<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name=ProgId content=Word.Document> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 9"> <meta name=Originator content="Microsoft Word 9"> <link rel=File-List href="cid:filelist.xml@01C78F13.CFE0DF40">  <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='tab-interval:36.0pt'> <div class=Section1> Dear JK,<o:p></o:p> <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> That’s extremely interesting that you would look at my “criteria scorecard” or whatever one might wish to call it in the context of Transantiago that we have been in parallel discussing. In drawing it up over the last several days I was thinking mainly about the pre-selected (by me) innovations that are presently in process here in Paris – and your crossing it to the Transantiago project puts it all in a different perspective. Hmm.  Gotta learn to get the right and left brains to working together on all this.<o:p></o:p> <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> What do you all think about it if I add something along the following lines to my shortlist?  (Help want for doing better on this and all the rest.)<o:p></o:p> <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> Incremental implementation:  Can the measure or system be brought on line in a phased, step-like manner which will permit debugging and fine tuning at acceptable levels of public discomfort and cost?<o:p></o:p> <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> Otherwise I am certainly struck by the centrality of your comments on what are clear, and I am sure many of us think altogether avoidable strategic and planning optimism and oversimplifications in the TA’s team approach. As a strong supporter of new mobility innovation of which this is an important example, I greatly regret these problems. It is such a clear object lesson, for us all and I can only hope that they will now be able to scramble to safety and get this important project working and accepted by all concerned.  I am in fact prudently confident that they have the brains, will and the means to sort it out – but I would say once again that it would be good if those of us with first hand information were to take the time to go over to the TA entry at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transantiago">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transantiago</a> -- and make it better.<o:p></o:p> <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> BTW, the entry is now posted in French German, Swedish and Spanish versions – with this last, unsurprisingly, the most complete.<o:p></o:p> <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> Eric Britton<o:p></o:p> <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> <div style='border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm'> <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> </div> <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> -----Original Message----- From: Jaswant Krishnayya [mailto:jkrishnayya@yahoo.com] Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2007 11:50 AM To: Eric Britton Cc: sujitjp@gmail.com; Sudhir Jatar Subject: Re your set of Criteria for New Mobility innovations<o:p></o:p> <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> Dear Eric, The idea is there, but these clues to better design do not, it seems to me, take full account of what we can learn from the Santiago debacle.  There, as you know, what seems like a superb piece of system-design, political support, funding, etc., came apart in the real world because it was a complex system-design that apparently had to all work together from day-one .. or else. What I am getting at is that in making modifications to real-world operating systems, we must think incrementally. There is no way (?) to get millions (or even thousands) of users to suddenly change the way they get to work or go shopping.  So designing the system - sequence  - of implementation is a crucial part of the system-design.  This must be in baby steps so that each step can be retraced and rebuilt if found necessary, without threatening the public acceptance of the  scheme as a whole - not to mention the promise (of much-improved services) there contained.  You have many criteria that point to this, of course, particularly the question whether the system has been tried out, etc etc.  However, a little explicit acceptance that every complex system will have flaws only discovered during real-world implementation - which will quickly cascade, is, I believe essential too. Sincerely, Jaswant Krishnayya =============== <![if !supportLineBreakNewLine]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> <![if !supportLists]>-         <![endif]>- - - -<o:p></o:p>  <o:p></o:p> Bottom-Line new mobility tests:<o:p></o:p> <ol start=1 type=1> <li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom: 4.5pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'>Traffic reductions: Does this new mobility tool help to reduce (and especially SOV) car traffic in the city? <o:p></o:p></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom: 4.5pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'>Environment sustainability: Does it offer a proven, significant, cost-effective capacity for reducing CO2 and other sources of pollution? <o:p></o:p></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom: 4.5pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'>Cost effective: Can it be brought on line at relatively low cost? <o:p></o:p></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom: 4.5pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'>Fast results: And show significant results within a single electoral mandate? <o:p></o:p></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom: 4.5pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'>Accessible: Is it widely accessible and easy to use? <o:p></o:p></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom: 4.5pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'>Equitable: Is it affordable and socially equitable? <o:p></o:p></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;margin-bottom:4.5pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3; tab-stops:list 36.0pt'>Synergies: Does it synergize with and open up space for yet other  new mobility  options, reforms and measures? <o:p></o:p></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom: 4.5pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'>Public space: Does it help to improve the quantity/quality of public space in the city? <o:p></o:p></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;margin-bottom:4.5pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3; tab-stops:list 36.0pt'>Replicable: Is it replicable in other cities (with proper preparation and adaptation of course)? <o:p></o:p></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;margin-bottom:4.5pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3; tab-stops:list 36.0pt'>Experience-proved: Has enough experience been accumulated both in Paris and elsewhere so that cities wishing to look closely at the concept can do so with confidence? <o:p></o:p></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;margin-bottom:4.5pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3; tab-stops:list 36.0pt'>Flexible: Does the approach permit a range of alternative planning, financing and implementation alternatives? <o:p></o:p></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;margin-bottom:4.5pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3; tab-stops:list 36.0pt'>Incremental implementation:  Can the measure or system be brought on line in a phased, step-like manner which will permit debugging and fine tuning at acceptable levels of public discomfort and cost?<o:p></o:p></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;margin-bottom:4.5pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3; tab-stops:list 36.0pt'>Reversible: Can it be readily and cheaply reversed, or radically restructured or moved to a better location, if it proves somehow  unsatisfactory in its performance? <o:p></o:p></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;margin-bottom:4.5pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3; tab-stops:list 36.0pt'>Participatory: Does the project by its nature invite, provide for active public participation and collaboration? <o:p></o:p></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;margin-bottom:4.5pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3; tab-stops:list 36.0pt'>Open: Is the necessary information accessible to diligent professionals? <o:p></o:p></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom: 4.5pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'>City-transformation:  Is it a ‘city-transforming’ project that can lead to a much more sustainable city and higher quality of life for all? <o:p></o:p></li> </ol> <![if !supportLists]>-          <![endif]><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> </div> </body> </html>