Carfree Cities: Links: Web: Transit Planning

Links to Transit Planning

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Carfree Cities - the web site that goes with the book. Carfree Cities proposes a delightful solution to the vexing problem of urban automobiles.
World Carfree Network , the hub of the global carfree movement.
The Project for Public Spaces is a nonprofit technical assistance, research and educational organization with a mission to create and sustain public places that build communities.
ITDP Institute for Transportation & Development Policy
The Victoria Transport Policy Instiute is an independent research organization developing innovative strategies for efficient and equitable transportation. Dozens of reports are available on full cost accounting, transportation demand management, pavement reduction, transit, bicycling, walking, and traffic calming. Their Online TDM Encyclopedia offers a comprehensive resource for transportation demand management planning and analysis.
The Center for Urban Transportation Research at the Florida Center for Community Design and Research has a variety of useful links on transportation, land use, and sustainability issues.
International Making Cities Livable seeks to strengthen community by creating viable public places for social life in our cities will reduce anonymity, and increase grassroots democracy by returning to compact, mixed use cities based on walking, cycling, and public transport.
Detour Publications is a non-profit, on-line bookstore offering many titles on sustainable passenger and freight transport, urban planning, "smart growth," and climate change.
The Institute for Transportation & Development Policy promotes environmentally sustainable and equitable transportation policies and projects worldwide.
The SUSTRAN Network : Taking steps: a community action guide to people-centred, equitable and sustainable urban transport. Read the group's archives at eGroups.
Cyburbia: The Planning and Architecture Internet Resource Center contains a comprehensive directory of Internet resources relevant to planning, architecture, urbanism and other topics related to the built environment. Cyburbia also contains information about architecture and planning related mailing lists and Usenet newsgroups, and hosts several interactive message areas.
Transportation and Community and System Presevation Pilot Program at the US Department of Transportation.
The Coalition for Alternative Transportation works to improve mobility.
A to B Magazine is dedicated to demonstrating alternatives to the car - primarily electric bicycles, public transport-friendly folding bikes and bike carraige by rail, bus and air.
Traffic Reduction Street reclaiming made easy
Car-Free Development by Lloyd Wright, from GTZ
Jane Holtz Kay is the architecture and planning critic for The Nation and author of Asphalt Nation, Preserving New England and Lost Boston.
China's Carfree Town: Gulangyu in The New Colonist
The Form of Cities: an Introduction to Carfree Cities - an article by J.H. Crawford in The New Colonist
Active Living by Design on healtier ways of living
RUDI - Resource for Urban Design Information.
Myths of Light Rail - Dissected
Congress for the New Urbanism
The European Cyclists' Federation is the world's largest bicycle advocacy organisation with 33 sub-groups in 22 countries.
Village Forum focuses on how we design and build our habitat. The 20th Century car-based suburb not only failed to deliver on its promises, but has created huge social, cultural, economic and environmental problems.
DMUs and railbuses Slide presentation about Diesel Multiple Units (DMU's) or "Regional Rail Transit," basically trams or light rail vehicles without overhead power.
Light Rail , in cooperation with the Dutch magazine Blauwe Kamer, offers the Light Rail Atlas, a comprehensive source of information about tram systems around the world.
America's Autos On Welfare Summary of Subsidies
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions . Sustainable development is the achievement of continued economic and social development without detriment to the environment and natural resources. The quality of future human activity and development is increasingly seen as being dependent on maintaining this balance.
External Costs Damages arising from electricity and transport (PDF!)
"Urban Ecology, Innovations in Housing Policy and the Future of Cities: Towards Sustainability in Neighbourhood Communities." Jan Scheurer's PhD Thesis.
"Expansion Induces Traffic" , a page at the Sierra Club about induced traffic.
Highway and Sprawlbusters at the Sierra Club - a page about reining in cars and limiting sprawl.
Light Rail Transit Association provides a host of useful information about Light Rail Vehicles (LRV)/trams/streetcars/trolleys or whatever people are calling them this week.
"Coming Around Again" - an article about the resurgence of streetcars (trams)
Light Rail Now contains a useful collection of data for those marshalling arguments in favor of light rail and against bus systems.
The Electric Tbus Group supports the use of electric trolley buses in London.
Light Rail Atlas - Holland's Light Rail-pages for a world audience.
