tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-109392812024-03-17T08:16:42.314+01:00World Streets: The Politics of Transport in Cities<b>Insights and contributions from leading thinkers & practitioners around the world</b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1201125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939281.post-17192941320805580752014-03-31T12:31:00.000+02:002014-05-02T19:44:52.713+02:00State of World Streets: 2009-2014Today marks the fifth anniversary edition of World Streets. Our first number appeared on 31 March 2009 with an opening message by the editor -- click here -- announcing the targets, intent and proposed method of this new collaborative media venture. On the same day we published our Mission Statement -- Say Goodbye to Old Mobility -- which you can read here. Today we would like to spend a few Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939281.post-42977871916871469942014-03-31T06:45:00.000+02:002014-05-02T19:44:52.675+02:00Short report on carsharing in Amsterdam (From Going Dutch/Carshare
Strategies project)This is short report was submitted by the participants of the city of Amsterdam in the 20 February 2014 workshop in the Utrecht for the project Going Dutch: Carshare Strategies for Cities being carried out by the KpVV (think tank of the Dutch ministry of transport) in cooperation with EcoPlan. The latest draft report on that meeting and the recommendations of those present from a cross-section Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939281.post-63710410639457552192014-03-27T15:17:00.000+01:002014-05-02T19:44:52.649+02:002014: The Battle of IdeasChallenging year ahead. Here are the main program areas to which we intend to give attention over the course of the year ahead. All of these are complex system challenges and require patient attention and mental flexibility if we are to find the best way to proceed in each case. And in each case it is not enough to be right in terms of the basic principles -- it is every bit as important to be Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939281.post-30219844069651714382014-03-26T17:08:00.000+01:002014-05-02T19:44:52.611+02:00Signals, Perceptions, Behaviour: Questions, Blurs & CluesIn transportation circles, most often in Europe and North America but not uniquely there, we often hear the term "behavior modification", which is usually brandished as something that somebody else has to learn to do and cope with. More often than not this matter of behavior modification crops up when it comes to considering how, when and where people drive cars. But we can also hear about it Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939281.post-71491236342285832612014-03-21T12:02:00.000+01:002014-05-02T19:44:52.518+02:00Rural carshare project - A thinking exercise & Invitation for commentWe keep reading and are repeatedly informed that for carsharing to work there must be good public transport, cycling and other mobility arrangements as indispensable complements. In other words, for carsharing to work you have to be not only in a city, but in a certain kind of city. This position has been an article of faith for many carshare observers for more than a decade, and while there is aUnknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939281.post-38960249768718813242014-03-20T07:43:00.000+01:002014-05-02T19:44:51.963+02:00Editorial: No FPT without SCR (Systematic Car Reductions)This is a simple fact! Free Public Transport (FPT) has no possible justification whatsoever unless your governing officials are willing to do something about adjusting the other half of the modal mix to bring down car ownership and use in the city strategically and as quickly as possible . . . SCR - Systematic Car Reductions.The tools for achieving these necessary adjustments in the modal split Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939281.post-68957797481849424302014-03-19T10:25:00.000+01:002014-05-02T19:44:52.440+02:00Broadening the market for carshare?Results of pilot project in the NetherlandsThis paper describes a pilot project consisting of a substantial increase in the number of carshare vehicles in a neighborhood in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The goal was to explore, first, the impact on the demand for carshare services and, second, the impact on the socio-economic composition of the new carshare members. The results show a substantial Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939281.post-90846130588051671092014-03-19T09:37:00.000+01:002014-05-02T19:44:52.462+02:00Letter from Stockholm: Public Transport is a Common GoodWorld Streets welcomes discussion of fare free public transport because we believe that it is important to listen to alternative views from different organizations and countries in order to arrive at wise public policy. This contribution comes from one of the most active international groups pushing zero fair public transport, Planka.nu in Sweden.Public Transport is a Common