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Revision as of 17:41, 23 March 2017

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Sustainable transport refers to the broad subject of transport that is or approaches being sustainable. Within the sca wiki here, cycling and Road safety have their own separate articles. In comparison to the earlier version of the sca wiki this article collates information covering the topics: Sustainable travel, reduced dependence on cars, reduced dependence on flying, walking, water transport and school travel

What communities can do

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  • Advocate Pedestrianised Town squares and other pedestrianised areas
  • Canal and waterways conservation and recovery, campaigns to save boatyards
  • Encourage e-work, teleworking and teleconferences via local teleconferencing facilities and clubs
  • Encourage car sharing, car sharing plus social networking, car share clubs, liftsharing
  • local car free days
  • Maps and apps to encourage walking, cycling, public and river transport
  • Oppose unsustainable aviation expansion
  • Parish walks, 'beating the bounds', Torchlit procession to mark arrival of Spring
  • Promote cycling - see separate article, walking and sustainable tourism
  • Promote public transport, eco cabs, minibus schemes and river transport
  • Public transport days or weeks
  • Quiet lanes
  • Safer routes to schools, School travel pans and walking buses
  • Sustainability walks
  • Walkers are welcome intiatives
  • Walking for health initiatives

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Why it matters

Sustainable transport systems make a positive contribution to the environmental, social and economic sustainability of the communities they serve.

Communities which are successfully improving the sustainability of their transport networks are doing so as part of a wider programme of creating more vibrant, livable, sustainable cities. W

Sustainable transport is fundamentally a grassroots movement, albeit one which is now recognised as of citywide, national and international significance.

Whereas it started as a movement driven by environmental concerns, over these last years there has been increased emphasis on social equity and fairness issues, and in particular the need to ensure proper access and services for lower income groups and people with mobility limitations, including the fast-growing population of older citizens. Many of the people exposed to the most vehicle noise, pollution and safety risk have been those who do not own, or cannot drive cars, and those for whom the cost of car ownership causes a severe financial burden. W

Reduced dependence on cars and technology

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eg see: What the Rise of Technology Has to Do With the Decline of Driving, CityLab, Oct 01, 2013

Alternatives to the automobile

Current technological developments suggest that the present car system will be replaced. Established alternatives to the automobile include public transit (buses, trolleybuses, trains, subways, monorails, tramways), cycling, walking, rollerblading and skateboarding. W

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Carfree city

A carfree city or car free city is a population center that relies primarily on public transport, walking, or cycling for transport within the urban area. Carfree cities greatly reduce petroleum dependency, air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, automobile crashes, noise pollution, and traffic congestion. Some cities have one or more districts where motorized vehicles are prohibited, referred to as car-free zones. Many older cities in Europe, Asia, and Africa were founded centuries before the advent of the automobile, and some continue to have carfree areas in the oldest parts of the city -- especially in areas where it is impossible for cars to fit, e.g. in narrow alleys. W

Car-free movement

The car-free movement is a broad, informal, emergent network of individuals and organizations including social activists, urban planners and others brought together by a shared belief that large and/or high-speed motorized vehicles (cars, trucks, tractor units, motorcycles, ...) are too dominant in most modern cities. The goal of the movement is to create places where motorized vehicle use is greatly reduced or eliminated, to convert road and parking space to other public uses and to rebuild compact urban environments where most destinations are within easy reach by walking, cycling or public transport. W

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Carpool

Carpooling (also car-sharing, ride-sharing, lift-sharing and covoiturage), is the sharing of car journeys so that more than one person travels in a car.

By having more people using one vehicle, carpooling reduces each person's travel costs such as fuel costs, tolls, and the stress of driving. Carpooling is seen as a more environmentally friendly and sustainable way to travel as sharing journeys reduces carbon emissions, traffic congestion on the roads, and the need for parking spaces. Authorities often encourage carpooling, especially during high pollution periods and high fuel prices. W

Carsharing

Carsharing or car sharing (US) or car clubs (UK) is a model of car rental where people rent cars for short periods of time, often by the hour. They are attractive to customers who make only occasional use of a vehicle, as well as others who would like occasional access to a vehicle of a different type than they use day-to-day. The organization renting the cars may be a commercial business or the users may be organized as a company, public agency, cooperative, or ad hoc grouping.

Carsharing contributes to sustainable transport because it is a less car intensive means of urban transport, and according to The Economist, carsharing can reduce car ownership at an estimated rate of one rental car replacing 15 owned vehicles. W

Flexible carpooling

Flexible carpooling is carpooling that is not arranged ahead of time, but instead makes use of designated meeting places. It seeks to replicate the informal 'slug-lines' that form in Washington DC, Houston, and San Francisco, by establishing more formal locations for travelers to form carpools without advance contact. W

Peer-to-peer carsharing

Peer-to-peer carsharing (also known as person-to-person carsharing and peer-to-peer car rental) is the process whereby existing car owners make their vehicles available for others to rent for short periods of time.

