Curitiba's Bus System is Model for Rapid Transit | Urban Habitat. Bus systems provide a versatile form of public transportation with the flexibility to serve a variety of access needs and unlimited range of locations throughout a metropolitan area. Buses also travel on urban roadways, so infrastructure investments can be substantially lower than the capital costs required for rail systems. As a result, bus service can be implemented cost-effectively on many routes.
Yet, despite the inherent advantages of a bus service, conventional urban buses inching their way through congested streets don’t win much political support. The essence of a Bus Rapid Transit is to improve bus operating speed and reliability on arterial streets by reducing or eliminating the various types of delay. The bus system of Curitiba, Brazil, exemplifies a model Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system, and plays a large part in making this a livable city. Buses running in the dedicated lanes stop at cylindrical, clear-walled tube stations with turnstiles, steps, and wheelchair lifts. KonSULT. Welcome to KonSULT, the Knowledgebase on Sustainable Urban Land use and Transport. KonSULT is designed to help policy makers, professionals and interest groups to understand the challenges of achieving sustainability in urban transport, and to identify appropriate policy measures and packages. It also provides detailed information on individual policy measures which will be of relevance to professionals, researchers and students.
It has been developed since 2001 with support from the European Commission, the UK Department for Transport, the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and the Rees Jeffreys Road Fund, and is regularly updated to reflect the results of recent research. The current version has been developed under the European Commission’s CH4LLENGE project to help cities identify the most effective policy measures and packages as input to their Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans. It contains three levels of information: Transport. Northern Virginia ITS Architecture. Transport. Long commutes cause obesity, neck pain, loneliness, divorce, stress, and insomnia. - By Annie Lowrey.
This week, researchers at Umea University in Sweden released a startling finding: Couples in which one partner commutes for longer than 45 minutes are 40 percent likelier to divorce. The Swedes could not say why. Perhaps long-distance commuters tend to be poorer or less educated, both conditions that make divorce more common. Perhaps long transit times exacerbate corrosive marital inequalities, with one partner overburdened by child care and the other overburdened by work. But perhaps the Swedes are just telling us something we all already know, which is that commuting is bad for you.
Annie Lowrey, formerly Slate’s Moneybox columnist, is economic policy reporter for the New York Times. Commuting is a migraine-inducing life-suck—a mundane task about as pleasurable as assembling flat-pack furniture or getting your license renewed, and you have to do it every day. First, the research proves the most obvious point: We dislike commuting itself, finding it unpleasant and stressful. Community Cycling Center » Understanding Barriers to Bicycling. In 2008 we asked ourselves whether we were having the impact we hoped to have in our community.
We looked at our programs, our partnerships, and our people and we came to a conclusion: we could do better. We could do better to understand the needs of our program participants, which are predominantly low-income and communities of color. We could do better to increase and improve programs serving a culturally diverse community.
We could do better at creating employment pathways into our organization. So we developed the Understanding Barriers to Bicycling Project, a community needs assessment, to better understand what were people interested in and concerned about as it related to bicycling. Since completing our Understanding Barriers to Bicycling Project, we have fundamentally changed the way we work. Project Publications Download the Understanding Barriers to Bicycling Final Report (July 2012) Bikes for All event summary (August 2010) Reading and Media List Press Releases February 19, 2009. Victoria Transport Institute.
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