Good- Christian Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939281.post-12812320395040873852014-03-18T09:50:00.000+01:002014-05-02T19:44:52.500+02:00Bike sharing project at Makerere University Kampala, UgandaWorld Streets and the New Mobility Agenda are strong and consistent supporters of bike sharing projects created in university settings, particularly when planned and implemented on the basis of collaboration with students and faculty. We have reported on the excellent bike sharing project at Taiwan National University, and today we are pleased to share with you information just in from the Bike Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939281.post-12911483801394249132014-03-15T12:20:00.000+01:002014-05-02T19:44:52.125+02:00Inside world: 2014 Haiku Sustainability SlamSustainability is not a four letter word(but maybe it should be)The second annual Haiku Sustainability Slam is being organized by World Streets and its friends as an ecumenical pagan celebration to the coming Rite of Spring, in part inspired by the exhilarating French annual speak-out program The Springtime of Poets (Le printemps des poètes) opens this year on the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939281.post-16221872973701462192014-03-14T20:46:00.000+01:002014-05-02T19:44:52.368+02:00Will the real cost of car ownership kindly stand upCarsharing changes our relationship with the cars we owned and loved and hated over much of the century just behind us. And one of the points we hear from proponents again and again is that carsharing offers substantial savings, because the cost of owning a car has become much higher than in the past. Surely the cost of car ownership in the 21st century -- and all that goes with it Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939281.post-25493003805708855572014-03-13T11:09:00.000+01:002014-05-02T19:44:52.402+02:00Carsharing in Germany: 2014 PerspectivesGermany is among the world leaders when it comes to the development of carsharing, as the following figures and graphics clearly illustrate. One of the primary reasons for this success has been the existence of strong networks and relationships between the cities and carshare operators over the last decade and more. And in this process the Bundesverband CarSharing e.V. (bcs) -- the industry Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939281.post-12818765120096970712014-03-10T12:07:00.000+01:002014-05-02T19:44:52.314+02:00This Week on World Streets: Weekly Digest, 10 March 2014World Streets: The Politics of Transport in CitiesEach week subscribers to World Streets - presently numbering 5,407 from 149 countries on all continents - received a single mailing in the form of a weekly digest which briefly resumes all of the activity of the preceding week. Below you will find a listing of the articles published over the period 3-10 March 2014, during which we were hard at Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939281.post-6393018594015067652014-03-09T15:14:00.000+01:002014-05-02T19:44:52.331+02:00Van autobezit naar autogebruik (Going Dutch, in Dutch)If you are interested in carsharing, if you understand that public policy has an important role to play . . . and if you read Dutch, then Van autobezit naar autogebruik (“From car ownership to car use”) on LinkedIn at http://goo.gl/VEPRMG is for you.The project is being carried out under the leadership of the KpVV: (Kennisplatform Verkeer en Vervoer –Knowledge Platform for Mobility and Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939281.post-35402312733034926872014-03-09T12:02:00.000+01:002014-05-02T19:44:52.277+02:00XCars and Carsharing on World Streets: 2009 - 2014xCARS: NEW WAYS OF OWNING AND USING CARS IN 21ST CENTURY.The 2014 work program focuses on carsharing, but not limited to this one new form of car use. Coverage of different main forms: Traditional, One-way, P2P and private. Carsharing by its various names and different forms is one of the fastest-growing new ways of getting around in cities and outlying areas for day-to-day travel. Over the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939281.post-28338544987672216172014-03-08T14:18:00.000+01:002014-05-02T19:44:52.244+02:00World Carshare 2014: Policy/Strategies Program for Local GovernmentCarsharing has a brilliant, in many ways surprising and certainly very different future -- a future which is already well in process. Carsharing is one of the fastest growing new mobility modes, with until now almost all services occurring in the high income countries. But it is by and large new, unfamiliar and does not fit well with the more traditional planning and policy structures at the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939281.post-77919377481608205622014-03-08T10:15:00.000+01:002021-03-19T10:02:34.374+01:00To fix Sustainable Transport: Ensure Full Gender Parity in all Decision
