Many of you will be aware of TravelSmart and the work of Werner Brog ... Most interesting is whether TravelSmart is sufficiently powerful to assist in reducing...
I have read the election results. What does it portend for London's transport and environmental systems? Lee Schipper Visiting Scholar, Univ of Calif Transport...
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Here are two pieces from the UK Guardian plus something from the Back Boris campaign: Johnson promises 'less stick, more carrot' for London commuters ...
Dear Lee, Responding as a London voter, your question is quite a complicated one. There are a few clues, though: 1. On environmental policy, the Conservatives...
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May 2008 http://www.planning.org/planning/nonmember/default1.htm Is Congestion Pricing Ready for Prime Time? A controversial approach comes to the fore. By...
Thanks very useful. I agree, london traffic levels have crept up. But isn't the question not where they are today vs 5 years ago, rather where WOULD they have...
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Traffic levels have not crept up - congestion has. The new mayor has enough tory votes on the assembly to pass his budget, unlike the previous mayor who needed...
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NewScientist.com news service http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13809-london-congestion-charge-did-not ...
This from www.streetsblog today. (Thanks Aaron). The video is just below. <http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/05/05/london-mayor-elect-talks-up-buses-and ...
Dear All, As combustion is inefficient by law of science, any kind of measures to improve airquality should be cautious. London low emission zone can only work...
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... I assume this is because the congestion charge is about congestion, not about air quality or noise. Specifically, motorcycles are excluded from the charge...
I'd be wary of assuming that just because the Conservatives have cultivated an image of environment friendliness that means that their transport policies would...
Pain Today, Pain Tomorrow It’s amazing how pain today trumps pain tomorrow. Every time. Let’s take a look at one burning example: gas prices at the pump...
{Thanks to Lee Schipper for the heads-up] This is the first op ed (or article) that gets both the numbers right and the editorializing part is reasonable. ...
Yes, Europe is ahead of the US in transport energy efficiency, but I don't think we are far enough ahead to be called fully sustainable given the urgency of...
From: Michael Yeates michael@... The article and comments below are very timely and informative ... thanks. Another similar story emerges on the water...
This is a despicable hatchet job from the rabid right. What is unforgivable is not the tilted argumentation -- fair enough that is to be expected from these...
Too often these types of stories appear to be the almost inevitable result of lazy journos copying press releases ... long gone are the days when the journos...
Thanks to Michael Yeats for the heads-up. This certainly points up the tensions between old and new mobility. Paul Mees is a respected member of our...
It is worth adding that the US Bureau of Transport statistics puts the BTU/passenger-mil for US buses at around 3400 btu./passenger mile in 2005, while the...
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From: Lee Schipper [mailto:schipper@...] Sent: Thursday, 22 May 2008 15:36 To: Eric Britton Subject: FW: Fast buses in DC? All Aboard the 'Fast' Bus ... ...
Sustainable Urban Mobility in Asia (SUMA) News Digest Vol. 5 Issue 9 23 May 2008 SUMA News Digest is a free weekly e-mail publication that features news,...
Sent: Friday, 23 May 2008 07:51 Dear Eric, "New Mobility: The Emerging Transportation Economy" is fast approaching and seems to be shaping up nicely. I've...
On Behalf Of Dave Brook Sent: Friday, 23 May 2008 19:18 To: WorldCarShare@yahoogroups.com I was asked to write a short piece on the future of carsharing in the...
I think it's worth going through the arguments in the Reynolds article in some detail because even if they are wildly wrong in general they may be right in ...
Dave Brook's thought provoking "The Future of the Car is Carsharing" has done just that - it has got me thinking. And that has led to "Mad Car Owner Speaks...
A key point is where he is right -- for most of the late 1970s, 1980s, and all the 1990s -- buses were mostly empty. US policy was at national or local levels...
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Paris - Commuter boats http://img.iht.com/images/blogs/dots.gifFull details in French: http://www.paris.fr/portail/deplacements/Portal.lut?page_id=2 ...
