From eric.britton at ecoplan.org Thu Oct 2 15:09:21 2008 From: eric.britton at ecoplan.org (Eric Britton) Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 08:09:21 +0200 Subject: [sustran] Google Project 10*100 competition - New Mobility Agenda steps up to the plate Message-ID: <009301c92455$6bce6bc0$436b4340$@britton@ecoplan.org> Dave Brook has kindly reminded me yesterday of something that had been on the back of my mind, The Google Project 10100 competition which is just getting underway and for which you can find the full story at http://www.project10tothe100.com/ . I would encourage you to have a look and if you have a project idea that you think might be able to benefit from this offering I very much hope that you will submit it. In fact, this comes at an interesting time for us here since our entire program is under severe financial pressure as a result of, precisely, the fact that our public interest work has no support of any kind other than my own earning as a consultant. Things are getting a bit tight and we need to find way out of this box. I mention this to you since I have decided to join the competition, and would like to put before you the draft materials that I propose to place there. (You can see the form at http://www.project10tothe100.com/submit_your_idea.html.) As you will see, the key lies in the short responses as per items 8 - 15 below. With the thought that since our work is basically collaborative, that it might be a good idea to share this with you all and to ask you for comments and suggestions so as to come up with a stronger, tighter, more convincing statement and argument for support. I would hope to complete the application by Monday next at the latest, and I suppose that it will be best for all if you send on your comments and suggestions to me in private. Then if any of you might wish to see our final submission, just let me know and I will be pleased to send it on. Thanks for giving this your attention. But think too about your own application, and if I can help with that well you know how to get in touch. Eric Britton PS. For latest background on our ongoing work program (always moving ahead) please click to http://www.program.newmobility.org/ Draft content of application: 8. Your idea's name (maximum 50 characters): New Mobility Agenda: Networking for sustainability 9. Please select a category that best describes your idea. Community: How can we help connect people, build communities and protect unique cultures? 10. What one sentence best describes your idea? (maximum 150 characters) THE NEW MOBILITY AGENDA - The Politics of Transportation: World-wide collaborative problem-solving for transport and quality of life in cities 11. Describe your idea in more depth. (maximum 300 words ) REINVENTING TRANSPORT IN CITIES - The New Mobility strategy: 1. Climate change: Look to climate change, and the on-going worldwide energy and resource crisis, to create the basic metric for your program. 2. Tighten time frame for action: Set firm performance targets -- gearing all actions to achieve visible results within 2-5 year time frame. 3. Reduce VM/KT radically. The critical, incontrovertible strategic core. (And it can't be done without technology) 4. Introduce New Mobility services: A whole range of affordable, proven new mobility services are available to keep our cities viable. 5. The technology core: Service innovations gain their advantage by integrating SOA logistics, communications and information technology. 6. The road infrastructures: of our cities are vastly overbuilt, and are not delivering deliver the goods. We can take over substantial portions of the network for far more efficient modes. 7. The female metric: If we design systems that work well for women of all ages and conditions, they will work well for society as a whole. Women are the metric of new mobility. 8. Broaden ownership: Make your New Mobility program a broad-based collaborative enterprise that listens to and engages the whole city. 9. Coherent integrated policy frame: that explicitly drives and aligns all measures and actions so they move together in interactive synergy 10. Frugal economics: No need for another round of high cost, low impact investments to make it work. Work with what you have. 11. Pick winners: New approaches demand success. Chose policies and services with track records of success and build on their experience. 12. Use time wisely: Cities and people have their own rhythms -- if we are to change our way of doing things we need to be highly strategic and subtle in our use of time for the necessary conversions. 12. What problem or issue does your idea address? (maximum 150 words) The transportation arrangements that presently serve our cities are so outstandingly bad that they defy all logic. Four decades after landing a man on the moon, they basically have not budged since Neil Armstrong took that "giant leap for mankind". They were bad in 1969 and have gotten steadily worse since. As things stand they violate economic efficiency, social justice, resource security, the environment, life quality, and the integrity of the planet. However . . . virtually all of the necessary preconditions are now in place for far-reaching, rapid, low cost improvements in the ways that people get around in our cites. The needs are there, they are increasingly understood -- and we know what to do and how to get the job done. The challenge is to find the vision, political will, and leadership to get the job done, step by deliberate step. Starting now! 13. If your idea were to become a reality, who would benefit the most and how? (maximum 150 words) Basically everybody benefits from the progress these programs bring. The benefits are environmental, economic, and social, Moreover the process of bringing these new services and approaches on line requires and thus reinforces active democracy. The most immediate beneficiaries will be the majority of the planet's populations who live in and around cities. But the ideas that make it there - cities always being a hotbed of innovation as well as problems - will find their application in ex-urban areas as well. Doubtless those who stand to gain most will be the populations of the megacities of the developing world, where the old mobility models are still in force and being used every day to create ever more catastrophic situations of daily life for the majority of the people who live there, and for the planet. That the approach consistently favors women and children in all social and economic classes and ages provides a broad guarantee of quality for the population as a whole. 14. What are the initial steps required to get this idea off the ground? (maximum 150 words) In this case we have a running start: We can work with the considerable base that we have already established with an existing informal network consisting of several thousand international colleagues from more than fifty countries over the last two decades. But the project and the means of the networking are far too artisanal given the tools now available, so it - the website, the discussion fora, the media and the considerable wealth of information and resources that it encompasses -- becomes more transparent, higher profile and easier to consult and use. We have a pretty good idea of what is needed to do the job better, and our initial steps will be to work with our very large network to create the kind of system that the group feels it needs and can use. 15. Describe the optimal outcome should your idea be selected and successfully implemented. How would you measure it? (maximum 150 words) Several possible measures come to mind, all are subsidiary to our ultimate objective: massive near-term reductions in greenhouse gas emissions (that being a surrogate that works very well for all the rest). And while we consistently urge for projects to do their best to measure these impacts, at the level our program -- which is basically an advisory and support function I cannot at this point see how we could achieve that. So, probably the best we can do will be to develop an accounting framework to report on the number of people participating in the various projects and discussions, number of cities and countries represented, and in the number and quality of new mobility initiatives undertaken in cities and countries around the world. In any event this is an important issue and coming to grips with it should be one of the first steps under the properly funded program. The New Mobility Agenda cid:image001.jpg@01C8DAF3.F7EBC130 Technology transforms time and space The New Mobility Agenda - http://www.invent.newmobility.org Europe: 8/10 rue Joseph Bara, 75006 Paris, France T: +331 4326 1323 or +339 7044 4179 Skype: ericbritton New Mobility Partnerships - http://partners.newmobility.org USA: 9440 Readcrest Drive Los Angeles, CA 90210 T: +1 310 601-8468 Skype : newmobility From laura.lauramachado at gmail.com Sun Oct 5 07:22:50 2008 From: laura.lauramachado at gmail.com (Laura) Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 19:22:50 -0300 Subject: [sustran] Re: World Car Free Day 2008? - Please honk In-Reply-To: <4143684702917422076@unknownmsgid> References: <4143684702917422076@unknownmsgid> Message-ID: <47b030540810041522j33ed0bdei2584a92dbe801cb1@mail.gmail.com> Carsharing in Lisboa Carris oferece nova solu??o de mobilidade urbana [image: vers?o para impress?o] [image: enviar por e-mail] A Carris e a Carristur inauguraram um novo servi?o de aluguer de autom?veis projectado de forma especial para a circula??o em Lisboa http://www.lusomotores.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3618&Itemid=1 2008/9/25 Eric Britton > Invitation to share: > > > > May we ask you to send us a short email note in answer to the following > questions about the Car Free Day 2008 invitational that was organized by > the > European Commission and its allies on Monday the 22nd. We will then compile > the responses and if enough of interest comes in will of course share with > our friends here, for broader distribution in turn if they feel it useful. > Thanks. Eric Britton > > > > . Your city: ______________ > > . Event date: ______________ > > . URL (if available): ______________ > > > > 1. Was a Car Free Day organized this year in your city?: > > a. Yes ______________ > > b. No ______________ > > c. Don't know ______________ > > > > 2. Was it widely publicized and widely known? > > a. Yes ______________ > > b. No ______________ > > c. Don't know ______________ > > > > 3. Would you call it a success in terms of helping change people's > attitudes toward the place of cars in your city? > > a. Yes ______________ > > b. No ______________ > > c. Don't know ______________ > > > > 4. What were the outstanding accomplishments/characteristics of its > success (or less success)? > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > ___ > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > ___ > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > ___ > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > ___ > > 5. Has an effort been made to evaluate impacts of the Day? > > a. Yes ______________ > > b. No ______________ > > c. Don't know ______________ > > d. Who carried out this analysis? _____________________________________ > > d. Link to report? _____________________________________ > > > > 6. Do you reckon that the organizers in your city will make a major > strategic effort to evaluate, rethink, improve and extend its impacts in > 2010? > > a. Yes I do __________ > > b. I rather doubt it (or worse) __________ > > c. Don't have a feel for it really. __________ > > > > > > 7. Do you know of some other city/project that appears to have got this > right? (Where please and a few words on what you appreciate in particular) > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > ___ > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > ___ > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > ___ > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > ___ > > > > > > 8. Finally, any thoughts about PARK(ing) Day ( > http://www.parkingday.org > ) as a strategy to change attitudes about > cars > in cities? > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > ___ > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > ___ > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > ___ > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > ___ > > > Thanks for sharing, > > > > Eric Britton > > > __,_._,___ > > -------------------------------------------------------- > IMPORTANT NOTE to everyone who gets sustran-discuss messages via > YAHOOGROUPS. > > Please go to http://list.jca.apc.org/manage/listinfo/sustran-discuss to > join the real sustran-discuss and get full membership rights. The > yahoogroups version is only a mirror and 'members' there cannot post to the > real sustran-discuss (even if the yahoogroups site makes it seem like you > can). Apologies for the confusing arrangement. > > ================================================================ > SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of people-centred, > equitable and sustainable transport with a focus on developing countries > (the 'Global South'). > From eric.britton at ecoplan.org Tue Oct 7 16:19:09 2008 From: eric.britton at ecoplan.org (Eric Britton) Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 09:19:09 +0200 Subject: [sustran] Google map of BRT Systems in Latin America - Message-ID: <000a01c9284d$03a7ef20$0af7cd60$@britton@ecoplan.org> I am sure that many of you know about this, but let me risk it: Google map of BRT Systems in Latin America - http://thecityfix.com/brt-systems-in-latin-america/. From "The City Fix : Exploring Sustainable Solutions To The Problems of Urban Mobility" - http://thecityfix.com/ These are the kinds of open reserouces freely shared that are the stuff of our progress in our otherwise up-hillstruggle toward sustainable cities and sustainable lives. Nice. Ericf Britton From eric.britton at ecoplan.org Tue Oct 7 21:46:54 2008 From: eric.britton at ecoplan.org (Eric Britton) Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 14:46:54 +0200 Subject: [sustran] your nominations for small/medium sized cities showing outstanding accomplishments Message-ID: <00ab01c9287a$d1c2b750$754825f0$@britton@ecoplan.org> Dear Friends, Can you take a minute to share with us your nominations for small/medium sized cities showing outstanding accomplishments in moving to sustainable mobility