and Investment Fora (QED)Today is International Women's Day. And not only that, 2011 marked the one hundredth anniversary of this great and necessary idea. So what better occasion for World Streets to announce publicly, loudly and yet once again our firm belief that the most important single thing that our society, our nations and our cities could do to increase the fairness and the effectiveness of our transportation Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939281.post-59879219025911251032014-03-07T14:45:00.000+01:002014-05-02T19:44:52.206+02:00Dutch Carshare Operators in 2014More than three quarters of the municipalities in the Netherlands are currently served by carshare operators (as opposed to 11% in 2002). The following listing has been compiled with the help of several friends and colleagues in the Netherlands, helping us to identify all of the carshare operators currently offering "traditional", P2P or one-way services. This listing is part of the in-process "Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939281.post-40889003643189655762014-03-05T14:43:00.000+01:002014-05-02T19:44:52.178+02:00Free-for-all: Organizations around the world suppprting free public
transportThe following listing of organizations around the world that are "fighting for free public transport" has been compiled by the Swedish activist group Free Public Transport, whose aim is to provide a global forum for the free public transport movement. Their website among other things provides information about local organizations around the world fighting for free public transport, as well as Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939281.post-50621473216192513792014-03-03T17:28:00.000+01:002014-05-02T19:44:52.141+02:00Does carsharing promote balanced, sustainable economic growth?Before digging into the details, the important mechanics of carsharing[1], it is important for policy makers to ask these deeper questions if we are ever to be able to shift gears into sustainable transport, sustainable cities and sustainable lives.This is an extremely important foundation question to which the short answer is: yes definitely. But let us dig deeper.The answer becomes even more Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939281.post-52513606434713665942014-02-19T18:16:00.000+01:002014-05-02T19:28:32.497+02:00World Carshare/Going Dutch: Open Library for collaboratorsAn informal shared library has been set up in support of this group project for the KpVV to serve collaborators and contributors – in the form of a Dropbox file which you can find at https://www.dropbox.com/home/Going%20DutchThe Going Dutch library is available on invitation, and if you have not received one yet please just drop us a line at wcs@ecoplan.org. In the event we have not already been Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939281.post-83089494850277324162014-02-17T20:10:00.000+01:002014-05-02T19:28:32.459+02:00World's Best Carsharing International BibliographySome may argue this, be that as it may, but if you ask World Streets for our advice for a great place to go to start your research into and understanding of carsharing from its semiformal origins in the years immediately after the second world war up to today, we would say go right to the international bibliography which has been organized by our Canadian friends and outstanding carshare Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939281.post-15485433223380691732014-02-17T17:59:00.000+01:002014-05-02T19:28:32.441+02:00Inside world: just sharing futuresharing loved carsjargon comodalityjust sharing futureThis by Friso Metz from the Netherlands.The second annual Haiku Sustainability Slam is being organized by World Streets and its friends as an ecumenical pagan celebration to the coming Rite of Spring, in part inspired by the exhilarating French annual speak-out program The Springtime of Poets (Le printemps des poètes) which opens this year on Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939281.post-68959961226027003132014-02-15T10:58:00.000+01:002014-05-02T19:28:32.404+02:00Inside world: yet warm breeze in heartholland winter stormscold sea endless threateningyet warm breeze in heart The second annual Haiku Sustainability Slam is being organized by World Streets and its friends as an ecumenical pagan celebration to the coming Rite of Spring, in part inspired by the exhilarating French annual speak-out program The Springtime of Poets (Le printemps des poètes) which opens this year on the 23rd of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939281.post-78873533251840093402014-02-10T20:49:00.000+01:002014-05-02T19:28:32.388+02:00Transforming transport in Penang – and the earlier the betterTransport in Penang (and all around the world for that matter) relies on non-renewable sources of energy. Think 20 cars with one person in each vehicle, versus one bus with 20 passengers. The former creates traffic jams and worsens pollution to detract from the overall liveability of a city. It is often argued that supplying more roads only creates more demand for their usage. With 10,000 more Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0