From cpardo at cable.net.co Mon Aug 1 10:48:21 2005 From: cpardo at cable.net.co (Carlos F. Pardo) Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 08:48:21 +0700 Subject: [sustran] Sustainable Urban Transport Project (GTZ SUTP) update Message-ID: <0IKI00DJ014WOI10@nexus.cable.net.co> Sustainable Urban Transport Project (GTZ SUTP) update August- September 2005 This bimonthly newsletter gives updates on the SUTP resources, website and events related to our topic of interest. For more information or feedback, please contact sutp@sutp.org , or visit our website at www.sutp.org. *****Project related News***** * Two updated sourcebook modules Module 1a ( "The role of transport in urban development policy" by Enrique Pe?alosa ) and 3a ( "Mass transit options" by Lloyd Wright and Karl Fjellstrom ) have been updated and are available inhttp://www.sutp.org/download/sourcebookhome.php. * Towards Carfree Cities V Conference in Budapest The World Carfree Network has developed the fifth version of the TCFC conference in Budapest, Hungary during the week of July 17-22, 2005. The complete program of the conference is available in http://worldcarfree.net/conference/programme.php, and a presentation from Manfred Breithaupt on Bangkok nonmotorised transport can be downloaded in http://www.sutp.org/docs/BudapestTCFCVBANGKOKMB.pdf (PDF, 4MB). A presentation on the upcoming Carfree Development Module is available http://www.sutp.org/docs/TCFCV_CFMODULEppt.pdf (PDF 1 MB). * A definition of Sustainable Transport The Center for Sustainable Transportation has developed a document with their views on the definition of sustainable transport. This document is available in http://www.cstctd.org/english/whatis.htm . * Metropolis 2005 Declaration During May 2005, the Berlin Metropolis Conference's Commission on Urban Mobility Management developed the Declaration on Sustainable Urban Mobility Management, which is available in http://www.sutp.org/docs/metropolis_declaration.pdf . * 4 sourcebook modules in HTML versions released Four modules have been released in HTML versions. These are module 1a ("The role of transport in urban development policy" by Enrique Pe?alosa), 1b ("Urban transport institutions" by Richard Meakin), 1e ("Raising public awareness about sustainable urban transport" by Karl Fjellstrom) and 3c ("Bus regulation and planning" by Richard Meakin) . They can be accessed through the sourcebook download in http://www.sutp.org/download/sourcebookhome.php (registration required). * New Module on Ecodriving SUTP has released a new sourcebook module on Eco driving, taking into account all the chain of actors involved in transport, including the driver. The module defines the meaning of driving "defensively and economically", its benefits and how to achieve this kind of driving. The module was written by VTL, Manfred Breithaupt (GTZ), Oliver Eberz (GTZ) and is available from our download area in http://www.sutp.org/download/sourcebookhome.php (PDF, approx 2MB). This material also has an annex CD with approx. 90 supporting material (videos, documents, presentations) that can be ordered via transport@gtz.de . * Article on KfW assistance KfW makes funds and expertise available for preparing and implementing investment projects in developing countries and offers complementary advisory services. A brief article describing this is available in http://www.sutp.org/docs/Transportfinanzierung_e.pdf . * Asia Workshop on Cycling and BRT integration in Delhi During October 2-5, 2005, SUTP will coorganize an Interactive workshop in Delhi on combined planning for BRT, cycling and walking, in order to develop a better knowledge of the non motorised integration with a Bus Rapid Transit System. Please visit http://www.sutp.org/ICEWS/asia_workshop.htm for more information. * BRT and nonmotorised Options Seminar in Laos Lloyd Wright (Senior advisor of SUTP) developed a one-day seminar in Laos on June 28th, 2005 with the Ministry of Communication, Transport, Posts and Construction. The presentation is available from our website in English in http://www.sutp.org/newweb/docs/LWLAOSENG.pdf (21.0 MB) and Thai language in http://www.sutp.org/newweb/docs/LWLAOSTHAI.pdf (11.7MB). * HTML version of training course on NMT SUTP has released an HTML version of the Non Motorized Transport training package. It can be accessed from the training section of the webpage at http://www.sutp.org/download/trainingmat.php (registration required), or through the "training materials" link on the left bar . This material also has an annex CD with approx. 90 supporting material (videos, documents, presentations) that can be ordered via transport@gtz.de . ******EVENTS****** * Childstreet 2005 Making street attractive places for children will be the topic of the "Childstreet2005" conference. The conference will look at street design, public space, and how to make streets safe for playing, walking and cycling. Interactive workshops will produce concepts for child-friendly solutions using local case studies. Date and Venue: 24th - 26th, 2005, Delft, Netherlands. E-mail: childstreet2005@urban.nl Web site: www.urban.nl/childstreet2005 * Living Streets 2nd Annual Walking and Health Workshop in London. The workshop will focus on how health and transport professionals can communicate better and build a common agenda to create and support more positive walking environments. Date and Venue: 13th September, 2005, London, England. Contact: Julia Crear Web site: www.livingstreets.org.uk * Urbanicity Conference Alert: Transport and Sustainable Mobility Conference The conference focuses on two vitally important topics: the Euro V legislation, limiting emissions from vehicles in the EU and the development of sustainable forms of mobility and transport. Date and Venue: 19th - 20th September, 2005, The Hotel HUSA President Park Brussels Web site: http://www.euconferences.com/events.asp?ID=17&Type=Event * Walk 21 conference This year's topic is "Everyday Walking Culture." The conference will focus on the planned implementation of walking into daily life