[sustran] Re: Peak car?

Sudhir sudhir at cai-asia.org
Fri May 20 22:16:13 JST 2011


Lee Schipper and Adam Millard  wrote an excellent paper on this last year .

One version of the paper is here -
http://www.stanford.edu/group/peec/cgi-bin/docs/transportation/research/Millard-Ball%20Schipper%20Peak%20Travel%20preprint.pdf

Quote -
<http://www.stanford.edu/group/peec/cgi-bin/docs/transportation/research/Millard-Ball%20Schipper%20Peak%20Travel%20preprint.pdf>“Since
2003, motorized travel demand has leveled out or even declined in most of
the countries studied, and travel in private vehicles has declined,” the
authors wrote in their study. “Car ownership has continued to rise, but
these cars are being driven less.”
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-01-peak.html

regards
Sudhir


On 20 May 2011 17:36, Ashok Sreenivas <ashok.sreenivas at gmail.com> wrote:

> Very interesting article about the behavioural changes underway in UK:
>
> http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/motoring/features/is-this-the-end-of-the-car-2286616.html
>
> Initial thoughts:
> - How sad is it that "new urbanism" is old hat in many Indian cities,
> but our authorities are bent on going towards old urbanism?
> - "Controlled parking", a key suspect causing the behavioural change -
> when will they get it?
> - Maybe they will, if they internalize the message of the Groningen
> example and realize that their precious real estate will get even more
> precious if they do some of these things.
>
> --
> Ashok Sreenivas
> Prayas Energy Group <http://www.prayaspune.org/peg> and Parisar
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