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<DIV align=left><SPAN class=640545713-25092006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Sounds rather like what our esteemed founder Sir Colin said
in 1964, in "Traffic in Towns" (and again in "I told you so" more
recently).</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><SPAN class=640545713-25092006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Alan</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><SPAN><FONT face=Arial size=2>--<BR>Alan Howes<BR>Associate
Transport Planner<BR>Colin Buchanan</FONT></SPAN> <BR><SPAN><FONT face=Arial size=2>4 St Colme Street<BR>Edinburgh EH3
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sustran-discuss-bounces+alan.howes=cbuchanan.co.uk@list.jca.apc.org
[mailto:sustran-discuss-bounces+alan.howes=cbuchanan.co.uk@list.jca.apc.org]
<B>On Behalf Of </B>Eric Britton<BR><B>Sent:</B> 25 September 2006
13:57<BR><B>To:</B> Sustran-discuss@jca.apc.org;
utsg@jiscmail.ac.uk<BR><B>Subject:</B> [sustran] 'elephant in the bedroom'
computer game?'utsg@jiscmail.ac.uk<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Is
this true or not? The ‘<A href="http://www.amazon.com/Elephant-Bedroom-Automobile-Dependence-Environment/dp/0932727654/ref=reader_req_dp/002-3342033-9727231?ie=UTF8">elephant
in the bedroom</A>’ thesis of cars and cities?</SPAN></FONT></B></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">A key tenet of the New
Mobility Agenda and the core of all that concerns us here is that there is a
rather simple but ineluctable geometric conflict between cars and cities. Namely
that most cities can accommodate a certain quantum of private cars in traffic
and within their existing urban form and infrastructure up to a certain point –
beyond which something has to give. </SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Either (a) you adapt
the city to the exigencies of an expanding population of cars – by adding
capacity, expanding infrastructure, increasing vehicle speeds and throughput,
etc. (<A href="http://www.ecoplan.org/briefs/general/old-mobility.htm#quick">the ‘old
mobility’ approach</A> to transport in cities.) Or alternatively you search for
ways to advance and adapt the mobility system to keep within the
dimensions and social and economic dynamics of the historic city. The sine
quo non in both cases is that the mobility arrangements whatever they are not
undermine the local economy and the overall sustainability of the city
(otherwise after a bit you will have no city left, or at least one with a very
different economic and life quality profile).</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Against
this background, my question today is to ask your counsel in the
following?</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0cm"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=black size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">1.</SPAN></FONT><FONT color=black size=1><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; COLOR: black">
</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Do you know of the
existence of a game which demonstrate visually the ‘carrying capacity’ of a city
for car-based transport – and can also help us to understand what happens when
you reach some kind of critical threshold and decision point?</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0cm"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=black size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">2.</SPAN></FONT><FONT color=black size=1><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; COLOR: black">
</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">It might be a board
game -- or probably far better something along the lines of </SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Sim</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">City</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> which can handle the
variables that need to be factored in and inspected in terms of their cumulative
results.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0cm"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=black size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">3.</SPAN></FONT><FONT color=black size=1><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; COLOR: black">
</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The ideal game to my
mind would be a somewhat interactive game that would permit the player to
set a certain number of parameters which reflect the situation in their city,
and then so start to play with the numbers. And when we reach a decision
point and decide, as has all too often happened in the past, to increase
capacity, speeds etc. for the car component, it would be good to see the results
of the ‘space take’; of this policy. </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=black size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">4.</SPAN></FONT><FONT color=black size=1><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; COLOR: black">
</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">And while I dream, I
would also like to have some kind of ballpark estimates of performance under
these various views of the city: fuel requirements, CO2 production, even
accidents, something about under- or un-served groups, and a few other things.
Should not be impossible, don’t you think?</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">And if such a game
does not exist, might you be interested </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0cm"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=black size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">a.</SPAN></FONT><FONT color=black size=1><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; COLOR: black">
</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">To participate in a
project which would have as its objective first to research and define that main
guidelines and parameters of such a game?</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=black size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">b.</SPAN></FONT><FONT color=black size=1><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; COLOR: black">
</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">And to look for some
agency or other to help finance such an effort?</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">It would be lovely if
you would be able to share with us information on such a game and how we all can
access and use it. And failing that to have your comments and ideas for this
proposal (which I have to think is not original, so if we can link to something
already underway along these lines, that would be just
splendid.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I leave you with a
link to a shot of a <A href="http://www.ecoplan.org/wtpp/wt_home-houston.htm">well working old mobility
system</A>.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Eric
Britton</SPAN></FONT></P>
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