- SHARING, when it comes to transport, can work in many ways. Introduction: I am hard at work on a book under the title Better Choices: Bringing Sustainable Mobility to Smaller Asian Cities, as described in the attached working note. Better Choices aims to inform and support planners, policymakers, civil society and others who must face the challenges of what is in effect a whole new way of thinking about transport in cities. After numerous interviews and exchanges, it occurred to me that while we now have great search engines such as Google that can bring the world and all its complexity and crushing detail to our doorstep, in situations like this we need something more focused, concise and immediately useful by way of reference materials, particularly in areas and situations in which the local city team may not have deep competence. It’s good of course to have this level of help in print between the covers of a book, but better yet if it can be online, continuously updated, free and carefully made. When I finally woke up to this I decided to see if I could pull together, working with the help of friends and colleagues who have deep knowledge in the various areas under study, to produce for each key factor a single page of carefully selected reference materials on each of these topics which are important elements of the overall challenge. The reader will not be surprised if I cite by way of example some of these key topic area, such as: bicycles, big data, gender, congestion charging, safety, equity, enforcement, sharing, etc. for the rest you can find the full working plan for the reference library at https://goo.gl/fv3Giv. To clarify what we are trying to accomplish, the next page presents a sample entry, prepared with the counsel of Paul Barter, on the topic of one of the most powerful toolsets available to our cities, PARKING. And yet why is it that so few cities on this planet have a strategic parking policy at all, never mind the willpower to put it to work?
PLANNERS BOOKSHELF (as of 17/3/2017. Click here for latesst - https://goo.gl/1jQ9Xw )
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SAMPLE ENTRY PARKING * ______________ PRIMERS: • •
Parking Basics (ITDP) at https://www.itdp.org/parking-basics/ Short and to the point. Initially meant for Indian audience but suited to much wider audience. On-Street Parking Management (GIZ SUTP). (English, Spanish Chinese) https://goo.gl/CScQTX
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Parking Reforms: (D. Shoup) http://www.shoupdogg.com/reforms/
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Reinventing Parking (Paul Barter) at (www.reinventingparking.org). ITDP on Parking: https://www.itdp.org/publications/ then search for "parking"
CHALLENGING READS: • Europe’s Parking U-Turn. ITDP. https://goo.gl/ilm6kM • On-street parking fees: (P. Barter) https://goo.gl/xilo9A • World Streets on Parking - https://worldstreets.wordpress.com/tag/parking/ •
Park(ing) Day - http://parkingday.org/about-parking-day/
VIDEOS: • The High Cost of Free Parking. Donald Shoup at https://youtu.be/nYphl_zpvZg (2 hours) • Donald Shoup on Parking. (6 minutes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgtF0B_mxuE ONLINE SHORT COURSES (To follow) BIBLIOGRAPHY • Shoup on Parking. http://www.shoupdogg.com/parking-links/ • Litman on Parking. VTPI TDM Encyclopedia: http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm28.htm
OVERVIEW (Short introductory note -- To follow) About the contributor Dr Paul Barter is Adjunct Professor in the LKY School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore where he teaches on infrastructure, urban policy and transport policy. His research has focused on various dimensions of the interactions between urban transport and urban policy more widely. His recent and current research focuses on innovation in transport demand management and the contested fundamental priorities of urban transport policy. Contact:
[email protected]
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SUGGESTED TEMPLATE 1 MEASURE * ________________ PRIMERS: (Broad overviews of topic by recognized authorities) • • • BLOGS: (First stop shops for new, information and perspective) • CHALLENGING READS: (Pros and cons) • • •
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* CONTRIBUTORS < 80-word summary of principal interests, methods. Contact data, URLs: * OVERVIEW (Short intro page to sum up approach, message and notable high points, pros, cons, barriers, counsel, suggestions. On separate page.)
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