Thanks for sharing this info' Christian.
Of course, commuting travel trips would be much shorter if we made
better use of empty/underused sites in our towns and cities.
A good method to bring underused sites into optimum use would be to
introduce an annual levy on all sites (developed and undeveloped) thus
giving landowners a clear incentive to make best use of their land. This
would reduce land prices, allow people greater choice where to live and
work, reduce the need for urban sprawl and provide increased patronage
for urban public transport.
Other benefits include the greater economic efficiency, reduction of
taxes like vat and income tax which damage the economy and ensure that
landowners return some of the unearned wealth created by improved
transport back into transport improvements - a virtuous cycle.
Happy to provide anyone with an article on this aspect of urban sprawl
or see www.LabourLand.org
Dave
Dave Wetzel; Vice-Chair; Transport for London.
Windsor House. 42-50 Victoria Street. London. SW1H 0TL. UK
Tel: 020 7126 4200
Intl Tel: +44 207 126 4200
PA: Vicky Jennings 020 7126 4081
Windsor House is close to New Scotland Yard (Met Police). Buses 11, 24,
148 and 211 pass the door. (507 passes close by).
Nearest Underground: St. James's Park station. (Circle and District
Lines)
Nearest mainline stations: Waterloo and Victoria (Both a short bus ride
or a walk from Victoria).
Bicycles: Parking rails behind Windsor House in Palmer Street.
-----Original Message-----
From: Universities Transport Study Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Christian Brand
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 10:08 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [UTSG] "new technologies" for travel surveys
Dear Peter,
TSU and ECI at Oxford University were involved in an ESRC and ECI
fellowhip
funded project called Integrated Travel Emissions Profiles. The two year
project looked at measuring/auditing climate change related emissions
from
personal travel activity across all transport modes over a year-long
period.
The final report has just gone to the ESRC and can be downloaded at
www.tsu.ox.ac.uk/oxontravel under Reports and Publications.
We employed postal as well as web-based questionnaires with the sample
taken
randomly (cold call) from Oxfordshire residents. As with other surveys
of
this kind, the postal survey was rather resource-consuming (relatively
expensive, data coding etc). As the web-based version was developed in
PHP
and MySQL the data submitted by the individual respondents were entered
straight into a relational database, ready for preparation and analysis.
Although closed for input, you can still access the online survey via
the
web portal at the above address with guest user name 'oxontravel' and
password 'onthemove'.
Please keep in mind the focus of this survey was cost-effectiveness
(e.g.
trade-off between survey length, response rate and cost to administer),
annual travel & emissions and analysis at the individual, household and
local levels. As part of the validation, aggregation to County and
Country
levels gave (at least to me) surprisingly good match with national
stats.
Hope this helps. Good luck with the review!
Best regards
Christian Brand
Research Fellow
Oxford University Centre for the Environment
Transport Studies Unit and Environmental Change Institute
South Parks Road
Oxford OX1 3QY, UK
T: +44 (0)1865 285177
W (TSU): www.tsu.ox.ac.uk
W (ECI): www.eci.ox.ac.uk
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