The International Lightrail Network provides information on light rail systems from a northern European perspective
The North American Light Rail Information Site provides information on the North American Light Rail industry and to assist in the growth, advancement, development, and expansion of the North American light rail industry and its employees
Surface Transportation Policy Project ("Transact") works to promote a "diversified transportation system." They also publish the Mean Streets report annually.
Railway Technology : The Website for the Railway Industry. Exhaustive and excellent source of data on railroading.
Driven to Spend - a report on the costs of sprawl
Living Streets covers all aspects of pedestrian welfare
POLIS is an association of European cities and regions working together on transport and environmental issues, in particular via innovative technologies, policies and funding systems.
Bicycle Transportation Alliance promotes bicycling for safer streets, cleaner air, and energy independence.
The Social Ideology of the Motorcar by André Gortz (1973!).
Earth Carfree Days Collaborative (19 April 2001).
Transportation and City Design Land use and housing politics in San Francisco. History and politics of rail transit in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
WBB Trust works for a better Bangladesh
America WALKs is a non-profit national coalition of local advocacy groups dedicated to promoting walkable communities. Our mission is to foster the development of community-based pedestrian advocacy groups and to educate the public about the benefits of walking.
"Methadone for Road Hogs" Richard Risemberg in the New Colonist on Zero Emission Vehilces... and why they don't help.
Platform Binnenstad Autovrij is working to make the center of Amsterdam a car-free paradise. Although the residents of the inner city have supported this move, the city government has done little to implement the necessary changes, despite its adoption of policies to significantly reduce automobile traffic. English-language summaries are available.
Planning Commissioners Journal is a resource for planning in the North American context. They also publish a useful journal.
PEZEE The movement for the protection of pedestrian rights in Athens
San Francisco Bicycle Coalition promotes the bike for everyday transportation.
Citizens for Better Transit (Edmonton)is dedicated to public education and advocacy about the social, environmental and economic benefits possible from investments in public transportation.
Citystreets: see what pedestrian advocates are doing in New York, at this innovative and original pedestrian-oriented transportation website.
Walkable Communities, Inc. is a non-profit corporation organized to help communities of whatever size to become more walkable and pedestrian friendly.
Richard Register on electric cars.
Transportation Alternatives is a member-supported New York City-area citizens' group working for better bicycling, walking and public transit, and fewer cars.
International Bike Fund promotes sustainable transport and international understanding
Sustainable Urban Transport Project aims to help cities meet this challenge and achieve their sustainable transport goals, through the dissemination of information about international experience and targeted work with particular cities.
Chainguard - bicycle advocacy on line.
Swede Track makes innovative proposals for automated overhead people movers.
he New Mobility Agenda from Ecoplan
Sprawl Kills is an indictment of US sprawl development.
Mike's Rail Photos and other rail information (mainly streetcars)
Parry People Movers is developing innovative wireless light-rail vehicles
Bogotá designs transportation for people, not cars and is becoming a world leader in improving quality of life at low cost.
Auto Free New York works to improve transit, cut car use, and remake streets for people.
TranStats The Intermodal Transportation Database
Comprehensive Evaluation of Rail Transit Benefits from VTPI
SUVs Should Be Driven Into a Truck Lane Big guys on the right, little guys on the left. It has a nice ring, doesn't it? (LA Times article)
Terrorism, Transit and Public Safety from VTPI
Car Free Guide to Atlanta from Hands On Atlanta
TramTrain: The 2nd Generation: New Criteria for the "Ideal TramTrain City"
Eddyburg is the site of Edoardo Salzano, former mayor of Venice. In Italian, with many links.
Auto-Free Ottawa is trying to tame the urban automobile in Ottawa, Ontario (the capital of Canada).
Hidden Subsidies for Urban Car Transportation: Public Funds for Private Transport ICLEI
Efficient Vehicles Versus Efficient Transportation VTPI
London Congestion Pricing: Implications for Other Cities VTPI
Cycling Trends and Policies in Canadian Cities VTPI
Reclaiming city streets for people: Chaos or quality of life? EU
Brasilias from the Parallel Universes presents other plans that were proposed for Brazil's capital.
Planetizen is a portal for California planners.
DENZELDRIVE Carsharing (Austria) General description of Carsharing Locations all over Austria Partners in public traffic and motorized traffic (e.g. car rental)
Michigan Land Use Institute published an article on government support for sprawl, which was by no means the inevitable consequence of rising personal incomes.