by technical, political and structural means. The conference aims to increase recognition in the eyes of public representatives, experts and policy-makers of the positive contribution that walking makes to everyday city activities. Date and venue: 21st - 24th September, 2005. Zurich Contact: info@walk21.ch Web site: http://www.walk21.ch/ * Asia Interactive Workshop on Integration of Cycling and Walking with BRT Systems In order to develop a better knowledge of the non motorised integration with a Bus Rapid Transit System. SUTP will co-organize with I-ce, CAI-Asia, ITDP, Locomotives and TRIPPP to arrange the workshop. Please follow the link to see more preliminary information. Dates and venue: 2-5th October, 2005 Web site: www.sutp.org/ICEWS/asia_workshop.htm * Road Safety on Four continents Congress Date and venue: 5th-7th October, 2005. Warsaw, Poland. Contact: RS4C@vti.se or kent.gustafson@vti.se Web site: http://www.vti.se/templates/Page____4017.aspx * 3rd INTERNATIONAL MARKETING CONFERENCE: Improving quality, raising incomes, reducing costs It is the only international conference on marketing in Public Transport. Date and venue: 11th - 14th October, 2005, Vienna, Austria. Contact: Ms. France Vinage Email: france.vinage@uitp.com Web site: http://www.uitp.com/events/2005/vienna/en/ * 4th Training Programme for Public Transport Managers The mobility sector has been rapidly changing during the last years. Therefore, the professional knowledge and capabilities required from persons in charge of the planning, administration, operation and maintenance of a public transport network is changing. Aware of this challenge, UITP has developed a training programme that others its members' managers the opportunity to improve their understanding of global mobility issues and enhance knowledge on the hot topics at present in public transport, touching upon globalisation and liberalisation, sustainable mobility and pricing of urban journeys, contractual arrangements between operators and authorities, integration and seamless travel, a total quality management and customer approach, safety and security, innovative rolling stock, travel information, electronic ticketing, etc. Dates and venue: 24th - 26th October, 2005, Copenhagen, Denmark (Module 1) Email: caroline.deliens@uitp.com Web site: http://www.uitp.com/project/training/2005/copenhagen/ * Sustainable Urban Transport In Asia - Learning From Europe? "1/3 of Our Planet: What Can Asia and Europe do for Sustainable Development?" will take place in Jakarta, Indonesia, on 23-25 November 2005 and promises to be the largest meeting of its kind, drawing up to 250 high-profile personalities from Asia and Europe. The conference culminates the successful first phase of Asia-Europe roundtables on multistakeholder partnerships, climate change and renewable energy since 2003. Dates and venue: 23rd - 25th November 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia Contact: Daniele Ponzi and Cornie Huizenga Email: dponzi@adb.org and chuizenga@adb.org Web site: http://env.asef.org/ * 2006 TRB 85th Annual Meeting Solicited and unsolicited papers for presentation and/or publication as part of the 85th TRB Annual Meeting must be submitted directly to TRB via the online paper submission website by August 1, 2005 . Papers addressing any relevant aspect of transportation research will be considered. However, some TRB Technical Activities (Division A) committees are soliciting papers in specific subject areas. Prospective authors are encouraged to review committee Calls for Papers below and to consult the Information for Authors page for guidance on preparing their manuscripts. Date: 22-26 January, 2006 Web site: http://www.trb.org/conferences/CallsForPapers/default.asp?event=68 information for authors: http://www4.nas.edu/trb/annual.nsf/web/information_for_authors * 4th Training Programme for Public Transport Managers The mobility sector has been rapidly changing during the last years. Therefore, the professional knowledge and capabilities required from persons in charge of the planning, administration, operation and maintenance of a public transport network is changing. Aware of this challenge, UITP has developed a training programme that others its members' managers the opportunity to improve their understanding of global mobility issues and enhance knowledge on the hot topics at present in public transport, touching upon globalisation and liberalisation, sustainable mobility and pricing of urban journeys, contractual arrangements between operators and authorities, integration and seamless travel, a total quality management and customer approach, safety and security, innovative rolling stock, travel information, electronic ticketing, etc. Dates and venue: 20th - 22nd February, 2006, Milan, Italy (Module 2) Email: caroline.deliens@uitp.com Web site: http://www.uitp.com/project/training/2005/copenhagen/ * Velo Mondial 2006 - Cape Town Velo Mondial 2006 will take place in Cape Town over the city?s most exciting week of the year. This is the week that over 35 000 cyclists gather in Cape Town from all over for the world?s largest timed sporting event: the Cape Argus Pick ?n Pay Cycle Tour. Velo Mondial 2006 precedes the cycle tour, offering delegates the opportunity to experience the atmosphere surrounding Cape Town?s most famous and unique cycle tour. The theme of the conference is "Towards Prosperity." Please note that the deadline to submit an abstract has been extended to the 12th of August 2005 and successful authors will be notified by the 23rd of September 2005. Please also feel free to forward the Call for Papers to your colleagues working within the themes of Velo Mondial 2006. Dates and venue: 5th - 10th March 2006, Cape Town, South Africa. Contact: Kristen Johnsen Tremeer Web site: http://www.velomondial2006.com/ * 4th Training Programme for Public Transport Managers The mobility sector has been rapidly changing during the last years. Therefore, the professional knowledge and capabilities required from persons in charge of the