and sustainable lives? Showing the way for other cities in need anywhere in the world. ? Medium-sized =, let?s say, less than 500,000 people. Small: less than 100,000. ? Europe, North and Latin America, Asia Pacific, and please if anything at all: Africa and the Middle East. We need real examples, of projects and progress ? not promises and plans. And we need to be able to draw up short fact-based profiles, of each with URLs, citations, references and other checkable indictors of accomplishment. In a fist instance though, just the city name, perhaps a URL and some quick indication of why you think they just might be an example for our plundered planet. We are losing, and losing big, the war on sustainable development and social justice. But if we can keep putting forth telling examples to give courage and show the way, that is already a start. Thanks for your good ideas, Eric Britton PS. Look at today?s map of people coming into the New Mobility Agenda caf?.Kind of what you migth expect I am afraid. But what about those great swaths of virgin white running left to right starting in Africa and spreading though virutally all of the Middle East and on through the coutries of the former Soviet Union. Hmm. From eric.britton at ecoplan.org Tue Oct 7 16:19:09 2008 From: eric.britton at ecoplan.org (Eric Britton) Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 09:19:09 +0200 Subject: [sustran] [NewMobilityCafe] Google map of BRT Systems in Latin America - Message-ID: <000a01c9284d$03a7ef20$0af7cd60$@britton@ecoplan.org> I am sure that many of you know about this, but let me risk it: Google map of BRT Systems in Latin America - http://thecityfix.com/brt-systems-in-latin-america/. From "The City Fix : Exploring Sustainable Solutions To The Problems of Urban Mobility" - http://thecityfix.com/ These are the kinds of open reserouces freely shared that are the stuff of our progress in our otherwise up-hillstruggle toward sustainable cities and sustainable lives. Nice. Ericf Britton From eric.britton at ecoplan.org Wed Oct 8 02:37:32 2008 From: eric.britton at ecoplan.org (Eric Britton) Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 19:37:32 +0200 Subject: [sustran] Bill McKibben: Invite McCain and Obama to a Party. Message-ID: <019801c928a3$633fb6b0$29bf2410$@britton@ecoplan.org> From: Bill McKibben, 350.org [mailto:organizers@350.org] To: eric.britton@ecoplan.org Subject: Invite McCain and Obama to a Party. 350.org Invite McCain and Obama to the UN Talks Image The Bush Administration has been dragging its feet on the climate crisis for the last 8 years. McCain and Obama can make up for lost time by joining the world for the next round of UN Climate talks--but they won't go unless we invite them. Add your voice today to get the US back in the game--it only takes a few seconds and it could make a huge difference. Add Your Voice Now Dear Eric, I'm not kidding. I need you to invite the candidates to a party--more specifically, to "The Conference of the Parties." Don't let the name fool you--"The Conference of the Parties" isn't all fun and games. It's the huge UN Meeting coming up this December in Poland, when the nations of the world come together to work on a global deal to control the climate crisis. If Obama or McCain, whoever becomes president, goes to this UN meeting and commits the US to responsible leadership on climate change, it will be a major turning point. It would be the President-elect's first foreign trip after the election-even before he's inaugurated-and his presence would send a huge jolt of optimism into the meeting. But they won't go if no one asks them to--that's where you come in. Can you send an invitation to Obama and McCain right now? It's impossible to escape the sense that the current U.S. election is one of the most important in the planet's history. It's vital that you, no matter where you live, play a part-especially in reminding the candidates of their monumental challenge to restore America's image in the world. The best way to do that is to encourage real participation in these UN Climate Negotiations--click here to send your invitation right now. The United States is the only developed country that has not ratified the Kyoto Protocol, the world's first draft of a global climate deal. For the last seven years the Bush Administration has tried to block global progress on climate change and derail international negotiations from the sidelines. The time has come to put that era of obstructionism behind us--the USA must get back in the game. Please send your invitation today. Thanks for all you do, -Bill McKibben and the 350.org team: Govind, Jamie, Jeremy, Jon, Judit, Kelly, May, Phil, and Will P.S. Help us reach outside the choir: Digg this campaign and help it spread like wildfire! From eric.britton at ecoplan.org Thu Oct 9 02:12:33 2008 From: eric.britton at ecoplan.org (Eric Britton) Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 19:12:33 +0200 Subject: [sustran] Knoogle update References: <48CF714C.2020400@freenet.de> Message-ID: <017b01c92969$104c4ab0$30e4e010$@britton@ecoplan.org> A quick update on the Knoogle 1.0 project in progress. See it at http://knoogle.net. We are working with a team from the Center for Advancing Research and Solutions for Society of the University of Michigan under the direction of Susan Zielinski to bring this power search engine to its next stage of development. Quickly by the numbers to summarize: 1. At last count there are going on 400 programs and sources that are automatically being searched by the combined search engine. 2. And while we have tried very hard to make sure that they are all tight on topic, there are some that most probably are not sufficiently focused on our target - i.e.,. the New Mobility Agenda in all its variants and extensions - so they will doubtless get stripped out rather quickly. 3. But we also know that there are other important site which are missing, so may we ask you this? Quite simply, if you have sources or sites on the web which you have found particularly useful please let us know so that we can add them to our inventory. And finally if your interest and time permit, I'd like to invite you to come on in to the team and help us work to perfect this free toolset for all to use. If you drop me an email I'll send on details. It need not take a lot of your time. All suggestions and inputs on this are timely and most appreciated. (Including if you think it's lousy idea. It would be good to know before we get to much further into this.) We're working on it. Eric Britton From eric.britton at ecoplan.org Thu Oct 9 02:12:33 2008 From: eric.britton at ecoplan.org (Eric Britton) Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 19:12:33 +0200 Subject: [sustran] [NewMobilityCafe] Knoogle update References: <48CF714C.2020400@freenet.de> Message-ID: <017b01c92969$104c4ab0$30e4e010$@britton@ecoplan.org> A quick update on the Knoogle 1.0 project in progress. See it at http://knoogle.net. We are working with a team from the Center for Advancing Research and Solutions for Society of the University of Michigan under the direction of Susan Zielinski to bring this power search engine to its next stage of development. Quickly by the numbers to summarize: 1. At last count there are going on 400 programs and sources that are automatically being searched by the combined search engine. 2. And while we have tried very hard to make sure that they are all tight on topic, there are some that most probably are not sufficiently focused on our target - i.e.,. the New Mobility Agenda in all its variants and extensions - so they will doubtless get stripped out rather quickly. 3. But we also know that there are other important site which are missing, so may we ask you this? Quite simply, if you have sources or sites on the web which you have found particularly useful please let us know so that we can add them to our inventory. And finally if your interest and time permit, I'd like to invite you to come on in to the team and help us work to perfect this free toolset for all to use. If you drop me an email I'll send on details. It need not take a lot of your time. All suggestions and inputs on this are timely and most appreciated. (Including if you think it's lousy idea. It would be good to know before we get to much further into this.) We're working on it. Eric Britton From sudhir at cai-asia.org Thu Oct 9 19:55:09 2008 From: sudhir at cai-asia.org (Sudhir) Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 16:25:09 +0530 Subject: [sustran] SUMA Training Courses in BAQ 2008 - Request for Participants (Apologies for crossposting) Message-ID: Dear all, The Clean Air Initiative for Asian Cities is implementing the Sustainable Urban Mobility in Asia Program supported by the ADB through a grant from Sida. One of the key components of this program are the training courses developed by the GTZ-Sustainable Urban Transport Project (SUTP). As a pre-event to the Better Air Quality 2008 Workshop in Bangkok on 12-14 November, training courses on Mass Transit and Bus Rapid Transit Planning, and Transport Demand Management on 10 and 11 November 2008. There are still some slots (about 5) available for sponsorship to attend these training courses and to participate in BAQ 2008. We would like to invite interested Asian participants who are: (i) local government staffs working on urban transportation, (ii) conversant in English, and (iii) available from 10-15 Nov 2008. Priority will be given to representatives of cities actively planning/ implementing SUT policies and projects. For more information on these training courses please visit http://www.baq2008.org/preeventmasstransit and http://www.baq2008.org/preeventtransportdemand. For those who are interested, please send me an e-mail with at least the following information -- name, designation, office, job description, and relevance of these trainings to your current job. Best regards, Bert --- You are currently subscribed to cai-asia as: sudhir@cai-asia.org. To view archived messages, go to http://groups.google.com/group/cai-asia. Important note: This is a moderated listserv. If you encounter problems, or if you would like to remove your name from our listserv, email Mike Co [mike.co(at)cai-asia(dot)org] AND Gianina Panopio [gianina.panopio(at)cai-asia(dot)org] Please do not email your complaints directly to the listserv. -- Sudhir Gota Transport Specialist CAI-Asia Center Unit 3510, 35th Floor, Robinsons-Equitable Tower, ADB Avenue, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Metro Manila, Philippines 1605 Tel: +63-2-395-2843 Fax: +63-2-395-2846 http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia Skype : sudhirgota From eric.britton at ecoplan.org Fri Oct 10 16:22:23 2008 From: eric.britton at ecoplan.org (Eric Britton) Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:22:23 +0200 Subject: [sustran] What about making 2009 - "The year of the small sustainable city". Message-ID: <001901c92aa9$01e9d0f0$05bd72d0$@britton@ecoplan.org> Dear Friends, 1: First feedback (work in progress) Here is the first group of suggestions we have received from the group on this thus far: ? Arnhem NL ? Concepci?n Chile ? Davis CA USA ? Florian?polis Brazil ? La Rochelle FR ? Louvain BE ? Oxford UK ? Rosario Argentina ? Sbadel ES ? Schopfheim DE Hmm. Nothing in Scandinavia? I can?t believe it. Canada? Japan? Eastern Europe? What about the rest of Asia/Pacific? There have to be some remarkable templates there. I have to bet there are at least one hundred worthy small city candidates so we are just starting to scratch the surface. 2: Why small cities: Certainly one thing I know for sure is that we have here today is a whirlwind of sustainable development in the transportation arrangements of quite a few smaller cities around the world, which in many ways are the real laboratories of sustainable transportation implementation today. A big city ? Paris, New York, Delhi, Bogota, Nairobi, Cairo, what have you ? is really, when you look closely, nothing but a collection of neighborhoods (i.e., smaller cities). Now these places already have higher density going for them, which is already a terrific first step toward sustainability. And then if policies can be enacted which increase diversity and activity choices (work, shopping, leisure) within the smaller units (each of them is almost a city in itself), then we are really on the road to sustainable development and social justice. Now what is interesting in this respect is that when a city is more or less free standing, and smaller, their autonomy for individual action and adaptation goes up. So it just might be that these smaller cities, some of them at least, are hotbeds of innovation. Moreover, if we can find a way to honor and make well known these alternative approaches, we will have made a significant contribution to the major paradigm change which is needed to get all our cities on track for sustainability. What about making 2009 ? ?The year of the small sustainable city?. 3: What we are looking for: By way of brief reminder, what we would like to find some way to honor are two things: first, one or better still a program/basket of linked new mobility initiatives that are already making a difference in the city in terms of traffic, emissions, congestion and the other effects of non-functional transportation systems; while improving the local economy, real estate values, amenity and levels of service for the least favored members of the community. The second, is resilience, or as one of our number, Sujit Patwardhan from Pune put it some years back: ?the long slog?. The goal of a sustainable transportation policy is not to give the thrill of a single project, ribbon cutting, or disconnected one shot effort, but the consistent, dogged, effective long term push, that is the only thing that can make the real difference our cities need, large and small. To conclude, I do not think we are giving enough attention to the smaller cities and their progress and ideas, so if you have any further ideas for us on this they would be more than welcome. Of course we are going to need a short summary of the reasons for each of these if this list of names is to be turned into an effective argument for recognition, and I hope that we can count on you to help us on this City by city in the areas in which you have the requisite knowledge and materials at hand. Team work, if you will. Eric Britton PS. Let me invite you to distribute this call to other appropriate lists and to colleagues who share our interests and concerns. From eric.britton at ecoplan.org Fri Oct 10 16:22:23 2008 From: eric.britton at ecoplan.org (Eric Britton) Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:22:23 +0200 Subject: [sustran] [NewMobilityCafe] What about making 2009 - "The year of the small sustainable city". Message-ID: <001901c92aa9$01e9d0f0$05bd72d0$@britton@ecoplan.org> Dear Friends, 1: First feedback (work in progress) Here is the first group of suggestions we have received from the group on this thus far: ? Arnhem NL ? Concepci?n Chile ? Davis CA USA ? Florian?polis Brazil ? La Rochelle FR ? Louvain BE ? Oxford UK ? Rosario Argentina ? Sbadel ES ? Schopfheim DE Hmm. Nothing in Scandinavia? I can?t believe it. Canada? Japan? Eastern Europe? What about the rest of Asia/Pacific? There have to be some remarkable templates there. I have to bet there are at least one hundred worthy small city candidates so we are just starting to scratch the surface. 