot?. Mis ?nicos tres comentarios cr?ticos al respecto: - Se busca cobrar una cuota anual a los usuarios. Esto sirve en Europa, pero no en Bogot?. El valor de la cuota anual va a desmotivar a los usuarios de bajos recursos, e incluso es risible pues esta cuota anual es la mitad del valor de una bicicleta nueva en Bogot?. Esto porque en Bogot? se fabrican bicicletas de muy bajo costo. - Se est? justificando el proyecto comparando la inversi?n en infraestructura para bicicletas y su uso en t?rminos de viajes/usuarios. Si la misma comparaci?n con la infraestructura para autom?viles, la conclusi?n ser?a que hay que poner un sistema de carsharing (autos compartidos) o que la inversi?n es muy alta... - Se est? prometiendo una implementaci?n 3 meses despu?s de la firma del acuerdo. Esto no es posible, no es eficiencia sino falta de planificaci?n. Si es as?, el sistema tendr? problemas gigantescos de implementaci?n. No obstante, por lo menos se est? poniendo sobre la mesa y promoviendo una opci?n como esta. Lo que no podemos dejar es que una mala implementaci?n hunda la imagen de la bicicleta como medio de transporte (a?n m?s!). Cordialmente, Carlos. pd: Adem?s del resumen de abajo, otra noticia relacionada con informaci?n al respecto: http://www.elespectador.com/noticias/bogota/articulo97998-se-alquilarian-bicicletas-bogota-50-mil-al-ano -------- Original Message -------- Subject: "AMIGOS DEL BICIN- BOGOT?" sent you a message on Facebook... Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:10:31 -0800 From: Facebook > Reply-To: noreply > To: Carlos F Pardo > Carlos Orlando Ferreira Pinz?n sent a message to the members of AMIGOS DEL BICIN- BOGOT?. -------------------- Subject: A SANCI?N DEL ALCALDE MAYOR: PROYECTO DE ACUERDO ?BICI-BOGOT?? La Plenaria del Concejo de Bogot? aprob? el Proyecto de Acuerdo de autor?a del Concejal Carlos Orlando Ferreira, el cual pretende implementar el servicio de transporte en bicicleta denominado ?BICI-BOGOTA? para facilitar el intercambio modal, como medio no motorizado, al Sistema Integrado de Transporte P?blico del Distrito Capital, de conformidad con el Plan Maestro de Movilidad D.C. experiencia que se comenz? a implementar con gran ?xito en estos ?ltimos a?os en ciudades tan importantes como Barcelona, Paris, Amberes, Basilea, Berlin, Londres y Buenos Aires. La propuesta del Cabildante Ferreira para el caso de Bogot?, es buscar que se instalen estaciones de acopio de bicicletas, donde existe mayor demanda de usuarios (paraderos de transmilenio, a futuro en estaciones de metro, tren de cercan?as, universidades, colegios, centros comerciales, estaciones de barrios, entre otros), y se integren a los 350 kil?metros de ciclorutas existentes en la ciudad, en las dem?s que lleguen a construirse y en las v?as que se habiliten para tal fin, constituy?ndose de esta forma en complemento del sistema de transporte p?blico de la Capital de la Rep?blica. Para acceder a este servicio los usuarios deben adquirir con anterioridad una tarjeta prepago recargable, podr?a hacerse a trav?s de una suscripci?n anual con un cargo fijo, desde la cual se descontar? el tiempo de uso, un ejemplo es Barcelona que tiene un costo de 24 euros por a?o. Este sistema les permitir? tomar en alquiler una bicicleta y dirigirse a su destino previsto, para despu?s devolverla en otra estaci?n o terminal de acopio. Dentro de la primera fase se buscar? que el Bici- Bogot?, esta revoluci?n urbana de dos ruedas, se adapte y adecue en nuestra capital teniendo en cuenta que ya existe una infraestructura vial de cicloruta que deber? ser aprovechada como base del desarrollo ya que en estos momentos se encuentra subutilizada, despu?s que la Administraci?n Distrital desde el a?o 1998 hasta la fecha ha venido invirtiendo cerca de $124.000 millones de pesos, para que tan solo 83.436 personas la utilicen diariamente, en una ciudad de ocho millones de habitantes. La importancia del sistema Integrado de Bicicletas, se ratifica con las experiencias de diferentes ciudades como lo son Buenos Aires que reporta cifras de 30.000 viajes en bici en d?as laborales y 20.000 en feriados, de igual forma, se han recorrido 18 millones de kil?metros (equivalente a realizar 45 veces el trayecto entre la tierra y la luna); Barcelona que tiene una media de 39.500 viajes diarios (7.8% por bicicleta) y cada bicicleta recorre unos 100.000 kil?metros al a?o; en Paris cada d?a se desplazan en bicicleta unas 400.000 personas , cifra que aumenta los fines de semana; en ?msterdam un 75% de los casi 750.000 habitantes posee una bicicleta y un 50% la usa a diario; as? mismo en Estocolmo el 10% de los desplazamientos urbanos se realiza en bicicleta y en algunas ciudades de Holanda la cifra llega al 50% y en Dinamarca m?s del 30% de la poblaci?n la utiliza como medio de locomoci?n diario, estad?sticas tomadas de diferentes observatorios que hacen seguimiento a este tipo de sistemas. Esta nueva moda del Bici-Bogot? contempla como principal fin que la bicicleta sea utilizada por los ciudadanos de todas las edades y clases sociales como un medio de transporte habitual, cotidiano y masivo; sin desconocer que debe ser un servicio econ?mico, sencillo, pr?ctico, ecol?gico y sostenible en el tiempo, donde el residente pueda realizar traslados cortos, combinarlo con las dem?s alternativas de transporte masivo que funcionar?n en la ciudad, generando una identidad de seguridad, solidaridad y acercamiento dentro del tejido social; es por todo lo anterior que para el Concejal Carlos Orlando Ferreira esta es una iniciativa ?til para la ciudad, la cual ser? una realidad para el pr?ximo 2009. Oficina de prensa Concejal Carlos Orlando Ferreira Tel 2 08 82 68 ? 69 Marcela Espitia Cel. 310 2 92 00 50 __._,_.___ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jca.apc.org/public/sustran-discuss/attachments/20081213/f925e7f3/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/octet-stream Size: 823 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://list.jca.apc.org/public/sustran-discuss/attachments/20081213/f925e7f3/attachment.bin From hghazali at gmail.com Sun Dec 14 18:21:44 2008 From: hghazali at gmail.com (Hassaan Ghazali) Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 14:21:44 +0500 Subject: [sustran] Transport professionals in Singapore Message-ID: *Apologies for cross postings Dear Friends, Greetings from Pakistan! I seek your assistance in gathering contacts for professionals working in the transport sector in Singapore, especially in the *Land Transport Authority*, who would be able to meet with a delegation from the Lahore Development Authority--scheduled to visit Singapore from 17th to 18th December. I would really appreciate it if you could directly forward me the required information. Many thanks, Hassaan Ghazali -- Institutional Development Specialist Urban Sector Policy and Management Unit (The Urban Unit) Planning & Development Department, Government of the Punjab A: 4-B Lytton Road, Lahore, Pakistan T: 9213579-84 (Ext.116) F: 9213585 M: 0345 455 6016 Skype: halgazel http://hghazali.googlepages.com *When conditions are right, everything will go wrong* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jca.apc.org/public/sustran-discuss/attachments/20081214/f623675b/attachment.html From murakami at forhuman-asia.com.hk Sun Dec 14 15:47:32 2008 From: murakami at forhuman-asia.com.hk (Murakami) Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 14:47:32 +0800 Subject: [sustran] Re: Motorized Two and Three Wheelers In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20081214064743.788812C53F@mx-list.jca.ne.jp> Dear Sudhir-san, Thank you very much for your following up. As I mentioned to some of participants there, I am working on development of Low cost catalyst. And some of my friend has also an idea of alternative two wheeler and three wheeler. I will communicate to you as soon as it is ready. Best Regards, Y. Murakami ForHuman Asia Co., Ltd. _____ From: Sudhir [mailto:sudhir@cai-asia.org] Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 4:53 PM To: Global 'South' Sustainable Transport Cc: Narayan Iyer; Bert Fabian Subject: Motorized Two and Three Wheelers Dear All, During the recently held Better Air Quality (BAQ) workshop 2008 (http://www.baq2008.org/), there were lot of discussions on the role of motorized two and three wheelers. The aspects considered were their growth, their role and their impact on the quality of life of people. Two and Three wheelers often have been neglected by policymakers and many contradictory actions have been taken across Asia. Please visit links http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/articles-73129_wheelers.pdf & http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/propertyvalue-21710.html and to access the discussion paper & some of the presentations. We would require your inputs on this discussion paper. what do you think about the two and three wheelers? Would they continue to dominate? Are they part of problem or solution? What kind of technological and traffic solutions can help in making them more safer and efficient mode of Transportation? How to prevent the jump of NMT users to two and three wheelers? Would you allow them in bike lanes? How do you solve these problems??? there are lot of questions which needs to be answered and many stakeholders like CAI-Asia,PCFV, ITDP and ICCT are looking in this issue. please help us know your views on this so that proper policies can be framed for two and three wheelers. best regards Sudhir Gota __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 3688 (20081212) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://list.jca.apc.org/public/sustran-discuss/attachments/20081215/780eac9e/attachment.html From roadnotes at freenet.de Mon Dec 15 18:51:03 2008 From: roadnotes at freenet.de (Robert Bartlett) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:51:03 +0100 Subject: [sustran] Motorized Two and Three Wheelers Message-ID: <49462887.5090303@freenet.de> Motorised 2- and 3-wheelers are often significant in other parts of the world too (for example in terms of traffic volume and disturbance). The motocarros of Peru are one example. I worked on a document on these with Gregorio Villacorte Alegria of Peru. You are welcome to download a free version from the webpage : http://www.globaltransportatlas.de/GTA_documents/gta-007/gta-007.html reb From eric.britton at ecoplan.org Mon Dec 15 19:51:26 2008 From: eric.britton at ecoplan.org (Eric Britton) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:51:26 +0100 Subject: [sustran] "eternal vigilance". Message-ID: <00b601c95ea3$16fb54e0$44f1fea0$@britton@ecoplan.org> Dear Friends, This (just below) is an interesting letter which has come in this morning in response to that mailing hear you received last week on New Mobility Media. It is of course encouraging to hear those good words about our collaborative work, but it is that fourth paragraph to which I would particularly draw your attention. When we look around our troubled world in the hope of finding some inspiration for ourselves in the form of cities that are getting it right, there are certain number of examples which many of us look at with appreciation -- and of course the city of Copenhagen is all it has accomplished over the last four decades to create a sustainable city is one of those right up at the top. But this word of caution is not just about Copenhagen. The point I think that Aase makes in such a telling everyday manner here, is similar to insider criticisms that come in over the last months from those who really do care about and understand the complexities of sustainable cities in sustainable transportation, but who also live in a place to which many in the world look on as an example. We have received similar critical commentaries from insiders concerning current backsliding trends and actions in Curitiba, Bilbao, and Portland, just to take three stellar examples out of a hat. What's the point? Well the point is that clearly good ideas are not enough, successful implementations are not enough. It is quite one thing to get a terrific project or program off the ground, and quite another for these successes to be sustained year after year after year. As we can see in city after city, in case after case, after the first rounds of success it can be so easy to backtrack and let slip even the best projects, policies and actions. What is called for in addition to all the great things that take place to make the good project happen -- but this is perhaps something that we are not so good at, yet -- is no less than "eternal vigilance". Citizens, groups, watchdogs, who do not accept complacency as their role, but rather who understand that continuous attention to detail and performance is vital if the city really is to be a sustainable place. If I were to see an analogy, would be very much that of the responsibility of parents. One of the underlying problems with the transportation sector wherever you happen to be this morning is that it has such a long past and during much of that decisions and actions have been focused for the most part on "infrastructure", the physical rather than the human side of the sector. This more or less magic word which is receiving a lot of attention in transportation circles in the United States these days as the various interests fight for what they believe is the correct path for the incoming Obama administration, tends to equate mobility with construction and hardware. Many of the transportation experts are claiming that what we need is more money for highways, roads and bridges, metros and rolling stock, and in expanded deficit support for traditional public transit operations. This plus a "get the job done" attitude is insufficiently attentive to what is actually going on at the people and actual performance end, including in the long-term. This is not, I maintain, the mindset that is appropriate for 21st-century cities given the very large challenges and constraints that surround our transportation and mobility choices. We need to do a lot better than that. Which brings me back to Sujit Patwardhan's famous words to this forum of almost a decade ago now: "we are in this for the long slog". Well if we are in this for the long slog we better be eternally vigilant too. Aase. Thank you Eric Britton - - - - From: Aase Harrekilde-Petersen [mailto:aase@harrekilde.dk] Sent: Monday, 15 December 2008 00:58 Dear Eric! I got around to read the lot yesterday, and I must say - I am very impressed by the huge amount of important work you have done in regard to the New Mobility. In the middle of the reading it, I sort of got completely sidetracked by finding myself getting involved with other videos as well - like World Made by Hand, by James Howard Kunstler and the almost 30 minute long speech by Stephen Petranek: 10 Ways the World Could End. I didn't know of these two guys beforehand, and they both show (in the midst of their serious matter)a peculiar sense of humour that I like! But most of all, I was impressed of all that has been done in Paris! Both the Velib/Velo Liberte idea and the Mobilien, would be of major importance for any city world wide - if only the politicians could get their .. in gear - so to speak, we could all benefit from it. Really many years ago, I read about a politician, a mayor of a medium big city in the Netherlands, who dared both his collages and the public by doing the opposite of what they all expected from him: Instead of giving them the second autobahn they wanted to and from the city, he declared: All busses from the suburbs into the city and vice versa, will be free of charge! As a result, they didn't have the need for an extra motor highway. Everybody thought the mayor to be a bit of a nut, but at the end, they loved him! Sorry I can't remember his name nor which city he came from. We are struggling by massive problems by the car traffic from the suburbs into Copenhagen every single morning - and of course the other way in the after-work-hours-times. Still, they haven't done enough by lowering the ticket price for a train ride or to ride the busses - rather the opposite! Oh yes, Copenhagen was one of the first cities to make "walking streets" which from day one have been extremely popular, but the traffic on our roads, nope sir! I admire the work you and your new mobility partners are doing, but I am not doing much myself. Oh yes, I walk or bike to the supermarket though, and use the car only when going the 100 -125 km from where I live to Copenhagen - or when going north of the city - like maybe 4-5 times per year. I am involved in a holistic non-profit association I was a co-founder of, back in 1995. Best regards, from Aase (a Norwegian in Denmark) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Rickshaws support a significant portion of the population, not only the pullers, but also their families in the villages, the mechanics who fix the rickshaws, as well as street hawkers who sell them food. From the raw materials to the finished product the Rickshaw employs some 38 different professions. Action needs to be taken to support the Rickshaw instead of further banning it in Dhaka. The combined profits of all Rickshaws out earn all other passenger transport modes (bus, rail, boats and airlines) combined. In Dhaka alone, Rickshaw pullers combine to earn 20 million taka a month. We think that over the coming holiday of Eid du Ajah, new Rickshaw bans will be put into action on roads in Dhaka. Eid was used in the past to place new bans on roads in Dhaka. Last Eid many roads were declared Rickshaw free without public support or approval. By banning Rickshaws roads are clogged with increased private car use as well as increased parking by cars. Banning of Rickshaws on major roads increases the transportation costs for commuters. Not only due to longer trips to avoid roads with bans in effect, but also due to actually having to take more expensive forms of transport such as CNG or Taxi, where in the past a Rickshaw would suffice. The environmental impact of banning Rickshaws is obvious because it exchanges a non-motorized form of transport for a motorized form of transport, thus increasing the pollution and harming the environment. Rickshaw bans harm the most vulnerable in society, mainly the sick, poor, women, children and the elderly; generally those who can not afford or do not feel comfortable on other forms of public transport. To ban Rickshaws also hurts small businesses that rely on them as a cheap and reliable form of transporting their goods. Rickshaws are ideal for urban settings because they can transport a relatively large number of passengers while taking up a small portion of the road. In 1998 the data showed that Rickshaws took up 38% of road space while transporting 54% of passengers in Dhaka . The private cars on the other hand, took up 34% of road space while only transporting 9% of the population (1998 DUTP). This data does not include the parking space on roads that cars take up in Dhaka . If included this would further raise the amount of space taken up by private cars. Every year the Rickshaw saves Bangladesh 100 billion taka in environmental damage. The government makes many efforts to reduce traffic congestion in Dhaka but with no success. Blaming Rickshaws for traffic congestion and subsequently banning them from major roads has not had the desired affect. Traffic is still as bad now as it was before the Rickshaws were banned on major roads. Rickshaws thus can not be seen as the major cause of traffic congestion. Instead one should look towards private cars and private car parking on roads as the major cause of traffic congestion. The space gained by banning Rickshaws is often used for private car parking. The current trend in transport planning reduces the mobility of the majority for the convenience of the minority. The next time a ban on Rickshaws on another road is discussed please take into consideration who is being hurt and who is being helped. For a better transport system in Dhaka we need to create a city wide network of Rickshaw lanes. If this is done Dhaka can reduce its fuel usage dramatically as well its pollution. We ask your help in our fight to keep Dhaka a Rickshaw city. Any information or help is very much appreciated and sought after. I write you this letter to describe the difficulties we are facing and some solutions but they are by no means exhaustive and we look forward to your help and input. 