planning, administration, operation and maintenance of a public transport network is changing. Aware of this challenge, UITP has developed a training programme that others its members' managers the opportunity to improve their understanding of global mobility issues and enhance knowledge on the hot topics at present in public transport, touching upon globalisation and liberalisation, sustainable mobility and pricing of urban journeys, contractual arrangements between operators and authorities, integration and seamless travel, a total quality management and customer approach, safety and security, innovative rolling stock, travel information, electronic ticketing, etc. Dates and venue: 20th - 24th May, 2006, Bangkok, Thailand (Module 3) Email: caroline.deliens@uitp.com Web site: http://www.uitp.com/project/training/2005/copenhagen/ * Gender, transport and development: bridging the divide between development goals, research and policy in developing countries. The South African National Roads Agency Ltd (SANRAL) and the Gender and Development Unit of the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), in partnership with the Department of Transport (DoT) and the Centre for Scientific Industrial Research (CSIR) cordially invites you to submit a paper, poster, or participate in the round table discussion of the First International African Conference on Gender, Transport and Development. The full programme, details for registration, accommodation, submission of full text papers, guidelines for presentation and other relevant information will be made available on the web page www.nra.co.za / gender and transport conference. Dates and venue: 28th - 30th May 2006, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa Email: wcloete@nra.co.za and copied to rpillay@hsrc.ac.za Web site: http://www.nra.co.za/ * CODATU XII, Lyon. 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Pardo) Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 11:21:48 +0700 Subject: [sustran] Cyclists in the US stat Message-ID: <0IKL00DTWXL00NJ0@epicac.cable.net.co> It's a nice stat to quote: Vital Signs Fact of the Week U.S. Bikers Less Safe Than European Counterparts global bicycle production In the United States, cyclists are 12 times more likely than people in cars to die en route to their destinations. On a per-kilometer and per-trip basis, U.S. cyclists are twice as likely to die on the road as German cyclists, and more than three times as likely as Dutch cyclists. While cycling fatalities in all of these countries have fallen in the last 25 years, U.S. cycling deaths have declined largely because of a drop in cycling, while in the Netherlands and Germany investments in infrastructure that make cycling safer account for much of the decline. Source: http://www.worldwatch.org/features/vsow/2005/08/02 Carlos F. 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URL: http://list.jca.apc.org/manage/private/sustran-discuss/attachments/20050805/45bf3175/attachment.html From eric.britton at ecoplan.org Sat Aug 6 01:02:51 2005 From: eric.britton at ecoplan.org (Eric Britton) Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 18:02:51 +0200 Subject: [sustran] New Mobility Communications for The Commons (A working note) Message-ID: <005601c599d7$247ff0b0$6401a8c0@home> It is our view here at The Commons that the fast growing IP communications toolset that is springing up all around us holds one of the main keys to the matters that are being looked at here from the very widest international perspective. And it is for this reason that we from time to time bother you with leads and notes on the latest tools and uses thereof. Below you have the text of a link that you will now find sitting handily on the top menu of the website, and which I very much hope you will at least be considering and, more hopefully yet, even using. Your comments are invited, including by clicking one or both of the two communications links (Skype, SightSpeed) that you will see at the top of the left menu. Be brave. Give it a try. New Mobility Communications for The Commons (A working note for our international colleagues and fellow problem solvers) _____ Immediate access: * Click here for Skype phone link * Click for SightSpeed Video link * Check Paris time for call Deep background: * How it works * Electronic/Environment * ICT Operations Profile: 1972-200 IP in 2005: Efficient. Powerful. Cheap. Sustainable. The vital key to real progress in the struggle to sustainability resides in our ability to combine forces to build knowledge and consensus. The inputs to accomplish this are not going to come from a single place. A world wide outreach is needed. And to accomplish this we have to make good use of all the assets we have in hand. Which brings us smack to the issue of mastering available communications technologies. Here is how our "virtual presence/distance work" communications toolset that we have built up here at The Commons looks thus far (with more to be added as the project moves ahead and the collaborators start to be more comfortable with these concepts and tools). You can start immediately to get a feel for how this works. Just click the Skype and/or SightSpeed links, and we can start talking or one-on-one videoconference at no cost to you. Once you have got the hang of it, believe me you will not go back. For more background, read on. Why? Because we all need to learn, to be able to communicate better: more easily, more succinctly, and most likely in fact not necessarily all that much more in terms of sheer quantity of time spent. (Remember that every hour you waste sitting in an airport or on a plane is an hour stolen from your real work. So let's see how we can use our latest technologies to do a better job of all this.) Because we need to behave in a more responsible manner and do what we can, including through clever use of these technologies, to cut our CO2 etc. profligacy. Start by using this toolset to see if you can reduce your physical travels by half. Go on a CO2 diet. You and the planet will feel a lot better. The tool