2: Why small cities: Certainly one thing I know for sure is that we have here today is a whirlwind of sustainable development in the transportation arrangements of quite a few smaller cities around the world, which in many ways are the real laboratories of sustainable transportation implementation today. A big city ? Paris, New York, Delhi, Bogota, Nairobi, Cairo, what have you ? is really, when you look closely, nothing but a collection of neighborhoods (i.e., smaller cities). Now these places already have higher density going for them, which is already a terrific first step toward sustainability. And then if policies can be enacted which increase diversity and activity choices (work, shopping, leisure) within the smaller units (each of them is almost a city in itself), then we are really on the road to sustainable development and social justice. Now what is interesting in this respect is that when a city is more or less free standing, and smaller, their autonomy for individual action and adaptation goes up. So it just might be that these smaller cities, some of them at least, are hotbeds of innovation. Moreover, if we can find a way to honor and make well known these alternative approaches, we will have made a significant contribution to the major paradigm change which is needed to get all our cities on track for sustainability. What about making 2009 ? ?The year of the small sustainable city?. 3: What we are looking for: By way of brief reminder, what we would like to find some way to honor are two things: first, one or better still a program/basket of linked new mobility initiatives that are already making a difference in the city in terms of traffic, emissions, congestion and the other effects of non-functional transportation systems; while improving the local economy, real estate values, amenity and levels of service for the least favored members of the community. The second, is resilience, or as one of our number, Sujit Patwardhan from Pune put it some years back: ?the long slog?. The goal of a sustainable transportation policy is not to give the thrill of a single project, ribbon cutting, or disconnected one shot effort, but the consistent, dogged, effective long term push, that is the only thing that can make the real difference our cities need, large and small. To conclude, I do not think we are giving enough attention to the smaller cities and their progress and ideas, so if you have any further ideas for us on this they would be more than welcome. Of course we are going to need a short summary of the reasons for each of these if this list of names is to be turned into an effective argument for recognition, and I hope that we can count on you to help us on this City by city in the areas in which you have the requisite knowledge and materials at hand. Team work, if you will. Eric Britton PS. Let me invite you to distribute this call to other appropriate lists and to colleagues who share our interests and concerns. From eric.britton at ecoplan.org Sat Oct 11 20:25:07 2008 From: eric.britton at ecoplan.org (Eric Britton) Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:25:07 +0200 Subject: [sustran] "Driven to despair" - PBS Exposes the Joys of Transit Message-ID: <004001c92b94$0ba840e0$22f8c2a0$@britton@ecoplan.org> Thanks Streetsblog.com for the heads-up. This is a very interesting take on transport in the US, which I think provides at least a modicum of hope for a different and more reasonable future. We have long believed that it will be pocketbook issues which sooner or later will drive us to more sustainable transportation and most sustainable lives. It might be wonderful if we changed because we were noble and thought ahead, but if we change in the right direction simply because we have to, well that's progress too. Eric Britton PS. For their 26 minute video, click directly to http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/440/video.html PBS Exposes the Joys of Transit - http://www.pbs.org/wnet/blueprintamerica/ With gas prices spiking and home values crumbling, the American dream of commuting to work from the fringes of suburbia has become an American nightmare. Many are facing a hard choice: Paying for gas or paying the mortgage. How did it come to this? It's not just about America's financial crisis; it's also about big problems with our national infrastructure. Overstressed highways and too few public transportation options are wreaking havoc on people's lives and hitting the brakes on our already-stretched economy. This week, NOW on PBS takes a close-up look at our inadequate transportation network and visits some people paying a high price-in both dollars and quality of life-just to get to work. Do we have the means to modernize both our infrastructure and our lifestyles? Posted: 10 Oct 2008 04:08 PM CDT now_train_still.jpg NOW host David Brancaccio does an interview on the LA Metro. Click through for the full video. The latest episode of NOW is surely the most effective takedown of car-dependent planning ever broadcast in news magazine format. Adhering to the familiar contours of pocketbook journalism, "Driven to Despair" starts with a sympathetic portrayal of the Schleighs, a family who moved to a southern California exurb seven years ago. With their adjustable rate mortgage about to reset and gas prices already busting the family budget, they need a way out. What follows can be fairly described as a 25-minute ode to the time- and money-saving benefits of transit, complete with a brief history of the Los Angeles streetcar system and a rueful suggestion that the Presidential candidates should address transportation more forcefully. Watching the Schleighs and their neighbors react to the idea of riding a train to work -- sneering, in one case -- it's all too apparent why someone running for national office would skirt the issue. But you also realize that if a national pol were to finally go out on that limb, he or she may find voters more receptive to the idea of better trains and buses than feared. "Driven to Despair" will be broadcast on PBS affiliates tonight (check local listings). It's the first part in a NOW series on infrastructure called " Blueprint America." http://www.pbs.org/wnet/blueprintamerica/ From eric.britton at ecoplan.org Sat Oct 11 20:25:07 2008 From: eric.britton at ecoplan.org (Eric Britton) Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:25:07 +0200 Subject: [sustran] [NewMobilityCafe] "Driven to despair" - PBS Exposes the Joys of Transit Message-ID: <004001c92b94$0ba840e0$22f8c2a0$@britton@ecoplan.org> Thanks Streetsblog.com for the heads-up. This is a very interesting take on transport in the US, which I think provides at least a modicum of hope for a different and more reasonable future. We have long believed that it will be pocketbook issues which sooner or later will drive us to more sustainable transportation and most sustainable lives. It might be wonderful if we changed because we were noble and thought ahead, but if we change in the right direction simply because we have to, well that's progress too. Eric Britton PS. For their 26 minute video, click directly to http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/440/video.html PBS Exposes the Joys of Transit - http://www.pbs.org/wnet/blueprintamerica/ With gas prices spiking and home values crumbling, the American dream of commuting to work from the fringes of suburbia has become an American nightmare. Many are facing a hard choice: Paying for gas or paying the mortgage. How did it come to this? It's not just about America's financial crisis; it's also about big problems with our national infrastructure. Overstressed highways and too few public transportation options are wreaking havoc on people's lives and hitting the brakes on our already-stretched economy. This week, NOW on PBS takes a close-up look at our inadequate transportation network and visits some people paying a high price-in both dollars and quality of life-just to get to work. Do we have the means to modernize both our infrastructure and our lifestyles? Posted: 10 Oct 2008 04:08 PM CDT now_train_still.jpg NOW host David Brancaccio does an interview on the LA Metro. Click through for the full video. The latest episode of NOW is surely the most effective takedown of car-dependent planning ever broadcast in news magazine format. Adhering to the familiar contours of pocketbook journalism, "Driven to Despair" starts with a sympathetic portrayal of the Schleighs, a family who moved to a southern California exurb seven years ago. With their adjustable rate mortgage about to reset and gas prices already busting the family budget, they need a way out. What follows can be fairly described as a 25-minute ode to the time- and money-saving benefits of transit, complete with a brief history of the Los Angeles streetcar system and a rueful suggestion that the Presidential candidates should address transportation more forcefully. Watching the Schleighs and their neighbors react to the idea of riding a train to work -- sneering, in one case -- it's all too apparent why someone running for national office would skirt the issue. But you also realize that if a national pol were to finally go out on that limb, he or she may find voters more receptive to the idea of better trains and buses than feared. "Driven to Despair" will be broadcast on PBS affiliates tonight (check local listings). It's the first part in a NOW series on infrastructure called " Blueprint America." http://www.pbs.org/wnet/blueprintamerica/ From edelman at greenidea.eu Sat Oct 11 23:19:32 2008 From: edelman at greenidea.eu (Todd Edelman, Green Idea Factory) Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:19:32 +0200 Subject: [sustran] Re: "Driven to despair" - PBS Exposes the Joys of Transit In-Reply-To: <004001c92b94$0ba840e0$22f8c2a0$@britton@ecoplan.org> References: <004001c92b94$0ba840e0$22f8c2a0$@britton@ecoplan.org> Message-ID: <48F0B5F4.8090408@greenidea.eu> Pretty good... and as someone born in southern California actually a little emotional at times (as now they are repairing one of the systems which drove me to exile). The only problem I saw was where they left the statement unopposed/unresponded to about the proposed high speed rail in California having to pay for itself, which is as we know not a requirement for automobile transportation infrastructure. - Todd Edelman, Green Idea Factory, now in Berlin, formerly of Canoga Park, Brentwood and Culver City, California LEric Britton wrote: > Thanks Streetsblog.com for the heads-up. > > > > This is a very interesting take on transport in the US, which I think > provides at least a modicum of hope for a different and more reasonable > future. We have long believed that it will be pocketbook issues which sooner > or later will drive us to more sustainable transportation and most > sustainable lives. It might be wonderful if we changed because we were > noble and thought ahead, but if we change in the right direction simply > because we have to, well that's progress too. > > > > Eric Britton > > > > PS. For their 26 minute video, click directly to > http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/440/video.html > > PBS Exposes the > Joys of Transit - http://www.pbs.org/wnet/blueprintamerica/ > > > > With gas prices spiking and home values crumbling, the American dream of > commuting to work from the fringes of suburbia has become an American > nightmare. Many are facing a hard choice: Paying for gas or paying the > mortgage. How did it come to this? It's not just about America's financial > crisis; it's also about big problems with our national infrastructure. > Overstressed highways and too few public transportation options are wreaking > havoc on people's lives and hitting the brakes on our already-stretched > economy. This week, NOW on PBS takes a close-up look at our inadequate > transportation network and visits some people paying a high price-in both > dollars and quality of life-just to get to work. Do we have the means to > modernize both our infrastructure and our lifestyles? > > > > Posted: 10 Oct 2008 04:08 PM CDT > > > ll-report/103/> now_train_still.jpg > NOW host David Brancaccio does an interview on the LA Metro. > ll-report/103/> Click through for the full video. > > The > /6/> latest episode of NOW is surely the most effective takedown of > car-dependent planning ever broadcast in news magazine format. Adhering to > the familiar contours of pocketbook journalism, "Driven to Despair" starts > with a sympathetic portrayal of the Schleighs, a family who moved to a > southern California exurb seven years ago. With their adjustable rate > mortgage about to reset and gas prices already busting the family budget, > they need a way out. > > What follows can be fairly described as a 25-minute ode to the time- and > money-saving benefits of transit, complete with > -of-los-angeles-transit/101/> a brief history of the Los Angeles streetcar > system and a rueful suggestion that the Presidential candidates should > address transportation more forcefully. > > Watching the Schleighs and their neighbors react to the idea of riding a > train to work -- sneering, in one case -- it's all too apparent why someone > running for national office would skirt the issue. But you also realize that > if a national pol were to finally go out on that limb, he or she may find > voters more receptive to the idea of better trains and buses than feared. > > "Driven to Despair" will be broadcast on PBS affiliates tonight (check local > listings). It's the first part in a NOW series on infrastructure called " > Blueprint America." > http://www.pbs.org/wnet/blueprintamerica/ > > > > -------------------------------------------------------- > IMPORTANT NOTE to everyone who gets sustran-discuss messages via YAHOOGROUPS. > > Please go to http://list.jca.apc.org/manage/listinfo/sustran-discuss to join the real sustran-discuss and get full membership rights. The yahoogroups version is only a mirror and 'members' there cannot post to the real sustran-discuss (even if the yahoogroups site makes it seem like you can). Apologies for the confusing arrangement. > > ================================================================ > SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of people-centred, equitable and sustainable transport with a focus on developing countries (the 'Global South'). > > -- -------------------------------------------- Todd Edelman Green Idea Factory Urbanstr. 