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Alarmed by the burgeoning growth of private vehicles in Indian cities and the resultant rise in fuel emissions, a panel under the action plan has suggested a slew of measures that promise to change the face of urban transport. At the heart of these recommendations is the understanding that all-round costs of using personal vehicles need to be raised even as public transport is strengthened. The measures - proposed by the Mission on Sustainable Habitat under the action plan being prepared by the urban development ministry -include making ownership of parking space compulsory for those wishing to buy new private vehicles, making parking fee reflect the cost of land, imposing a congestion charge and making parts of the city off limits for cars. The mission document is being prepared to detail what the PM's council on climate change had passed in principle a few months ago. The report notes that growth of registered vehicles is four times the rate of growth of population in six major metros - Delhi, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Chennai. Simultaneously the share of public transport has declined from 69% to 38% in the 1994-2007 period in cities with population above 4 million. It warns that the fuel consumption for road vehicles, if unchecked, would be six times the 2005 level by 2035 and greenhouse gas emissions would go up 5.8 times in the 30-year period. The mission has recommended dedicating select corridors to only public transport, limiting the availability of parking space in city centres, banning parking on arterial roads, charging higher parking rates at peak hours, make street parking steep and reducing the use of diesel propelled private vehicles besides other measures. While this may seem like a wish list many experts have recommended before, as part of the climate change action plan, many of these ideas have a good chance of getting implemented for the first time. The mission document is to be shared with the PM's climate change council before it gets operational. "The Centre provides funds for urban development. We would build these into the city and municipal plans that we fund in consultation with states and the respective cities," said a senior official in the urban development ministry, explaining how the recommendations would be turned into regulations. The mission document also recommends creation of a regulatory body which will lay down minimum basic service standards for the industry, impose heavy fines, suspend or even cancel licenses and prosecute the erring agencies or individuals. There's also a proposal for a dedicated urban transport fund to pump money into running public transport better in urban areas. Endorsing the moves by the power ministry, it has also backed the imposition of tough fuel efficiency norms for vehicles and gone further to recommend that government's purchase of vehicles should be done keeping fuel efficiency in mind. To back innovation and improvement in technology the mission has asked for fiscal incentives linked to fuel economy of the vehicles. -- ------------------------------------------------------ Sujit Patwardhan sujitjp@gmail.com "Yamuna", ICS Colony, Ganeshkhind Road, Pune 411 007 India Tel: +91 20 25537955 Cell: +91 98220 26627 ----------------------------------------------------- Hon. Secretary: Parisar www.parisar.org ------------------------------------------------------ Founder Member: PTTF (Pune Traffic & Transportation Forum) www.pttf.net ------------------------------------------------------ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jca.apc.org/public/sustran-discuss/attachments/20081216/d3a3f0ab/attachment.html From eric.britton at ecoplan.org Tue Dec 16 20:04:01 2008 From: eric.britton at ecoplan.org (Eric Britton) Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:04:01 +0100 Subject: [sustran] "The answer is: raise the price of gasoline and give all the money back, " Message-ID: <024701c95f6e$03115a80$09340f80$@britton@ecoplan.org> Lee Schipper on this day at least, as the Duke famously said, "can to a thing cause he do got that swing". Bravo Lee. On the button. Thank you Lee. Eric Britton Obama Energy Pick Backs Higher Gas Tax December 15, 2008 4:54 PM http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2008/12/obama-energy-pi.html ABC News' Teddy Davis Reports: Barack Obama's pick for Department of Energy secretary Dear All, ** Do you know about this Committee Report? please read the shaded section with 'interest". ** *Delhi should abandon its 'failed BRT' model: panel* ** http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/delhi-should-abandon-its-failed-brt-model-panel/399389/ Indian Express - ** *New Delhi* The Parliamentary Standing Committee on urban transport said on Tuesday that despite the "potential benefits of BRTS", the Bus Rapid Transit System BRTS has been a failure in the Capital. The Standing Committee report says that in view of the city's experience, the Delhi government should "abandon the other five BRT corridors as approved earlier". Instead, the government should strengthen the Delhi Metro rail service with a strong feeder bus network, covering all bus networks in the city, the expert panel suggests. The Standing Committee report says, "If the mass transportation is improved integrating MRTS (Mass Rapid Transit System) and feeder bus service with high reliability, good frequency of service and easy accessibility, personalised vehicle users will no doubt switch over to public transport system." Such a switchover among car-users, the report says, has been seen in New York, Toronto and London, "where the public transport system is very predominant". The Standing Committee observation came in the light of a report submitted by School of Planning and Architecture head Prof P K Sarkar, who has highlighted a number of "loopholes" in the Delhi model of BRT. In his observations, Prof Sarkar has pointed out that one of the major failures of this transport model in Delhi has been to take away seven metres of road width from the already inadequate right of way of the road. According to the expert's observations, even before the BRT system was implemented, the road, divided into six lanes, experienced very heavy traffic volume for most part of the day. The stretch needed to be widened to handle that traffic volume even before the BRT idea was implemented, the report says. But instead of adding width, two lanes were taken out of the corridor, the report points out. According to the committee, the passenger carrying capacity of the BRT model in Bogota (Colombia) is higher due to more road space given to cars. But in Delhi, "even movement of pedestrian traffic across the BRT corridor is not well planned". Result: pedestrians have to walk comparatively longer distances to cross the corridor, the report says. -- Sudhir Gota Transport Specialist CAI-Asia Center Unit 3510, 35th Floor, Robinsons-Equitable Tower, ADB Avenue, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Metro Manila, Philippines 1605 Tel: +63-2-395-2843 Fax: +63-2-395-2846 http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia Skype : sudhirgota -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jca.apc.org/public/sustran-discuss/attachments/20081217/effeb6aa/attachment.html From eric.britton at ecoplan.org Wed Dec 17 16:25:23 2008 From: eric.britton at ecoplan.org (Eric Britton) Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:25:23 +0100 Subject: [sustran] Heads-up on machine translations Message-ID: <011d01c96018$a261cd90$e72568b0$@britton@ecoplan.org> Well, dear friends, I never thought I would end up pushing technology or software per se on all of you out there. And certainly not from the folks from Google. But the time has come for me to share my best thoughts with you about their and other's translation engines. We have been using, normally struggling, with machine translation gizmos for more than a decade now, as you will see if you go to any of our websites, we attempt to provide one click translation to each page's content in half a dozen languages. While this takes time here, I am able to note that about one in 10 of the people who come into our sites actually make use of the machine translations. And since we are addressing a world in which not everyone is all that easy in English, especially for longer documents, this is always seemed like a reasonable way for me to spend a bit of time and effort to make us all into better and more effective neighbors in an ever smaller world. But real breakthroughs have been made over the course of the last year or so, to the extent in which some of these translation engines (and they do compete with each other which of course is a fine thing) have developed to the point in which they provide an entirely workable draft versions of the original text. Of course, this is not "translation" as one might hope that best. But if you are curious and have a certain mental agility, they can tell you a great deal about what the original text is saying. So here is my recommendation to you for the easiest way to handle this at least for the time being. If you use the latest versions of either Internet Explorer or Firefox, you can go to www.google.com and download their toolbar (it is free, quick and safe). And once you have done that, all you have to do is add their translate utility to the toolbar. Thus far all that particular arrangement will do for the English language speaker is, when you are looking at some language other than English, to provide you with a quick working version of the text in English, whether the original is in Spanish, French, German, Portuguese or any of a surprising number of other languages. For two-way translations you can call up http://translate.google.com/translate_t# into your browser and off you go for either a pretty good translation of selected text for websites. You will see how that works on the site itself, though I am sure a number of you are well aware of this and use either the Google engine or some other when it comes to dealing with text in languages that you may not entirely master. I know I do. Here are the Languages currently available for translation: Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese. For testing purposes I have tried out several combinations with colleagues working in more need exotic languages (Slovenian, Hebrew, Arabic, Finnish, Danish) and though they have told me with a smile that this is not exactly their equivalent of Shakespeare, they nonetheless get the gist of what I am trying to say. (On the other hand my Japanese and Chinese friends were far more puzzled, and reserved. But let's give the translators time. I have confidence that they will continue to shrink the planet in for once what are benevolent ways) I very much hope you find some use of this, and that may be in one more small way we are together taking steps toward a more unified, sustainable and democratic world. With all good wishes, Eric Britton The New Mobility Agenda cid:image001.jpg@01C95F73.E1ECA570 Technology transforms time and space . . . and our minds The New Mobility Agenda - http://www.invent.newmobility.org Europe: 8/10 rue Joseph Bara, 75006 Paris, France T: +331 4326 1323 or +339 7044 4179 Skype: ericbritton New Mobility Partnerships - http://partners.newmobility.org USA: 9440 Readcrest Drive Los Angeles, CA 90210 T: +1 310 601-8468 Skype : newmobility -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jca.apc.org/public/sustran-discuss/attachments/20081217/72f2f33e/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/octet-stream Size: 15389 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://list.jca.apc.org/public/sustran-discuss/attachments/20081217/72f2f33e/attachment.bin From banmt at yahoo.com Thu Dec 18 15:28:13 2008 From: banmt at yahoo.com (AD) Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:28:13 -0800 (PST) Subject: =?utf-8?B?Rnc6IFtzdXN0cmFuXSBEZWxoaSBzaG91bGQgYWJhbmRvbiBpdHMg4oCYZmFp?= =?utf-8?B?bGVkIEJSVOKAmSBtb2RlbDogcGFuZWw=?= Message-ID: <73088.6399.qm@web42104.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Dear All, Just want to share some of my thoughts "If the mass transportation is improved integrating MRTS (Mass Rapid Transit System) and feeder bus service with high reliability, good frequency of service and easy accessibility, personalised vehicle users will no doubt switch over to public transport system." <- I disagree with this. The problem of building metro/subway lies on the targeted number of people using it. Metro pushers often claim from 30% to 60% of the city's trips will be served by this high-end transportation means. However, if the metro/subway is so good that it can attract, lets say 50% of the current road users to travel underground, the city's streets (in future) will only bear half of its users compared to now. In other words, half of every street will be freed from vehicles. So there is no reason not to build something cheaper (i.e. good BRT routes) on that "free" half to obtain the same target of 50% trips served by public transport in stead of metro/subway. If the city's streets after building metro will still be full of vehicles, then who gonna use the metro? According to the committee, the passenger carrying capacity of the BRT model in Bogota (Colombia) is higher due to more road space given to cars. I just don't really get this explanation. Why more road space given to cars can help increase the number of bus riders? I reckon the opposite. But in Delhi, "even movement of pedestrian traffic across the BRT corridor is not well planned". But I do agree that a thorough plan to improve walking condition for pedestrian should be carried out for the success of any BRT project. Nguyen Anh Dung Department of Ocean Mechanics and Environment. Institute of Applied Mechanics and Informatics Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Tel: +84 1227428742 ________________________________ From: Sudhir To: Global 'South' Sustainable Transport ; cai-asia@lists.worldbank.org Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 10:22:09 AM Subject: [sustran] Delhi should abandon its ?failed BRT? model: panel Dear All, Do you know about this Committee Report? please read the shaded section with 'interest". Delhi should abandon its 'failed BRT' model: panel http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/delhi-should-abandon-its-failed-brt-model-panel/399389/ Indian Express - New Delhi The Parliamentary Standing Committee on urban transport said on Tuesday that despite the "potential benefits of BRTS", the Bus Rapid Transit System BRTS has been a failure in the Capital. The Standing Committee report says that in view of the city's experience, the Delhi government should "abandon the other five BRT corridors as approved earlier". Instead, the government should strengthen the Delhi Metro rail service with a strong feeder bus network, covering all bus networks in the city, the expert panel suggests. The Standing Committee report says, "If the mass transportation is improved integrating MRTS (Mass Rapid Transit