set that you see on this page is explained in this first instance largely in terms of one-on-one communications, with the option of trying it out with us at The Commons and our various programs that use these tools. But bear in mind that the final objective is not so much talking with us (though that is certainly a pleasure from this end), but rather to put these tools before you for broader uses. With your other colleagues in various places around the world, and of course in group situations. As you will see if you continue to read on here, there are some very Skype: Free IP Telephone Skype is a world wide IP communications service offering free or almost free phone calls anywhere in the world. Since it is easy to install and enormously cost-effective (and secure), we have found that even our most technology wary colleagues are able to get the swing of this and more over to it comfortable without having to undergo some kind of gut-wrenching mid-life culture change. It is our goal to move all of our international colleagues over to this handy means of communicating (or some similar, see below for a few more options), since we are convinced that those who are working to push the frontiers in these important areas need to have easier and cheaper access to each other. Click here to get full background information on Skype , as well as step by step guidelines for the very easy download and install routine. The whole thing should take you ten minutes. And if you wish to test your system, just pop the name ericbritton into the address box and you will be directly in touch with us here. Quality: very high. Cost: zero. Already on Skype? Click here to call direct. SightSpeed: videoconferencing and group work system If you are comfortable in this general technology environment, all you have to do is click here and follow your nose. If not, just drop down to the next paragraph and the leads it provides to facilitate your access. * First easy video connect (PC and Mac support, multilingual) The free SightSpeed.com package is the fastest and easiest to make that first contact. Works for both PC and Mac. The install routine is straight-forward with quick and clear step by step instructions for your first visit (download plug-in and off we go). Your cost for use with us: zero! (And later if you decide to use it mo0re generally in support of your work, very cheap.) * System requirements: Ideally in addition to your high speed internet connection and basic computer set-up, and Internet Explorer 6.0 or better, with sound card (see System Check below, ideally you have a proper webcam (example: good Logitech model, again see below). But even that is not absolutely necessary for the trial. If you are without camera, you will still be able to hear and see us in this first step. And if you are not accustomed to this sort of thing, courage! In truth it's no big deal. You will quickly get comfortable with this new and very useful functionality. Very high quality Help & On-Line Support available direct from: http://www.sightspeed.com. Be sure to check out your system and equipment requirements first (more on this below). Still running into problems and areas of uncertainty? Don't worry, pick up the phone and let us hear from you via Skype or the suddenly very old phone system +331 4326 1323 or try an email at secretariat@ecoplan.org. And once you get comfortable with this, we can begin to look further and start to make use of some of the more complete group conferencing packages, for which more information follows. SightSpeed supports The Commons and the New Mobility Agenda: The SightSpeed group has generously offered to support the work of The Commons, the New Mobility Agenda and the Kyoto World Cities 20/20 Challenge program by offering free one year subscriptions to all those who are cooperating with these projects. All we need to have for you to set up your free service is a one line email indicating your interest addressed to secretariat@ecoplan.org, with a copy to pzottolo@sightspeed.com. MSN Messenger: Useful support tools MSN Messenger: When we collaborate on a group project, we ask each member of the team to check in via MSN Messenger (that's http://messenger.msn.com/) and it's free.. We find this the best way either to knock gently on the door to set up a conferencing appointment, or alternately for you to leave a message to indicate that you dropped in, and when you'd like to hear from us, etc. MSN Messenger also offers a useful complement to both Click to Meet and SightSpeed, especially for the latter since it permits additional group work functionality, allowing for such things as simultaneous sharing and viewing of documents, webpages, high speed file transfer, whiteboards, chat, etc.) Group work and conference environment Once you have been on line a few times with our 'alpha' or learning system thanks to SightSpeed, it will be easy for you to take the next step, which is our much more complete and powerful group work and conferencing environments. The excellent and ever evolving software for this has been developed by a group called First Virtual Communications, based on early work carried out at Carnegie Mellon University going back a full decade. It is a mature product that works. We are grateful to our long time friends and colleagues at the Construction IT Centre of the University of Maribor in Slovenia for making these sites available to us for our pioneering public interest work. Note: When you enter either of these sites for the first time, please bear in mind that there is no need for you to register. Thus when it asks you to "sign in" you can safely ignore and keep moving right along, as if no one ever asked. (Later when you decide to join and wish to make fuller use of the capabilities, we can set up your sign in routine.) 