[sustran] Re: International Comparisons - Help Please!

[Piotr Olszewski (Assoc Prof)]

Hello Alan,

 

You may find the following sources useful in your predicament:

 

Modal split data (but watch out for inconsistencies!):

http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/articles-60210_asiamodalsplit.xl
s

 

Global urban indicators (but not much on transport):

http://hq.unhabitat.org/programmes/guo/guo_indicators.asp

 

Air quality benchmarking (including Mumbai):

http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/sei/rapidc2/benchmarking.html

 

Lots of data for selected cities:

http://www.adb.org/Documents/Books/Cities_Data_Book/default.asp

 

Good luck,

Piotr

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Piotr Olszewski                colsze at ntu.edu.sg
<mailto:colsze at ntu.edu.sg>  
Nanyang Technological University,  Singapore 

 

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Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 2:33 PM
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Subject: [sustran] International Comparisons - Help Please!

 

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?" http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm51.htm , 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

alan.howes at cbuchanan.co.uk

 

 

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