[sustran] Re: Pedestrian Budget

[Todd Alexander Litman]

For information on estimated public expenditures on pedestrian and 
cycling infrastructure in the U.S. see:

"Bicycling and Walking in the U.S.: 2010 Benchmarking Report" by the 
Alliance for Biking & Walking, 
(http://<http://www.peoplepoweredmovement.org/site/index.php/site/memberservices/C529>www.peoplepoweredmovement.org/site/index.php/site/memberservices/C529. 


For information on the value of non-motorized transportation see:

Todd Litman (2003), "Economic Value of Walkability," Transportation 
Research Record 1828, Transportation Research Board 
(<http://www.trb.org/>www.trb.org), pp. 3-11; at 
<http://www.vtpi.org/walkability.pdf>www.vtpi.org/walkability.pdf.

Todd Litman (2004), Quantifying the Benefits of Non-Motorized 
Transport for Achieving TDM Objectives, Victoria Transport Policy 
Institute (<http://www.vtpi.org/>www.vtpi.org); at 
<http://www.vtpi.org/nmt-tdm.pdf>www.vtpi.org/nmt-tdm.pdf.


Most conventional travel surveys greatly undercount walking and 
cycling activity because they overlook short trips, non-commute 
trips, travel by children, and walking links of motorized trips. For 
example, a bike-bus-walk trip is generally counted simply as a 
transit trip; the bicycling and walking links are ignored even if 
they involve more travel time than the bus or train ride.

In virtually all examples studied, walking and cycling receive less 
funding than their proportional mode share. For example, even in 
North American cities typically 5-15% of trips and 15-30% of travel 
time are by non-motorized modes, yet walking and cycling receive less 
than 5% of total public infrastructure funding, and much less when 
parking facility subsidies are also considered.


Best wishes,
-Todd Litman




At 08:22 PM 06/03/2010, Sudhir wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>We are searching for % of Budget allocated for pedestrians in our cities and
>unfortunately could not find many Asian cities.
>
>Do you know how much % of money authorities are planning  to invest on
>pedestrians in your city?
>
>thanks,
>Sudhir Gota
>Transport Specialist
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Sincerely,
Todd Alexander Litman
Victoria Transport Policy Institute (www.vtpi.org)
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