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Commentary: “Toward green mobility: the evolution of transport”,

2007-04-08T20:48:00.000+02:00

Commentary: “Toward green mobility: the evolution of transport”, Jesse H. Ausubel, Cesare Marchetti and Perrin Meyer. European Review in May 1998, published by Cambridge University Press (UK) for the Academia Europaea. I have just completed reading an excessively idiotic article on the future of transportation written by three highly intelligent, certainly well-meaning and otherwise

Sick Transit Chicago: Congestion Pricing: Overcoming Obstacles to Implementation

2007-03-18T14:24:00.000+01:00

Sick Transit Chicago: Congestion Pricing: Overcoming Obstacles to Implementation

Roads Are Too Important to Be Left to Governments

2007-03-05T11:17:00.000+01:00

Roads Are Too Important to Be Left to GovernmentsSeptember 26, 2006Gabriel Roth Billions of dollars and an overwhelming amount of time are wasted every year in traffic congestion. Might there be relief in sight? Earlier this year, former Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta announced a federal initiative to relieve transportation congestion, largely with the help of private fees and tolls. “

A Ladder of Citizen Participation

2007-01-27T11:42:00.000+01:00

Editor’s note: Thanks for Chris Bradshaw for his timely heads-up on this, which relates closely to the thinking behind our New Mobility Ladder in the context of our eventual collaboration with the Clinton Climate Initiative. Stay tuned. - Sherry R Arnstein 1. Citizen participation is citizen power 1.1. Empty Refusal Versus Benefit 2. Types of participation and "nonparticipation"

A Ladder of Citizen Participation

2007-01-27T11:17:00.000+01:00

A Ladder of Citizen Participation - Sherry R Arnstein 1. Citizen participation is citizen power 1.1. Empty Refusal Versus Benefit 2. Types of participation and "nonparticipation" 2.1. Limitations of the Typology 3. Characteristics and illustrations 3.1. Manipulation 3.2. Therapy 3.3. Informing 3.4. Consultation 3.5. Placation 3.6. Partnership 3.7. Delegated Power 3.8. Citizen

"Henry george hoodoo"

2007-01-15T09:29:00.000+01:00

Editor’s note: This splendid exchange on the Single Tax (Land Value Tax) proposal of Henry George took place more than one hundred years ago. It appears here thanks to the eagle eye of Mark Monson who spotted it in the annals of Project Gutenberg at http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext96/bti1010.txt. My only contrition to this chain has been to clean up the formatting and introduce paragraph

World Transport Policy & Practice, Volume 12, Number 4

2006-11-29T08:35:00.000+01:00

Editor’s note: As part of our strategy over at the Journal of World Transport Policy and Practice, we are placing this summary introduction to the latest number of the journal to the New Mobility Thinkpad here for your information and comment. To access the full volume all you have to do is click the above title. Let us know what you think of this, as well as any other ideas you might have

Eric Britton - private message to Roland Ries

2006-11-03T19:05:00.000+01:00

Eric Britton - private message to Roland Ries

Mass Bike Rides in Paris – Vive la difference

2006-08-09T08:34:00.000+02:00

The following article was written after talking with Paul Steely White of Transportation Alternatives in New York City. “Our mission is to reclaim New York City's streets from the automobile, and to advocate for bicycling, walking and public transit as the best transportation alternatives.” The backdrop to this is the open conflict between the organizers of the Critical Mass bike rides (who want

Ending our mediocrity - A planner's-eye view from Canada

2006-07-24T06:23:00.000+02:00

Note from the editor: From Canada here is a very thoughtful ‘planner’s eye view’ of what a good city is supposed to be all about. From our perspective here it is particular interesting, both for the quality of its ideas and for, it has to be said, the manner in which it all but totally skates over the ideas and issues that are at the heart of the New Mobility Agenda. Oops! In its four thousand

2006-07-16T17:20:00.000+02:00

Bike Rush Hour Amsterdam

2006-07-16T09:23:00.000+02:00

Imagine if your country has no traffic light......We have talked about this a bit and you have been kind enough to indicate that you could give me a hand with this. But before doing so, I need to make sure that it is not going to be too much of an imposition. Of course if you do something like this, it should be paid for. But at this point I simply cannot since I have quite literally run out of

2006-07-16T09:21:00.000+02:00

Bike Rush Hour AmsterdamTrial We have talked about this a bit and you have been kind enough to indicate that you could give me a hand with this. But before doing so, I need to make sure that it is not going to be too much of an imposition. Of course if you do something like this, it should be paid for. But at this point I simply cannot since I have quite literally run out of money in my attempts