System) and feeder bus service with high reliability, good frequency of service and easy accessibility, personalised vehicle users will no doubt switch over to public transport system." Such a switchover among car-users, the report says, has been seen in New York, Toronto and London, "where the public transport system is very predominant". The Standing Committee observation came in the light of a report submitted by School of Planning and Architecture head Prof P K Sarkar, who has highlighted a number of "loopholes" in the Delhi model of BRT. In his observations, Prof Sarkar has pointed out that one of the major failures of this transport model in Delhi has been to take away seven metres of road width from the already inadequate right of way of the road. According to the expert's observations, even before the BRT system was implemented, the road, divided into six lanes, experienced very heavy traffic volume for most part of the day. The stretch needed to be widened to handle that traffic volume even before the BRT idea was implemented, the report says. But instead of adding width, two lanes were taken out of the corridor, the report points out. According to the committee, the passenger carrying capacity of the BRT model in Bogota (Colombia) is higher due to more road space given to cars. But in Delhi, "even movement of pedestrian traffic across the BRT corridor is not well planned". Result: pedestrians have to walk comparatively longer distances to cross the corridor, the report says. -- Sudhir Gota Transport Specialist CAI-Asia Center Unit 3510, 35th Floor, Robinsons-Equitable Tower, ADB Avenue, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Metro Manila, Philippines 1605 Tel: +63-2-395-2843 Fax: +63-2-395-2846 http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia Skype : sudhirgota -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jca.apc.org/public/sustran-discuss/attachments/20081217/e0d045c7/attachment.html From eric.britton at ecoplan.org Thu Dec 18 19:49:23 2008 From: eric.britton at ecoplan.org (Eric Britton) Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:49:23 +0100 Subject: [sustran] The Year of the Woman in Transportation Message-ID: <001401c960fe$64e13410$2ea39c30$@britton@ecoplan.org> Dear friends, Directly below you will find an advance draft for an article which I intend to submit on Monday to a high-profile forum of transportation insiders who have been invited to provide ideas and counsel to the incoming Obama administration. I think you will find that together with the short introductory note you have in hand everything you need to understand context, etc. In a way this is a message from many of us who have been discussing and exchanging issues and views on these matters over the last years, so I thought it might be appropriate to put it before you for your eventual comments and suggestions prior to "going public" with that on Monday. As always, your critical comments and suggestions will be very welcome. I hope you find some interest in this and that you think that it is possible, if we put our heads together, to make important changes in our sector and in society more generally. If we can make 2009 the Year for the Woman in Transportation, that will I think make a huge difference for us all. Thanks for your patience and your views. Eric Britton What is this? The following is intended as my first invited contribution to an ongoing "insider policy discussion" sponsored by the National Journal , which has as its intention to provide expert ("insider") counsel to guide the incoming Obama administration on matters involving policy and investments in the transportation sector for the years immediately ahead. You can access the discussions at http://transportation.nationaljournal.com. Here are three further references that may help orient you in this: 1. The infrastructure discussions and recommendations:: http://transportation.nationaljournal.com/2008/12/how-should-infrastructure- stimulus-be-spent.php 2. My contributor profile: http://transportation.nationaljournal.com/contributors/Britton.php 3. Links to feeds permitting you to follow discussions and new contributions. http://feeds.feedburner.com/njgroup-transportation Your critical comments and eventual suggestions both on improving the readability and impact of the following are very much appreciated. Also, it would be great if you might have any ideas concerning where to take this next. Eric Britton. Eric.Britton@newmobility.org Skype: newmobility Tel: 1 (310) 601-8468 or +331 4326 1323 Discussion topic, December 2008: How should the infrastructure stimulus be spent? "President-elect Obama has made a hefty economic stimulus the first item on his legislative agenda and signaled that he wants a significant infrastructure component. How should the money for transportation infrastructure be distributed to maximize job creation in the short run while ensuring that the projects deliver the greatest benefit for the public? And who gets to decide which projects move first?" -- Lisa Caruso, NationalJournal.com 2009: The Year of the Woman in Transportation Eric Britton EcoPlan International - New Mobility Partnerships Paris and Los Angeles Summary: The author argues first that the key to infrastructure is not physical objects but people. Not physical products but services. Second, that the present transportation system has been designed almost exclusively by males, and, worse, for males of a certain exclusive, privileged category of our society . And that as a result of this historic imbalance at the top, the designers have failed to create a system which serves the majority of Americans in a full and fair way. To rectify this historic imbalance without delay, Britton urges that we immediately start build in a policy of full gender equality in all transport planning and decision making processes. Beginning with this distinguished expert panel. Before writing this piece, I gave quite a bit of thought as to how I can make the most useful contribution to these important discussions. And I have made the decision that probably the most useful thing I can do at this early stage in the process will be to swim a bit against the current here. Let me try to clarify: I have two big problems with what I see here thus far, and so once I have sketched out my understanding of these briefly , I would like to go on to propose one big, if not a remedy at least a path toward a remedy or solution. May we start with my first issue? 1. What is infrastructure? When I look at the twenty eight thoughtful contributions and recommendations for the incoming administration thus far logged under this heading, the first thing that strikes me right between the eyes is that all but one or two of the people who have checked in on this topic thus far have interpreted the key word "infrastructure" as primarily a physical entity. So to an extent, this being a common interpretation of the word by many of those working in the transportation sector, the cards were a bit stacked in advance. This is not only problematic; it is fundamentally biased against most forms of social and behavioral "infrastructure". However this is precisely what we need when we are looking at a future in which virtually all of the past patterns are being challenged. One thing we can say for sure about the future, and that is that it will be very very different from the past. So let us make sure we are peering deeply into these foundation issues and making the fundamental adjustments which are going to be required if our transportation arrangements are to be sustainable, fair, and contributes to a healthy economy. Let me see if I can make this point with reference to what I found when running a quick word-frequency check this morning of those first 28 contributions thus far. Here are a dozen of the words and phrases that turn up most often and which I believe give us a fair feel for the focus and concerns of the group: . Infrastructure >100 . Highways/roads/bridges -102 . Aviation/Airport/airline/aircraft - 79 . Trucks/trucking/freight/goods - 59 . Energy/gas/oil - 53 . Investment -46 . Billion - 46 . Public transport/mass transit - 12 . Marine/river/water/canal - 12 . Climate - 10 . Congestion - 7 Interesting for sure. But also to my mind highly disturbing. It certainly leads me to wonder if the physical infrastructure is really the appropriate starting place, when we have been asked to provide policy counsel for the incoming administration at this extremely important time and opportunity to change historic patterns and come up with something better. Hopefully much better. 2. Transport in Cities: That after all is where the people are. More than 80% of all Americans live in or around our towns and cities. And that's where all those people move most in their day to day lives, which makes it to my mind the main target of transportation policy and practice, now and for the future. . In our collaborative work under the New Mobility Agenda over the last two decades which has been informed by the active contributions of transportation planners, academics, policymakers, activists, as well as those who create and operate the transportation systems themselves for not only across North America but also in more than 30 countries in all parts of the world (see www.newmobility.org), we have consistently taken as our starting place not the physical manifestations of the transportation system , but rather people and community. To help with imaging and imagining this, consider the idea of carrying out a comprehensive social-technical audit of our cities and towns where BOTH safety AND convenience for people of all ages and abilities (i.e., not just motorists) was the criterion for assessing what else could be done. This can be done, we know how to do it, and I would therefore like to suggest that this is worthy of closer consideration to create a consensus here. It really does matter what you take as your starting place. And just to give a feel for what happens if we shift this basic focus I have also run the same first commentaries through frequency counts for the kinds of people-oriented issues which we believe to be the real starting place. And we really cannot afford to ignore them at this time when we have this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to redefine our transportation system. Here is what I came up with this time around (and where no number is indicated that means there were zero references found for that word or phrase): . Bicycle/Bike/Biking/Cycle (16) . Walking (7) . Bus (8) . Mobility (4) . Sidewalk (4) . Pedestrian (3) . Bus rapid transit/BRT (2) . Transportation Alternatives (2) . Child, children (1) . Land use (1) . Carshare/ carsharing . Elderly . Free . Handicapped . isolated . Job creation . Needy . Neighborhood . Poor . Public space . Small . Subway/metro . Taxes . Telecommuting/ telework . Tram/LRT . Woman/Women Now I for one find this absence of attention to daily life concerns and practices highly disturbing. And if we have learned one thing about transportation over the last decades, it is that only a portion of the solutions of the transport related problems can be solved within the sector itself. This means that we must be aggressively inclusive in all respects Fair enough but now how do we get from there to here? From where we were, to where we want to be? Well I have an idea which I would like to propose to all of you for your consideration and critical commentary. But first let us have a look at the panel and ask us one more question. 3. Physician heal thyself! I would like to propose that as the first and really rather simple step in this direction to shake up the players and the priorities. And we do not have to look very far to do it. Let us have a look. We can get a helpful clue if we look closely at our list of contributors thus far waiting in on this topic. 28 in all, of which 24 male. It is more or less exactly in line with prevailing practices in the sector. Oops. Clearly we have to do a lot better than that if our charge is to provide wise counsel concerning the future, which by definition at this juncture needs to be very different from the past. So let me be a little bit more politically incorrect than that -- if that is possible -- and I might also add that my guess is that our population here is not exactly representative of America today. At least not yet. But, if we look at the sub-title of this discussion, namely "Our panel of insiders discusses key issues", it might be that the beginning of the solution lies in the title itself. If we take a people-centric view of transportation, and of course the infrastructure whether physical or social, it is clear that what we need to do is shift our population of "transportation insiders" so as to better reflect the reality of our communities and day to day lies. How to rectify this imbalance? We could make it very complicated if we wanted to, but there is also a solution which is at once obvious, easy and ready for implementation as soon as we decide to do it. Here is a proposal that I will leave with you today, and that if I have any positive (or even negative in fact) reactions on this intend to come back to you here with a more detailed proposal about how to get this particular job done. 4. Let us make 2009: The Year of the Woman in Transportation I propose here with that all of us here break with the past by joining our voices to propose that 2009, the first year of this incoming and extremely important administration and cultural change for America, be celebrated as the first Year of the Woman in Transportation. To my mind this calls for a pattern break. A big one. And if the above is a critical part of the old pattern, the new one is quite simply to move away from that historic imbalance, that stasis which is keeping us from adapting and moving ahead. That is to move to something very close to full gender parity immediately in all our councils of decision and planning. Starting this forum. We must be aware however that surface parity while a start, is likely to be insufficient. Many women who do get into key roles very rapidly begin behaving like or reflect the behavior and values, of men. Examples would be very dangerous ... but try to think of women in such powerful positions who HAVE acted differently to the males in previous or similar positions of influence and power. It's just that the worldviews and values are in general, very male! And this is precisely what we need to change to realize our very different future. Why should we do this? Well for starters we should shake ourselves harder and in the process come to an explicit understanding that we have created a whole nexus of transportation arrangements that reflect the values of not only males, but, worse yet in this particular context, for the most part males with jobs, more or less good university educations , a full place in the community, and a generally serene view of the future. And oh yes, to a man, owners and drivers of cars. Hmm. Much like the popular expression that you are what you eat, when it comes to transportation it turns out that you understand and accommodate best that which you do most of. All you have to do is look around and you will see plenty of evidence of that. But is it that women are for some reason better, smarter or more noble than we Y chromosome-encumbered males. Quite possibly not. However it is my experience that women often have a different view of the world in many respects, not all women perhaps but most of those whom I know and have worked with and learn from in the past. It is this differentness that we need to bring in and profit from. There are also I am told a number of fundamental cultural, behavioral, and perception differences between the sexes, but since I truly want to avoid the fate of Larry Summers when he lost his last job, I will not undertake here to venture such a qualitative analysis. But it is relevant, and I will leave it for later for some of my better qualified colleagues to fill in this part of the argument. Now I do not pretend that this is going to be easy, or that it will be a magic wand in itself. But if we get it right, believe me this will get us going and going fast on the much needed new track for the future. I should say in closing that based on my own long experience of trying to achieve this in our work, trying to get something like full gender parity in policy discussions and projects in terms of having full and fair presentation of women in the various transportation panels, conferences, etc. has proven no easy task. Try as I have, I have to admit that , other than in one or two rare cases, we have never got anywhere near to full parity in any of our projects. Shame on me. And since we have such a terrific collection of thinkers and doers here, in such a high public profile, what could be better than starting with this right now ourselves. To this end I invite each of you to reach out into your networks to find at least one of your highly qualified female colleagues, including especially those who have worked directly with less advantages groups and communities including in the developing world. Within a few days, weeks at most, we will have our balance panel and surely some very different ideas and counsel for the future. Indeed perhaps we should be reaching out beyond "our" traditional networks ... and THAT really implies creating an opportunity for "others" to step forward while "we" (males) step back a bit. Can "we" do that? "The Year of the Woman in Transportation" creates THAT opportunity, but could you, could I, could we support THAT? For my part I am ready to start on this tomorrow morning. (In fact I just started today.) One final excellent thing that this forced, high priority network expansion