Archive for sustainable mobility

NZ Emissions Reduction Plan for transport is inconsistent with the IPCC recommendations

NZ Emissions Reduction Plan for transport is inconsistent with the IPCC recommendations

New Zealand’s first ever emissions reduction plan is open for consultation until 24th November . The full ERP Discussion Document is here.  I checked the transport section, looking at how it stacks up against IPCC recommendations. And there’s a pretty major gap. A short overview below,…

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IAG conference in Hobart  – decolonialisation, place, place and intersectionality

IAG conference in Hobart – decolonialisation, place, place and intersectionality

This year’s conference of the Institute of Australian Geographers (IAG) ended a few days ago, and has been great escape for me, in many ways – the ethics, the location, the intellectual challenge, the people and the fantastic organisation. I would first like to thank the IAG for…

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Learning from Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco

I recently came back from a study trip in Vancouver, Seattle, Portland and San Francisco. I visited these cities because they are all dealing with challenges that are top on the list in New Zealand as in many other places – accommodating growth through intensification,…

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Transit interfaces: where is the pleasure?

Transit interfaces: where is the pleasure?

Crossrail will be an important game-changer for London’s transit flows and a key asset for many decades to come, establishing direct connections for number of important links and providing services through 10 urban stations. Images of these stations have been published and give the feeling…

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Would you like your free comfort / safety / public space extra?

Would you like your free comfort / safety / public space extra?

On Sunday I had a nice walk through Hackney, enjoying the sun and some really nice and pleasant urban surroundings. But I had in mind the collisions and fatalities I had read about (4.092 collisions in the five years to December 2012 resulting in 623…

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Reopening of the Buenos Aires – Cordoba railway line

It is again possible to travel by train between the two cities. With class, and some enthousiasm too: the trip takes 21 hours, against 9 to 11 by bus (and approximately 7 by car). With class, as the brand new trains offer sleeping compatrments and…

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Buenos Aires’s traffic addiction: some possible explanations

I have been living in Buenos Aires for 4 months now, and trying to figure out how the city worked, from the transportation point of view (among others!). I won’t pretend that I achieved that, of course, but observing and reading local researchers’ papers brought…

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60 years of car-influenced street design, in the Midwest

Oklahoma University’s Institute for Quality Comunities has carried out a striking before / after analysis of the street design evolution for some cities of the Amerian Midwest, and showed the tremendous impact of the car on the planning. In the interactive examples, the change in…

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Plan directeur de Sao Paulo

Plan directeur de Sao Paulo

Sao Paulo partait de loin, en termes d’aménagement du territoire. Ghettoïsation extrême dans les favelas, où vivent 1.3 millions de personnes et risques: plus de 800 incendies entre 2005 et 2012, peu d’intervention des systèmes de secours, des dommages gigantesques. Le sujet devient un thème…

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