45 D-10967 Berlin-Hasenkreuz Germany Skype: toddedelman Mobile: ++49 0162 814 4081 Home/Office: ++49 030 7554 0001 edelman@greenidea.eu http://www.greenidea.eu www.flickr.com/photos/edelman Green Idea Factory is a member of World Carfree Network www.worldcarfree.net CAR is over. If you WANT it. From edelman at greenidea.eu Sat Oct 11 23:19:32 2008 From: edelman at greenidea.eu (Todd Edelman, Green Idea Factory) Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:19:32 +0200 Subject: [sustran] [NewMobilityCafe] Re: "Driven to despair" - PBS Exposes the Joys of Transit In-Reply-To: <004001c92b94$0ba840e0$22f8c2a0$@britton@ecoplan.org> References: <004001c92b94$0ba840e0$22f8c2a0$@britton@ecoplan.org> Message-ID: <48F0B5F4.8090408@greenidea.eu> Pretty good... and as someone born in southern California actually a little emotional at times (as now they are repairing one of the systems which drove me to exile). The only problem I saw was where they left the statement unopposed/unresponded to about the proposed high speed rail in California having to pay for itself, which is as we know not a requirement for automobile transportation infrastructure. - Todd Edelman, Green Idea Factory, now in Berlin, formerly of Canoga Park, Brentwood and Culver City, California LEric Britton wrote: > Thanks Streetsblog.com for the heads-up. > > > > This is a very interesting take on transport in the US, which I think > provides at least a modicum of hope for a different and more reasonable > future. We have long believed that it will be pocketbook issues which sooner > or later will drive us to more sustainable transportation and most > sustainable lives. It might be wonderful if we changed because we were > noble and thought ahead, but if we change in the right direction simply > because we have to, well that's progress too. > > > > Eric Britton > > > > PS. For their 26 minute video, click directly to > http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/440/video.html > > PBS Exposes the > Joys of Transit - http://www.pbs.org/wnet/blueprintamerica/ > > > > With gas prices spiking and home values crumbling, the American dream of > commuting to work from the fringes of suburbia has become an American > nightmare. Many are facing a hard choice: Paying for gas or paying the > mortgage. How did it come to this? It's not just about America's financial > crisis; it's also about big problems with our national infrastructure. > Overstressed highways and too few public transportation options are wreaking > havoc on people's lives and hitting the brakes on our already-stretched > economy. This week, NOW on PBS takes a close-up look at our inadequate > transportation network and visits some people paying a high price-in both > dollars and quality of life-just to get to work. Do we have the means to > modernize both our infrastructure and our lifestyles? > > > > Posted: 10 Oct 2008 04:08 PM CDT > > > ll-report/103/> now_train_still.jpg > NOW host David Brancaccio does an interview on the LA Metro. > ll-report/103/> Click through for the full video. > > The > /6/> latest episode of NOW is surely the most effective takedown of > car-dependent planning ever broadcast in news magazine format. Adhering to > the familiar contours of pocketbook journalism, "Driven to Despair" starts > with a sympathetic portrayal of the Schleighs, a family who moved to a > southern California exurb seven years ago. With their adjustable rate > mortgage about to reset and gas prices already busting the family budget, > they need a way out. > > What follows can be fairly described as a 25-minute ode to the time- and > money-saving benefits of transit, complete with > -of-los-angeles-transit/101/> a brief history of the Los Angeles streetcar > system and a rueful suggestion that the Presidential candidates should > address transportation more forcefully. > > Watching the Schleighs and their neighbors react to the idea of riding a > train to work -- sneering, in one case -- it's all too apparent why someone > running for national office would skirt the issue. But you also realize that > if a national pol were to finally go out on that limb, he or she may find > voters more receptive to the idea of better trains and buses than feared. > > "Driven to Despair" will be broadcast on PBS affiliates tonight (check local > listings). It's the first part in a NOW series on infrastructure called " > Blueprint America." > http://www.pbs.org/wnet/blueprintamerica/ > > > > -------------------------------------------------------- > IMPORTANT NOTE to everyone who gets sustran-discuss messages via YAHOOGROUPS. > > Please go to http://list.jca.apc.org/manage/listinfo/sustran-discuss to join the real sustran-discuss and get full membership rights. The yahoogroups version is only a mirror and 'members' there cannot post to the real sustran-discuss (even if the yahoogroups site makes it seem like you can). Apologies for the confusing arrangement. > > ================================================================ > SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of people-centred, equitable and sustainable transport with a focus on developing countries (the 'Global South'). > > -- -------------------------------------------- Todd Edelman Green Idea Factory Urbanstr. 45 D-10967 Berlin-Hasenkreuz Germany Skype: toddedelman Mobile: ++49 0162 814 4081 Home/Office: ++49 030 7554 0001 edelman@greenidea.eu http://www.greenidea.eu www.flickr.com/photos/edelman Green Idea Factory is a member of World Carfree Network www.worldcarfree.net CAR is over. If you WANT it. From schipper at wri.org Sun Oct 12 08:33:32 2008 From: schipper at wri.org (Lee Schipper) Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:33:32 -0400 Subject: [sustran] Re: [NewMobilityCafe] Re: "Driven to despair" - PBS Exposes the Joys of Transit References: <004001c92b94$0ba840e0$22f8c2a0$@britton@ecoplan.org> <48F0B5F4.8090408@greenidea.eu> Message-ID: <46E2E1971BCEC1459149FBB1A4B4342C02C8DB21@wricsex029330.WRI.CRM.Local> Todd raises a good point. Why don't automobilists pay directly through a kilometer tax for using roads? Why isn't insurance in part charged by the kilometer, which is what drives a lot of the risk? (My company State Farm has two tranches, above or below 11 500 km/year, that's all.) If users only pay indirectly (partly through a fuel tax) then they use up capacity, more is built, that gets used up etc etc. Who benefits from Highs speed rail? We have no more places to build airport capacity, we cannot build much more highway capacity. Why aren't fliers and drivers facing these costs? If they did, the pressure to build high speed rail - which IS expensive - would be less, and, if built, the incentives to use it greater. Advocates in California who harp on Japan, France, or the Eurostar forget that for decades the French and Japanese controlled air fares, charged tolls on intercity freeways and high gasoline taxes, and essentially build the high speed rail network between cities well connected within themselves by mass transit. HSR may be a good thing for California -- I'll vote yes on the bonds - but only if we also raise landing fees at crowded airports, keep car fuel prices high, and consider charging for our motorways. And yes, lets cluster development around HSR terminals so that not hundreds but hundreds of thousands of people live within ? hour of terminals by foot, pedals, or mass transit. Just building expensive tracks without assuring that there will be customers close by -like the present model for airports-may fall way short of the ridership goals, much of which is touted as taking riders from cars and air. Well, Eurostar did that to some extent, but I would argue that in the long run high speed rail in Europe also created new mobility. The load factors in Europe tend to keep the energy use per passenger -km low - can we do that in California? Getting automobile and air travel costs up to full social costs is an important first step. We'll see - when I'm 80 years old! Lee Schipper, Ph.D Project Scientist Global Metropolitan Studies http://metrostudies.berkeley.edu/ Street/Mail Address: 2614 Dwight Way 2nd floor University of California Berkeley 94720-1782 +1 510 642 6889, FAX +1 510 642 6061 Cell +1 202 262 7476 skype: mrmeter >From Oct. 1, also Senior Research Engineer Precourt Institute for Energy Efficiency Stanford University Analyst Emeritus, EMBARQ, the WRI Center for Sustainable Transport From: NewMobilityCafe@yahoogroups.com [mailto:NewMobilityCafe@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Todd Edelman, Green Idea Factory Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2008 7:20 AM To: NewMobilityCafe@yahoogroups.com; LotsLessCars@yahoogroups.com; sustran-discuss@list.jca.apc.org Subject: [NewMobilityCafe] Re: [sustran] "Driven to despair" - PBS Exposes the Joys of Transit Pretty good... and as someone born in southern California actually a little emotional at times (as now they are repairing one of the systems which drove me to exile). The only problem I saw was where they left the statement unopposed/unresponded to about the proposed high speed rail in California having to pay for itself, which is as we know not a requirement for automobile transportation infrastructure. - Todd Edelman, Green Idea Factory, now in Berlin, formerly of Canoga Park, Brentwood and Culver City, California LEric Britton wrote: > Thanks Streetsblog.com for the heads-up. > > > > This is a very interesting take on transport in the US, which I think > provides at least a modicum of hope for a different and more reasonable > future. We have long believed that it will be pocketbook issues which sooner > or later will drive us to more sustainable transportation and most > sustainable lives. It might be wonderful if we changed because we were > noble and thought ahead, but if we change in the right direction simply > because we have to, well that's progress too. > > > > Eric Britton > > > > PS. For their 26 minute video, click directly to > http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/440/video.html > > PBS Exposes the > Joys of Transit - http://www.pbs.org/wnet/blueprintamerica/ > > > > With gas prices spiking and home values crumbling, the American dream of > commuting to work from the fringes of suburbia has become an American > nightmare. Many are facing a hard choice: Paying for gas or paying the > mortgage. How did it come to this? It's not just about America's financial > crisis; it's also about big problems with our national infrastructure. > Overstressed highways and too few public transportation options are wreaking > havoc on people's lives and hitting the brakes on our already-stretched > economy. This week, NOW on PBS takes a close-up look at our inadequate > transportation network and visits some people paying a high price-in both > dollars and quality of life-just to get to work. Do we have the means to > modernize both our infrastructure and our lifestyles? > > > > Posted: 10 Oct 2008 04:08 PM CDT > > > ll-report/103/> now_train_still.jpg > NOW host David Brancaccio does an interview on the LA Metro. > ll-report/103/> Click through for the full video. > > The > /6/> latest episode of NOW is surely the most effective takedown of > car-dependent planning ever broadcast in news magazine format. Adhering to > the familiar contours of pocketbook journalism, "Driven to Despair" starts > with a sympathetic portrayal of the Schleighs, a family who moved to a > southern California exurb seven years ago. With their adjustable rate > mortgage about to reset and gas prices already busting the family budget, > they need a way out. > > What follows can be fairly described as a 25-minute ode to the time- and > money-saving benefits of transit, complete with > -of-los-angeles-transit/101/> a brief history of the Los Angeles streetcar > system and a rueful suggestion that the Presidential candidates should > address transportation more forcefully. > > Watching the Schleighs and their neighbors react to the idea of riding a > train to work -- sneering, in one case -- it's all too apparent why someone > running for national office would skirt the issue. But you also realize that > if a national pol were to finally go out on that limb, he or she may find > voters more receptive to the idea of better trains and buses than feared. > > "Driven to Despair" will be broadcast on PBS affiliates tonight (check local > listings). It's the first part in a NOW series on infrastructure called " > Blueprint America." > http://www.pbs.org/wnet/blueprintamerica/ > > > > -------------------------------------------------------- > IMPORTANT NOTE to everyone who gets sustran-discuss messages via YAHOOGROUPS. > > Please go to http://list.jca.apc.org/manage/listinfo/sustran-discuss to join the real sustran-discuss and get full membership rights. The yahoogroups version is only a mirror and 'members' there cannot post to the real sustran-discuss (even if the yahoogroups site makes it seem like you can). Apologies for the confusing arrangement. > > ================================================================ > SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of people-centred, equitable and sustainable transport with a focus on developing countries (the 'Global South'). > > -- -------------------------------------------- Todd Edelman Green Idea Factory Urbanstr. 