[sustran] What lessons can America learn from the rest of the world .
. .?"
eric britton
eric.britton at ecoplan.org
Sat Jan 17 22:26:50 JST 2009
What lessons can America learn from the rest of the world . . .?
Game Plan for group project as of 16 Jan. 09
Topic: You are invited to contribute a short statement/recommendation (250
words max!!) outlining a single concept, policy, practice, project, program
idea that you feel the Obama transportation team will do well to look at
seriously as they prepare to lead transportation policy in America for the
next four years.
Organization: An informal group initiative being organized under the
editorial direction of Eric Britton and the New Mobility Agenda. The idea is
to tap the rich backgrounds, knowledge and imaginations of the more than
two thousand colleagues and groups who regularly share information, ideas
and materials under the various focus programs of the Agenda. Colleagues
around the world are being invited to share their thoughts and
recommendations in succinct form as a group compilation, being organized and
presented by Britton who has been invited to serve as one of the panel
members, with a particular responsibility for providing international
coverage of perspectives.
Background: Selected contributions to be posted to National Journal 2009
Transportation Expert Panel: http://transportation.nationaljournal.com/ to
open up this question on Monday a.m., 26 Jan. 2009
Submittal deadline Friday, 23 January 2009
Subject heading: What lessons can America learn from the rest of the world
. . .? (kindly retain this heading exactly for Search
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NewMobilityCafe/msearch?query=%22what+lessons
%22&submit=Search&charset=ISO-8859-1> purposes, see below)
Post your proposed recommendation to: editor at newmobility.org
- who will review, possibly contact you with minor editorial/layout
suggestions, then post to the New Mobility Café where you can view all
items to date via
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NewMobilityCafe/msearch?query=%22what+lessons%
22
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NewMobilityCafe/msearch?query=%22what+lessons
%22&submit=Search&charset=ISO-8859-1> &submit=Search&charset=ISO-8859-1
Submittal format (As below, kindly respect):
1. Message from (Country name)
2. Subject line (10 words max. to set stage for entry)
3. Text: 250 words max!!! (Yes I know its hard)
4. URL Ref: (As available to support your entry)
5. Signature block (3 lines, my example)
Eric Britton eric.britton at newmobility.org
New Mobility Partnerships www.newmobility.org
Paris, France
Updates: It upon reflection and/or upon reviewing the other commentaries
you wish to modify your original presentation, please send your revised text
to editor at newmobility.org
Sharing this invitation: Please do if you have colleagues or lists whom you
think may be able to come up with additional ideas and entries.
Idea Joggers Just in case
In the unlikely event that nothing comes to mind immediately, you may want
to run down this list to see if you get an idea-joggers for an entry. It is
cryptic and chaotic, but brings up some interesting concepts. (Additions to
this rough list are very welcome).
1. "Strategies for the screamers"
2. "They are supposed to scream"
3. Free public transport
4. Slugging
5. Wrong way bike lanes
6. Active
<http://www.sustrans.org.uk/webfiles/AT/Publications/June%202006%20-How%20to
%20produce%20active%20travel%20directions%20.pdf> travel directions
7. Activity nodes/clustering
8. Alternating odd/even license plates
9. Auto-free <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-Car_Zone> zone
10. Award <http://ecoplan.org/general/prizes-2005.htm> & prize programs
11. Barriers to change
12. Behavior modification
13. Bicycle helmets
14. Bicycle university
15. Bike and Walk Summit
16. Bike <http://www.ecoplan.org/carfreeday/EarthCFD/kits/bikedelivery.htm>
delivery services
17. Bike/transit
<http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/ped_bike/univcourse/swless09.htm> interface
18. Bollards
19. Blogs
20. Breathing streets (weekends and holidays)
21. Bus Rapid <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_rapid_transit> Transit
(BRT)
22. Car buy-back programs
23. Car Clubs <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carsharing>
24. Car control strategies
25. Carfree Cities <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carfree_Cities>
26. Carfree Days <Http://worldcarfreeday.com>
27. Carfree housing
28. Carfree Sundays
29. Car pool <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ride_sharing>