1. Click to access to our virtual office (appears in own window) Our virtual office is intended for private meetings and consultations, including eventual initial conversations about either our on-going work, future projects or ideas that you may have for collaboration or support. (The full office address in case you wish to pop it into your IE browser direct is: http://cgiserver.uni-mb.si:8080/clicktomeet/index.htm?ID=200. If I am not there when you check in, please drop me an email note and we can setup a mutually convenient time for a meeting.) 2. Click to access to Conference facility (appears in own window) There is more to this than just videoconferencing (a powerful state of the art tool for our daily uses in any event). The program works to turn all more commonly used applications into a multi-level group work environment, integrating with the common desktop applications, your web browser, Windows Messenger and Outlook for calendaring and scheduling. The simple upload of PowerPoint, Word and Excel files allows seamless collaboration with others in the conference. (The full conference room address in case you wish to pop it into your IE browser direct is: http://cgiserver.uni-mb.si:8080/clicktomeet/index.htm?ID=16143.) Both of these group work programs -- PC only, sorry -- are comprehensive tool sets for distance group work: they offer not only offer direct or group videoconferencing and/or voice access, but they also accommodate different levels of participation (works with full webcam/sound, sound only, no-see no-hear but view visual proceedings). You will see more about this as you get into the programs themselves. However if you are not familiar with this technology, we counsel that you check out the following. A little care here will go a long way to make this an easier and more effective experience. Check out your system first What you have here is one-click access to some very complete group work facilities, which you will find amply explained below and on the sites themselves. But let's start by checking out your system requirements, showing you first an optimum but still quite affordable set-up, following that with a rig that is perfectly useful for daily operation. Best audio, video, data experience: * Pentium IV 1.8 GHx 512Mb * QCIF video size at 30fps w/ 8 videos received * G.722 audio * Echo cancellation enabled (Windows XP) Still quite good: * CPU Windows: Pentium III 800 MHz 256 Mb * Operating Systems Windows: 2000 or XP * Macintosh: G4 800 MHz or faster * Macintosh: OS X 10.3 or higher Communications: * High speed (broadband) connection: Min. > 256k Peripherals * Sound card, with headset or speaker phone * Webcam ( Click here for a useful listing. Note: If you wish only voice access, you will not need a webcam.) Click to Meet Specifications: http://www.fvc.com/eng/products/ctm4.htm Attitude (Check out yourself too) IP Conferencing although fast advancing is still very much in the process of finding its way. This means that when things are well prepared and conditions correspond, then it can offer an extremely satisfying and useful experience. On the other hand if you are working alone and without good support, you will need to exercise patience and forbearance from time to time. And in this a little knowledge about what you are actually trying to do helps. The bottom line: if you have a low frustration threshold and expect things always to work the first time around, this is probably not for you. Come back again in a year or so and you will certainly find a more facile working environment. But then too, you will have missed twelve months of working creatively with others perhaps many miles away and who just may have a lot to share with you, to teach you, and, yes, to learn from you. And of course, imagine all the CO2 that you are not burning when you keep off that plane. That should make you feel good, and the planet will certainly thank you. How to use. . . and protecting your time One of the more daunting tricks of these technologies is not only to get them up and working (which fortunately is getting easier with each generation of new products), but also the no less challenging task of figuring out how to make a useful tool of what you can have. This is not always so self evident and does require a bit of a strategy. For our part, when we go on line with services like Skype, SightSpeed and MS Messenger, which we have on line all the time during the working day, we make sure in the first place that we restrict entry only to those friends, family and colleagues that we want in fact to hear from. In each case when you get the product up and working, it is worth paying some attention to seeing how this can be done. But the other half of this coin is the matter of netiquette: how do we then figure out how best to let someone know that we want to speak or videoconferencing in a manner which is properly discreet and not disruptive of their work or concentration. Now there is of course the option there of simply and boldly clicking them in -- but this as you can well imagine amounts to an uninvited breaking down of their door. Not on clearly! All three of this first level of software products offer the possibility of leaving them a discrete note inviting them to a meeting, which they can then ignore, give you a good time for or whatever. This is very handy and works well for us and those with whom we are in frequent contact. Finally a note on CO2 et al. These technologies will, if you give them even half a chance, help you gradually to cut back on your physical movements, which of course is what in our view at least "New Mobility" is all about. 