Dear colleagues,
Please see below for a new transport stats resource.
Best wishes,
Glenn


>Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:53:08 +0100
>From: Joanne Hill <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: iRAP International Transport Statistics Database website launched
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Reply-to: [log in to unmask]
>Organization: EuroRAP
>X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 12.0
>Thread-index: Acib0v23rTVW+SZjRgOkIH7Ry08afQ==
>X-NAI-Spam-Level: *
>X-NAI-Spam-Score: 1.5
>X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 3 Rules triggered     M_ID_DOUBLE_AT=1, END_HTML_BR=0.5,
>  BAYES_44=-0
>X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 Apr 2008 12:53:31.0115 (UTC) 
>FILETIME=[0B5DA3B0:01C89BD3]
>
>Glenn,
>
>
>
>Would be able to feature the launch of a new iRAP transport stats website 
>on Monday online and/or in the relevant magazines. Feel free to add or 
>amend as you see fit.
>
>
>
>The site is aimed at journalists, transport professionals and members of 
>the public.
>
>
>
>Best Wishes
>
>Joanne
>
>
>
>
>
>00:01 Monday 14th April 2008
>
>
>
>iRAP International Transport Statistics Database website launched
>
>
>
>A new interactive website launched today by the iRAP International 
>Transport Statistics Programme, 
><http://www.iraptranstats.net>www.iraptranstats.net, details and compares 
>transport-related information for all G8 countries and the fast growing 
>major economies in Europe, Asia and Latin America. For the first time, the 
>wider international community has been brought together in collating 
>statistics on topics including demographics and transport infrastructure, 
>traffic and travel, vehicle stocks, safety, and energy and emissions. 
>Visitors to the site can browse the information presented, search for 
>specific data by country and topic, or interrogate the complete data set 
>by building their own tables and graphs online. Funded by the FIA 
>Foundation for the Automobile and Society, the iRAP International 
>Transport Statistics Programme aims to provide objective, basic facts as a 
>ready reference tool for commentary, and combines statistics from publicly 
>available sources with raw data from national motoring clubs, research 
>institutions and governments that would be difficult to obtain directly. 
><http://www.iraptranstats.net>www.iraptranstats.net is a follow up to the 
>highly successful Automobile and Society report, published in September 
>2003, the first high quality flagship publication detailing and comparing 
>transport-related information and examining the role of the automobile in 
>developed countries.
>
>
>
>Notes to editors:
>
>
>
>1.     iRAP (International Road Assessment Programme) is a not-for-profit 
>organisation dedicated to saving lives in developing countries by making 
>roads safer. iRAP targets high-risk roads where large numbers are killed 
>and seriously injured, and inspects them to identify where affordable 
>programmes of safety engineering could save lives. iRAP is a partnership 
>of auto clubs, development banks, governments and research institutes and 
>has been adopted in 30 countries worldwide.
>
>2.     Data available for Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Czech 
>Republic, France, Germany, Great Britain, India, Italy, Japan, Poland, 
>Russian Federation, Spain and USA.
>
>3.     The database shows for example, that:
>
>·         Brazil has one of the lowest levels of car ownership, with just 
>23 million cars in total, equating to 140 per 1000 population;
>
>·         China has seen the most rapid rise in the length of the motorway 
>system, from 2,100km in 1995 to 41,000km in 2005;
>
>·         In France the car accounts for between 82 and 85% of the 
>distance travelled.
>
>·         Despite having an extensive road network, the level of car 
>ownership in Britain has slipped from one of the highest in Western Europe 
>in 1970 to one of the lowest;
>
>·         India has a road density greater than that in the USA and one of 
>the world's largest railway networks;
>
>·         The percentage of passenger kilometres by car in Japan is the 
>lowest of the developed countries at just over 50%;
>
>·         Road deaths per unit traffic in Russia is ten times that of 
>Poland and 60 times that of Britain;
>
>·         The high level of car ownership in the USA has inevitably led to 
>passenger travel being dominated by the car, even where journeys are short 
>and land use is dense;
>
>·         Emission of CO2 from road transport is forecast to rise in all 
>countries;
>
>·         There are more cars than adults in the USA.
>
>
>
>
>
>Dr Joanne Hill
>
>European Programme Manager
>
>EuroRAP AISBL
>
>
>
>+44 1256 345598
>
>
>
>Worting House
>
>Basingstoke
>
>Hampshire
>
>RG23 8PX
>
>UK
>
>
>
><http://www.eurorap.org>www.eurorap.org
>
>
>----------
>This incoming email to UWE has been independently scanned for viruses by 
>McAfee anti-virus software and none were detected
>
>No virus found in this outgoing message.
>Checked by AVG.
>Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.22.12/1373 - Release Date: 
>11/04/2008 09:17

_______________________________________________

Professor Glenn Lyons
Centre for Transport & Society
Faculty of Environment and Technology
University of the West of England
Frenchay Campus
BRISTOL BS16 1QY
Tel 0117 32 83219
Mobile 07748 768404
Fax 0117 32 83899
Email [log in to unmask]
Web www.transport.uwe.ac.uk
Office location - 4Q61

International Network http://www.geo.uu.nl/mobilizingICT
_______________________________________________