EcoIQ offers resources for planning the built environment, natural resource conservation and protection, and building sustainable communities.
Austin Analytics is a UK-based public transport specialist, focusing on policy analysis, including economic, financial, and statistical analysis.
Chris Bradshaw has published some very interesting material on the scale of cities, the role of low-impact transport, and the social effects of urban planning.
Moving the Economy promotes sustainable transport and inventories 150 case studies in which sustainable transport yielded measured economic benefits.
Velo Mondial is a global bike site that includes the Amsterdam Declaration on the rights of cyclists.
Travel on ELTIS (the European Local Transport Information Service).
Bike Friday illustrates some of the flexibility that bikes offer, especially with folding bikes.
Masshouse Changes - Travelling into the City Centre From 10 March 2002
Central London Partnership is a public and private sector partnership which takes action to make central London a better place to live, work, invest, and visit.
The Thunderhead Alliance is a coalition of state and local bicycle advocacy groups.
Narrow Rail a site about the narrow gauge railways of the world
Car-Free France (portal site)
Auto-Free Orange County is an Orange County, California volunteer organization helping people develop less car-dependent lifestyles and more pedestrian-friendly communities.
COST Transport and the COST 339 initiative for small Euro-container standard.
The Encyclopedia of Sustainable Development has been written by the Atmosphere, Climate & Environment Information Progam.
The Urban Environmental Management Research Initiative (UEMRI) website is published by a group of urban planning researchers from around the world. It looks at urban areas as the intersection of natural, built, and socio-economic environments, and relates this to the global environment.
The Greenway is working to provide a safe, clean, aesthetic, and enjoyable place for people of all ages to ride a bicycle all year round.
Self-Propelled City is working on a self-propelled future for urban environments.
Village Technology has proposed the SMARTram, an interesting approach to providing local transit in downtown areas.
Slow Is Beautiful: Speed Limits as Decisions on Urban Form
The Tri-State Transportation Campaign is an alliance of public interest, transit advocacy, planning and environmental organizations working to reform transportation policies in the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut metropolitan region.
Kevin Karplus maintains a large list of useful transportation, bicycle, and urban planning links.
World Carshare Consortium was set up under The Commons in early 1998 as a free, cooperative international information sharing and communications program in support of carsharing projects worldwide.
I Hate Driving is a California web site
The Association of Monterey Bay Area Governments is a forum for planning, discussion and study of regional problems of mutual interest and concern to the counties and cities in Monterey, San Benito, and Santa Cruz Counties.
BikeAthens (Georgia) is dedicated to promoting sustainable transportation solutions for the Classic City.
EEVL is the UK Gateway to quality reviewed engineering resources on the Internet.
Green and smart is the idea that public transport and walking are viable and sustainable modes of transport, and the lack of information is a significant impediment.
TrafficLinq traffic and transportation start page.
Martin van den Berg is also interested in the design of cities.
Cities of the Future takes a glimpse at cities 100 years into the future.
Free Public Transit: Everyone benefits - everyone pays
World Bank Group Urban Transport Strategy Review. "Urban sprawl is likely to increase to the detriment of public transport, reducing accessibility and services for the poor. The World Bank's Urban Transport Strategy Review will prepare for this challenge."
KNV is the employers' organization in the Netherlands for the transport of goods and passengers by road.
Lords of the Logistic: How the Other Half Drives
Erasmuspc.com is an international network focused on the influence of culture on the physical environment
2 get there mobility solutions
GTZ transport site
Yuba Pride affordable mobility
City of Oakland (CA) pedestrian master plan
Velomobile information
Rickshaw & Pedicab Forum is a place for discussion of this mode.
Bicyclepedia
People Power bicycle advocacy for santa cruz county
Bikes Not Bombs Every business day until the car war has been stopped
Levego is Hungary's Clean Air Action Group
Transportation for a Livable City works to create more livable neighborhoods, where walking, bicycling, and transit are the best choices for most trips, and where housing is more plentiful and more affordable.
Ecological Transport (Russia)
Bicycle Transportation Systems proposes indoor, wind-assisted cycling.
Human Hub is Europe's portal for sustainable mobility and smart growth.
Active Living Leadership supports government leaders as they create and promote policies, programs and places that enable active living to improve the health, well-being and vitality of communities.
Afriwheels is trying to bring bikes to Africa
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