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The chief minister of communist-run West Bengal state, of which Kolkata is the capital, said the plan to phase out the city's 10,000 hand-pulled rickshaws was part of wider campaign to improve its poor global image. "Westerners try to associate beggars and these rickshaws with Kolkata tradition, but this is not our tradition," Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee told reporters, adding that the ban would come into effect within five months. Chinese traders introduced the hand-pulled rickshaw to Kolkata in the early 20th century and sinewy, barefoot men pulling the vehicles are are still a common sight in the city. They are in especially great demand during the monsoon when flooded streets make it hard for commuters to use taxis or cars. China banned hand-pulled rickshaws after the communists took power in 1949 and Kolkata is one of the only places left in the world where such rickshaws are used as everyday transport. Officials in Kolkata said they would look into replacing the hand-pulled rickshaws with motorized three-wheel versions or bicycle rickshaws, but did not detail how this would be financed. Mohammad Aslam of the All Bengal Rickshaw Pullers Union, the leading union of rickshaw pullers in the city, said it was not opposed to the move as long as jobs were not lost. "We hope the government will make suitable arrangements and thousands of people who are involved with this trade are not left in the lurch," he said. In the past few years, Kolkata -- best known for its poverty and the charity works of Mother Teresa -- has emerged as a new information technology and outsourcing hub, with swanky restaurants, shopping malls and coffee bars springing up. Copyright 2005 Reuters . All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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If so apologies and kind thanks for indulging us on this.) Friday, August 19, 2005. Paris, France Dear Sustran Friends, This won't happen very often I promise you -- but there has been enough going on in and around here of late within The Commons that a quick newsletter - attached -- seemed like the most efficient way of putting before you the handful of things that you might wish to keep your eye on, as far as your accessing, use and eventually your support of The Commons in all of its many parts. It just may be that you may have some ideas for us. And who knows, perhaps us for you. When we get this kind of mail shot over the transom it is not always clear to us what the author has in mind: just to inform us of something, or perhaps to engage us in some manner? In this case it's a bit of both. Specifically, I would like to invite your views and counsel on our various programs, better yet to welcome you as a participant or observer in any of these that might interest you in particular. And if you have any advice or leads as to whom we might approach or how we might find support for all or some part of this (the Kyoto Cities Challenge or Children on the Move projects come particularly to mind, as well as The Commons itself) it would be most timely. Truth to tell, I have never been very good at this end of my job here, so your guidance on this would be particularly appreciated. I have tried to keep this a quick read, so you have a clickable 'contents' in the newsletter which sets out what I believe to be the most important points to which to draw your attention. For a complete update, just click the top menu of the newsletter which will take you to the home page of The Commons For my friends of long date spread out over this beleaguered planet, I have added a section toward the end which provides a few personal notes and a couple of recent pieces (one of which attached) which I hope will give you some fun -- despite the fact that in the topics addressed I am dead serious. Read on: you'll see. Also I would invite you to . . . * Click here for a short personal welcome message demo-ing new video links. (Oops. Not clear? Jerky? Try downloading and then playing from your hard disk.) Feedback? We live for it. All you have to do is click here and we'll get your message. And yes, we answer our mail. Alternatively should you wish to talk over any of this in person (or via a free videoconference), just click the Connect link on the top menu. You may be surprised at how easy and efficient this can be. 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Name: How in 2005 the French Saved Europe for Civilization-PartII.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 18193 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://list.jca.apc.org/manage/private/sustran-discuss/attachments/20050819/cbded750/Howin2005theFrenchSavedEuropeforCivilization-PartII-0001.pdf From paulbarter at nus.edu.sg Tue Aug 23 14:27:59 2005 From: paulbarter at nus.edu.sg (Paul Barter) Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 13:27:59 +0800 Subject: [sustran] FW: [NewMobilityCafe] Rickshaws in Calcutta Message-ID: <0C270D0ABD2B8B44900A88DE0887F49A985477@MBOX01.stf.nus.edu.sg> > Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 10:40:14 +0530 > From: V Ramaswamy > Subject: Rickshaws in Calcutta > > Rickshaws in Calcutta > > > > The Left Front Govt of West Bengal wants to get rid of the > Image - of man's inhumanity to man - rather than the reality > of an inhumane society with inhuman living conditions for the > labouring poor. > > > > There is actually no humanity in the govt, for that would > have meant working out a proper rehabilitation programme for > the rickshaw pullers. Inhumanity, and vanity. > > > > Creating an image, or dispelling an image versus actually > erasing inhumanity. > > > > Banning rickshaws without successfully arranging alternatives > for the pullers means actually inflicting cruelty on the > pullers, in the name of creating an image of humanity. > > > > Hand and cycle rickshaws are appearing in cities in Europe > today. One can visualise a regulated trade in Calcutta, where > the puller derives a fair and humane wage. > > > > There are also other forms of inhumanity - domestic > servitude, working conditions in the unorganised sector, > living conditions of the urban poor in slums and shanties. On > none of these is the govt doing anything. > > > > The govt is also displaying its parochialism - the pullers > are predominantly Bihari. They are insecure, unorganised. > Hence they are an easy target. Such biases can also be seen > in Howrah station, in the conflict between the red-shirt > (licensed, Bihari) porters and the (unlicensed, Bengali) > blue-shirt porters. > > > > Rickshaw pulling does not really disrupt traffic. It is a > meaningful mode of transport in particular