[sustran] Re: for Au Ables of CAI

[litman at Islandnet.com]

Also see the Victoria Transport Policy Institute's Online TDM Encyclopedia (http://www.vtpi.org/tdm ), which describes various strategies for encouraging use of alternative modes, particularly the "Transit Encouragement" chapter (http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm112.htm ).


Best wishes,
-Todd Litman 

> 
> Hi Au,
> 
> I am not sure if this will help but I think there are various research
> initiatives on this aspect here in Japan eg. verifying quantitative effect
> on the effect of promoting public transport using marketing
> tools.Moreover, I tend to agree with Carlos' comments on economic trends
> esp. in the case of developing nations in Asi. Anyway, useful link would
> be those of Springer's journal Transportation esp. the topic on mobility
> management on its latest issue. If I remember it right, there are also
> some research transportation journal on articles  which try to quantify
> the behavioral effect eg. car use to public transport using various
> measures. I also found the good practice inventory of IGES (Institute for
> Global Environmental Strategies)
> http://www.iges.or.jp/en/database/index.htmlinteresting.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Best regards,
> Danielle
> 
> Marie Danielle V.Guillen
> Urban Transportation Lab.
> Graduate School of Systems & Information Engineering
> University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba City, Japan
> 
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: "Carlos F. Pardo"
> >>> Sent: Jul 20, 2005 11:33 PM
> >>> To: WorldTransport at yahoogroups.com, sustran-discuss at list.jca.apc.org,
> >>> Kyoto2020 at yahoogroups.com, carfree_cities at yahoogroups.com
> >>> Subject: [sustran] Re: WorldTransport Forum Economics of Traffic
> >>> Congestion and TDM
> >>>
> >>>  Au,
> >>>
> >>>  It?s a rather difficult question to ask in Asian cities. If you are
> >>> looking for a test of this hypothesis, I think we?d have to wait for a
> >>> couple of years to see any real change in economic trends, since major
> >>> sustainable transport projects in Asia have been developed in the near
> >>> past. I think Singapore could be one good example of a somewhat
> >>> integrated approach to urban reform, though not the best. Maybe
> >>> Seoul?s recent transformation can give you an idea, but it?s also
> >>> quite recent.
> >>>
> >>>  On the other hand, maybe the UK links are good, but using them for
> >>> Asia would not be so coherent. In Latin America, I know there is a
> >>> study about TransMilenio?s impact on land revenue in Bogot? (by
> >>> Felipe Targa et al), and this could give you a good idea of what
> >>> you?re looking for. Also, maybe Curitiba?s example (which is one of
> >>> the best in terms of what you?re looking for) could have some
> >>> studies. It?s a shame that most of the time, when you get a nice
> >>> intervention like this you don?t necessarily find the data of
> >>> before-and-after.
> >>>
> >>>  I don?t know if anyone else has suggestions. I will keep looking
> >>> but I can?t think of any other example with specific data that?s been
> >>> widely diffused, let alone in Asia.
> >>>
> >>>  Best regards,
> >>>
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> >>>  ON BEHALF OF aables at adb.org
> >>> SENT: 20 July, 2005 7:46 PM
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> >>> SUBJECT: WorldTransport Forum Economics of Traffic Congestion and TDM
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> >>> Dear all,
> >>> Are you aware of studies/ figures on the economic costs of traffic
> >>> congestion and the economic benefits from transport demand management
> >>> measures, especially in Asia? We'd like to have some city data
> >>> preferably based on actual examples to test the hypothesis that urban
> >>> centers that invested on developing their transportation systems
> >>> integrated to their urbanization development plans are doing better
> >>> than others.
> >>> The Clean Air Initiative for Asian Cities (CAI-Asia) has done a
> >>> preliminary assessment of the resources on sustainable transport in
> >>> Asia though the pilot project Partnership for Sustainable Urban
> >>> Transport in Asia (PSUTA) (www.cleanairnet.org/psuta). The review
> >>> showed that resources that deal with transport and economics,
> >>> especially in Asia, are either not as many as we'd hope or are not
> >>> readily available.
> >>> We would appreciate receiving studies/ links/ referrals.
> >>> Thanks and regards,
> >>> Au
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> >>>  Aurora Fe Ables
> >>> Transport Researcher
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