can help us achieve is to expand the range of backgrounds and skills which we need to bring into the various transportation fora, That is to say, this gives us an additional opportunity to rectify some of the other debilitating historical inadequacies in the sector that have led to its underperformance in many areas. So as we look to bring in more women, in addition to the more traditional transportation circles, we need to bring in more expertise in such areas as behavioral psychology, community relations, social services , education, childcare, public health, job creation , poverty reduction and all those other key areas of our daily lives which thus far have not received the necessary attention in the transport discussions and decision-making process. Our future transportation arrangements are going to look very different from those of the past. A lot of us are going to continue to own and drive cars, which is just fine. But if you do the sums the great majority of our population would like to have a choice. And that Is what the Year of the Woman in Transportation can be all about. I propose that we now make this a major discussion topic for the group in the weeks immediately ahead. Eric Britton, 18 December 2008 Email: Eric.Britton@newmobility.org Skype: newmobility Tel: 1 (310) 601-8468 or +331 4326 1323 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jca.apc.org/public/sustran-discuss/attachments/20081218/7a85c5c0/attachment.html From kanthikannan at gmail.com Fri Dec 19 15:20:24 2008 From: kanthikannan at gmail.com (Kanthi Kannan) Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:50:24 +0530 Subject: [sustran] Re: R2W and Pedestrian Safety Plan Message-ID: <494b3d5a.16098e0a.3c17.ffff9cd6@mx.google.com> Dec 19, 2008 Dear all Greetings!! In the last week there has been some progress in the R2W Campaign. What we need at this stage is to give the GHMC a document with a clear cut plan on Pedestrian Safety. The Commissioner and the Special commissioner seem to be interested in taking Pedestrian Safety as an issue. Please do send in your thoughts to make this document comprehensive and implementable. I am also involved in the joint inspection with the planning wing of the GHMC to look at Retail Outlets that do not have parking space. Yesterday, I went with the Engineering wing of the GHMC on an inspection of the footpaths around GHMC that are going to be taken up in the first phase of pedestrian safety. Regards Kanthi Kannan The Right to Walk Foundation -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jca.apc.org/public/sustran-discuss/attachments/20081219/48549aab/attachment.html From sudhir at cai-asia.org Fri Dec 19 20:19:44 2008 From: sudhir at cai-asia.org (Sudhir) Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:19:44 +0800 Subject: [sustran] Sustainable Urban Transport in Review - 2008 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear All, We hope you have enjoyed this year and taken many sustainable transport activities in 2008. Year 2008, from the urban transport perspective, can be considered as a pivotal year as many countries began to realize the impact of transport on quality of life. The issues concerning urban transport received good media coverage thanks to Beijing Olympics, fuel price hike, continued air pollution and congestion problems, as well as climate change. In order to get results quickly, many cities are contemplating on a mix of carrot and stick policies such as increasing investments both on roads and public transport, fuel subsidies and congestion charging, and tightening new tail-pipe emissions standards while still struggling to implement in-use emissions standards, etc. The impact of such actions would be more visible and measurable in the future years but considering the year 2008, what is the status of urban transport? How did year 2008 rate on sustainable urban transport in Asia? What were the issues and the challenges? *Please find the link/attachment for the short review of SUT in Asia for the year 2008. Hope this document would inspire us to do more in 2009 !!* *http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/articles-73177_review08.pdf* best regards Sudhir Gota Transport Specialist CAI-Asia Center Unit 3510, 35th Floor, Robinsons-Equitable Tower, ADB Avenue, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Metro Manila, Philippines 1605 Tel: +63-2-395-2843 Fax: +63-2-395-2846 http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia Skype : sudhirgota -- Sudhir Gota Transport Specialist CAI-Asia Center Unit 3510, 35th Floor, Robinsons-Equitable Tower, ADB Avenue, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Metro Manila, Philippines 1605 Tel: +63-2-395-2843 Fax: +63-2-395-2846 http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia Skype : sudhirgota -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jca.apc.org/public/sustran-discuss/attachments/20081219/cf33249e/attachment.html From yanivbin at gmail.com Fri Dec 19 23:13:10 2008 From: yanivbin at gmail.com (Vinay Baindur) Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:43:10 +0530 Subject: [sustran] Wheeling, dealing Reform Of Urban Transport Essential But Utopian Message-ID: <86b8a7050812190613r247ade40w28c72557ca682526@mail.gmail.com> Wheeling, dealing Reform Of Urban Transport Essential But Utopian Suhit Sen http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=3&theme=&usrsess=1&id=236316 For once the Centre has been presented with a plan that can go a long way towards decongesting our cities, improving urban air quality and meeting the challenge of climate change. The question is will the Centre accept the recommendations made under the National Action Plan on Climate Change and move fast to implement them. Let's take a look at the recommendations, which, let us also remember are not particularly radical or novel. Advocacy groups like the Centre for Science and Environment have been pushing a similar policy frame for years. At the heart of the recommendations lies the realisation that the state must adopt a policy that increasingly discourages the use of private vehicles by imposing costs that approximate more closely the real public costs and "externalities" ~ mainly environmental and health costs ~ involved in operating a private vehicle, while making the use of public mass transit systems more attractive. This is essential given that in Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad and Mumbai ~ the number of private vehicles is increasing four times faster than population, with the share of public transport falling from 69 per cent to 38 per cent between 1994 and 2007 in cities with 4 million people or more. Congestion charge In keeping with this realisation, a panel has suggested for now that congestion charges be imposed, parking fees be hiked to reflect the true cost of the use of space and remove hidden subsidies, corridors be dedicated to public-transport vehicles, the mass transport sector be made more competitive by reducing taxes and duties on them relative to those on private vehicles (in Delhi, for instance, private vehicles pay a lower road tax) and people be forced to prove that they have access to parking space before acquiring a vehicle. This is a good beginning, though many more recommendations can be added to the list ~ fiscal disincentives for sports utility vehicles and other gas-guzzlers, similar disincentives for private diesel vehicles along with more stringent emissions norms not just for vehicles but also for fuel (mainly to phase out low-grade diesel, which is absurdly polluting). Hopefully the final recommendations of the panel ~ the Mission on Sustainable Habitat ~ will be more comprehensive. What will it take to put in place a policy that will move people into mass transportation away from personal vehicles and bring clean fuels and engines on to the roads? Simple: an uphill struggle to cut the massive power of the automobile and oil industries and its lobbyists down to size. The world over, these two industries have persistently blocked all attempts to reduce dependence on hydrocarbons through the implementation of fiscal and other measures that penalise fuels and technologies responsible for greenhouse-gas emissions and help the development of technologies that are not or less dependent on fossil fuel ~ hybrids, hydrogen-based fuel cells and so on. Nowhere have the oil and automobile industries been as powerful as they have in the US, as a recent book by two staffers of The Economist unpicks in great detail. While Japanese companies ~ principally Toyota ~ have gone ahead with innovative emissions-control technologies, the US's big three automakers have been as dinosaur-like in their approach as the US federal government has been till date. For this they have been rewarded with repeated bailouts ~ the mother of which is in the pipeline. In India too, however, state policy has failed to encourage alternative technologies and mass rapid transport systems, by and large, though some take an inordinately rosy view of the country's ability to "leapfrog". The CNG story is just getting off the ground ~ of which more later ~ but, for instance, the Reva, an electrically powered car, has hardly made any impact on Indian cities. Part of the reason is poor marketing ~ but, equally, it has received no state support in the shape of fiscal breaks or the kind of patronage that Hindustan Motors continues to get in the shape of government orders. Small is not sexy, environment-friendly is even less so. Policy initiatives to encourage public transport or discourage emissions haven't gone down too well. The vehicle-owning class in Delhi has gone ballistic about the bus rapid transport corridor that the Delhi government has begun experimenting with. While it may be true that the project was not designed ideally, the point Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit made ~ don't throw the baby out with the bathwater ~ has received very little sympathy. A differential fiscal regime sought to be introduced by Ms Dikshit's government to control emissions was almost blocked by the automobile lobby. The Delhi administration still remains somewhat enlightened. Elsewhere the dinosaurs still stalk the earth. Take the West Bengal government. Kolkata is in an ironically enviable situation. Public transport, from intuitive and tendentious evidence, seems to have a bigger constituency in the city even among the kind of people who can afford private vehicles compared to other big cities, if only as a result of the state's steady deindustrialisation and relative poverty. The state government could have turned this into an opportunity ~ making a virtue of necessity, if you will ~ to aggressively push mass transport and emissions control. It hasn't, because it is a prisoner of corrupt, self-serving syndicates and unions it has promoted for three decades, which means public, mass transport remains mired in a huge mess. Despite being the first city to get metro services, Kolkata has not seen an expansion of the network largely because an inept government couldn't be bothered to push ahead. Recently mooted extensions are behind schedule, badly conceived or so ambitious in scope as to attract derision from citizens who still remember the fiasco of the disruptive construction that blighted the city for years. The circular railway is an expensive bauble that makes a very small impact on the city's transportation needs. No one who has an option would like to use the city's bus system because that, currently, is life-threatening. There has been no attempt to discipline the system so to make it a comfortable and safe commute, which, moreover, does not create mayhem on the roads. Public initiative The shuttle autorickshaw network connecting to the Metro line was an innovation that could have worked wonders ~ come to think of it, it still does, despite the odds ~ if, again, some policing had been in evidence. What is desperately needed is the simple enforcement of traffic and safety rules to begin with. Then, of course, is the question of clean fuel and technology for emissions control. The government brought forward a high court directive to phase out polluting two-stroke engines for both two-wheelers and three-wheelers and specified that autorickshaws would have to convert to LPG or CNG mode by the end of this year. Pressure from owners' syndicates and unions on the specious plea that livelihoods would be affected ~ specious because the scheme envisages generous support from the government, automakers and banks ~ has meant that the plan has gone into deep hibernation. Don't hold your breath for change, though you really should in India's most polluted city. Citizens, governments and advocacy groups must come together to propagate some simple ideas about transportation. First, owning and operating a car is all about mobility and "liberation" ~ US-style. This objective is defeated if private cars choke the roads so badly that the best you can do is 10-15 km/hr, depending on the city you are in. A comfortable mass transport network would help; citizens have to push for it. Second, pollution is a reality that affects everyone ~ again, a cross-class citizens' initiative is needed to force governments to take action. Third, climate change is not a figment of some extra-terrestrial green imagination. Without compromising development, emissions control has to be prioritised ~ and transportation is the easiest sector to start with. Any takers? The writer is Senior Editor, The Statesman -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Specifically my proposition that what is needed to create an altogether different perspective on these matters is not just to bring a couple of females on board, but to create a very strong plurality. It's rather like cycling in cities I would say. If there are no cyclists out there, no one sees a problem. If there are a few, it really changes little if anything. But when the cyclists start hit the street in real numbers, when they begin to populate the environment, things then have an entirely different momentum. And so, I believe, is the case with the impact of women in these largely male-culture fora. Once we get beyond that tipping point - what is it, 50%, 40, 30 ?? -- we find a very different situation as emerged. And so I hope it will be. But there is an anomaly there, one that you can if you wish help us with. In my piece I claim that as a first step this panel should immediately set out to create a far more balanced gender composition than that which they have at present, which is very male top heavy. However as I look at the composition of most of our new mobility fora what strikes me immediately is that we are hardly better. We are female-lite here, and the only way I can think of to rectify this imbalance will be to ask each person here to reach out to find a female colleague, policy maker, activist or concerned citizen whom we can then invite to join us and get on the side of new mobility for all. I am sure it will make a big difference. Thanks for helping out on this. You'll see. It will be worth it. 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Please follow the attach file for letter and paper for this program. ? I warmly invite you to attend this important meeting. ? With thanks, ? Maruf Rahman Project Officer, WBB Trust House # 49, Road # 4/A Dhanmondi, Dhaka Phone: 9669781, Cell: 01712034915 ? 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URL: http://list.jca.apc.org/public/sustran-discuss/attachments/20081222/f8c8ef0e/attachment.html From shovan1209 at yahoo.com Mon Dec 22 21:12:46 2008 From: shovan1209 at yahoo.com (Saiful Alam) Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 04:12:46 -0800 (PST) Subject: [sustran] Invite to Roundtable Meeting on Urban Transportation System In-Reply-To: <20081220030114.E4FEA2C838@mx-list.jca.ne.jp> Message-ID: <642908.42587.qm@web57106.mail.re3.yahoo.com> ? Roundtable meeting on Expectations for the Quality Urban Transportation System ? Dear Colleague, Greetings. URP Department of BUET, Poribesh Bachao Andolon POBA and WBB Trust is going to organize a Roundtable meeting on Expectations for the Quality Urban Transportation System at VIP lounge of national press club, Dhaka on Tuesday, 23 December 2008, at 11 a.m. International transport specialist Dr Mahabubul Bari will be present as keynote speaker. Please follow the attach file for letter and paper for this program. ? I warmly invite you to attend this important meeting. ? With thanks, ? Maruf Rahman Project Officer, WBB Trust House # 49, Road # 4/A Dhanmondi, Dhaka Phone: 9669781, Cell: 01712034915 ? 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Syed Siful Alam?Shovan shovan1209@yahoo.com --- On Sat, 12/20/08, sustran-discuss-request@list.jca.apc.org wrote: From: sustran-discuss-request@list.jca.apc.org Subject: Sustran-discuss Digest, Vol 64, Issue 15 To: sustran-discuss@list.jca.apc.org Date: Saturday, December 20, 2008, 9:01 AM Send Sustran-discuss mailing list submissions to sustran-discuss@list.jca.apc.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://list.jca.apc.org/manage/listinfo/sustran-discuss or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to sustran-discuss-request@list.jca.apc.org You can reach the person managing the list at sustran-discuss-owner@list.jca.apc.