30. Car reduction schemes
31. Car rental innovations
32. Car-like mobility <http://ecoplan.org/kyoto/challenge/20-20.htm#car>
(implications)
33. Carpooling
34. Carsharing <Http://worldcarshare.com>
35. CarSharing - city strategies
36. CarSharing city label programs (Pairs Label Autopartage)
37. CarSharing laws or ordinances
38. Carte Orange (fare cards)
39. Change Management <http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm114.htm>
40. Children's and school programs
41. Ciclovias
42. Citizen activism and dialogue
43. City cycle programs (shared use)
44. City to city projects
45. CIVITAS Forum
46. Clean vehicles and fuels (how to . . )
47. Clear Zones <http://www.clearzones.org.uk/>
48. Climate/Transportation Initiatives
49. Co-housing <http://www.cohousing.org/overview.aspx>
50. Community outreach
51. Community Street Audit <http://www.levelofservice.com/>
52. Community Transportation <http://www.ctaa.org/>
53. Commuting alternatives
<http://ntl.bts.gov/lib/6000/6600/6614/CAUS.html>
54. Company <http://www.taxistop.be/toolbox/english/about.htm> mobility
management
55. Complete <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete_streets> streets
56. Congestion <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congestion_charging> charging
57. Congestion pricing
58. Contingency Planning <http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm123.htm>
59. Continuity (of programs, people)
60. Cops on bikes
61. Cops on skates
62. Critical Mass <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_Mass> , bike and
skate "masses"
63. CURBBBB
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NewMobilityCafe/msearch?query=CURBBBB&submit=
Search&charset=ISO-8859-1>
64. Cycling access and support
65. Demand-responsive
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xTransit/links/Demand_Responsive_Tr_001137233
972/> transport (DRT)
66. Dial A Ride
67. Digital hitchhiking
68. Directories/libraries of transport innovations
69. Distance work
70. Downtown revitalization support
71. Driver training
72. Dynamic transit systems
73. Economic instruments
74. Education
75. Elderly and handicapped transport
76. Electric or ecological vehicles (??)
77. ELTIS, the European Local Transport Information Service
78. Employer contributions
79. Employer transport programs
80. Enforcement Strategies
81. Enforcement technologies
82. Enforcement/penalties
83. Enforcement
84. EPOMM - European Platform on Mobility Management
85. Ethics vs. rules on the street
86. EU programs/approaches
87. Eurocities
88. e-Work <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Work>
89. Exemplary cities (outstanding examples including such as Zürich, Paris,
Vauban, Strasburg, Seville, Amsterdam, etc. etc. Please add your candidates
to this list.)
90. Fair Transport Labeling
91. First half-hour free
92. Flexible working hours
93. Flextime
94. Free public <http://www.leda.ils.nrw.de/database/measures/meas0270.htm>
transport
95. Freight <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freight_bicycle> bicycle
96. Freight/goods movement innovations
97. Full cost pricing
98. Funding sustainable transport
99. GART (national associations of city transport planners)
100. Goods movement and delivery
101. Green
<http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/200607/greenstreets.asp> streets
102. Health and Fitness <http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm102.htm>
103. Hitch-hiking <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitch-hiking>
(Organized
<http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&newwindow=1&ie=UTF-8&q=%22or
ganized+Hitchhiking%22&sa=N&tab=nw> and other)
104. Home delivery services
105. Home
<http://newmobilityagenda.blogspot.com/2005/01/210105-beyond-home-zone-towar
ds.html> zones
106. HOV strategies
107. Human transport
108. Inclusive transport (including for elderly and disabled
people and others with mobility limitations)
109. Innovations
<http://www.transact.org/library/factsheets/housing.asp> in Integrated
Transport and Land-use Planning
110. International institutions (how to use)
111. International peer support
112. Internship exchange programs
113. Internship programs
114. Job creation in transport sector
115. Knoogle (www.Knoogle.net)
116. Land use/New Mobility interfaces
117. Land value <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax>
tax
118. Land-use strategies
119. Lane Diets
120. Leading by Example
121. Line taxis
122. Livable streets
123. Living <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_street>
streets
124. Local
<http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/documents/agenda21/english/agenda21chapter7.h