Peer-to-peer carsharing is a form of person-to-person lending or collaborative consumption, as part of the sharing economy.

As with person-to-person lending, enabling technology for this behavior has been the Internet and the adoption of geo-location-based service. W

Share taxi

A share taxi is a mode of transport which falls between both taxicabs and buses. These vehicles for hire are typically smaller than buses and usually take passengers on a fixed or semi-fixed route without timetables, but instead departing when all seats are filled. They may stop anywhere to pick up or drop off passengers. Often found in developing countries, the vehicles used as share taxis range from four-seat cars to minibuses. They are often owner-operated. W

Shared transport

Shared transport is a term for describing a demand-driven vehicle-sharing arrangement, in which travelers share a vehicle either simultaneously (e.g. ride-sharing) or over time (e.g. carsharing or bike sharing), and in the process share the cost of the journey, thereby creating a hybrid between private vehicle use and mass or public transport.

Shared transport systems include carsharing (also called car clubs in the UK), bicycle sharing (also known as PBS or Public Bicycle Systems), carpools and vanpools (aka ride-sharing or lift-sharing), real-time ridesharing, slugging, casual carpooling, community buses and vans, demand responsive transit (DRT), paratransit, a range of taxi projects and even hitchhiking and its numerous variants.

Shared transport is taking on increasing importance as a key strategy for reducing greenhouse gas and other emissions from the transport sector in the face of the global climate emergency by finding ways of getting more intensive use of vehicles on the road. W

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Slugging

Slugging, also known as casual carpooling, is the practice of forming ad hoc, informal carpools for purposes of commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking. Typically slugging is motivated by an incentive such as a faster HOV lane or a toll reduction. While the practice is most common and most publicized in the congested Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, slugging also occurs in San Francisco, Houston, and other cities. W

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Resources

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Transit App

Citizens data initiative

As of December 2012, there were an estimated 1.7 million car-sharing members in 27 countries, including so-called peer-to-peer services, according to the Transportation Sustainability Research Center at U.C. Berkeley. W

Maps

Open Charge Map, global public registry of electric vehicle charging locations

Quotes

“A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation.”

— Enrique Peñalosa, Ex-Mayor of Bogotá

Video

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more video:

BRT Mexico City - English on youtube

Contested Streets: Breaking NYC Gridlock on youtube

News and comment

2017

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Sustainable transport UK: Scant evidence that road schemes produce economic benefits, but they increase traffic dramatically and damage the countryside, Mar 20 [1]

The train now standing at Platform 3 is … a Co-op? Mar 16 [2]

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Ireland: Over 2,000 back petition for Galway Greenway, Mar 15 [3]

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Barcelona Plans Europe's Largest Car Ban Yet, Mar 7 [4]

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Singapore May Have Designed the World's Best Bus Stop, Mar 1 [5]

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China news: China's capital is replacing tens of thousands of taxis with electric cars to fight pollution, Feb 27 [6]

Ethical and user-friendly transportation options, Feb 24 [7]

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France offers €200 subsidy on electric bike purchases, Feb 23 [8]

From Oslo to Paris, these major cities have plans to go car-free, Feb 10 [9]

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Oslo Offers Citizens $1,200 to Buy an E-Bike, Jan 31 [10]

2016

So are trams really better than buses? Dec 1 [11]

50 reasons why everyone should want more walkable streets, Aug 24 [12]

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New Ridesharing Alternatives Thrive After Uber Leaves Austin, Jul 6 [13]

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Sustainable transport UK: The People’s Railway: A Cooperative Opportunity? Jun 28 [14]

2015

Towards Decentralized Autonomous Transportation Networks? December 26 [15]

The transformative potential of self-driving electric cars, September 25 [16]

Intelligent Mobility and the Long Walk to Freedom from Cars, August 12 [17]

2014

TheCityFix’s Year in Review: Momentum builds for the open streets movement, December 24 [18]

Caloryville: The Two-Wheeled City, February 14 [19] In China, ‘battery-bikes’ are outselling cars by four-to-one. Pedelec sales are soaring in Europe, too. Is this the start of system-wide phase-shift in transportation?

News sources

TheCityFix, online resource for learning about the latest in sustainable urban mobility and planning.

Events

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September 22 - World Carfree Day
Annual, decentralized event. W / worldcarfree.net

See also

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Interwiki links

Wikipedia: Sustainable transport, Congestion pricing, Electric vehicle, Environmental impact of aviation, Hitchhiking, Peak car, Road space rationing

Greenlivingpedia: Green cars

Hitchwiki: portal, leading to different language wiki. "Hitchwiki is a collaborative website for gathering information about hitchhiking and other ways of extremely cheap ways of transport. It is maintained by many active hitchhikers all around the world. We have information about how to hitch out of big cities, how to cover long distances, maps and many more tips."

External links

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