From patwardhan.sujit at gmail.com Fri Feb 1 03:11:13 2013 From: patwardhan.sujit at gmail.com (Sujit Patwardhan) Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 23:41:13 +0530 Subject: [sustran] !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cautionary U.S. Transportation Tales for India's Growing Cities !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Message-ID: *Cautionary U.S. Transportation Tales for India's Growing Cities* *?It?s physically impossible to fit the automobile into a large dense city,? Gorton says. ?Cities that have tried to do that ? and there are many, many of them all over the world ? have all ended up pretty unhappy at the end of the day. And the cities that are happiest are the ones that have taken steps to limit the automobile.?* * * *?They see what traffic does to their cities, they see how their city is getting less livable every year. And as much as they personally want a car, they don?t want their world to be this really congested traffic hell,? says Gorton. ?Among a lot of the policymakers and elected officials and senior people in government, there really is this sense that they have to do something else.?* *Read the full article by clicking this link:- * http://www.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2012/02/cautionary-us-transportation-tales-indias-growing-cities/1194/ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [image: Inline image 1] *Parisar* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sujit Patwardhan patwardhan.sujit@gmail.com sujit@parisar.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yamuna, ICS Colony, Ganeshkhind Road, Pune 411 007, India Tel: +91 20 25537955 Cell: +91 98220 26627 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Blog: http://motif.posterous.com/ Parisar: www.parisar.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 17934 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://list.jca.apc.org/public/sustran-discuss/attachments/20130131/f51a1c07/attachment.jpe From m.burke at griffith.edu.au Wed Feb 6 13:51:48 2013 From: m.burke at griffith.edu.au (Matthew Burke) Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 14:51:48 +1000 Subject: [sustran] Research Fellow in Transport (2 positions) at Griffith University, Australia Message-ID: Hi Everyone on the Sustrans list. Please note there are two Transport Research Fellow positions available to join our team at the Urban Research Program at Griffith University. Each represents a chance to launch your career in transport research within a quality supportive environment. The Urban Research Program has offices at both the Brisbane Nathan campus and at the Gold Coast campus of Griffith University. Apologies for any cross-postings. Research Fellow in Transport (2 positions) *Reference: *496136 *Element: *Urban Research Program *Work type: *Fixed term (2.5 years) *Overview:* The Urban Research Program (URP) at Griffith University seeks to appoint two Research Fellows (Level A) to advance its transport research strengths in the social, environmental and institutional dimensions of transport. The URP is a multi-disciplinary grouping of urban researchers with broad built environment, urban planning, transport and environmental policy capability. The Research Fellows will work with senior URP staff to advance the transport research agenda of the centre via a personal and collaborative program of publications, granting and external engagement activity. The role includes regular liaison with external URP stakeholders on transport research and policy issues. *This is a fixed term (2.5 years), full time position based at the Nathan campus.* *The role: * The appointees will develop a personal and group project, publication and granting program in transport and urban research. This includes supporting the vibrant transport and urban research environment within the URP and at Griffith, plus engaging with key external stakeholders. Each position is for 2.5 years in the first instance, subject to available funding, and will be based within the URP. *The person: * We seek two motivated post-doctoral researchers with transport and urban research expertise who wish to work in an innovative transport and urban research environment. A commitment to high quality research outputs and research based policy advocacy are both essential as is a demonstrated ability to work effectively in team environments is essential. A demonstrated capacity in urban transport research in at least one of the areas of transport modeling, transport GIS and spatial analysis, transport and land use planning, transport governance and policy, travel behaviour, transport psychology and transport economics is highly desirable. *Salary range: * Research Fellow, Grade 1: $61,914 - $72,831 per annum. Salary package including 17% employer superannuation contribution: $72,440 - $85,213 per annum. *Further information: * Obtain the position description and application requirements by clicking the following link http://www.seek.com.au/Job/research-fellow-in-transport-2-positions/in/brisbane-southern-suburbs-logan/23853809 Each position is for 2.5 years in the first instance, subject to available funding, and will be based within the URP. For position queries, contact Associate Professor Jago Dodson, Director, Urban Research Program on +61 (0) 7 3735 6680. For application queries, contact Ms Phillipa Bowe, HR Officer on +61 (0) 7 3735 7664. * * *Closing date:* 15 March 2013 4:30pm AEST -- *Dr Matthew I Burke* Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Senior Research Fellow Urban Research Program Griffith University Bldg N55, Room 0.28B 170 Kessels Road Nathan Qld 4111 Australia m.burke@griffith.edu.au Ph. +61 7 3735 7106 Fax. +61 7 3735 4026 Skype. drmattburke From cornie.huizenga at slocatpartnership.org Mon Feb 18 11:33:04 2013 From: cornie.huizenga at slocatpartnership.org (Cornie Huizenga) Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 10:33:04 +0800 Subject: [sustran] ndia's Ministry of Urban Affairs issued an advisory on congestion charging Message-ID: Dear All, India's Ministry of Urban Affairs has issued an advisory requesting authorities on urban transport to issue necessary instructions for identifying the most congested areas in their cities, getting a proper study done on various aspcts of congestion chargingas per city requirements and consider adopting "congestion charging system" as a measure to decongest a particular area/CBD, increasing a mode share of cycling as well public transport and increase the mobility of people besides controlling pollution. See: http://www.urbanindia.nic.in/programme/ut/Advisory_Congestion_Charging_CBA_CA.pdf Cornie -- Cornie Huizenga Joint Convener Partnership on Sustainable, Low Carbon Transport (SLoCaT) Far East International Plaza, B-1811 317 Xianxia Road, 200051, Shanghai, China Telephone: +86 13901949332 cornie.huizenga@slocatpartnership.org www.slocat.net From hrishikeshballal at yahoo.com Tue Feb 19 21:19:57 2013 From: hrishikeshballal at yahoo.com (Hrishikesh Ballal) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 04:19:57 -0800 (PST) Subject: [sustran] Survey Request: Tools for Transportation Planning Message-ID: <1361276397.51768.YahooMailNeo@web121305.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Hello All,? I have been a member of this group for a while and would appreciate some inputs from group members. I am a engineer by profession, soon to begin a Ph.D at the Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis at UCL. I am passionate about developing tools for Urban Planning and am interested in knowing more from group members about how they use tools in particular. To that end, I have created a short 5 question / 2 minute survey about tools that are used in the trade. If you can take time to fill it out, I can compile the results and share with the list, might be a very interesting topic for further discussion and input. http://hrishiballal.polldaddy.com/s/transport-planning-tools-survey At the end of the survey, if you are interested in a new web based spatial transport planning tool that I am building, optionally, you can enter your email address and I would be very happy to give you a demo. I will send on a reminder again in a week and share the results in two weeks? time. You can find out more about me at http://www.hrishikeshballal.net or @hrishiballal on Twitter. Thank you again. Hrsihi From gmenckhoff at gmail.com Wed Feb 20 13:42:22 2013 From: gmenckhoff at gmail.com (gmenckhoff at gmail.com) Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 04:42:22 +0000 Subject: [sustran] gmenckhoff@gmail.com wants to follow you. Accept? 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I have created a short 5 question / 2 minute survey about tools that are used in the trade. If you can take time to fill it out, I will compile the results and share with the list: http://hrishiballal.polldaddy.com/s/transport-planning-tools-survey I am a engineer by profession, soon to begin a Ph.D at the Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis at UCL. I am passionate about developing tools, I believe better tools will help all of us being more effective in addressing some of the problems discussed on this list. Thank you again and looking forward. Hrishi