tm> Agenda 21
125. Locational efficiency
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leadership_in_Energy_and_Environmental_Design>
126. London black taxis (Handicapped transport add-ons)
127. Low
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LotsLessCars/msearch?query=diet&submit=Search
&charset=ISO-8859-1> car diet
128. Low-occupancy vehicle (LOV) strategies
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-occupancy_vehicle>
129. Media, film, audio, webcasting
130. Metros and
<http://www.ecoplan.org/briefs/general/strategies.htm#ignore> New Mobility
131. Minibus services
132. Mixed-use
133. Mixed-use development
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed-use_development>
134. Mobil telephony interface
135. Mobilien
136. Mobility
<http://www.epommweb.org/twomm.phtml?site=3&title=1> center
137. Mobility <http://www.epommweb.org/twomm_home.phtml>
management/centers
138. Mondermans
<http://newmobilityagenda.blogspot.com/2005/01/220105-road-design-he-calls-i
t.html>
139. Motorized <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mcstdc/>
two-wheelers
140. Movement substitutes
141. Multi-Modal Access <http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm113.htm>
Guides
142. Neighborhood initiatives
143. Neighborhood
<http://www.aa.uidaho.edu/iurdc/info/streets.html> streets
144. Neighborhood/zone access restrictions
145. New carsharing applications
146. New media
147. New mobility hubs
148. New Mobility "Star" program (NMA strategies for small
towns)
149. New Mobility strategies
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mobility_Agenda>
150. New Urbanism <http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm24.htm> :
Clustered, Mixed-Use, Multi-Modal Neighborhood Design
151. Night taxis
152. Non-motorized transport
153. Not going there (the options)
154. Obesity
<http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/kidswalk/index.htm> strategies
155. Obesity/Mobility Summit
156. Odd/even vehicle access restrictions
157. Organizing hitchhiking
158. Paid Parking <http://www.cities21.org/paidParking.htm>
159. Paratransit <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paratransit>
160. Park + Ride <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_and_ride>
161. Parking management <http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm28.htm>
162. Parking prices
163. Parking signage/reservation systems
164. Parking strategies
165. Parking-removal of
166. Paying for public transportation (new ways to)
167. PBS - Public bicycle systems
168. Pedestrian-friendly streets and roads
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedestrian-friendly>
169. Pedestrianization
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedestrian#Pedestrianisation>
170. Pico y placa
<http://www.bogota-dc.com/trans/bog-tra.htm> (odd even scheme)
171. Play
<http://www.livingstreets.org.uk/page.php?pageid=128¤tPage=3> streets
172. Post buses
173. Pots and paint
174. Private parking innovations and variations
175. Private sector initiatives
176. Propinquity <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propinquity>
(as policy)
177. Public art
178. Public
<http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=registers&lang=en
> Awareness and Behavior Change
179. Public information programs
180. Public participation
181. Public <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_spaces>
spaces
182. Public transport priority access
183. Public
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NewMobilityCafe/msearch?query=%22Public+trans
port+should+be+free%22&submit=Search&charset=UTF-8> transport should be
free
184. Public/private partnerships
185. Publications
186. Quiet streets (French)
187. Radio
188. Rail transit (where it fits in)
189. Reduce
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NewMobilityCafe/message/1664> traffic
controls/signals
190. Residential parking
191. Reverse commuting
192. Rickshaws, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickshaw>
Pedicabs, and Trishaw Cycles
193. Ride-sharing <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ride_sharing>
194. Road diets <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_diet>
(lane narrowing)
195. Road <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_pricing>
pricing, tolls
196. Road safety (radical enforcement)
197. Roundabouts
198. Rural carsharing
199. Rural transport
200. Scan, select, quantify, target
201. Segregated <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_path>
cycle facilities
202. Selling your message to the community
203. Senior/Non-driver Local Summit
