[sustran] Fair transport for an aging society

[eric britton]

My friend, Associate Professor Nobuaki Ohmori from The University of Tokyo,
is doing some I believe important work on fair transport for an aging
society, and in this respect he has honored me by asking me the following
question. If anyone here can help him (or perhaps via any of your lists), it
would be much appreciated. With kind thanks, Eric Britton



-----Original Message-----
From: Nobuaki OHMORI [mailto:nobuaki at ut.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp]
Sent: Thursday, 04 November, 2010 02:16
To: eric.britton at ecoplan.org
Subject: ask for your help: Nobu from Tokyo

Dear Eric,

This is Nobuaki Ohmori from Tokyo. How have you been? Today I would like to
ask for your help on the following two matters:

. . . 

2. I have also been conducting a research on "accessible cities and
transportation for children and parents." As you know, Japan has been facing
an aging society with fewer children and Japanese government has been
tackling a problem of declining birthrate. The attached file was made by
Japanese government and explains related policies in Japan. 

I would like to review such policies to cope with the declining birthrate
and accessible cities and transportation for children and parents in
advanced European countries such as France, Sweden, UK, etc. Do you know
where I will be able to access to such information? Do you know some persons
who are responsible for or know much about this matter?

I would much appreciate it if you could help me in the above two matters.

Best regards,
Nobuaki

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Nobuaki OHMORI, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Urban Engineering
The University of Tokyo
7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8656, Japan
TEL: +81-3-5841-6235, +81-3-5841-6232
FAX: +81-3-5841-8527
E-mail: nobuaki at ut.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
http://www.ut.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/members/nobuaki/nobuaki-e.htm
http://www.geo.uu.nl/mobilizingICT
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From: Eric Britton [mailto:eric.britton at ecoplan.org]
Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2008 12:05 AM
To: 'Nobuaki OHMORI'
Subject: RE: City Bikes introduced in our university

Congratulations Nobuaki,

I am sure this will be an interesting beginning of a project for you and
your colleagues. And I hope that your testing of the bikes will proceed very
fast, and that you will have the full attention of some of the key
government policy units so that once you have a feeling of confidence they
will be prepared to move fast.

The planet is in worse shape than the Nikkei and as far as the
transportation component of our daily lives we know very well what to do
next.  And shred bikes is not a bad way to start.

With all good wishes,

PS. You may have some fun with this from our carsharing work:
www.carshare-lite.newmobility.org

Eric Britton

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