localities, for > particular functions, for both passengers and freight. > > > > The ergonomics of the hand rickshaw are superior to that of > the cycle rickshaw (the model used in Calcutta). > > > > Cycle rickshaws are more of a nuisance, their conditions are > pathetic, the plight of the cycle rickshaw puller is worse > than that of the hand-puller, they represent a greater > inhumanity, far greater numbers of cycle rickshaws exist. The > health profile of the typical cycle-puller is far worse than > that of the hand-puller. Though they are also periodically > harassed in various localities, yet they are more organised > than the hand-pullers. > > > > Legality and illegality - what are all the illegal activities > flourishing in the city organised by political cadres? > Flagrant violation of law is found in every sphere of life. > Like the bus-owners now, threatening public disruption if > efforts are made to implement pollution control norms! > > > > The auto-rickshaw is entirely unwholesome and undesirable. Is > a prime instrument of air and noise pollution. They are a > menace to traffic. Unsafe, severely harmful. Part of a > noxious lumpen under-life of the city. Most autos are > illegal. Permits are given to party cadres. Beneficiaries > have let out the vehicle to a driver, and often the actual > driver is twice-removed from the owner, for whom the auto has > become a means to derive an income from others' labour. No > civilised city should have auto-rickshaws. > > > > The pretext of freeing roads for cars - raises the question > of how long the unchecked growth of private cars will > continue. There has to be a long-term plan, both of expanding > roads, but also limiting and controlling private cars - as > London has successfully demonstrated. > > > > Traffic flow is severely impeded by hawking, markets and > shops on pavements and roadsides, which are organised and > profited from by political cadres. > > > > Public transport is in a shambles. > > > > > When will the people of Calcutta rise up against their ugly rulers? > > > > V Ramaswamy is a Calcutta-based business executive, social > planner, civic activist, grassroots organiser, teacher, > writer and singer. > > From hpp at vsnl.com Tue Aug 23 17:47:46 2005 From: hpp at vsnl.com (hpp@vsnl.com) Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 13:47:46 +0500 Subject: [sustran] More on rickshaws Message-ID: <7036a4703332.7033327036a4@vsnl.net> I have been surprised by the public response (or lack of) to the recently announced decision of the West Bengal state govt to ban hand-pulled rickshaws in Calcutta. One is not hearing the demand that the whole issue of alternative livelihood must be satisfactorily resolved before putting an end to the honest livelihoods of tens of thousands of pullers, with minimum disruption to the pullers. The media had reported in the past that the Chief Minister's wife had protested against cutting down of trees in the city. Similarly, there were reports that the CM's daughter had complained against the removal of stray dogs from near their residence. But whose heart bleeds for the rickshaw puller? After their having served the people of Calcutta, so devotedly, loyally and intimately, for so many years? Who will stand beside them now? During the rains, during floods; carrying invalids and the elderly; carrying little children to and from school; carrying shopping-laden families; rickshaw pullers have been an intimate part of the daily lives of Calcuttans. The leftist govt seems to have forgotten the moving portrayal of the Bihari rickshaw puller by the much-loved actor Balraj Sahni in Bimal Roy's film "Do Bigha Zamin"? Is it because they are Bihari that they are treated so callously, despite their service to the city? V Ramaswamy Calcutta From cpardo at cable.net.co Thu Aug 25 01:10:23 2005 From: cpardo at cable.net.co (Carlos F. Pardo) Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:10:23 -0500 Subject: [sustran] Schwarzenegger combats global warming...? Message-ID: <0ILP00A0BQCLPL40@nexus.cable.net.co> Who would have thought... See article below, an article about the man-o-steel's statement concerning global warming reduction for California. Best regards, Carlos F. Pardo Project Coordinator GTZ Sustainable Urban Transport Project (SUTP) Room 0942, Transport Division, UN-ESCAP ESCAP UN Building Rajadamnern Nok Rd. Bangkok 10200, Thailand Tel:? +66 (0) 2 - 288? 2576 (during August- September: +57 1 635 9048) Fax: +66 (0) 2 - 280? 6042 (during August- September: +57 1 635 9015) Mobile: +66 (0) 1 - 772 4727 (during August- September: +57 3 15 802 4115) e-mail: carlos.pardo@sutp.org Website: www.sutp.org -----Mensaje original----- De: ECO-SAFE-BUS@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ECO-SAFE-BUS@yahoogroups.com] En nombre de emerinod Enviado el: Mi?rcoles, 24 de Agosto de 2005 08:04 a.m. Para: ECO-SAFE-BUS@yahoogroups.com Asunto: [ECO-SAFE-BUS] Importante poner atencion en este articulo http://helenair.com/articles/2005/06/02/national/a05060205_01.prt Schwarzenegger unveils global warming plan at UN conference By TERENCE CHEA - Associated Press Writer - 06/02/05 SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger stole the show at the United Nations environmental conference Wednesday by unveiling a plan to combat global warming by setting goals for reducing California's emissions of greenhouse gases. At the opening of the UN World Environmental Day Conference, Schwarzenegger signed an executive order that appeared to put the Republican governor on an opposite course from the Bush administration, which has rebuffed international efforts to address climate change. ''Today, California will be a leader in the fight against global warming,'' Schwarzenegger told an international audience of mayors and environmentalists at San Francisco City Hall. ''I say the debate is over. We know the science, we see the threat and we know the time for action is now.'' Schwarzenegger's executive order calls for reducing the state's emissions of such gases to 2000 levels by 