45 D-10967 Berlin-Hasenkreuz Germany Skype: toddedelman Mobile: ++49 0162 814 4081 Home/Office: ++49 030 7554 0001 edelman@greenidea.eu http://www.greenidea.eu www.flickr.com/photos/edelman Green Idea Factory is a member of World Carfree Network www.worldcarfree.net CAR is over. 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Groups What does real food mean to you? . __,_._,___ From SCHIPPER at wri.org Sun Oct 12 08:33:32 2008 From: SCHIPPER at wri.org (Lee Schipper) Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:33:32 -0400 Subject: [sustran] Re: [NewMobilityCafe] Re: "Driven to despair" - PBS Exposes the Joys of Transit References: <004001c92b94$0ba840e0$22f8c2a0$@britton@ecoplan.org> <48F0B5F4.8090408@greenidea.eu> Message-ID: <46E2E1971BCEC1459149FBB1A4B4342C02C8DB21@wricsex029330.WRI.CRM.Local> Todd raises a good point. Why don't automobilists pay directly through a kilometer tax for using roads? Why isn't insurance in part charged by the kilometer, which is what drives a lot of the risk? (My company State Farm has two tranches, above or below 11 500 km/year, that's all.) If users only pay indirectly (partly through a fuel tax) then they use up capacity, more is built, that gets used up etc etc. Who benefits from Highs speed rail? We have no more places to build airport capacity, we cannot build much more highway capacity. Why aren't fliers and drivers facing these costs? If they did, the pressure to build high speed rail - which IS expensive - would be less, and, if built, the incentives to use it greater. Advocates in California who harp on Japan, France, or the Eurostar forget that for decades the French and Japanese controlled air fares, charged tolls on intercity freeways and high gasoline taxes, and essentially build the high speed rail network between cities well connected within themselves by mass transit. HSR may be a good thing for California -- I'll vote yes on the bonds - but only if we also raise landing fees at crowded airports, keep car fuel prices high, and consider charging for our motorways. And yes, lets cluster development around HSR terminals so that not hundreds but hundreds of thousands of people live within ? hour of terminals by foot, pedals, or mass transit. Just building expensive tracks without assuring that there will be customers close by -like the present model for airports-may fall way short of the ridership goals, much of which is touted as taking riders from cars and air. Well, Eurostar did that to some extent, but I would argue that in the long run high speed rail in Europe also created new mobility. The load factors in Europe tend to keep the energy use per passenger -km low - can we do that in California? Getting automobile and air travel costs up to full social costs is an important first step. We'll see - when I'm 80 years old! Lee Schipper, Ph.D Project Scientist Global Metropolitan Studies http://metrostudies.berkeley.edu/ Street/Mail Address: 2614 Dwight Way 2nd floor University of California Berkeley 94720-1782 +1 510 642 6889, FAX +1 510 642 6061 Cell +1 202 262 7476 skype: mrmeter >From Oct. 1, also Senior Research Engineer Precourt Institute for Energy Efficiency Stanford University Analyst Emeritus, EMBARQ, the WRI Center for Sustainable Transport From: NewMobilityCafe@yahoogroups.com [mailto:NewMobilityCafe@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Todd Edelman, Green Idea Factory Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2008 7:20 AM To: NewMobilityCafe@yahoogroups.com; LotsLessCars@yahoogroups.com; sustran-discuss@list.jca.apc.org Subject: [NewMobilityCafe] Re: [sustran] "Driven to despair" - PBS Exposes the Joys of Transit Pretty good... and as someone born in southern California actually a little emotional at times (as now they are repairing one of the systems which drove me to exile). The only problem I saw was where they left the statement unopposed/unresponded to about the proposed high speed rail in California having to pay for itself, which is as we know not a requirement for automobile transportation infrastructure. - Todd Edelman, Green Idea Factory, now in Berlin, formerly of Canoga Park, Brentwood and Culver City, California LEric Britton wrote: > Thanks Streetsblog.com for the heads-up. > > > > This is a very interesting take on transport in the US, which I think > provides at least a modicum of hope for a different and more reasonable > future. We have long believed that it will be pocketbook issues which sooner > or later will drive us to more sustainable transportation and most > sustainable lives. It might be wonderful if we changed because we were > noble and thought ahead, but if we change in the right direction simply > because we have to, well that's progress too. > > > > Eric Britton > > > > PS. For their 26 minute video, click directly to > http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/440/video.html > > PBS Exposes the > Joys of Transit - http://www.pbs.org/wnet/blueprintamerica/ > > > > With gas prices spiking and home values crumbling, the American dream of > commuting to work from the fringes of suburbia has become an American > nightmare. Many are facing a hard choice: Paying for gas or paying the > mortgage. How did it come to this? It's not just about America's financial > crisis; it's also about big problems with our national infrastructure. > Overstressed highways and too few public transportation options are wreaking > havoc on people's lives and hitting the brakes on our already-stretched > economy. This week, NOW on PBS takes a close-up look at our inadequate > transportation network and visits some people paying a high price-in both > dollars and quality of life-just to get to work. Do we have the means to > modernize both our infrastructure and our lifestyles? > > > > Posted: 10 Oct 2008 04:08 PM CDT > > > ll-report/103/> now_train_still.jpg > NOW host David Brancaccio does an interview on the LA Metro. > ll-report/103/> Click through for the full video. > > The > /6/> latest episode of NOW is surely the most effective takedown of > car-dependent planning ever broadcast in news magazine format. Adhering to > the familiar contours of pocketbook journalism, "Driven to Despair" starts > with a sympathetic portrayal of the Schleighs, a family who moved to a > southern California exurb seven years ago. With their adjustable rate > mortgage about to reset and gas prices already busting the family budget, > they need a way out. > > What follows can be fairly described as a 25-minute ode to the time- and > money-saving benefits of transit, complete with > -of-los-angeles-transit/101/> a brief history of the Los Angeles streetcar > system and a rueful suggestion that the Presidential candidates should > address transportation more forcefully. > > Watching the Schleighs and their neighbors react to the idea of riding a > train to work -- sneering, in one case -- it's all too apparent why someone > running for national office would skirt the issue. But you also realize that > if a national pol were to finally go out on that limb, he or she may find > voters more receptive to the idea of better trains and buses than feared. > > "Driven to Despair" will be broadcast on PBS affiliates tonight (check local > listings). It's the first part in a NOW series on infrastructure called " > Blueprint America." > http://www.pbs.org/wnet/blueprintamerica/ > > > > -------------------------------------------------------- > IMPORTANT NOTE to everyone who gets sustran-discuss messages via YAHOOGROUPS. > > Please go to http://list.jca.apc.org/manage/listinfo/sustran-discuss to join the real sustran-discuss and get full membership rights. The yahoogroups version is only a mirror and 'members' there cannot post to the real sustran-discuss (even if the yahoogroups site makes it seem like you can). Apologies for the confusing arrangement. > > ================================================================ > SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of people-centred, equitable and sustainable transport with a focus on developing countries (the 'Global South'). > > -- -------------------------------------------- Todd Edelman Green Idea Factory Urbanstr. 45 D-10967 Berlin-Hasenkreuz Germany Skype: toddedelman Mobile: ++49 0162 814 4081 Home/Office: ++49 030 7554 0001 edelman@greenidea.eu http://www.greenidea.eu www.flickr.com/photos/edelman Green Idea Factory is a member of World Carfree Network www.worldcarfree.net CAR is over. If you WANT it. From eric.britton at ecoplan.org Mon Oct 13 21:48:15 2008 From: eric.britton at ecoplan.org (Eric Britton) Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:48:15 +0200 Subject: [sustran] Doubling of bicycle lane widths - Commentary from Reykjavik Message-ID: <016c01c92d31$f9c0f670$ed42e350$@britton@ecoplan.org> From: Morten Lange [mailto:morten7an@yahoo.com] Hi Great picture from Copenhagen ! Reallocating space from car drivers to cyclists potentially does a lot to improve the livability of a city. Is this done on many streets or portions of streets in Copenhagen ? Other great steps taken "recently" in Copenhagen include : - Restricting through traffic to cars, and giving more space to cyclists ( Could this be the same project as the above ? ) - Green waves for cyclists. As far as I recall, cyclists along major routes get a green wave on traffic lights, if they keep their speed at about 20 km/h ? - Set targets for incerasing cycling speed, and cycling modal share - Quality control of surfaces, etc - Big surveys of what cyclists think about the services of the city for cyclists Two bad things come from Copenhagen at present : - Very badly founded and very graphic/gross and discouraging (for cycling) helmet promotion, sadly including misguided support from the Danish Cyclist Federation. See graphics at www.cykelhjelm.dk and the fun-poking and more argument- and science-filled counterpart www.cykelhjelm.org - Apparent messages that separate facilities for cyclists are the only way forward to improve safety for cyclists, regardless of setting. (Oh, yes and helmets, and daylight running lights for cyclists. The latter might be a good-ish idea) So what do I think, shortly, will really help regarding safety of cyclists ? - More cyclists mean safer cyclists. Both beacuse more cyclists means car drivers are forced to notice and take heed, and because the proficiency and civility of the average cyclists increases ( I think...). ( Do a web search on "safety in numbers" ) - Strong promotion of cycling as a flag bearer of freedom, more or less care-free frugality and an environmentally sound lifestyle, thus increasing th enumber of cyclists, and increasing the awareness about cyclists in traffic amog car drivers - Slower speeds for cars - Stricter rules on speeding and driving when too tired or iunder the influence of drugs ( alcohol etc. - Improved proficiency for cyclists through training like they do in the UK ( Bikeability) - Publicity campaigns to increase respect for cyclists - Changes/amendments to cars to reduce chances of injury in collissions with cyclists - Improved mirrors for lorries to "eliminate" blind spots enforced much quicker - Changes in drivers educations and tests so that the rights of cyclists are respected - Follow the good example from DK and NL where drivers are by default "guilty" in crashes with pedestrians and cyclists, unless grave recklessness on the part of thge ped/cyclist can be "proven". ( I'd love to get more details on this and how it differs in letter en execution from other countries ) - Good lights for visibility in the dark, and perhaps even blinking lights in broad daylight - Possibly to get rid of all signs on minor roads in towns, and let people negotiate with other roadusers. Lets them focus on each other instead of on lighths and signs. Has been tried widely in the Netherlands, and some other countries with great success. - Possibly the use of "Bike and Chevron" markings to alert car drivers that cyclists can be expected on roads, and divert cyclists away from the opening dorrs of parked cars. - Separated facilities appear to often increase risk at junctions, but on the other hand separate facilities make it more comfortable to cycle, thus increasing the number of cyclists, and consequently the overall safety of cyclists. The topic of the original post was not about safety, but the topic of safety invariably pops up when talking cycling promotion, and the other picture from Jan Gehl forwarded to the list, (all cyclists in the firm wearing shining new company helmets) had its part in prompting me to write this. Sadly I need to stress : People that like helmets, by all means wear them ! What I am saying is that they are far too strongly promoted, in relation to the very limited amount of good they do. In Australia, New Zealand and Nova Scotia, Canada, large scale uptake of helmets appear not to have reduced the rate of serious head injuries at all, but had a strong effect in reducing cycling. These results appear amongst other places in an article in an international peer-reviewed journel - BMJ - after scrutiny of the best data there is in this field. It is highly probable that reduced cycling as a result of strict helmet laws (and the same appears to go for strong helmet promotion to some extent ) has been indirectly killing people behind the curtains through sedentary lifestyles and increased air-borne pollution. And : Today is the "European Road Safety Day. This year focusing on road traffic safety in cities. In Paris one panel discussion focused on the voices of so-called "vulnerable users" : One of the mayors of Copenhagen , Klaus Bondam, presided over the discussions. The director of The European Cyclists Federation was in the panel and was planning to focus on training for cyclists. It would be interesting to hear how it went. 11h15 ? 