A Six Thousand Km Non-CO2 Conference

2006-06-30T11:24:00.000+02:00

Videoconferencing debriefing notes of 30 June 2006 The following notes were written up to report informally on how we handled the distance participation at a two part conference in Easthampton Massachusetts on global warming and climate modification, the first half of which was an in-place presentation by John Maulbetsch which was sufficiently well informed, balanced and dramatic to make

Ticketless Public Transport - For the New Mobility Agenda

2006-06-29T13:51:00.000+02:00

Ticketless Public Transport For the New Mobility Agenda Prepared by Elliot Fishman Institute for Sensible Transport 15th June 2006 Preamble The way people pay for their transport has a powerful influence on their transport choice. The car has benefited from this situation more than other modes as it has greater ‘one off’ costs. The car owner’s perception is that once the cost

The New Mobility Advisory: Program Announcement

2006-06-13T10:12:00.000+02:00

FOR RELEASE Tuesday, June 6, 2006 (719 words) o More: Eric Britton: +331 4326 1323 media@ecoplan.org. + http://newmobilitybriefs.org o See p. 3 below for short release (228 words) and

2006-06-13T10:06:00.000+02:00

FOR RELEASE Tuesday, June 13, 2006 (719 words) o More: Eric Britton: +331 4326 1323 media@ecoplan.org. + http://newmobilitybriefs.org o See p. 3 below for short release (228 words) and

Transport in cities: Why are we in the US so desperately off target?

2006-06-12T09:32:00.000+02:00

Subject: Transport in cities: Why are we in the US so desperately off target? Doing so poorly in the States? (And everywhere else in the world where our examples and perspectives spill over) “Critical Issues in Transportation”, Transportation Research Board, Washington D.C., 2006. o Click here for report (PDF) - http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/general/CriticalIssues06.pdf

Fair Transport: Jacobs Rules

2006-05-03T13:59:00.000+02:00

Fair Transport A New Mobility Agenda for a Changing World A Tribute to Jane Jacobs, 1916-2006 Note to reader/friends: What follows here is intended to serve as a lasting tribute to honor the work and memory of our long time friend and colleague Mrs. Jane Jacobs from whom we

A New Mobility Citizen Poll for Your City???

2006-04-23T18:31:00.000+02:00

New Mobility Citizen Poll for Your City– A Proposal for Discussion When it comes to creating more viable and fairer transport systems, and behind that our real objective: more agreeable and more sustainable cities, we have one recurrent problem that we can perhaps deal with if we put our heads together. As is well known, whenever any given ‘soft transport’, “public space” or

Review Of World Bank Transport Strategy - Will Gatnet Have A Say?

2006-03-25T14:08:00.000+01:00

The following reproduces the opening section of a World Bank transport report in progress that Gatnet has been invited to comment. For further information on the comment process, you are referred to Jeff Turner’s email to the group which is reproduced in the Dgroups email signed Eric Britton of 2006-03-24. You can also make comments directly here by clicking the Comments link at the top of this

safe, clean and affordable….Transport for development

2006-03-24T18:37:00.000+01:00

The following reproduces the opening section of a World Bank transport report in progress that Gatnet has been invited to comment. For further information on the comment process, you are referred to the Dgroups entry http://www.dgroups.org/groups/worldbank/GATNET/index.cfm?op=dsp_showmsg&listname=GATNET&msgid=348708&cat_id=6893. You can also make comments directly here by clicking the

tet for gatnet

2006-03-13T09:06:00.000+01:00

Good idea. Here is how I propose this might work: 1. -----Original Message-----From: Margaret Grieco [mailto:mg294@cornell.edu]Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 9:33 PMTo: eric.britton@ecoplan.orgSubject: We could do with putting up the abstracts up in a common space Hi Eric, We could do with putting the abstracts up in a common space and organising them by theme and region. We are

Mobile phones in Africa - overview of usage from The Economist

2006-02-08T09:12:00.000+01:00

The use of mobile phones is booming in Africa, where subscriber-growth rates exceeded 100% in some countries last year, according to Informa, a research group. Markets in the extreme north and south of the continent are the most mature, and growth rates are healthy in much of sub-Saharan Africa. Trailing the field are Eritrea and Ethiopia, where state telecoms monopolies prevail.Source: http://

x-Transit Blog open for business

2006-01-14T13:01:00.000+01:00

14 Jan 2006 Game Plan:1. Dear Friends. The idea here is to see if we can usefully co-blog on our topic here. To get this going them here is a quick first cut opening draft.2. The next step is try out the idea of building this into an open cooperative blog with a selection of the colleagues who have shown interest in furthering the state of knowledge and practice of the xTransit approach to