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Sustran-discuss digest..." ######################################################################## Sustran-discuss Mailing List Digest IMPORTANT NOTE: When replying please do not include the whole digest in your reply - just include the relevant part of the specific message that you are responding to. Many thanks. About this mailing list see: http://list.jca.apc.org/manage/listinfo/sustran-discuss ######################################################################## Today's Topics: 1. Re: R2W and Pedestrian Safety Plan (Kanthi Kannan) 2. Sustainable Urban Transport in Review - 2008 (Sudhir) 3. Wheeling, dealing Reform Of Urban Transport Essential But Utopian (Vinay Baindur) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:50:24 +0530 From: "Kanthi Kannan" Subject: [sustran] Re: R2W and Pedestrian Safety Plan To: "'Global 'South' Sustainable Transport'" Message-ID: <494b3d5a.16098e0a.3c17.ffff9cd6@mx.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Dec 19, 2008 Dear all Greetings!! In the last week there has been some progress in the R2W Campaign. What we need at this stage is to give the GHMC a document with a clear cut plan on Pedestrian Safety. The Commissioner and the Special commissioner seem to be interested in taking Pedestrian Safety as an issue. Please do send in your thoughts to make this document comprehensive and implementable. I am also involved in the joint inspection with the planning wing of the GHMC to look at Retail Outlets that do not have parking space. Yesterday, I went with the Engineering wing of the GHMC on an inspection of the footpaths around GHMC that are going to be taken up in the first phase of pedestrian safety. Regards Kanthi Kannan The Right to Walk Foundation -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In order to get results quickly, many cities are contemplating on a mix of carrot and stick policies such as increasing investments both on roads and public transport, fuel subsidies and congestion charging, and tightening new tail-pipe emissions standards while still struggling to implement in-use emissions standards, etc. The impact of such actions would be more visible and measurable in the future years but considering the year 2008, what is the status of urban transport? How did year 2008 rate on sustainable urban transport in Asia? What were the issues and the challenges? *Please find the link/attachment for the short review of SUT in Asia for the year 2008. Hope this document would inspire us to do more in 2009 !!* *http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/articles-73177_review08.pdf* best regards Sudhir Gota Transport Specialist CAI-Asia Center Unit 3510, 35th Floor, Robinsons-Equitable Tower, ADB Avenue, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Metro Manila, Philippines 1605 Tel: +63-2-395-2843 Fax: +63-2-395-2846 http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia Skype : sudhirgota -- Sudhir Gota Transport Specialist CAI-Asia Center Unit 3510, 35th Floor, Robinsons-Equitable Tower, ADB Avenue, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Metro Manila, Philippines 1605 Tel: +63-2-395-2843 Fax: +63-2-395-2846 http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia Skype : sudhirgota -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URP Department of BUET, Poribesh Bachao Andolon POBA and WBB Trust is going to organize a Roundtable meeting on Expectations for the Quality Urban Transportation System at VIP lounge of national press club, Dhaka on Tuesday, 23 December 2008, at 11 a.m. International transport specialist Dr Mahabubul Bari will be present as keynote speaker. Please follow the attach file for letter and paper for this program. ? I warmly invite you to attend this important meeting. ? With thanks, ? Maruf Rahman Project Officer, WBB Trust House # 49, Road # 4/A Dhanmondi, Dhaka Phone: 9669781, Cell: 01712034915 ? '??? ?????? ???????? ??????? ??????? ???? ?????????' ?????? ???????? ???? ? ? ????, ???????? ??????? ????? ?? ???????? ???? ???????? ???? ??.?? ??? ????? ?????????? ?????? ???????, ??????? ??? ? ????? ????????? ?????, ?????? ?????? ??????? ? ??????????? ??????? ?? ???????? ?????? ??? ?????? ???????? ??????? ??????? ???? ????????? ?????? ???????? ?????? ????? ??? ?????? ???????? ????? ??? ??????? ???????? ????? ??????????? ?????? ???????? ?. ????????? ????? ? ???????? ???? ???? ????? ???? ???????? ??????? ???????? ??????? ??? ? ???, ?????????? ????, ???????? ???, ???? ? ???????? ?????? ??????? ????? ????????? ???????? ???????? ???? ? ??? ?????? ?????? ?????????? ????? ??? ?????? ???????? ??? ???? ???????? ?????????? ????????? ?????? ? ??????????? ????????? ?????? ? ????????? ?????? ????????? ? ????? ? ??????? ???? ????? ?????? ? ???? ??????? ?????? ?? ??? ???? ??? ?????????? ????? ??? ???? ???? ????????? ???????? ???????? ???? ????????? ???? ?? ??? ???, ???, ???, ????????? ??? ??? ??????? ??????-???????-???????? ??????? ??????? ???????? ???? ???? Syed Siful Alam?Shovan shovan1209@yahoo.com --- On Sat, 12/20/08, sustran-discuss-request@list.jca.apc.org wrote: From: sustran-discuss-request@list.jca.apc.org Subject: Sustran-discuss Digest, Vol 64, Issue 15 To: sustran-discuss@list.jca.apc.org Date: Saturday, December 20, 2008, 9:01 AM Send Sustran-discuss mailing list submissions to sustran-discuss@list.jca.apc.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://list.jca.apc.org/manage/listinfo/sustran-discuss or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to sustran-discuss-request@list.jca.apc.org You can reach the person managing the list at sustran-discuss-owner@list.jca.apc.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Sustran-discuss digest..." ######################################################################## Sustran-discuss Mailing List Digest IMPORTANT NOTE: When replying please do not include the whole digest in your reply - just include the relevant part of the specific message that you are responding to. Many thanks. About this mailing list see: http://list.jca.apc.org/manage/listinfo/sustran-discuss ######################################################################## Today's Topics: 1. Re: R2W and Pedestrian Safety Plan (Kanthi Kannan) 2. Sustainable Urban Transport in Review - 2008 (Sudhir) 3. Wheeling, dealing Reform Of Urban Transport Essential But Utopian (Vinay Baindur) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:50:24 +0530 From: "Kanthi Kannan" Subject: [sustran] Re: R2W and Pedestrian Safety Plan To: "'Global 'South' Sustainable Transport'" Message-ID: <494b3d5a.16098e0a.3c17.ffff9cd6@mx.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Dec 19, 2008 Dear all Greetings!! In the last week there has been some progress in the R2W Campaign. What we need at this stage is to give the GHMC a document with a clear cut plan on Pedestrian Safety. The Commissioner and the Special commissioner seem to be interested in taking Pedestrian Safety as an issue. Please do send in your thoughts to make this document comprehensive and implementable. I am also involved in the joint inspection with the planning wing of the GHMC to look at Retail Outlets that do not have parking space. Yesterday, I went with the Engineering wing of the GHMC on an inspection of the footpaths around GHMC that are going to be taken up in the first phase of pedestrian safety. Regards Kanthi Kannan The Right to Walk Foundation -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jca.apc.org/public/sustran-discuss/attachments/20081219/48549aab/attachment-0001.html ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:19:44 +0800 From: Sudhir Subject: [sustran] Sustainable Urban Transport in Review - 2008 To: "Global 'South' Sustainable Transport" Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Dear All, We hope you have enjoyed this year and taken many sustainable transport activities in 2008. Year 2008, from the urban transport perspective, can be considered as a pivotal year as many countries began to realize the impact of transport on quality of life. The issues concerning urban transport received good media coverage thanks to Beijing Olympics, fuel price hike, continued air pollution and congestion problems, as well as climate change. In order to get results quickly, many cities are contemplating on a mix of carrot and stick policies such as increasing investments both on roads and public transport, fuel subsidies and congestion charging, and tightening new tail-pipe emissions standards while still struggling to implement in-use emissions standards, etc. The impact of such actions would be more visible and measurable in the future years but considering the year 2008, what is the status of urban transport? How did year 2008 rate on sustainable urban transport in Asia? What were the issues and the challenges? *Please find the link/attachment for the short review of SUT in Asia for the year 2008. Hope this document would inspire us to do more in 2009 !!* *http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/articles-73177_review08.pdf* best regards Sudhir Gota Transport Specialist CAI-Asia Center Unit 3510, 35th Floor, Robinsons-Equitable Tower, ADB Avenue, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Metro Manila, Philippines 1605 Tel: +63-2-395-2843 Fax: +63-2-395-2846 http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia Skype : sudhirgota -- Sudhir Gota Transport Specialist CAI-Asia Center Unit 3510, 35th Floor, Robinsons-Equitable Tower, ADB Avenue, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Metro Manila, Philippines 1605 Tel: +63-2-395-2843 Fax: +63-2-395-2846 http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia Skype : sudhirgota -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jca.apc.org/public/sustran-discuss/attachments/20081219/cf33249e/attachment-0001.html ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:43:10 +0530 From: "Vinay Baindur" Subject: [sustran] Wheeling, dealing Reform Of Urban Transport Essential But Utopian To: "Hasiru Usiru" , CAF2 Message-ID: <86b8a7050812190613r247ade40w28c72557ca682526@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Wheeling, dealing Reform Of Urban Transport Essential But Utopian Suhit Sen http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=3&theme=&usrsess=1&id=236316 For once the Centre has been presented with a plan that can go a long way towards decongesting our cities, improving urban air quality and meeting the challenge of climate change. The question is will the Centre accept the recommendations made under the National Action Plan on Climate Change and move fast to implement them. Let's take a look at the recommendations, which, let us also remember are not particularly radical or novel. Advocacy groups like the Centre for Science and Environment have been pushing a similar policy frame for years. At the heart of the recommendations lies the realisation that the state must adopt a policy that increasingly discourages the use of private vehicles by imposing costs that approximate more closely the real public costs and "externalities" ~ mainly environmental and health costs ~ involved in operating a private vehicle, while making the use of public mass transit systems more attractive. This is essential given that in Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad and Mumbai ~ the number of private vehicles is increasing four times faster than population, with the share of public transport falling from 69 per cent to 38 per cent between 1994 and 2007 in cities with 4 million people or more. Congestion charge In keeping with this realisation, a panel has suggested for now that congestion charges be imposed, parking fees be hiked to reflect the true cost of the use of space and remove hidden subsidies, corridors be dedicated to public-transport vehicles, the mass transport sector be made more competitive by reducing taxes and duties on them relative to those on private vehicles (in Delhi, for instance, private vehicles pay a lower road tax) and people be forced to prove that they have access to parking space before acquiring a vehicle. This is a good beginning, though many more recommendations can be added to the list ~ fiscal disincentives for sports utility vehicles and other gas-guzzlers, similar disincentives for private diesel vehicles along with more stringent emissions norms not just for vehicles but also for fuel (mainly to phase out low-grade diesel, which is absurdly polluting). Hopefully the final recommendations of the panel ~ the Mission on Sustainable Habitat ~ will be more comprehensive. What will it take to put in place a policy that will move people into mass transportation away from personal vehicles and bring clean fuels and engines on to the roads? Simple: an uphill struggle to cut the massive power of the automobile and oil industries and its lobbyists down to size. The world over, these two industries have persistently blocked all attempts to reduce dependence on hydrocarbons through the implementation of fiscal and other measures that penalise fuels and technologies responsible for greenhouse-gas emissions and help the development of technologies that are not or less dependent on fossil fuel ~ hybrids, hydrogen-based fuel cells and so on. Nowhere have the oil and automobile industries been as powerful as they have in the US, as a recent book by two staffers of The Economist unpicks in great detail. While Japanese companies ~ principally Toyota ~ have gone ahead with innovative emissions-control technologies, the US's big three automakers have been as dinosaur-like in their approach as the US federal government has been till date. For this they have been rewarded with repeated bailouts ~ the mother of which is in the pipeline. In India too, however, state policy has failed to encourage alternative technologies and mass rapid transport systems, by and large, though some take an inordinately rosy view of the country's ability to "leapfrog". The CNG story is just getting off the ground ~ of which more later ~ but, for instance, the Reva, an electrically powered car, has hardly made any impact on Indian cities. Part of the reason is poor marketing ~ but, equally, it has received no state support in the shape of fiscal breaks or the kind of patronage that Hindustan Motors continues to get in the shape of government orders. Small is not sexy, environment-friendly is even less so. Policy initiatives to encourage public transport or discourage emissions haven't gone down too well. The vehicle-owning class in Delhi has gone ballistic about the bus rapid transport corridor that the Delhi government has begun experimenting with. While it may be true that the project was not designed ideally, the point Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit made ~ don't throw the baby out with the bathwater ~ has received very little sympathy. A differential fiscal regime sought to be introduced by Ms Dikshit's government to control emissions was almost blocked by the automobile lobby. The Delhi administration still remains somewhat enlightened. Elsewhere the dinosaurs still stalk the earth. Take the West Bengal government. Kolkata is in an ironically enviable situation. Public transport, from intuitive and tendentious evidence, seems to have a bigger constituency in the city even among the kind of people who can afford private vehicles compared to other big cities, if only as a result of the state's steady deindustrialisation and relative poverty. The state government could have turned this into an opportunity ~ making a virtue of necessity, if you will ~ to aggressively push mass transport and emissions control. It hasn't, because it is a prisoner of corrupt, self-serving syndicates and unions it has promoted for three decades, which means public, mass transport remains mired in a huge mess. Despite being the first city to get metro services, Kolkata has not seen an expansion of the network largely because an inept government couldn't be bothered to push ahead. Recently mooted extensions are behind schedule, badly conceived or so ambitious in scope as to attract derision from citizens who still remember the fiasco of the disruptive construction that blighted the city for years. The circular railway is an expensive bauble that makes a very small impact on the city's transportation needs. No one who has an option would like to use the city's bus system because that, currently, is life-threatening. There has been no attempt to discipline the system so to make it a comfortable and safe commute, which, moreover, does not create mayhem on the roads. Public initiative The shuttle autorickshaw network connecting to the Metro line was an innovation that could have worked wonders ~ come to think of it, it still does, despite the odds ~ if, again, some policing had been in evidence. What is desperately needed is the simple enforcement of traffic and safety rules to begin with. Then, of course, is the question of clean fuel and technology for emissions control. The government brought forward a high court directive to phase out polluting two-stroke engines for both two-wheelers and three-wheelers and specified that autorickshaws would have to convert to LPG or CNG mode by the end of this year. Pressure from owners' syndicates and unions on the specious plea that livelihoods would be affected ~ specious because the scheme envisages generous support from the government, automakers and banks ~ has meant that the plan has gone into deep hibernation. Don't hold your breath for change, though you really should in India's most polluted city. Citizens, governments and advocacy groups must come together to propagate some simple ideas about transportation. First, owning and operating a car is all about mobility and "liberation" ~ US-style. This objective is defeated if private cars choke the roads so badly that the best you can do is 10-15 km/hr, depending on the city you are in. A comfortable mass transport network would help; citizens have to push for it. Second, pollution is a reality that affects everyone ~ again, a cross-class citizens' initiative is needed to force governments to take action. Third, climate change is not a figment of some extra-terrestrial green imagination. Without compromising development, emissions control has to be prioritised ~ and transportation is the easiest sector to start with. Any takers? The writer is Senior Editor, The Statesman -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Vehicle sales in Japan 2008/2009 Message-ID: <7e2a2770812220150r2d851b1ew642d8a2567002656@mail.gmail.com> Hi all, Does anyone have similar statistics for other Asian countries? Cornie ------ December 18, 2008 Forecast for Japan's Passenger Car & Commercial Vehicle Demand in Calendar Year 2009 *See also: http://www.jama-english.jp/statistics/forecast/2009/081218.html * *Motor Vehicles* *1. Total Demand for Passenger Cars & Commercial Vehicles* 1. Total sales of passenger cars and commercial vehicles in Japan in calendar 2008 should finish at 5.11 million units, a decline of 4.5% from the previous year. Demand for passenger cars is estimated at 4.25 million units (down 3.3% from 2007); for trucks, at 843,000 units (down 10.1%); and for buses, at 15,400 units (down 1.4%). The decline in sales of both passenger cars and commercial vehicles is attributable to the economic slowdown and sinking consumer confidence caused by soaring fuel prices in the first half of the year, as well as a dramatically deteriorating economy, starting in autumn, resulting from the U.S.