2010, 1990 levels by 2020 and 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050. The secretary of California's Environmental Protection Agency will be charged with overseeing efforts to meet those goals, and will report on the state's progress in January and every six months after that. Schwarzenegger didn't announce any specific new policies, but said he would move ahead to impose greenhouse gas emissions standards for automobiles, increase use of renewable power and boost energy efficiency in state buildings and vehicles. The governor said he would work with state lawmakers to enact legislation to meet his ambitious targets. The California Assembly this week overwhelmingly passed a bill to meet international greenhouse gas reduction standards by 2010, which is more aggressive than the governor's 2010 target. ''We have no choice but to meet this challenge,'' Schwarzenegger said. ''We must leave a better world for our children and their children.'' Scientists and environmentalists said they were encouraged by Schwarzenegger's new targets. As the country's largest state and the world's eighth largest economy, California has the clout to influence the national debate over global warming, they said. ''The governor has opened the door to a whole new future for the California economy,'' said Kate Larsen, a policy analyst at Environmental Defense. But scientists said the state would have to launch more aggressive policies and programs to meet the governor's ambitious goals, such as setting state limits on greenhouse gas emissions and allowing companies to buy and sell permits to release such gases. ''We have to accelerate the policies we already have in place and develop new policies to fill the gap,'' said Jason Mark, California director of the Union of Concerned Scientists. Schwarzenegger unveiled his plan at the opening of the five-day international conference, the first ever held on American soil. While no major Bush administration official has announced plans to attend, at least 70 mayors from cities such as London, Rio de Janiero and Shanghai were expected, trading ideas on renewable energy, recycling, public transportation, city parks and clean air and water. Schwarzenegger has made other attempts to rein in greenhouse gases. His ''hydrogen highways'' program encourages the installation of enough hydrogen fueling stations to enable the use of zero-polluting vehicles across the state, and his ''million solar roofs'' program would subsidize residential solar power installations, jump-starting that industry as well. -- -- Patrick Judge, Energy Program Director Montana Environmental Information Center P.O. Box 1184 Helena, MT 59624 406/443-2520 406/443-2507 fax ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Help Sudanese refugees rebuild their lives through GlobalGiving. --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ECO-SAFE-BUS/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: ECO-SAFE-BUS-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ From eric.britton at ecoplan.org Thu Aug 25 02:36:31 2005 From: eric.britton at ecoplan.org (Eric Britton) Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 19:36:31 +0200 Subject: [sustran] Schwarzenegger combats global warming...? In-Reply-To: <0ILP00A0BQCLPL40@nexus.cable.net.co> Message-ID: <00ea01c5a8d2$5e5c6840$6401a8c0@home> >> Who would have thought... See article below, an article about the man-o-steel's statement concerning global warming reduction for California. Best regards, Carlos F. Pardo<< Dear Friends of Sustainability World-Wide, No. Not surprising really. The evidence suggest that there are at least four basic underlying things that we need to understand for this apparently unexpected event not only to make perfect sense but also to see it as a source of powerful lessons for all of us around the world who wish to make some of these fundamental changes in our transportation/environment arrangements: * First, that California, as the most and earliest automobilized of all the States, has for some fifteen years now been a leader in both thinking and innovation in the environmental field. (That is not to imply that this has been a straight line. . . To the contrary, there are lots of things going on in terms of policy, practice and funding which work in exactly the opposite direction. But all that said California has now a long history of taking leadership positions in both matters of transportation and energy.) * Second, Schwarzenegger is a political opportunist, and if this will get him visibility and votes -and it sure will - then what's the big surprise? * Third, when it comes to pattern breaks, including those in favor of the environment and well-being of our communities and our children, the old right/left political divisions and affiliations are meaningless. To the contrary just as the traditional left has been weak and often betrayed the key precepts and concepts when they finally get into office, the right from time to time merges to come up with happy surprises such as this. (I call this the "Nixon in China" syndrome). * And finally, the governator has a smart and not-timid wife with many of the right reactions and positions on this. This last is not entirely a one time shot. By this I mean that families, wives and children, can often be a means for accomplishing otherwise unexpected breakthroughs. Which is one of the reasons that in our work we give so much attention to children as a source of information and inspiration (see our still a bit nascent Children on the Move! at http://www.ecoplan.org/children/) Lesson: To realize our ambitious objectives we must be prepared to go out of the box. Again and again and again. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jca.apc.org/manage/private/sustran-discuss/attachments/20050824/da3d1e2f/attachment.html From f.forestieri at netspa.com Mon Aug 1 11:01:01 2005 From: f.forestieri at netspa.com (f.forestieri@netspa.com) Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 04:01:01 +0200 Subject: ***removed*** Message-ID: ***removed***