Dear Alan, You could get some transport stats overview and climate-change related info from the proceedings and the main documents of the recent May 2006 regional workshops "Climate Change Mitigation in the Transport Sector": http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/article-70656.html and "Developing Fuel Quality Road Maps in Asia" http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/article-70655.html. --- in the CC paper, the appendixes has some tables on car ownership and some modal split data as well as emissions data - Sustainable Urban Transport in Asia - Learning from Europe? - proceedings from the November 2005 workshop by CAI-Asia and UITP at the ASEF conference http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/article-70093.html - Four Institutional Governance Challenges for Public Transportation in Metro Manila by Cornie Huizenga, Aurora Ables, Herbert Fabian Clean Air Initiative for Asian Cities (http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/article-59919.html) - Country reports and forum proceedings from UNCRD's EST web site (http://www.uncrd.or.jp/env/est/) - Issues and Realities of BRT Planning Initiatives in Developing Asian Cities by Moazzem Hossain (http://www.nctr.usf.edu/jpt/pdf/JPT%209-3S%20Hossain.pdf) - Several presentations and papers on BRT and public transport on CAI-Asia's BRT page: http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/propertyvalue-21677.html - Partnership for sustainable urban transport in Asia (PSUTA) documents, city reports and related documents: http://www.cleanairnet.org/psuta Hope this helps. Au Aurora Fe Ables Transport Researcher Clean Air Initiative for Asian Cities (CAI-Asia) Asian Development Bank Tel (632) 632-4444 ext. 70820 Fax (632) 636-2198 Email aables@adb.org http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia <img src=cid:_1_057EE2DC057EA000002C7058482571D8> www.adb.org <table width=100%> <tr valign=top> <td width=40%>"Alan Howes" <Alan.Howes@cbuchanan.co.uk> Sent by: sustran-discuss-bounces+aables=adb.org@list.jca.apc.org 08/28/2006 02:32 PM <table border> <tr valign=top> <td bgcolor=white> <div align=center>Please respond to Global 'South' Sustainable Transport <sustran-discuss@list.jca.apc.org></div></table> <td width=59%> <table width=100%> <tr valign=top> <td> <div align=right>To</div> <td>"Global 'South' Sustainable Transport" <sustran-discuss@list.jca.apc.org>, <UTSG@JISCMAIL.ac.uk> <tr valign=top> <td> <div align=right>cc</div> <td>sustrandiscusslist <sustran-discuss@jca.ax.apc.org> <tr valign=top> <td> <div align=right>Subject</div> <td>[sustran] International Comparisons - Help Please!</table> <table> <tr valign=top> <td> <td></table> </table> I have just discovered that I have a presentation to make in not much more than 24 hours, to an audience of Mumbai decision-formers.  Working title - ""Urban transport - learning from the mistakes of others".  It's stretching my core specialisation a bit (Public Transport / Buses), and as I am in Mumbai I don't have access to reference sources back in the office (which are pretty UK-oriented anyway).   So I am looking for some (on-line) data on international transport comparisons - preferably urban rather than rural.  Things like - - Cars owned per head - Car USAGE per head - %age urban area devoted to roads - pollution levels / greenhouse gas emissions - Modal share data   Trend data would be useful too.   It may well be that a lot of what I am looking for is in the UITP's Millennium Cities Database - but the problem is it is not available on-line, and the summary data I have from it is back at the ranch (and possibly corrupted).   I am currently looking at Todd Litman's VTPI page "Why Manage Transportation Demand?" <a href=http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm51.htm>http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm51.htm</a> , which has plenty of appropriate words but not many numbers - it has plenty of links though, some of which may well be useful.  And I will also look at SUTP.  But if anyone can give me a more precise steer, I would be most grateful.   Regards, Alan Howes currently at Dharavi Bus Depot, Mumbai, India <a href=mailto:alan.howes@cbuchanan.co.uk>alan.howes@cbuchanan.co.uk</a>     -- Alan Howes Associate Transport Planner Colin Buchanan 4 St Colme Street, Edinburgh, EH3 6AA Tel:       +44 131 226 4693 Mobile:  +44 7952 464335 email:  <a href=mailto:alan.howes@cbuchanan.co.uk>alan.howes@cbuchanan.co.uk</a> www: http:/www.cbuchanan.co.uk/   ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 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