-spawned global financial crisis. 2. The projection for 2009 is that the harsh economic climate prevailing in late 2008 will continue. Stagnant corporate earnings, sluggish consumer spending (due to deteriorating employment and income environments) and other adverse trends are forecast to result in a total demand for passenger cars and commercial vehicles of 4.86 million units, down 4.9% from 2008. Passenger car demand should reach 4.05 million units, down 4.8% from 2008, with demand for trucks and buses totalling 796,000 units and 14,100 units respectively, down 5.6% and 8.4%. *2. Standard & Small-Sized Passenger Cars* 1. Sales of standard and small-sized passenger cars in 2008 should total 2.82 million units, a year-on-year decline of 4.7%. While the introduction of new models yielded positive results in the first half of the year, it is anticipated that the negative factors mentioned above (high fuel prices and the economic downturn) will indeed push the total sales figure for these vehicles below the 2007 level. 2. Demand for standard and small-sized cars in 2009 is forecast at 2.62 million units, down a significant 7.1% from 2008, reflecting the impact of continued negative trends such as sluggish consumer spending resulting from weak employment and income environments. *3. Mini Passenger Cars* 1. Minicar sales in 2008 are estimated at 1,439,000 units, down 0.6% from the previous year. Despite the favorable impact of new and restyled models introduced in the autumn, the overall drop is chiefly attributable to declining consumer confidence in a deteriorating economic climate. 2. In 2009, despite an anticipated continued boost from the new and restyled models introduced in late 2008, consumer spending is expected to remain weak owing to the adverse employment and income environments. As a result, total demand in this category in 2009 is forecast at 1,435,000 units, a dip of 0.3% from 2008. *4. Standard Trucks* 1. Standard truck demand in 2008 is projected at 147,000 units, down 14.5% from 2007 owing to a combination of factors, including declines in capital investment, reduced payloads and other trends linked to the surge in fuel prices and the economic downturn. Demand for heavy-duty and medium-sized trucks is expected to finish at 74,500 units, a 16.5% plunge from the 2007 level. 1. In 2009 sales in this category are forecast at 128,000 units, down 12.9% from 2008, reflecting what is projected to be a continued harsh economic environment. Demand for heavy-duty and medium-sized trucks should stand at 62,000 units, a year-on-year decline of 16.8%. *5. Small Trucks* 1. Small truck sales in 2008 are estimated at 252,000 units, down 14.0% from the previous year owing to various factors including the sharp rise in fuel prices and the deteriorating economy. 2. Despite the negative economic projections for 2009, the introduction of new models and other positive factors should help bring demand in this category to 250,000 units, a dip of only 0.8% compared to 2008. *6. Mini-Trucks* 1. Mini-truck demand in 2008 should total 444,000 units, down 6.1% from the previous year. The drop is attributable to changes in market structure caused by shrinking numbers of small retailers and farmers (the primary users of these vehicles) as well as an overall decline in business confidence. 2. In 2009, owing to a continuation of the aforementioned trends, demand in this category is forecast at 418,000 units, down 5.9% from 2008. *7. Large Buses* 1. Sales of large buses in 2008 are estimated at 5,300 units, a gain of 2.9% over 2007. Replacement demand for these vehicles is the main factor behind this growth. 2. In 2009, however, this growth trend is not expected to continue under the impact of harsh economic conditions. Demand for large buses will likely not exceed 4,200 units, plummeting 20.8% from the previous year. *8. Small Buses* 1. Steady replacement demand will have helped sales of small buses in 2008 to finish at a projected 10,100 units, down 3.5% from 2007. 2. In 2009 sales in this category should continue to be buoyed by replacement demand, resulting in a final annual sales performance of 9,900 units, a 2.0% drop from 2008. *Motorcycles* *1. Total Demand for Motorcycles* A number of negative factors have impacted Japan's motorcycle market this year, including higher vehicle prices reflecting mandatory compliance with new emissions regulations (enforced in 2006, 2007 or 2008, depending on motorcycle type etc.) as well as a deteriorating economic environment stemming from the global financial crisis. Demand has also declined as a result of stronger crackdowns on illegal parking (starting in 2006) and the chronic shortage of motorcycle parking bays in cities and towns. On the other hand, surging fuel prices have underscored for consumers the economy and convenience of motorcycles in the 51-to-125cc category (or "Class-2 motor-driven cycles" as they are called in Japan) and smaller models. Nevertheless, and despite other positive developments such as new product launches, domestic market conditions are severe. Against this backdrop, total current and upcoming demand is forecast as follows. 1. Total motorcycle demand in Japan in calendar 2008 is estimated at 570,000 units, down 21.1% from 2007. Declining sales have been recorded in all motorcycle categories except for the aforementioned 51-to-125cc category. 2. In 2009 sales declines are projected in all model categories, with total domestic motorcycle demand expected to drop to 498,000 units, down 12.6% from 2008. *2. Class-1 Motor-Driven Cycles (50cc & under)* 1. Sales of Class-1 motor-driven cycles in 2008 are estimated at 297,000 units, a 35.2% plunge from the previous year. In addition to higher vehicle price tags resulting from compliance with stricter emissions regulations, this major decline also reflects the impact of stronger crackdowns on illegal parking linked to motorcycle parking bay shortages. 2. In 2009, as a result of the continued impact of higher vehicle prices, limited parking availability and other negative factors including a shift to bicycle use, sales in this category will likely not exceed 270,000 units, a drop of 9.1% from 2008. *3. Class-2 Motor-Driven Cycles (51cc-125cc)* 1. Demand for Class-2 motor-driven cycles in 2008 should reach 123,000 units, a 22.1% surge over 2007. The factors behind this gain include an increasingly favorable consumer assessment of their economy in the light of soaring fuel prices and, therefore, a wider use of these vehicles for commuting to work or school, as well as a rush of last-minute purchases prior to scheduled vehicle price hikes. 2. In 2009 demand in this category is expected to plummet 26.8% from 2008 to 90,000 units, as a result of higher vehicle prices caused by mandatory compliance with emissions regulations and, also, a smaller number of models on the market. *4. Mini-Sized Motorcycles (126cc-250cc)* 1. Mini-sized motorcycle sales in 2008 are forecast at 72,000 units, down 12.0% from 2007. Because these motorcycles enjoy particularly high demand in urban areas, the lack of parking bays in cities and towns has been the single most important factor in their diminished sales, with an additional factor being higher vehicle prices resulting from mandatory compliance with emissions requirements. 2. Because of the continued impact of the aforementioned factors, sales in this category in 2009 are projected to drop to 64,000 units, down 11.1% from 2008. *5. Small-Sized Motorcycles (over 250cc)* 1. Sales of small-sized motorcycles in 2008 should finish at 78,000 units, a drop of 4.7% from the previous year. Although compliance with emissions regulations also resulted in price hikes for vehicles in this category, there was a stronger demand for these larger models for the purpose of recreational use than for models in other categories, especially among middle-aged riders. 2. In 2009, although demand in this category for recreational purposes is expected to remain firm, negative factors will include increased price tags for models in the 400cc-and-over class as a result of emissions regulations compliance. Overall demand in this category in 2009 is therefore projected at 74,000 units, down 5.1% from 2008. 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See http://www.climate-l.org/2008/12/cdm-executive-1.html, follow the lead to http://cdm.unfccc.int/Panels/meth/call_SE_1208.html and apply if you feel that you can make a useful input for Transport and CDM! best regards, Cornie -- Cornie Huizenga Executive Director CAI-Asia Center www://cleanairnet.org/caiasia cornie.huizenga@cai-asia.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jca.apc.org/public/sustran-discuss/attachments/20081222/fcbce7cb/attachment.html From carlosfpardo at gmail.com Tue Dec 23 22:36:32 2008 From: carlosfpardo at gmail.com (Carlosfelipe Pardo) Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:36:32 +0000 Subject: [sustran] Re: Time to change our graphs? Vehicle sales in Japan 2008/2009 In-Reply-To: <7e2a2770812220150r2d851b1ew642d8a2567002656@mail.gmail.com> References: <7e2a2770812220150r2d851b1ew642d8a2567002656@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <4950E960.5010106@gmail.com> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jca.apc.org/public/sustran-discuss/attachments/20081223/6e747e03/attachment.html From c_bradshaw at rogers.com Tue Dec 23 06:08:57 2008 From: c_bradshaw at rogers.com (Chris Bradshaw) Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:08:57 -0500 Subject: [sustran] Re: R2W and Pedestrian Safety Plan References: <494b3d5a.16098e0a.3c17.ffff9cd6@mx.google.com> Message-ID: <059401c96513$d67f22d0$0202a8c0@acer56fb35423d> Kanthi, > In the last week there has been some progress in the R2W Campaign. What we > need at this stage is to give the GHMC a document with a clear cut plan on > Pedestrian Safety. > The Commissioner and the Special commissioner seem to be interested in > taking Pedestrian Safety as an issue. Please do send in your thoughts to > make this document comprehensive and implementable. I am probably in no position to imagine the walking conditions in your city and country. There seems to be so much that needs to be done that part of the problem is to decide what to focus on first. Western countries definitely haven't got it right yet. Obviously, focus on the streets with the most traffic and most 'conflicts'. These streets require the greatest sidewalk widths. Don't forget to use public education to communicate safe behaviour by all parties (not just pedestrians), along with effective enforcement. I would also invite you to post this query to the Pednet listserv (for pedestrian activists and walking advocates). Go to www.flora.org to get more information and to subscribe. Chris Bradshaw pednet list-owner, Ottawa, Canada From jbs at u.washington.edu Wed Dec 24 07:26:25 2008 From: jbs at u.washington.edu (Jerry Schneider) Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:26:25 -0800 (PST) Subject: [sustran] Re: Time to change our graphs? Vehicle sales in Japan 2008/2009 In-Reply-To: <4950E960.5010106@gmail.com> References: <7e2a2770812220150r2d851b1ew642d8a2567002656@mail.gmail.com> <4950E960.5010106@gmail.com> Message-ID: On Tue, 23 Dec 2008, Carlosfelipe Pardo wrote: > Cornie and all, > > Though not Asian, it may be relevant: In Colombia, car sales have been in > their 2 best years 2007 (250 thousand units sold) and 2008 (approx 220 > thousand units sold). 2009 is expected to be lower, around 180 thousand. > So it was an emerging industry that will now "de-emerge"... > > These news, along with the recent news from Toyota of their first yearly > loss in 71 years and the big 3's "bailout" (which may just be a big > expenditure in a dying sector, like trying to resucitate the typewriter > industry in the beginning of the computer age), may mean that we're at > the end of something... or at the beginning of something else? However, > we were thinking the same with oil barrels at USD 140+, and now they're > "stabilising". > > Any ideas on what may the "something else" may be? It was easier before, > because we could say it was "The Age of the _____" and fill in the blank > with a vehicle. What should we say now? A fuel, or a specific mode... or > plain nothing? Maybe nothing is good. There are more than 100 possibilities for the "something else" lable at http://faculty.washington.edu/jbs/itrans/techtable.htm - all require "thinking beyond the car". See any that you like? you like? - Jerry Schneider, Prof. Emeritus - Innovative Transportation Technologies website: http://faculty.washington.edu/jbs/itrans From horst.preschern at avl.com Wed Dec 24 13:16:18 2008 From: horst.preschern at avl.com (Preschern Horst AVL/GRZ) Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 05:16:18 +0100 Subject: [sustran] Re: [cai-asia] Time to change our graphs? Vehicle sales in Japan 2008/2009 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <2CF35090055994438AAFF5984EDC33290839CF33@ATGRZMS002.avl01.avlcorp.lan> All, how nice- however it is to fear that all such statistics by now are becoming scrap. As my own boss once tought me- when I presented wonderful looking 5-years forecasts to him: "None of us is able to predict the future- what we can do is to set up our organization in a way allowing us utmost flexibility to match the dynamics of market changes...." Have a nice season! Horst AVL _________________________________________________________________________________________ AVL List GmbH, Firmensitz: Graz, Firmenbuchnummer: FN 53507M, Landesgericht fuer ZRS Graz ________________________________ From: Cornie Huizenga [mailto:cornie.huizenga@cai-asia.org] Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 16:50 To: Clean Air Initiative -- Asia Cc: sustran-discuss@list.jca.apc.org; Lee Schipper; Bert Fabian; Sudhir; jleather@adb.org; Dalkmann, Holger; FULTON Lew, IEA/SPT/ETP; CAZZOLA Pierpaolo, IEA/SPT/ETP Subject: [cai-asia] Time to change our graphs? Vehicle sales in Japan 2008/2009 Hi all, Does anyone have similar statistics for other Asian countries? Cornie ------ December 18, 2008 Forecast for Japan's Passenger Car & Commercial Vehicle Demand in Calendar Year 2009 See also: http://www.jama-english.jp/statistics/forecast/2009/081218.html Motor Vehicles 1. Total Demand for Passenger Cars & Commercial Vehicles 1. Total sales of passenger cars and commercial vehicles in Japan in calendar 2008 should finish at 5.11 million units, a decline of 4.5% from the previous year. Demand for passenger cars is estimated at 4.25 million units (down 3.3% from 2007); for trucks, at 843,000 units (down 10.1%); and for buses, at 15,400 units (down 1.4%). The decline in sales of both passenger cars and commercial vehicles is attributable to the economic slowdown and sinking consumer confidence caused by soaring fuel prices in the first half of the year, as well as a dramatically deteriorating economy, starting in autumn, resulting from the U.S.-spawned global financial crisis. 2. The projection for 2009 is that the harsh economic climate prevailing in late 2008 will continue. Stagnant corporate earnings, sluggish consumer spending (due to deteriorating employment and income environments) and other adverse trends are forecast to result in a total demand for passenger cars and commercial vehicles of 4.86 million units, down 4.9% from 2008. Passenger car demand should reach 4.05 million units, down 4.8% from 2008, with demand for trucks and buses totalling 796,000 units and 14,100 units respectively, down 5.6% and 8.4%. 2. Standard & Small-Sized Passenger Cars 1. Sales of standard and small-sized passenger cars in 2008 should total 2.82 million units, a year-on-year decline of 4.7%. While the introduction of new models yielded positive results in the first half of the year, it is anticipated that the negative factors mentioned above (high fuel prices and the economic downturn) will indeed push the total sales figure for these vehicles below the 2007 level. 2. Demand for standard and small-sized cars in 2009 is forecast at 2.62 million units, down a significant 7.1% from 2008, reflecting the impact of continued negative trends such as sluggish consumer spending resulting from weak employment and income environments. 3. Mini Passenger Cars 1. Minicar sales in 2008 are estimated at 1,439,000 units, down 0.6% from the previous year. Despite the favorable impact of new and restyled models introduced in the autumn, the overall drop is chiefly attributable to declining consumer confidence in a deteriorating economic climate. 