12h15 Panel 1: Road safety in cities: opinion of the "vulnerable users" "Grand T?moin" : M. Klaus Bondam, Mayor of Copenhagen (Denmark) representing Eurocities Panel members: * Ms Filomena Ara?jo, Counciller of the Municipality of ?vora (Portugal) * Mr. Jacques Compagne, Secretary General of ACEM The Motorcycle Industry in Europe * Mr. Jesper Christensen, Secretary General of the Swedish Motorcyclist Association (Sweden) * M. Bernhard Ensink, Secretary General of the European Cyclists Federation ECF * Ms Jill Allen-King, Chairperson of the Mobility and Access to Transport Commission of the European Blind Union, (United Kingdom) Best Regards, Morten Lange --- On Mon, 13/10/08, 'Jan Gehl' wrote: From: 'Jan Gehl' Subject: [WorldCityBike] Doubling of bicycle lane widths in Key Copenhagen Streets To: WorldCityBike@yahoogroups.com Date: Monday, 13 October, 2008, 10:09 AM Dear Eric, One of the major complaints in Copenhagen have for several years been complaints concerning congestion ....on the bicycle lanes. A week ago one of the major Radial streets was closed to ordinary car traffic in order to widen the bikelanes i each direction to double widths and using the rest of the space to improve the conditions for the Bus traffic warmest greetings yours, Jan Gehl From carlos.pardo at gtz.de Tue Oct 14 04:43:30 2008 From: carlos.pardo at gtz.de (Pardo Carlosfelipe GTZ CO) Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:43:30 +0100 Subject: [sustran] Position available at SUTP-Asia Message-ID: <48F3A4E2.9050809@gtz.de> (please forward to those who may be interested or post in relevant websites) Take part in shaping the future of urban transport in Asian cities. Take part in re-focusing on people-centered solutions, in creating attractive public transport systems, in making walking and cycling a pleasure for everyone. Take part in expanding SUTP's response to challenges such as traffic jams, deteriotating air quality, increasing accident rates and climate change. GTZ-SUTP offers a wide range of services to cities and our "Sustainable Transport Sourcebook" (www.sutp.org) is an internationally appreciated knowlegde base to assist decision-makers and practitioners. We are constantly expanding our activities, are broadening our networks and are working directly with more and more cities - and we are looking for smart, forward looking and open-minded experts. Join our dynamic, innovative and agenda-setting team and take part in one of the most fascinating developments in the region: Making Asia's cities fit for the post-carbon world. The GTZ Sustainable Urban Transport Project (SUTP) is in need of an urban transport expert with experience on project management and preferably with experience in international organizations. *Job name:* SUTP Asia Coordinator *?Minimum Requirements?:* - MSc level degree - At least 4 years professional experience in transport and related activities - Sound experience in project management - Knowledge of Sustainable Urban Transport issues - Fluent English, spoken and written (if possible, give details of test of English proficiency such as TOEFL, IELTS, etc) - Shall agree to live in Bangkok (Thailand) for an extended period of time (e.g. at least 1 year) *Additional requirements (plus?s):* - Experience in organizing events - Asian nationality - Knowledge of Chinese language - Knowledge of other Asian languages - Knowledge of Dreamweaver and other web-design software, as well as advanced knowledge of Office software Please read the complete job description of activities in www.sutp.org/tor-sutpasia.pdf . Contact carlos.pardo@sutp.org for additional inquiries and submit your application to carlos.pardo@sutp.org Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH; Sitz der Gesellschaft/Registered Office Eschborn/Taunus, Germany; Registergericht/Registered at Amtsgericht Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Eintragungs-Nr./Registration no. HRB 12394; Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates/Chairman of the Supervisory Board: Erich Stather, State Secretary; Geschaeftsfuehrer/Managing Directors: Dr. Bernd Eisenblaetter, Wolfgang Schmitt From regina at wholechoice.net Wed Oct 15 09:29:39 2008 From: regina at wholechoice.net (Gina Anderson) Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:29:39 +0800 Subject: [sustran] Fwd: [CTPP] New report on American Community Survey 2007 data, for San Francisco Bay Area Message-ID: <20081015082939.3egaf1vcgsw0os4w@www.wholechoice.net> Hello Sustran-ers, am forwarding the link to a report based on 2007 journey-to-work and household characteristics survey data, in case any of you would find it useful for your work. Some highlights are mentioned below. best, Gina -- Regina Anderson, AICP WholeChoice Project Management, Master Planning, Sustainability Singapore ----- Forwarded message from CPurvis@mtc.ca.gov ----- Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:11:15 -0700 From: Chuck Purvis Reply-To: ctpp-news@chrispy.net Subject: [CTPP] New report on American Community Survey 2007 data, for San Francisco Bay Area To: CTPP-News Hello CTPPers: The detailed 2007 American Community Survey data for journey-to-work and household characteristics was released by the Census Bureau on September 23, 2008. We completed our first report on the ACS 2007 for our region, on October 2nd. The 30 page report is here: http://www.mtc.ca.gov/maps_and_data/datamart/census/ The most interesting finding is a statistically significant (95% CL) increase in transit commuting, 2006 to 2007, from 315,000 to 336,000. The increase in our regional share of transit commuters (9.5 to 10.0 percent), was not a statistically significant increase (95% CL) (though it was significant at a 90% CL). Commute times are stable, at about 27 minutes per one-way commute. Intra-county commute shares (% living and working in same county) has remained stable between 2000 and 2007, at about 72 percent intra-county commute. We also produce tables on housing affordability, poverty, race, and household vehicle availability, since those are topics of interest to us and our policy board. Chuck Purvis, MTC ************************************************************** ************************************************************** _______________________________________________ ctpp-news mailing list ctpp-news@chrispy.net http://www.chrispy.net/mailman/listinfo/ctpp-news ----- End forwarded message ----- From peebeebarter at gmail.com Wed Oct 15 17:47:25 2008 From: peebeebarter at gmail.com (Paul Barter) Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:47:25 +0800 Subject: [sustran] Fwd: Dinesh Mohan: The Nano confusion Message-ID: <6fc1c1110810150147k3b072348j1fd99843c60ec116@mail.gmail.com> This is relevant for sustran-discuss too, so forwarding from another forum. Paul http://reinventingtransport.blogspot.com/ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Eric Britton Date: 2008/10/14 Subject: WorldTransport Forum Dinesh Mohan: The Nano confusion To: WorldTransport@yahoogroups.com, the-commons@yahoogroups.com Thanks to Lee Schipper for the heads-up. *Dinesh Mohan: The Nano confusion* Dinesh Mohan / New Delhi January 20, 2008 http://www.business-standard.com/india/storypage.php?autono=311142 A car is not just a more expensive two-wheeler, which is why the low price of the Tatas' latest car may not spur more buying. When Ratan Tata announced his ambition of producing the one-lakh car, I very wisely informed my friends that such a cheap car would not be able to meet the European offset frontal impact standard. This standard requires a car to hit a barrier head-on so that 60 per cent of its front takes the impact at 56 km/h (Standard ECE R-94). My reasoning was that if the Smart (one of the smallest cars in Europe) sells for more than Rs 4 lakh in Europe, then how can we produce a safe car at such a low price? On March 10, however, Tata unveiled the Nano and announced that it will meet the European frontal impact standard, proving many of us wrong! In his speech, Tata also assured that "Dr Pachauri need not have nightmares," (in reference to pollution) as the car would meet all Indian emission norms and eventually the latest European norms. However, the debate continues with some going overboard to declare the launch of this car as a transportation revolution, an event as significant as the launch of the Model T by Henry Ford, and even a happening that may destroy the brahminical order in the country! Others are worried that congestion will increase manifold and push up pollution to unbearable limits. Yet, demands have already been made that it would be unfair to the launch of the Nano if the government does not widen roads and build more expressways immediately at the expense of the general public. It is worth examining the possibilities as the dust settles after the hype. The first issue is whether the Nano will put a car in every family's front yard. We seem to forget that Rs 1-lakh cars (and cheaper ones) have been available for some time in India. They are called used cars. These days you can get an air conditioned car in reasonably good shape for less than Rs 1 lakh. Yet, motorcycle users have not shifted to using cars in droves. The reasons are quite logical. The monthly cost of running a car includes your monthly loan payments, cost of petrol, insurance, periodic servicing, maintenance and repairs of dents and damages. When the Nano is sold after about a year, its price after inflation and taxes is likely to be around Rs 1.5 lakh. The typical monthly payment for a loan of this amount is about Rs 2,700 and that for a Rs 2-lakh Maruti about Rs 3,400. For an active young person, petrol is about Rs 3,000 a month, insurance and other expenses a minimum of Rs 1,000 a month. So, a total of Rs 6,700 a month for the Nano and Rs 7,400 a month for the Maruti. An actual saving of about 10 per cent per month which is not enormous. A middle class family generally cannot spend more than 15 per cent of its income on transport. To spend about Rs 6,000 a month on the Nano, your income should be more than Rs 40,000 a month. In Delhi, the richest city of India, only 30 per cent families earn more than about Rs 25,000 a month. Clearly, even with cheap cars available, less than 20 per cent of the families can own a car on Delhi and much fewer in other cities. That is why the motorcycle with its low maintenance and running costs will not get displaced by cheap cars. The motorcycle, in spite of being a hazardous mode of transport, is still attractive for young people because of the ease of parking and manoeuvrability in transport, including getting to the front of the line at the traffic light. A middle class family in large cities lives in a small flat where there is little space for parking and a junior person does not get parking at the work place either. So, I do not expect too many motorcyclists to shift to the Nano. Ultimately, Nano's success will be decided on how it performs on the road, noise levels, rattles and after sales service, and comfort levels at 80 km/h when a truck overtakes you. Congestion is not influenced by the number of models sold. The total numbers of cars already available is enough to ensure endemic congestion on roads. Car ownership in Delhi at present is less than one fifth London's, and both cities have a similar amount of road space available! The American experience is ample proof that no amount of road widening or use of electronic technology reduces congestion. The latest report from the Texas Transportation Institute shows that in the past 25 years, congestion has increased in every single urban area in the US in spite of all investments in transit and road construction. This filling up of the roads decides the amount of pollution. Therefore, pollution in a city will firstly depend on the amount of area a city devotes to roads and then the kind of vehicles that will ply on those roads. Once the road surface area is decided, we have to minimise the pollution from each vehicle present there. On that account, if the Nano complies with the latest emission norms and has a small engine, it will pollute less than the bigger cars on the road. So it is not Pachauri or Sunita Narain, but the executives of Maruti Suzuki who are likely to get a massive headache. If Tata is a car manufacturer, we cannot expect him not to make more cars. We can only expect him to give us cleaner and safer cars. For that, we have to complement Girish Wagh and his team for leading a successful team and producing the Nano. Such successes give a great deal of pride to young professionals and hope for their future. Without pride in innovations and inventions, no society can really create a future for itself. But the issue remains, what kind of a future do we want and who do we include in it? If some of us think that cars are not good for clean air, then our policymakers have to create conditions that make it unprofitable for Tata to produce such cars. This can only be done by putting an end to direct and indirect subsidies for car owners. By placing severe emission norms for cars, charging the real estate price for parking, instituting annual registration fees that pay for road building and maintenance, and charging a pollution and CO2 cess in proportion to emissions. Are we willing to do this? If the term "people" includes more than 70 per cent of the population, then there can be no "people's car" in India. But, we can have transport for people. Tata has been accused of not worrying about public transport. He can prove all of us wrong again by producing the cheapest air-conditioned low-floor urban bus in the world for Rs 20 lakh! From eric.britton at ecoplan.org Fri Oct 17 19:27:40 2008 From: eric.britton at ecoplan.org (Eric Britton) Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:27:40 +0200 Subject: [sustran] Knoogle 1.0 progress Message-ID: <011a01c93042$fe642300$fb2c6900$@britton@ecoplan.org> [Kindly share this note if you think it might be useful/] 1. Work is proceeding apace with our colleagues from the Center for Advancing Research and Solutions for Society at the University of Michigan under the leadership of Sue Zielinski, director of the SMART program. 2. As a reminder just in case, you can pick it up at http://knoogle.net . 