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Transit-Oriented Development John L World Transport Policy & Practice ISSN 1352-7614 Volume 10, Number 2, 2004 We are grateful to Terry Rand for permission to publish this photograph. © Copyright Terry Rand 2004. For permission to reproduce this image, please contact Pascal Desmond by e-mail World Transport Policy & Practice ISSN 1352-7614 Volume 10, Number 2, 2004 Contents 3 Abstracts & Keywords 4 Editorial 5 Time, Sustainable Transport and the Politics of Speed Peter Harris, Jamie Lewis and Barbara Adam 12 Emerging European-style planning in the USA: Transit-oriented development John L. Renne and Jan S. Wells 25 New localism and transport: a local perspective Stephen Joseph 33 Co-operative paratransit transport schemes appropriate for a developing economy F.O. Ogunwolu & J.O. Akanmu 41 Report Announcement 42 Notes for contributors ————————————————————————————————————————————————— © 2004 Eco-Logica Ltd Editor Professor John Whitelegg Stockholm Environmental Institute at York, Department of Biology, University of York, P.O. Box 373, YORK, YO10 5YW, U.K. Editorial board Eric Britton Managing Director, EcoPlan International, The Centre for Technology & Systems Studies, 8/10 rue Joseph Bara, F-75006 Paris, FRANCE. John Howe Independent Transport Consultant, Oxford, U.K. Mikel Murga Leber Planificacion e Ingenieria, S.A., Apartado 79, 48930-Las Arenas, Bizkaia, SPAIN. Paul Tranter School of Physical Environmental and Mathematical Sciences, University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra ACT 2600, AUSTRALIA Publisher Eco-Logica Ltd., 53, Derwent Road, LANCASTER, LA1 3ES, U.K. Telephone +44 1524 63175 E-mail: Editorial: <[email protected]> Business Manager: <[email protected]> ————————————————————————————————————————————————— Mission Statement World Transport Policy & Practice is a quarterly journal which provides a high quality medium for original and creative work in world transport. WTPP has a philosophy based on the equal importance of academic rigour and a strong commitment to ideas, policies and practical initiatives that will bring about a reduction in global dependency on cars, lorries and aircraft. WTPP has a commitment to sustainable transport which embraces the urgent need to cut global emissions of carbon dioxide, to reduce the amount of new infrastructure of all kinds and to highlight the importance of future generations, the poor, those who live in degraded environments and those deprived of human rights by planning systems that put a higher importance on economic objectives than on the environment and social justice. WTPP embraces a different approach to science and through science to publishing. This view is based on an honest evaluation of the track record of transport planning, engineering and economics. All too often, these interrelated disciplines have embraced quantitative, elitist or mechanistic views of society, space and infrastructure and have eliminated people from the analysis. To help it to reach a wide readership, encompassing advocates and activists as well as academics and advisers, WTPP is available free of charge as PDF files on the internet at http://www.eco-logica.co.uk/WTPPhome.html Abstracts & Keywords 3 —————————————————————————————————————————————————— Time, Sustainable Transport and the Politics of Speed New localism and transport: a local perspective Peter Harris, Jamie Lewis and Barbara Adam Stephen Joseph This paper reports on recently conducted research under Despite knowing the solutions, many aspects of the EU’s 5th Framework Programme. It discusses how transport in Britain are chaotic. An area where there temporality enters the transport system and the are problems is regional and local government. There impact this can have on social groups. The paper is are many and varied levels of administration which divided into two sections. The first undertakes a need radical overhauling and streamlining. review of the current transport sector from a temporal Additionally, these need financial muscle and real perspective, which involves looking at basic powers to get the job done. These are working in other characteristics of transport and seeing how they European countries, including Wales and Scotland, and contain certain taken-for-granted temporal there is nothing to suggest that they would not work in assumptions that are central to how and why people England. respond to their mobility requirements. Using a Keywords temporal framework of reference we examine four Local transport, public policy, transport areas where the transport system is causing problems; Co-operative paratransit transport schemes congestion and sustainability, equity and safety. The appropriate for a developing economy second section outlines temporal proposals and F.O. Ogunwolu & J.O. Akanmu measures, some of which are already in existence in selective policies across Europe. Devices that are This paper presents innovative paratransit schemes beginning to address these problems include the that will be found appropriate and useful in institutional and temporal structures of time-offices developing economies against the backdrop of and time-banks. underdevelopment, economic downturn and the need to Keywords combat congestion at public transit stations such as bus Equity, foresight. safety, sustainability, time, time- stops and bus terminals. Two such paratransit schemes, economy, transport. Co-operative School Bus Ride Scheme and Co- operative Company Bus Ride Scheme, as well as other Emerging European-style planning in the USA: modifications of such schemes, are presented. The Transit-oriented development individual schemes are proposed considering the John L. Renne and Jan S. Wells modes of operation, ownership, control, benefits and The New Jersey Transit Village Initiative possible drawbacks. The schemes are individually demonstrates a new role for state planning in the USA, argued to be virtually stress-free, and they provide one that is more European-like in nature. In an attempt answers to congestion and attendant problems to promote mixed-use, pedestrian-oriented, dense experienced by the categories of commuters they are to developments around transit stations in New Jersey – cater for at bus stops and terminals. The schemes are transit-oriented developments – the planning process designed to address the peak period surge in demand has proven to be innovative and not typically from school children and company and government American. This paper presents an overview of the employees which usually over-stretches terminal and Initiative and a summary of its evaluation. We bus-stop facilities for the available (but equally over- conclude that the Transit Village Initiative in New subscribed) mass transit buses and cabs. Possible Jersey is a good model of smart growth, which stems compositions, duties and regulation of management and from active planning and intergovernmental co- control bodies for the schemes are discussed as well as operation on land use and transportation issues. the modes of operation of the individual co-operative Keywords paratransits. Land use, New Jersey, planning, smart growth, Transit- Keywords oriented development, Transit Village Initiative Commuter ridership, co-operative ownership, co- operative ridership, fleet capacity, mass transit, paratransit. Editorial 4 —————————————————————————————————————————————————— One of the remarkable things about transport is the The UK context is mildly interesting because a lot of very easy co-existence of remarkably good research the high quality research in transport is UK-based and analysis with remarkable bad policy. Transport and no one has yet offered an explanation of why we exists in two parallel universes with no interaction or have such excellent research and such dreadful policy leakage between them. We have seen some in the same place at the same time. Potential authors remarkably good analysis over the years including are encouraged to let us have a paper on this. articles in this journal that show exactly what More worrying than the UK situation is the export happens when road capacity increases. Unsurprisingly of this failed and discredited model around the world it reproduces a further increase in traffic, an by government and UK-based consultancies. A recent intensification of car dependence, longer distance press release from a UK consultancy proudly announced movement of goods – especially food products – and no that it is to review the feasibility of introducing alleviation of congestion. It is perhaps worth pointing private finance to accelerate highway developments out that when we are supposedly heading towards a in the Slovak Republic. Our interest here is in the 60% reduction in greenhouse gases in order to protect word ‘accelerate’. There is no reason on earth why ourselves from the worst effects of climate change, this anyone should want to accelerate highway increase in road capacity generates even more development. Most would agree that encouraging the greenhouse gases. Nothing remarkable there. sustainable modes of transport should have a high Transport researchers around the world have priority. Walking, cycling and public transport help to repeatedly pointed out the nature of these robust widen the accessibility of most destinations and relationships. It is, of course, a complete waste of time activities. These modes also reduce greenhouse gases. to add to the sum of transport research and transport Building huge motorways in the Slovak Republic or science in this way. Very few politicians around the the
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