[sustran] Is TDM avoid or shift?

[Todd Alexander Litman]

That's a great question, Lisa. A challenge we face is that many people are
not persuaded by vague strategic objectives or global environmental concerns
- they want solutions to immediate, local problems such as traffic and
parking congestion, affordability, accident risk, air and noise pollution.
In such cases I describe TDM as "strategies that favor efficient and
affordable transport in order to improve transport system performance, save
money and improve community livability." 

TDM provides a wide range of benefits, so it is often useful to emphasize
different benefits to different audiences. For example, emphasize traffic
and parking congestion to traffic engineers and local officials, parking
cost savings to developers, safety and health benefits to local officials
and health professionals, and affordability and basic mobility for
non-drivers to social activists - there is something for everybody!


Sincerely,
Todd Litman
Victoria Transport Policy Institute (www.vtpi.org)
litman at vtpi.org
facebook.com/todd.litman
Office: 250-360-1560; Mobile: 250-508-5150
1250 Rudlin Street, Victoria, BC, V8V 3R7, CANADA
"Efficiency - Equity - Clarity"


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Subject: [sustran] Re: Sustran-discuss Digest, Vol 119, Issue 8

Dear all,

We have been discussing ASI recently in Cape Town and whether as a concept
it is appropriate in our Southern contexts. On the positive side it focuses
attention on alleviating vehicle congestion but there are no nods in ASI to
our realities about poverty. We are playing with the words "Avoid, Shift,
Improve and Advance Equity". Not very snappy but a reminder that for us
there are broader matters at play.

Best wishes

Lisa Kane
www.lisakane.co.za