[sustran] Re: [NewMobilityCafe] Slow transport?

[Tory Damantoro]

Dear Carlos, 

 

Happy new year for you, your wife and your little baby. 

May God bless you with health and prosperity for the whole year. 

 

I remember reading a book about the history and development of sign board design (sorry I could not remember the title). Due to close relation between speed and vision, the size of sign board spans overtime.  It is very much the same with architectural façade. Prior to motorization era, building facade full of detail ornament that can best enjoyed with walking speed. Now days, the fastest people move the plainer building façade leave the ornamental detail as an interior luxury.

 

Regarding to the relation between speed and urban planning, it is a very good idea. I think the first thing that you have to address is the role of speed mobility in human quality of life.  Hence you can derivate more detail indicator to measure it and relate it with other indicator if urban quality of life. You may also refer to transportation behavior study which determining relation between speed, side vision and geometric requirement to incorporate it. People from highway engineering are familiar with this issue. 

 

 

Cheers, 

Damantoro

 

 

 

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From: NewMobilityCafe at yahoogroups.com [mailto:NewMobilityCafe at yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Carlosfelipe Pardo
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 10:15 PM
To: Global 'South' Sustainable Transport; Newmobility Cafe; carfree_cities at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [NewMobilityCafe] Slow transport?

 

Hi,

Does anyone know of any research or theory of urban planning or 
transport planning that takes *speed* as a factor to be taken into 
account? I have been searching for this and haven't found anything.
I thought about this because I've seen that transport planning normally 
takes land use, modes, infrastructure and other factors into account, 
but it doesn't seem to take speed as a component in its own right.

The only explicit reference I could find was Le Corbusier, who 
emphasizes the role of high speeds in a city, and plans around those 
high speeds (elevated highways, etc). Should we think about slowness as 
a *positive* characteristic of transport? Should we propose slow 
transport as one solution to the problem?

I think slowness should be promoted not just for reasons of road safety 
but for issues of sustainability in shorter distances traveled (slower 
speeds means longer travel times, so people would try to reduce their 
travel distances) and thus lower energy expenditures and emissions. Of 
course, this would need us to think about strategies to reduce speeds, 
which would include what we're normally promoting (bicycles, pedestrian 
areas, 30km/h speed limits, etc).

Comments on this are most welcome.

Ah, and happy new year!

Best regards,

-- 
Carlosfelipe Pardo

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