3. The present work consists of a careful screening and identification of what is to now more than 400 carefully selected sites, covering the key programs and sources active in the area. 4. Sue alliteratively asks that Knoogle be useful as a way to pick out the key . . . programs, projects, people, places, processes and publications. Hmm. We are working on it. 5. One area that will need attention in the next stage is the matter of the so-called "refinements", basically nests of keywords that dip into the initial call-up and then work to further ferret out the links that treat that particular sub-set. a. An example is "Public transport", which calls up references from a cluster of key words that at this point include: "public transport", bus, rail, tram, BRT, metro, subway, Mobilien, "public transit", "bus lanes", "priority lanes", "bus priority", HOV, BRTS, LRT b. The Paratransit refinement looks for: xTransit OR paratransit, DRT, carpool, taxi, "demand responsive*", vanpool, carshare, carsharing, "car club", "shared car", "computerized dispatching", hitchhiking, ride-sharing, slugging, pedicab, rickshaw*, "dynamically routed", colectivo c. Fair transport screens for: elderly, handicapped, "low income", disabled, unemployed, underserved 6. I think that one good way to get a feel for its eventual value - and its limitations of which we hope you will tell us - is to search for a place that you might wish to know more about, new mobility-wise (as it were).And then once there to look at some of those refinements (the remainder are still very rough). But I of course can't tell you anything about searching on the web that you don't know better than I, so let me leave you with this interim progress report and invite you to share with us your views, suggestions, and counsel. In the hope that Knoogle may in time and with work become a useful addition to your toolkit. Eric Britton PS. Once we get the English version in shape, we intend then to turn in order to a dedicated Knoogle for Spanish - www.es.knoogle.net -- and French - www.fr.knoogle.net. With, I hope, www.po.knoogle.net not too far behind. From eric.britton at ecoplan.org Fri Oct 17 19:27:40 2008 From: eric.britton at ecoplan.org (Eric Britton) Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:27:40 +0200 Subject: [sustran] [NewMobilityCafe] Knoogle 1.0 progress Message-ID: <011a01c93042$fe642300$fb2c6900$@britton@ecoplan.org> [Kindly share this note if you think it might be useful/] 1. Work is proceeding apace with our colleagues from the Center for Advancing Research and Solutions for Society at the University of Michigan under the leadership of Sue Zielinski, director of the SMART program. 2. As a reminder just in case, you can pick it up at http://knoogle.net . 3. The present work consists of a careful screening and identification of what is to now more than 400 carefully selected sites, covering the key programs and sources active in the area. 4. Sue alliteratively asks that Knoogle be useful as a way to pick out the key . . . programs, projects, people, places, processes and publications. Hmm. We are working on it. 5. One area that will need attention in the next stage is the matter of the so-called "refinements", basically nests of keywords that dip into the initial call-up and then work to further ferret out the links that treat that particular sub-set. a. An example is "Public transport", which calls up references from a cluster of key words that at this point include: "public transport", bus, rail, tram, BRT, metro, subway, Mobilien, "public transit", "bus lanes", "priority lanes", "bus priority", HOV, BRTS, LRT b. The Paratransit refinement looks for: xTransit OR paratransit, DRT, carpool, taxi, "demand responsive*", vanpool, carshare, carsharing, "car club", "shared car", "computerized dispatching", hitchhiking, ride-sharing, slugging, pedicab, rickshaw*, "dynamically routed", colectivo c. Fair transport screens for: elderly, handicapped, "low income", disabled, unemployed, underserved 6. I think that one good way to get a feel for its eventual value - and its limitations of which we hope you will tell us - is to search for a place that you might wish to know more about, new mobility-wise (as it were).And then once there to look at some of those refinements (the remainder are still very rough). But I of course can't tell you anything about searching on the web that you don't know better than I, so let me leave you with this interim progress report and invite you to share with us your views, suggestions, and counsel. In the hope that Knoogle may in time and with work become a useful addition to your toolkit. Eric Britton PS. Once we get the English version in shape, we intend then to turn in order to a dedicated Knoogle for Spanish - www.es.knoogle.net -- and French - www.fr.knoogle.net. With, I hope, www.po.knoogle.net not too far behind. From eric.britton at ecoplan.org Mon Oct 20 22:00:13 2008 From: eric.britton at ecoplan.org (Eric Britton) Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:00:13 +0200 Subject: [sustran] New tools for new mobility Message-ID: <00e401c932b3$d01b3ab0$7051b010$@britton@ecoplan.org> It is going to take more than great good intentions if we are ever to reinvent transport in cities. We need to put into service every good tool we can put our hands on. Here is an example how several of our colleagues in one New Mobility Agenda program are communicating some of the messages at the heart of their field, carsharing. Carsharing: the last nail in www.ecoplan.org coffin of old mobility. Time to check out Carshare Lite at http://carshare-lite.newmobility.org/ So what about cranking out one or two of these clips for your own marketing purposes? And of course sharing them with all of us so that we can get better at getting the word out. Sing carsharing. Eric Britton PS. For a more compete vision of how we are trying to put new media to work for New Mobility, have a look at http://www.media.newmobility.org. PPS. That (below) is not me (I?). The New Mobility Agenda cid:image003.png@01C932AF.7BA02C10 Technology transforms time and space . . . and our minds The New Mobility Agenda - http://www.invent.newmobility.org Europe: 8/10 rue Joseph Bara, 75006 Paris, France T: +331 4326 1323 or +339 7044 4179 Skype: ericbritton New Mobility Partnerships - http://partners.newmobility.org USA: 9440 Readcrest Drive Los Angeles, CA 90210 T: +1 310 601-8468 Skype : newmobility __._,_.___ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/octet-stream Size: 103315 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://list.jca.apc.org/public/sustran-discuss/attachments/20081020/5afc9184/attachment.bin From eric.britton at ecoplan.org Fri Oct 24 01:20:33 2008 From: eric.britton at ecoplan.org (Eric Britton) Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:20:33 +0200 Subject: [sustran] New York New York. If they can do it there, you can do it anywhere! Message-ID: <091101c9352b$48c4c250$da4e46f0$@britton@ecoplan.org> New York New York. If they can do it there, you can do it anywhere! As a long time New Yorker I look with wonder at this. Check out StreetFilms: A Conversation With Janette Sadik-Khan At http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/10/22/streetfilms-a-conversation-with-janett e-sadik-khan/ In this exclusive Streetfilms interview, The Open Planning Project's Executive Director Mark Gorton talks with Department of Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan about how her agency is redefining public space in New York City. As the two take a walking tour of recently revamped streetscapes designed to encourage car-free movement and foster social activity -- including Broadway Boulevard, Gansevoort Plaza, Meat Market Plaza and the Ninth Avenue cycle track -- Sadik-Khan explains how she sees the city grid evolving from "utilitarian corridors" into civic amenities. From eric.britton at ecoplan.org Sat Oct 25 19:11:45 2008 From: eric.britton at ecoplan.org (Eric Britton) Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 12:11:45 +0200 Subject: [sustran] Attack against World Car Free Days - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfL-MVK8Bvc Message-ID: <004301c9368a$188a8dd0$499fa970$@britton@ecoplan.org> =93First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win=94. = That=92s their best shot? Whoa, I think this is great news if that=92s the = best they can muster. = = Since 17 October 1994 I have actively pushed the idea of from time to time organizing days or events without or with far fewer cars, reinforced by people and groups who take a bit of time out to reflect on how we might do a bit better in all this. The idea of putting our cars aside from time to time (I have a car, BTW) and reflecting a bit on all this seems to me like and important and timely idea. = And when you have a strong idea, you don=92t need to hide. Let the CEI and others who share their views come on in and give it their best shot (was that it?). Give =91em rope. They will indeed hang themselves. = Remember Gandhi? =93First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win=94. = That=92s our ticket. = Eric Britton = PS. And anyway it will be more fun to mock them a bit rather than to allow ourselves to be outraged and defensive. Our friends over there at Adbusters often do a good job of just this. You may also have some fun with the following. Lots more IQ/minute than the CEI appears to be able to muster. = PPS. Because they are so touching, I attach at the bottom of this note ALL the comments that have been receive since this masterwork was placed online. = Carsharing rocks = www.carshare-lite.newmobility.org = cid:image003.png@01C9369A.5E0DDC80 Technology transforms time and space . . . and our minds = = = From: Carlosfelipe Pardo [mailto:carlosfpardo@gmail.com] = Sent: Friday, 24 October 2008 22:00 To: Francis Eric Knight Britton Eric, Maybe you've read this, if not then I'm anyway forwarding it... -------- Original Message -------- = Subject: = [carfree_network] Attack against WCD Date: = Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:03:16 +0200 From: = Theo Haris = = Hi everyone! I recently stumbled upon this video on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DbfL-MVK8Bvc. It's an attack against World Carfree Day by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, announcing a video contest against WCD (with the prize being a tank of gas). The interesting thing are the comments received and that there were zero video responses... Theo PS. We are preparing an increased YouTube presence, in preparation of which I stumbled upon this video. I'll notify everyone on the list as soon as we have something concrete ready how you can help :) -- = Carbusters Magazine WORLD CARFREE NETWORK Kr=E1tk=E1 26 100 00 Prague 10 Czech Republic www.worldcarfree.net www.carbusters.org = Comments on YouTube video: = How can this supposed "Institute" possibly feel threatened by the concept that we should walk more. With your own inclusion of health problems as one of the unrealistic reasons cars are necessary, you prove part of the point of "car free" concept. Obesity is higher than ever, and driving to the end of your own driveway to get your mail is part of the problem. So ridicule this idea all you want. And tell us - who is funding your little "enterprise institute" anyhow? I heard Ford and Exxon. = b5baxter = 0 Poor comment Good comment Marked as spam = = Car free days are a wonderful celebration of community, life and health. Anyone who has attended one would know that they are something that should be encouraged and expanded. = trianglechookee = +1 Poor comment Good comment Marked as spam = = instead of offering solutions they want to inject fears and doubts , we all know how important motorize vehicles are, but your solution is more gas? as bredlo said I wonder who is behind this hmmmm? = b5baxter = 0 Poor comment Good comment Marked as spam = = In my city do regularly haul around kids and groceries with bikes. And politicians do arrive at these events on bike. In fact the top two mayoral candidates in our upcoming election regularly commute by bike. = b5baxter = 0 Poor comment Good comment Marked as spam = = In my city people do regularly haul around kids and groceries with bikes. And politicians do arrive at these events on bike. In fact the top two mayoral candidates in our upcoming election regularly commute by bike. = b5baxter = +1 Poor comment Good comment Marked as spam = = As for the funding for CEI: ExxonMobil Corporation was a major donor to CEI, with over $2 million in contributions between 1998 and 2005 (it ended in 2006). Current funders include: Amoco Foundation, Inc., Coca-Cola Company, CSX Corporation, Ford Motor Company Fund, Philip Morris Companies, Inc., Pfizer Inc., Precision Valve Corporation, and Texaco, Inc. (Texaco Foundation). = freeskier62 = +2 Poor comment Good comment Marked as spam = = These guys completely miss the point. No one is trying to completely get rid of cars, the point is to show people that you don't need to spend your life in the car. The point is to show that there is life outside that climate-cruise-audio controlled interior = demus = +1 Poor comment Good comment Marked as spam = = they are very afraid for their money that there will be ever more people like me. I don=B4t need and have a car. I only need my bicycle, water proof goretex the northface shoes and a similar very breathable wolfskin jacket with an inbuild hood with a waterproof and snug hood with an extra windprotector for the neck/throat wenn fastened very snug with velcro. if i should ever want more speed i will get me an standard electric drive for my bike. = jamnbiscoots = +2 Poor comment Good comment Marked as spam = = The patronizing argument that people don't realize how many things get to them by car is more-or-less ignorant is useless. No car days are to get away from a lazy, 'lets jump in the car and drive to a recreation/shopping area' mindset. Sure my latte gets there by truck, and i'm going to get it on foot thank you, wearing a rain coat. Bullies, you are bullies and think your rational. Notice the funding above. = lepassant3 = 0 Poor comment Good comment Marked as spam = = "From their food, to their clothes..." I don't think anybody is asking for the entire system to be torn down tomorrow. What WE can do is NOT drive to pick up these items after they have been so graciously delivered to our neighborhoods by Papa Petroleum. A semi-truck full of six-packs of beer is a relatively efficient use of energy. Each of those six-packs then being driven across town from the store to home in empty cars is NOT efficient. = ktwsolo = 0 Poor comment Good comment Marked as spam = = Generally pretty sympathetic to libertarian causes, but why anyone wants to associate with CEI and its silly, arrogant, misguided, and often missing-the-point activities is beyond me. Not to mention the funding. CEI hurts the libertarian cause as far as I'm concerned, on top of being an affront to solid reason. = = -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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We have long called carsharing an example of a "two percent" solution (a multi-billion dollar new metro is, by contrast, and example of a 5-7 percent solution). All by itself in an unquestioning old mobility vacuum carsharing cannot expect to do all that much -- however when combined