204. Shared <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Share_taxi> and
group taxis
205. Shared ride
206. Shared <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_space>
space
207. Shared Zone
208. Shared transport
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_transport>
209. Simulations and visual scenarios
210. Slow streets (15, 30, 50 kph)
211. Slow zones
212. Slowth
213. Slugging <http://www.slug-lines.com/>
214. Smart Congestion <http://www.vtpi.org/cong_relief.pdf>
Relief
215. Smart Fare cards
216. Smart <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_Growth>
growth
217. Smart
<http://innovativemobility.org/research/smartparking/parking_overview.htm>
parking strategies
218. Soft
<http://www.iapsc.org.uk/presentations/1205_P_Goodwin.pdf> transport
measures
219. South/North
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sustran-discuss/> transfers
220. Stadium transport
221. Street as a place of work
222. STREET CODE (CODE DE LA ROUTE)
223. Street furniture
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_furniture>
224. Street
<http://www.dse.vic.gov.au/CA256F310024B628/0/FC10CF7650732361CA25715A0002CE
36/$File/Southbank+Plan+3006+-+Activating+Street+Life.pdf> life
225. Street narrowing
226. Street obstacles
227. Street people
228. Street surface modification
229. Street strategies
230. Street venders and commerce
231. Suburban <http://www.suburbansolutions.ac.uk/index.aspx>
solutions
232. Surveillance
233. Sustainable mobility strategies
234. Swedish Xbox
235. Task Force (local) creation
236. Taxation changes
237. Taxi innovations
238. TDM - Transportation Demand <http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/>
Management
239. Telecommuting
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommuting>
240. Television
241. Telework <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommuting>
242. Ten
<http://transport.arubi.uni-kl.de/news/VeloCity_en.html> Point Pedaling
Action Program
243. The Mayors' Game
244. Ticketless Public Transport
245. TOD - Transit-Oriented Development
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit-Oriented_Development>
246. Tolls <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toll_roads>
247. Traffic barriers
248. Traffic calming
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_Calming>
249. Traffic cells
250. Traffic signal removal/rationalization
251. Traffic restraint (Demand management)
252. Traffic slowing
253. Traffic stoppers
254. Training innovations
255. Transit pass concepts
256. Transit stations and interfaces
257. Transit strikes
258. Transportation brokerage
259. Travel information systems
260. Travel plans <http://www.travelplans.org.uk/index2.html>
261. Travelchoice <http://www.travelchoice.org.uk>
262. Unified access and ticketing
263. University,
<http://www.ecoplan.org/wtpp/general/universities.htm> campus transport
strategies
264. Urban freeway removal (Seoul)
265. Urban
<http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/sbe/planbiblios/bibs/urban/16.html>
regeneration
266. Utility <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_cycling>
cycling
267. Value <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_capture>
capture
268. Vanpool <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanpool>
269. Vehicle
<http://www.baaqmd.gov/pln/grants_and_incentives/vehicle_buyback/index.htm>
Buy Back Program ("Trash your car", Old Car Buy Back program, Une
<http://www.rtl.be/page/rtlinfo/articles/societearticle/227.aspx?articleid=6
4037> voiture de moins, Vehicle
<http://lnweb18.worldbank.org/sar/sa.nsf/Attachments/Briefing8/$File/Briefin
g_Note_No_8.pdf#search=%22Vehicle%20Buy%20Back%20Program%20environment%22>
scrappage programs)
270. Video diaries/open blog
271. VISION ZERO (Sweden, road safety)
272. Walk to <http://www.iwalktoschool.org/> school
273. Walkability audit
<http://www.uoregon.edu/%7Eschlossb/arcpad/walkability/walkability.htm>
274. Walkability
<http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/article-60499.html> index
275. Walkable communities <http://www.walkable.org>
276. Walking
277. Walking as transport
278. Web sites
279. Witkar
280. Women, Equity and <http://www.gatnet.net> Transport
281. Woonerfs
<http://newmobilityagenda.blogspot.com/2005/01/210105-beyond-home-zone-towar
ds.html> (Woonerven)
282. xTransit <http://www.xtransit.org/> (The Third Way)
283. Zero
<http://www.ecoplan.org/briefs/general/www.britishCouncil.org/zerocarboncity
> carbon projects
284. Zero
<http://www.york.ac.uk/admin/presspr/pressreleases/zerotolerance.htm>
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