2. In 2009, despite an anticipated continued boost from the new and restyled models introduced in late 2008, consumer spending is expected to remain weak owing to the adverse employment and income environments. As a result, total demand in this category in 2009 is forecast at 1,435,000 units, a dip of 0.3% from 2008. 4. Standard Trucks 1. Standard truck demand in 2008 is projected at 147,000 units, down 14.5% from 2007 owing to a combination of factors, including declines in capital investment, reduced payloads and other trends linked to the surge in fuel prices and the economic downturn. Demand for heavy-duty and medium-sized trucks is expected to finish at 74,500 units, a 16.5% plunge from the 2007 level. 2. In 2009 sales in this category are forecast at 128,000 units, down 12.9% from 2008, reflecting what is projected to be a continued harsh economic environment. Demand for heavy-duty and medium-sized trucks should stand at 62,000 units, a year-on-year decline of 16.8%. 5. Small Trucks 1. Small truck sales in 2008 are estimated at 252,000 units, down 14.0% from the previous year owing to various factors including the sharp rise in fuel prices and the deteriorating economy. 2. Despite the negative economic projections for 2009, the introduction of new models and other positive factors should help bring demand in this category to 250,000 units, a dip of only 0.8% compared to 2008. 6. Mini-Trucks 1. Mini-truck demand in 2008 should total 444,000 units, down 6.1% from the previous year. The drop is attributable to changes in market structure caused by shrinking numbers of small retailers and farmers (the primary users of these vehicles) as well as an overall decline in business confidence. 2. In 2009, owing to a continuation of the aforementioned trends, demand in this category is forecast at 418,000 units, down 5.9% from 2008. 7. Large Buses 1. Sales of large buses in 2008 are estimated at 5,300 units, a gain of 2.9% over 2007. Replacement demand for these vehicles is the main factor behind this growth. 2. In 2009, however, this growth trend is not expected to continue under the impact of harsh economic conditions. Demand for large buses will likely not exceed 4,200 units, plummeting 20.8% from the previous year. 8. Small Buses 1. Steady replacement demand will have helped sales of small buses in 2008 to finish at a projected 10,100 units, down 3.5% from 2007. 2. In 2009 sales in this category should continue to be buoyed by replacement demand, resulting in a final annual sales performance of 9,900 units, a 2.0% drop from 2008. Motorcycles 1. Total Demand for Motorcycles A number of negative factors have impacted Japan's motorcycle market this year, including higher vehicle prices reflecting mandatory compliance with new emissions regulations (enforced in 2006, 2007 or 2008, depending on motorcycle type etc.) as well as a deteriorating economic environment stemming from the global financial crisis. Demand has also declined as a result of stronger crackdowns on illegal parking (starting in 2006) and the chronic shortage of motorcycle parking bays in cities and towns. On the other hand, surging fuel prices have underscored for consumers the economy and convenience of motorcycles in the 51-to-125cc category (or "Class-2 motor-driven cycles" as they are called in Japan) and smaller models. Nevertheless, and despite other positive developments such as new product launches, domestic market conditions are severe. Against this backdrop, total current and upcoming demand is forecast as follows. 1. Total motorcycle demand in Japan in calendar 2008 is estimated at 570,000 units, down 21.1% from 2007. Declining sales have been recorded in all motorcycle categories except for the aforementioned 51-to-125cc category. 2. In 2009 sales declines are projected in all model categories, with total domestic motorcycle demand expected to drop to 498,000 units, down 12.6% from 2008. 2. Class-1 Motor-Driven Cycles (50cc & under) 1. Sales of Class-1 motor-driven cycles in 2008 are estimated at 297,000 units, a 35.2% plunge from the previous year. In addition to higher vehicle price tags resulting from compliance with stricter emissions regulations, this major decline also reflects the impact of stronger crackdowns on illegal parking linked to motorcycle parking bay shortages. 2. In 2009, as a result of the continued impact of higher vehicle prices, limited parking availability and other negative factors including a shift to bicycle use, sales in this category will likely not exceed 270,000 units, a drop of 9.1% from 2008. 3. Class-2 Motor-Driven Cycles (51cc-125cc) 1. Demand for Class-2 motor-driven cycles in 2008 should reach 123,000 units, a 22.1% surge over 2007. The factors behind this gain include an increasingly favorable consumer assessment of their economy in the light of soaring fuel prices and, therefore, a wider use of these vehicles for commuting to work or school, as well as a rush of last-minute purchases prior to scheduled vehicle price hikes. 2. In 2009 demand in this category is expected to plummet 26.8% from 2008 to 90,000 units, as a result of higher vehicle prices caused by mandatory compliance with emissions regulations and, also, a smaller number of models on the market. 4. Mini-Sized Motorcycles (126cc-250cc) 1. Mini-sized motorcycle sales in 2008 are forecast at 72,000 units, down 12.0% from 2007. Because these motorcycles enjoy particularly high demand in urban areas, the lack of parking bays in cities and towns has been the single most important factor in their diminished sales, with an additional factor being higher vehicle prices resulting from mandatory compliance with emissions requirements. 2. Because of the continued impact of the aforementioned factors, sales in this category in 2009 are projected to drop to 64,000 units, down 11.1% from 2008. 5. Small-Sized Motorcycles (over 250cc) 1. Sales of small-sized motorcycles in 2008 should finish at 78,000 units, a drop of 4.7% from the previous year. Although compliance with emissions regulations also resulted in price hikes for vehicles in this category, there was a stronger demand for these larger models for the purpose of recreational use than for models in other categories, especially among middle-aged riders. 2. In 2009, although demand in this category for recreational purposes is expected to remain firm, negative factors will include increased price tags for models in the 400cc-and-over class as a result of emissions regulations compliance. Overall demand in this category in 2009 is therefore projected at 74,000 units, down 5.1% from 2008. PDF [Data chart attached (PDF)] -- Cornie Huizenga Executive Director CAI-Asia Center www://cleanairnet.org/caiasia cornie.huizenga@cai-asia.org --- You are currently subscribed to cai-asia as: horst.preschern@avl.com. To view archived messages, go to http://groups.google.com/group/cai-asia. Important note: This is a moderated listserv. If you encounter problems, or if you would like to remove your name from our listserv, email Mike Co [mike.co(at)cai-asia(dot)org] AND Gianina Panopio [gianina.panopio(at)cai-asia(dot)org] Please do not email your complaints directly to the listserv. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jca.apc.org/public/sustran-discuss/attachments/20081224/7f9973ce/attachment.html From litman at vtpi.org Thu Dec 25 01:49:35 2008 From: litman at vtpi.org (Todd Alexander Litman) Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 08:49:35 -0800 Subject: [sustran] Re: Time to change our graphs? Vehicle sales in Japan 2008/2009 In-Reply-To: References: <7e2a2770812220150r2d851b1ew642d8a2567002656@mail.gmail.com> <4950E960.5010106@gmail.com> Message-ID: <20081224164943.5D0682D900@mx-list.jca.ne.jp> The Twentieth Century was the period of the ascendency of the automobile. During that period, motor vehicle ownership and use grew from almost nothing to essentially saturation in developed countries. This provided significant benefits but also imposes significant economic, social and environmental costs. There is little justification for continuing to expand the highway system or support further increases in automobile travel since the marginal benefits are small while marginal costs are large. There are increasing benefits to diversifying our transportation system, including improvements to walking, cycling, ridesharing, public transportation, taxi services and telework, plus "smart growth" land use policies to support them. It makes sense for developing countries to continue to improve their highway system and accommodate some increases in automobile ownership, but if they are smart they will implement policies that result in an efficient and diverse transportation system, based on a mutli-modal European model rather than an automobile-dependent North American model. For more information see: "The Future Isn't What It Used To Be" (http://www.vtpi.org/future.pdf ) Bruce Katz and Robert Puentes (2006), "Remaking Transportation Policy for the New Century: Speech To The Institute of Transportation Engineers," Brookings Institute (http://www.brookings.edu/metro/speeches/20060123_trb.pdf ). Best wishes, -Todd Litman At 02:26 PM 23/12/2008, Jerry Schneider wrote: >On Tue, 23 Dec 2008, Carlosfelipe Pardo wrote: > > > Cornie and all, > > > > Though not Asian, it may be relevant: In Colombia, car sales have been in > > their 2 best years 2007 (250 thousand units sold) and 2008 (approx 220 > > thousand units sold). 2009 is expected to be lower, around 180 thousand. > > So it was an emerging industry that will now "de-emerge"... > > > > These news, along with the recent news from Toyota of their first yearly > > loss in 71 years and the big 3's "bailout" (which may just be a big > > expenditure in a dying sector, like trying to resucitate the typewriter > > industry in the beginning of the computer age), may mean that we're at > > the end of something... or at the beginning of something else? However, > > we were thinking the same with oil barrels at USD 140+, and now they're > > "stabilising". > > > > Any ideas on what may the "something else" may be? It was easier before, > > because we could say it was "The Age of the _____" and fill in the blank > > with a vehicle. What should we say now? A fuel, or a specific mode... or > > plain nothing? Maybe nothing is good. Sincerely, Todd Alexander Litman Victoria Transport Policy Institute (www.vtpi.org) litman@vtpi.org Phone & Fax 250-360-1560 1250 Rudlin Street, Victoria, BC, V8V 3R7, CANADA "Efficiency - Equity - Clarity" -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jca.apc.org/public/sustran-discuss/attachments/20081224/4e0ae74a/attachment.html From fionna.prins at vsnl.com Wed Dec 24 18:36:27 2008 From: fionna.prins at vsnl.com (fionna.prins) Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 10:36:27 +0100 Subject: [sustran] Re: [cai-asia] Time to change our graphs? Vehicle sales in Japan 2008/2009 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4952029B.3000601@vsnl.com> Dear Cornie, We can provide production, sales and parc forecasts for: Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, India and China. Let me know if you are interested and in the meantime wishing everybody great Christmas holidays. With kind regards, Fionna Segment Y Automotive Intelligence Pvt. Ltd. 128 Moica Vaddo, Pilerne 403 114, Bardez, Goa, India tel: +91 832 240 2469, mob: +91 982 216 7457, www.segmenty.com Cornie Huizenga wrote: > > Hi all, > > Does anyone have similar statistics for other Asian countries? > > Cornie > > > ------ > > December 18, 2008 > > > Forecast for Japan's Passenger Car & Commercial Vehicle Demand in > Calendar Year 2009 > > _*See also: > http://www.jama-english.jp/statistics/forecast/2009/081218.html > *_ > > _*Motor Vehicles*_ > > *1. Total Demand for Passenger Cars & Commercial Vehicles* > > 1. Total sales of passenger cars and commercial vehicles in Japan > in calendar 2008 should finish at 5.11 million units, a decline > of 4.5% from the previous year. Demand for passenger cars is > estimated at 4.25 million units (down 3.3% from 2007); for > trucks, at 843,000 units (down 10.1%); and for buses, at 15,400 > units (down 1.4%). The decline in sales of both passenger cars > and commercial vehicles is attributable to the economic slowdown > and sinking consumer confidence caused by soaring fuel prices in > the first half of the year, as well as a dramatically > deteriorating economy, starting in autumn, resulting from the > U.S.-spawned global financial crisis. > > 2. The projection for 2009 is that the harsh economic climate > prevailing in late 2008 will continue. Stagnant corporate > earnings, sluggish consumer spending (due to deteriorating > employment and income environments) and other adverse trends are > forecast to result in a total demand for passenger cars and > commercial vehicles of 4.86 million units, down 4.9% from 2008. > Passenger car demand should reach 4.05 million units, down 4.8% > from 2008, with demand for trucks and buses totalling 796,000 > units and 14,100 units respectively, down 5.6% and 8.4%. > > *2. Standard & Small-Sized Passenger Cars* > > 1. Sales of standard and small-sized passenger cars in 2008 should > total 2.82 million units, a year-on-year decline of 4.7%. While > the introduction of new models yielded positive results in the > first half of the year, it is anticipated that the negative > factors mentioned above (high fuel prices and the economic > downturn) will indeed push the total sales figure for these > vehicles below the 2007 level. > > 2. Demand for standard and small-sized cars in 2009 is forecast at > 2.62 million units, down a significant 7.1% from 2008, > reflecting the impact of continued negative trends such as > sluggish consumer spending resulting from weak employment and > income environments. > > *3. Mini Passenger Cars* > > 1. Minicar sales in 2008 are estimated at 1,439,000 units, down > 0.6% from the previous year. Despite the favorable impact of new > and restyled models introduced in the autumn, the overall drop > is chiefly attributable to declining consumer confidence in a > deteriorating economic climate. > > 2. In 2009, despite an anticipated continued boost from the new and > restyled models introduced in late 2008, consumer spending is > expected to remain weak owing to the adverse employment and > income environments. As a result, total demand in this category > in 2009 is forecast at 1,435,000 units, a dip of 0.3% from 2008. > > *4. Standard Trucks* > > 1. Standard truck demand in 2008 is projected at 147,000 units, > down 14.5% from 2007 owing to a combination of factors, > including declines in capital investment, reduced payloads and > other trends linked to the surge in fuel prices and the economic > downturn. Demand for heavy-duty and medium-sized trucks is > expected to finish at 74,500 units, a 16.5% plunge from the 2007 > level. > > 2. In 2009 sales in this category are forecast at 128,000 units, > down 12.9% from 2008, reflecting what is projected to be a > continued harsh economic environment. Demand for heavy-duty and > medium-sized trucks should stand at 62,000 units, a year-on-year > decline of 16.8%. > > *5. Small Trucks* > > 1. Small truck sales in 2008 are estimated at 252,000 units, down > 14.0% from the previous year owing to various factors including > the sharp rise in fuel prices and the deteriorating economy. > > 2. Despite the negative economic projections for 2009, the > introduction of new models and other positive factors should > help bring demand in this category to 250,000 units, a dip of > only 0.8% compared to 2008. > > *6. Mini-Trucks* > > 1. Mini-truck demand in 2008 should total 444,000 units, down 6.1% > from the previous year. The drop is attributable to changes in > market structure caused by shrinking numbers of small retailers > and farmers (the primary users of these vehicles) as well as an > overall decline in business confidence. > > 2. In 2009, owing to a continuation of the aforementioned trends, > demand in this category is forecast at 418,000 units, down 5.9% > from 2008. > > *7. Large Buses* > > 1. Sales of large buses in 2008 are estimated at 5,300 units, a > gain of 2.9% over 2007. Replacement demand for these vehicles is > the main factor behind this growth. > > 2. In 2009, however, this growth trend is not expected to continue > under the impact of harsh economic conditions. Demand for large > buses will likely not exceed 4,200 units, plummeting 20.8% from > the previous year. > > *8. Small Buses* > > 1. Steady replacement demand will have helped sales of small buses > in 2008 to finish at a projected 10,100 units, down 3.5% from 2007. > > 2. In 2009 sales in this category should continue to be buoyed by > replacement demand, resulting in a final annual sales > performance of 9,900 units, a 2.0% drop from 2008. > > *_Motorcycles_* > > *1. Total Demand for Motorcycles* > > A number of negative factors have impacted Japan's motorcycle market > this year, including higher vehicle prices reflecting mandatory > compliance with new emissions regulations (enforced in 2006, 2007 or > 2008, depending on motorcycle type etc.) as well as a deteriorating > economic environment stemming from the global financial crisis. Demand > has also declined as a result of stronger crackdowns on illegal > parking (starting in 2006) and the chronic shortage of motorcycle > parking bays in cities and towns. On the other hand, surging fuel > prices have underscored for consumers the economy and convenience of > motorcycles in the 51-to-125cc category (or "Class-2 motor-driven > cycles" as they are called in Japan) and smaller models. Nevertheless, > and despite other positive developments