with and supported by the rich battery of modes and approaches which are the stuff of the New Mobility Agenda, it has a very important role to complete the multi-level 21st century new mobility system of your city. As some of you know, we have long called carsharing "the last nail in the coffin of old mobility". Highlights of the new site and toolset include: 1. An inventory identifying one thousand cities in which you can carshare this morning - see http://www.cities.worldcarshare.com 2. A comprehensive listing of major sources of supply and service support for carshare start-ups - http://www.suppliers.worldcarshare.com 3. An in process inventory identifying more than three hundred of the leading carshare operations worldwide - http://www.operators.worldcarshare.com 4. A combined search engine which provides focused information on all key aspects of carsharing worldwide - http://www.knoogle.worldcarshare.com This Augean process of updating and extending our coverage of carsharing has been a terrific learning experience. (It is also one in which we have received good help from a significant number of the close to five hundred members of our informal working group, so let me take this occasion to thank them, for all of us.) As but one example, back in 2006 our inventory of cities with carsharing logged in some six hundred, but today just two years later, and if we include the fast-growing campus and specific company/group carshare operations, it can be seen that we have doubled that number. That has to mean something. But now what? Well, the fact is that the technical and business aspects of how to make a carshare project work are now pretty well in hand. That's a great leap forward, but if you look closely you can see that it makes the next set of targets for our work very clear. And that is that we, and possibly you, need to find ways to get together with cities, local government and other eventual national and regional organizations which can help in this, to give them more strategic carshare support strategies. This is we are seeing the real weak link thus far. So that is where I intend to concentrate our efforts and attention over 2009 and beyond. I would say that we are far enough along in this process, that I can without hesitation invite you to drop in and have a good look. Carsharing is just one of the rich palette of new mobility options that we now need to put in place and make work. But in this case it has the advantage of one that is at the same time successful, fast growing and well mapped from a world perspective. Carsharing is ready to roll. Tell me what you think. With all good wishes, Eric Britton PS. And don't miss http://www.lite.worldcarshare.com - carsharing operators selling their service with a grin. May they be an example for us all. The New Mobility Agenda cid:image001.jpg@01C8DAF3.F7EBC130 Technology transforms time and space . . . and our minds The New Mobility Agenda - http://www.invent.newmobility.org Europe: 8/10 rue Joseph Bara, 75006 Paris, France T: +331 4326 1323 or +339 7044 4179 Skype: ericbritton New Mobility Partnerships - http://partners.newmobility.org USA: 9440 Readcrest Drive Los Angeles, CA 90210 T: +1 310 601-8468 Skype : newmobility -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/octet-stream Size: 12184 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://list.jca.apc.org/public/sustran-discuss/attachments/20081026/06afacb9/attachment.bin From richmond at alum.mit.edu Tue Oct 28 07:07:08 2008 From: richmond at alum.mit.edu (Jonathan Richmond) Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 01:07:08 +0300 (Russian Standard Time) Subject: [sustran] Leaving Mauritius; looking for new opportunities Message-ID: I am about to conclude my work in Mauritius and am looking for new opportunities -- if you have any job ideas, or possibly might see me fitting into any of your projects, or would like me to join you in bidding for future projects, please do let me know. I am willing to consider possibilities in a wide range of locations, so if you have any ideas, please do suggest them! (please note that while I talk of mainly applied activities below, I would also be interested in a visiting professorship were an appropriate position available). My work in Mauritius has been tremendously successful, although it has ended on a less than happy note. I came here to run a consensus-forming process in 2006, following fifteen years of stalemate on moving things forward in the transport arena. Too many reports had been written about Mauritius transport issues (one by myself, on an earlier World Bank contract!), but action had not been taken, so I decided I had to focus on biringing people together to move beyond the impasse. I brought together twenty major actors in transport for discussion forums. I told them that we had to agree on how to proceed if we were to have action, and I provided the structure for a negotiated consensus to be reached. The group was given a series of more than thirty policies. We discussed the policies and eliminated those where there was clear disagreement. We negotiated over the remaining policies, amending them as needed in an atmosphere of give and take until, finally, we had eighteen policies endorsed. The recommended actions were given to the Mauritius Cabinet, and have formed the basis for subsequent transport policy. The number one problem for transport policy in this country is a dysfunctionality brought about by duplicated and uncoordinated functions in three different transport agencies, which has led to competition rather than cooperation. The consensus forums group agreed that top priority should therefore be to dissolve these agencies and instead build a new Land Transport Authority based on principles of strong management and integrated transport policy making and implementation. During a return to Mauritius in the third quarter of 2007 and, during my current one-year November 5 2007 - November 4 2008 contract I developed a concept for the LTA, and prepared the Terms of Reference for an RFP to solicit consultant help in LTA implementation. My other major focus has been on lifting public transport services to a new level, and I prepared the Terms of Reference for a large-scale Bus Modernization program, which will bring Bus Rapid Transit to Mauritius as well as overhaul the existing bus system. Despite remarkable progress, working here has been overshadowed by the fact that I have had to work as part of that very dysfunctional system that I seek to reform, and pressures led to a political decision not to renew my contract. Perhaps someone who must, by the very nature of the job, touch raw nerves on a daily basis should not expect otherwise. I would rather look on the positive side, and recognize the great deal that has been accomplished in transforming inertia into action. I hope the government will build on the strong foundations I have built. I will send my c.v. to anyone interested, but my recent background before the Mauritius work was an appointment as adviser to the Government of Singapore, where I participated in discussions of priorities for a rethink of transport policy and publication of a new White Paper; and a teaching assignment in Thailand, where I developed new approaches to teaching professionalism to Asian students wishing to enter the transportation profession. I have written papers on both Singapore planning and teaching methodology, and both are available to anyone who is interested. I am also well-known for my work in the area of transit privatization (I wrote a book on the subject) and for my contributions in project evaluation methodology assessment. I am available for a wide variety of assignments. I have had strong recent interests not only in BRT but also in overhauling transit system planning and management and finding innovative ways to improve services while controlling costs. I have had to write complex and far-ranging technical documents, and am flexible enough to work in a wide variety of areas. My interests go beyond public transport to strategic planning in the transport arena in general and, in particular, to developing complex plans for balanced comprehensive action. I have a strong emphasis on governance and reform. I have had striking success bringing people together -- and that is certainly sorely needed in many contexts. If you have projects that involve a need for helping people to come together, to think, and to decide in a manner that requires both creativity and tact, I could be the right person for you. To mention my continuing interests in education: it is vital that tomorrow's professionals are trained not only in technical areas but in how to become relective practitioners who can think rigorously and change their own assumptions as required. Education is needed not only in the university, but also in the professional workplace. Any projects in this area as well as possible faculty positions would also be of great interest. I will look forward to hearing from you, noting, of course, that I cannot have any further involvement in any project connected with Mauritius. Many thanks and best regards, --Jonathan! ----- Jonathan Richmond Transport Adviser to the Government of Mauritius Ministry of Public Infrastructure, Land Transport and Shipping New Government Centre, Level 4 Port Louis Mauritius +230 707-1134 (Mauritius mobile: most reliable way to reach me) +1 (617) 395-4360 (US phone number rings at home -- call me in Mauritius for the price of a call to the US). e-mail: richmond@alum.mit.edu http://the-tech.mit.edu/~richmond/ From eric.britton at ecoplan.org Wed Oct 29 18:33:31 2008 From: eric.britton at ecoplan.org (Eric Britton) Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:33:31 +0100 Subject: [sustran] Know any Indian authors who have something to say on transport and climate change? Message-ID: <000101c939a9$6fda17f0$4f8e47d0$@britton@ecoplan.org> Looks to me like this is the right place to ask that question. TO follow up get in touch with Julian. And if you wish with a copy to me so that I can follow. Best/Eric = = From: Julien ALLAIRE [mailto:julien.allaire@gart.org] = Sent: Tuesday, 28 October 2008 16:25 To: eric.britton@ecoplan.org Cc: Michel Labrousse Subject: TR: GC26 : topo pour relance Chine = Dear Eric, = The French review Global Chance is doing a special number on transport and climate change. = It will be supported by the Liaison Francophonie (http://www.iepf.org/ressources/ressources-pub.php?id=3D1) which is financed by the international organisation for Francophonie. = They are looking for an Indian author which could write something on this topic. As you know all the Sustainable Transport community, could you recommend us someone. No matter if he or she is not =93francophone=94, the article could be translated. = Thanks for your answer, = Best regards, = Julien = = __________________________________________________ Julien Allaire Responsable du p=F4le =E9conomique Groupement des Autorit=E9s Responsables de Transport 22, rue de Palestro 75002 PARIS T=E9l: 01 40 41 18 19 Fax: 01 40 41 18 11 www.gart.org = = -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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We have carefully reviewed the original source list - bearing in mind that our target is specifically "new mobility" in all its main variant and flavors -- kicked a certain number out, added more than one hundred new entries, and generally tried to upgrade it both in terms of its coverage and importance. (The database currently has close to five hundred carefully selected sites and sources.) 2. In all this, we have keep to the fore that quality and not quantity are our goals in these searches. That of course being the big difference between Knoogle and Google. 3. I have made a real effort in the last days to develop a creative link to Wikipedia. When we put it in its raw form originally, it started to overwhelm the results with too much stuff that is not useful. So we went in and nailed just those entries which in our view need to be brought into play in this case. One nice result is that in most cases in a first search the corresponding Wikipedia article will be found toward the top, kind of a nice checkpoint and reminder. Especially useful for anyone perhaps not so familiar with that concept or action. 4. Here is one routine which in a few minutes will give a pretty good feel for how this can be put to work. Suppose you were going on an assignment to some city or country to look specifically at one or a range of new mobility techniques. For example you are going next week to Delhi or Dublin or Denver, and you will be looking at public transport, BRT and non-motorized transport. Well, an hour or two spent with Knoogle will certainly help you prepare a good trip. 5. In parallel we have developed a more focused Knoogle, this one looking specifically at carsharing developments and issues around the world. You can pick it up and test it at www.wcs.knoogle.net I have found it very good to be able to develop the two in parallel, learning from one and then taking the lessons to the other. 6. Maybe we are far enough along in this process so that I can safely suggest that you consider spending a bit of time testing it as a research tool, and then getting back to me if possible with your critical views and suggestion for doing better. 7. Among these might be sites which in your view appear to be missing, are valuable sources, and should be included. Don't worry about any eventual overlaps, just hand on your thoughts on this and we will take care of the dog work from here. Hope you find some use in this. I look forward with real interest to hearing from you. All the best, Eric Britton PS. Just in case this somehow got overlooked, the basic strategic reference for all our work under the New Mobility Agenda is http://strategy.newmobility.org/ . No. 11 is one that is very important to us, "The Female Metric: "If we design transportation systems that work well for women of all ages and conditions, they will work well for society as a whole. Women are the metric of new mobility." We will stand or fall on that one. The New Mobility Agenda - http://www.invent.newmobility.org Europe: 8/10 rue Joseph Bara, 75006 Paris, France T: +331 4326 1323 or +339 7044 4179 Skype: ericbritton New Mobility Partnerships - http://partners.newmobility.org USA: 9440 Readcrest Drive Los Angeles, CA 90210 T: +1 310 601-8468 Skype : newmobility