such as new product launches, > domestic market conditions are severe. Against this backdrop, total > current and upcoming demand is forecast as follows. > > 1. Total motorcycle demand in Japan in calendar 2008 is estimated > at 570,000 units, down 21.1% from 2007. Declining sales have > been recorded in all motorcycle categories except for the > aforementioned 51-to-125cc category. > > 2. In 2009 sales declines are projected in all model categories, > with total domestic motorcycle demand expected to drop to > 498,000 units, down 12.6% from 2008. > > *2. Class-1 Motor-Driven Cycles (50cc & under)* > > 1. Sales of Class-1 motor-driven cycles in 2008 are estimated at > 297,000 units, a 35.2% plunge from the previous year. In > addition to higher vehicle price tags resulting from compliance > with stricter emissions regulations, this major decline also > reflects the impact of stronger crackdowns on illegal parking > linked to motorcycle parking bay shortages. > > 2. In 2009, as a result of the continued impact of higher vehicle > prices, limited parking availability and other negative factors > including a shift to bicycle use, sales in this category will > likely not exceed 270,000 units, a drop of 9.1% from 2008. > > *3. Class-2 Motor-Driven Cycles (51cc-125cc)* > > 1. Demand for Class-2 motor-driven cycles in 2008 should reach > 123,000 units, a 22.1% surge over 2007. The factors behind this > gain include an increasingly favorable consumer assessment of > their economy in the light of soaring fuel prices and, > therefore, a wider use of these vehicles for commuting to work > or school, as well as a rush of last-minute purchases prior to > scheduled vehicle price hikes. > > 2. In 2009 demand in this category is expected to plummet 26.8% > from 2008 to 90,000 units, as a result of higher vehicle prices > caused by mandatory compliance with emissions regulations and, > also, a smaller number of models on the market. > > *4. Mini-Sized Motorcycles (126cc-250cc)* > > 1. Mini-sized motorcycle sales in 2008 are forecast at 72,000 > units, down 12.0% from 2007. Because these motorcycles enjoy > particularly high demand in urban areas, the lack of parking > bays in cities and towns has been the single most important > factor in their diminished sales, with an additional factor > being higher vehicle prices resulting from mandatory compliance > with emissions requirements. > > 2. Because of the continued impact of the aforementioned factors, > sales in this category in 2009 are projected to drop to 64,000 > units, down 11.1% from 2008. > > *5. Small-Sized Motorcycles (over 250cc)* > > 1. Sales of small-sized motorcycles in 2008 should finish at 78,000 > units, a drop of 4.7% from the previous year. Although > compliance with emissions regulations also resulted in price > hikes for vehicles in this category, there was a stronger demand > for these larger models for the purpose of recreational use than > for models in other categories, especially among middle-aged riders. > > 2. In 2009, although demand in this category for recreational > purposes is expected to remain firm, negative factors will > include increased price tags for models in the 400cc-and-over > class as a result of emissions regulations compliance. Overall > demand in this category in 2009 is therefore projected at 74,000 > units, down 5.1% from 2008. > > PDF[Data chart attached (PDF)] > > > > > -- > Cornie Huizenga > Executive Director > CAI-Asia Center > www://cleanairnet.org/caiasia > cornie.huizenga@cai-asia.org > --- You are currently subscribed to cai-asia as: > fionna.prins@vsnl.com. To view archived messages, go to > http://groups.google.com/group/cai-asia. Important note: This is a > moderated listserv. 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Vehicle sales in Japan 2008/2009 In-Reply-To: <7e2a2770812220150r2d851b1ew642d8a2567002656@mail.gmail.com> References: <7e2a2770812220150r2d851b1ew642d8a2567002656@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <86b8a7050812242152x703d44ddoaeb707da2f8caaea@mail.gmail.com> The report of the India Parliamentary Committee on Urban Development on Urban Transport Dec 2008 good wishes Vinay Baindur -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jca.apc.org/public/sustran-discuss/attachments/20081225/a11cca3c/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Hassaan Institutional Development Specialist Urban Sector Policy and Management Unit (The Urban Unit) Planning & Development Department, Government of the Punjab A: 4-B Lytton Road, Lahore, Pakistan T: 9213579-84 (Ext.116) F: 9213585 M: 0345 455 6016 Skype: halgazel http://hghazali.googlepages.com *When conditions are right, everything will go wrong* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jca.apc.org/public/sustran-discuss/attachments/20081229/26727f21/attachment.html From eric.britton at ecoplan.org Tue Dec 30 17:28:40 2008 From: eric.britton at ecoplan.org (eric britton) Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:28:40 +0100 Subject: [sustran] When all the Chinese have cars! Update: Xiamen plans to build a bike traffic network Message-ID: On Behalf Of Rory McMullan Dear Eric and others who may be interested, On my extended tour of China, I am spending some days on the lovely car free island of Gu lan yu, a few hundred metres across a narrow strait from the busy town of Xiamen with its fantastic brand new BRT system. Just a few days ago I visited the amazing folk at the local environmental protection NGO XiaMen Green Cross, who organise the car free day here. They told me the sad news that a man had been killed that morning on a bike, and his head was completely squashed, making their job of promoting green transport even more difficult. I suggested they should campaign get bike lanes back into the city, since they have completely dissappered even though the majority of people do not own cars. They of course told me that they had been working to protect bike lanes for over a decade, so far without much success, although some roads they have campaigned for, have now been pedestrianised. Then opening my email this morning, I found an email from a friend at Beijing Transport University with this good news.... (translated using google I'm afraid, but you should get the idea) http://www.tranbbs. com/news/cnnews/Construction/news_36353.shtml Xiamen plans to build a bike traffic network Future in Xiamen, the public will be able to easily bike or walk by the shortest route between the approach of district. In yesterday's mayor on the green, Xiamen Planning Secretary Zhao Jing said, Xiamen Road, consider the introduction of non-motorized system. ÕÔ¾Ö³¤said that in the future, bicycle travel system will form a ring around the whole city traffic. In Xiamen between every two residential building, must be set aside a channel in order to protect the bike and walking can be smoothly carried out, the public so long as cycling or walking, you can easily reach another district. In addition, Xiamen will be divided into three regions to build the region on foot, and divided by color, which specifically refers to urban green area built-up area outside the context of the mountain, mainly to satisfy the public mountaineering, leisure, sports requirements; orange region is the urban built-up area in the public walk from the main regional daily life; blue Pro coastal cities in the region-specific public events around the region, mainly to satisfy the public view of the sea pro-sea and leisure requirements. It is learned that the life of the people of Xiamen will be the main activities of regional planning for the 96 foot unit, in which bamboo¹YLake, Zhongshan Road, Jiang first five geo-Bay, Kwun Yam Shan, Maluan Bay, Xinglin Bay, filling the mouth ofÎ÷¿Â, Hsintien will focus on the building. Important walking path, the width of the sidewalk of the passage of not less than 3 m wide green spaces in the path of the paragraphs, will be an integrated set of rest facilities green. Moreover, exports to walk away from the track sites, bus stops, BRT site distance generally not more than 100 meters. --- On Fri, 12/12/08, Eric Britton wrote: From: Eric Britton Subject: [NewMobilityCafe] When all the Chinese have cars! To: NewMobilityCafe@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, 12 December, 2008, 4:11 PM >From Lee Schipper: a 1972 article from the New York Times by Paul Ehrlich and Douglas Pirages is one more reminder that there is nothing new in the state of . . . The circumstances which currently confront our society and economies worldwide are certainly not something which has emerged unannounced in the last couple of years or months. It makes you ponder why we have not been able to put our collective intelligence to work. Well, that is the past. Our job is to hang in there and do the best we can with the challenges of the present and a future which is already very much here. Eric Britton. _____ . __,_._,___ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jca.apc.org/public/sustran-discuss/attachments/20081230/19d8a7e3/attachment.html From kanthikannan at gmail.com Wed Dec 31 14:20:19 2008 From: kanthikannan at gmail.com (Kanthi Kannan) Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 10:50:19 +0530 Subject: [sustran] Re: R2W and Jan 2, 2009: Another Idea : PL try it out :) Message-ID: <495b015f.0e1b6e0a.1975.611a@mx.google.com> Dec 31, 2008 Dear all Season's Greetings As you are aware, The Right to Walk Foundation is proposing a NO PERSONAL MOTORISED VEHICLE DAY on Jan 2, 2009. We request all of you to support this No Vehicle Day and ensure that you use either Public Transport or non -motorised transport to come to office. The idea is to have the First Working Day of Every Month as a NO PERSONAL /PRIVATE MOTORISED VEHICLE DAY. SAY YES TO PUBLIC TRANSPORT; REDUCE POLLUTION; SAY YES TO WALKING AND CYCLING; IMPROVE YOUR HEALTH; SAY NO PERSONAL MOTORISED VEHICLE; REDUCE TRAFFIC CONGESTION OR During office hours walk on the footpaths till the nearest bus stop or the MMTS station and send us a mail with your complaints. Or contact the GHMC number, 155304 and register your complaints. Please remember that most Hyderbadis cannot afford to pay even for public transport and walk to school/ work. Safe and clean Footpaths and safe Pedestrian Crossings are the NEED OF THE HOUR Thanks Regards Kanthi Kannan The Right to Walk Foundation -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jca.apc.org/public/sustran-discuss/attachments/20081231/7a02570f/attachment.html From eric.britton at ecoplan.org Wed Dec 31 20:06:51 2008 From: eric.britton at ecoplan.org (eric britton) Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:06:51 +0100 Subject: [sustran] public bikes soon in Bogota Message-ID: <006901c96b37$e5a55200$b0eff600$@britton@ecoplan.org> >From Google translate (without editing): Original follows: It seems to me important that Latin America is remove that prejudice that "That the public bike is a thing of the Europeans." I am of the opinion that your continent in cities where there is more viable and more necessary and more efficient system of public bike that many of the European cities where they already have in place, sometimes with more heart that head. If I am not mistaken, in Argentina there are already some examples of bicycle service, as well as the University of Santiago de Chile. Now it is going to put in Bogota and are studying in Quito. If it is done well, it is planned Well, it may be a push towards the use and promotion of cycling as usual means of transport. Juan Merallo - eldelabici@gmail.com -----Original Message-----] On Behalf Of Juan Merallo Subject: [CicloAmerica] Bicicletas p?blicas pronto en Bogot? http://www.eltiempo.com/opinion/forolectores/las-ciclas-prepago_4739844-1 Me parece important?simo que Am?rica Latina se quite ese prejuicio de que "eso de las bicis p?blicas es cosa de los europeos". Soy de la opini?n que en vuestro continente hay ciudades donde es m?s viable e incluso m?s necesario y m?s eficaz un sistema de bicis p?blicas que en muchas de las ciudades europeas donde ya se han implantado, en ocasiones con m?s coraz?n que cabeza. Si no me equivoco, en Argentina ya hay alg?n ejemplo de bicicleta p?blica, as? como en la universidad de Santiago de Chile. Ahora se va a poner en Bogot? y lo est?n estudiando en Quito. Si se hace bien, se se planifica bien, puede ser un empuj?n hacia el uso y promoci?n de la bicicleta como medio de transporte habitual. Mucho ?nimo, mucha salud y un cicletudo nuevo a?o, Juan Merallo -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jca.apc.org/public/sustran-discuss/attachments/20081231/6fa6670a/attachment.html From cornie.huizenga at cai-asia.org Wed Dec 31 13:13:33 2008 From: cornie.huizenga at cai-asia.org (Cornie Huizenga) Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:13:33 +0800 Subject: [sustran] Re: Sustran-discuss Digest, Vol 64, Issue 22- cycling Xiamen Message-ID: <7e2a2770812302013o37ed65ddw8529b71d6187d90e@mail.gmail.com> Hi all, I just returned from Xiamen and I was surprised to see the message that "since they (bicycle lanes) have completely dissappered in Xiamen". I walked quite a lot through the city and saw dedicate cycle lanes in many parts of the city. Also a very nice pedestrian board walk of more than 10 kilometer along the east coast beach. The BRT is great and even the taxi drivers thought it was a success. Cornie > > ######################################################################## > > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. When all the Chinese have cars! Update: Xiamen plans to build > a bike traffic network (eric britton) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:28:40 +0100 > From: "eric britton" > Subject: [sustran] When all the Chinese have cars! Update: Xiamen > plans to build a bike traffic network > To: , > > Cc: LotsLessCars@yahoogroups.com, KyotoWorldCities@yahoogroups.com > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="gb2312" > > On Behalf Of Rory McMullan > > > > > > Dear Eric and others who may be interested, > > On my extended tour of China, I am spending some days on the lovely car > free > island of Gu lan yu, a few hundred metres across a narrow strait from the > busy town of Xiamen with its fantastic brand new BRT system. > > Just a few days ago I visited the amazing folk at the local environmental > protection NGO XiaMen Green Cross, who organise the car free day here. They > told me the sad news that a man had been killed that morning on a bike, and > his head was completely squashed, making their job of promoting green > transport even more difficult. I suggested they should campaign get bike > lanes back into the city, since they have completely dissappered even > though > the majority of people do not own cars. They of course told me that they > had > been working to protect bike lanes for over a decade, so far without much > success, although some roads they have campaigned for, have now been > pedestrianised. > > Then opening my email this morning, I found an email from a friend at > Beijing Transport University with this good news.... (translated using > google I'm afraid, but you should get the idea) > > http://www.tranbbs. > > com/news/cnnews/Construction/news_36353.shtml > Xiamen plans to build a bike traffic network > > Future in Xiamen, the public will be able to easily bike or walk by the > shortest route between the approach of district. In yesterday's mayor on > the > green, Xiamen Planning Secretary Zhao Jing said, Xiamen Road, consider the > introduction of non-motorized system. > > ???said that in the future, bicycle travel system will form a ring > around the whole city traffic. In Xiamen between every two residential > building, must be set aside a channel in order to protect the bike and > walking can be smoothly carried out, the public so long as cycling or > walking, you can easily reach another district. > > In addition, Xiamen will be divided into three regions to build the > region on foot, and divided by color, which specifically refers to urban > green area built-up area outside the context of the mountain, mainly to > satisfy the public mountaineering, leisure, sports requirements; orange > region is the urban built-up area in the public walk from the main regional > daily life; blue Pro coastal cities in the region-specific public events > around the region, mainly to satisfy the public view of the sea pro-sea and > leisure requirements. It is learned that the life of the people of Xiamen > will be the main activities of regional planning for the 96 foot unit, in > which bamboo?Lake, Zhongshan Road, Jiang first five geo-Bay, Kwun Yam Shan, > Maluan Bay, Xinglin Bay, filling the mouth of??, Hsintien will focus on > the building. Important walking path, the width of the sidewalk of the > passage of not less than 3 m wide green spaces in the path of the > paragraphs, will be an integrated set of rest facilities green. Moreover, > exports to walk away from the track sites, bus stops, BRT site distance > generally not more than 100 meters. > > --- On Fri, 12/12/08, Eric Britton wrote: > > From: Eric Britton > Subject: [NewMobilityCafe] When all the Chinese have cars! > To: NewMobilityCafe@yahoogroups.com > Date: Friday, 12 December, 2008, 4:11 PM > > >From Lee Schipper: a 1972 article from the New York Times by Paul Ehrlich > and Douglas Pirages is one more reminder that there is nothing new in the > state of . . . The circumstances which currently confront our society and > economies worldwide are certainly not something which has emerged > unannounced in the last couple of years or months. > > > > It makes you ponder why we have not been able to put our collective > intelligence to work. Well, that is the past. 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