{"title":"ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT IN BANGLADESH: ENVIRONMENT UNDER THREAT?","authors":"J. Howe","doi":"10.1108/13527619610125425","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/13527619610125425","url":null,"abstract":"Bangladesh's attempts to support and expand a road network are, relative to its wealth and agricultural land, far in excess of its Asian neighbours. The dubious grounds for such a policy are belied by its unsuitability from inadequate maintenance, significant environmental and social dis-benefits, namely the loss of scarce land through road construction which leads directly to increased poverty, and destruction of dwindling forest resources. In this paper the author argues that prominence given to road construction should be questioned, especially in view of the country's rich endowment of waterways and non-motorized forms of transport which are less environmentally destructive.","PeriodicalId":441567,"journal":{"name":"World Transport Policy and Practice","volume":"120 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124301777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Can technology save us","authors":"John Adams","doi":"10.1108/13527619610125399","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/13527619610125399","url":null,"abstract":"Asks the reader to: assume there is incredible technological progress in endeavours to solve problems of energy scarcity, pollution and congestion; imagine a super Super Car powered by a pollution-free perpetual motion engine; imagine a super Internet which provides free and efficient access to all the databases and libraries in the world. The result would be a social and environmental disaster – unless at the same time humankind manages to curb the appetites which are driving the steeply rising growth curves of material consumption and physical and electronic mobility. Argues that the technological enterprises that are currently consuming the lion’s share of resources directed to the solution of transport problems are relaxing important constraints on these appetites. Concludes that the principal barrier to a morally and politically sustainable transport policy is the belief that there are technical solutions for these problems.","PeriodicalId":441567,"journal":{"name":"World Transport Policy and Practice","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129674915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Subverting sustainability? Infrastructural and cultural barriers to cycle use in Accra","authors":"J. Turner, M. Grieco, E. Kwakye","doi":"10.1108/13527619610125407","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/13527619610125407","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reports on in-depth qualitative interviews with bicycle owners and non-bicycle owners in Nima and Jamestown in Accra, Ghana. Observation indicated a difference in cycling level within the two communities. A total of 46 individuals were interviewed and these reported on the ownership/non-ownership experiences of 260 people. The paper also draws on two other surveys of the transport patterns and travel behaviour in Accra. The first is a survey of portering in Accra where 81 interviews with porters were conducted in respect of the gender divisions in access to wheeled technology, access to credit within the urban poor and the role of non-motorized modes within mixed traffic. The second survey conducted 275 interviews with female and male traders on their transport needs, the importance of their economic role within the household and the use of family, especially girl child, labour within their enterprises. This research was conducted as part of the research programme of the Overseas Centre of the Transport Research Laboratory on behalf of the Overseas Development Administration. The research was conducted in collaboration with the Ministry of Transport and Communications, Ghana. (A)","PeriodicalId":441567,"journal":{"name":"World Transport Policy and Practice","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130614881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A ROAD TOO FAR.","authors":"A. Batchelor","doi":"10.1108/13527619510101972","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/13527619510101972","url":null,"abstract":"I wish to object against the proposed official route of the Birmingham Northern Relief Road on personal and environmental grounds, and the proposed further holistic impact from the increased volume of traffic on ourselves, our cottage and garden, and our immediate environment at Curdworth. We live in a 350-year-old period cottage with oak beams which was my family home where I grew up. Both my husband and I love it and do not want to leave. We have a big garden full of trees, an orchard, flower beds etc., and to us, our beloved little cottage and garden is a perfect place to live.","PeriodicalId":441567,"journal":{"name":"World Transport Policy and Practice","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123908593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"LAND USE IMPACT COSTS OF TRANSPORTATION","authors":"T. Litman","doi":"10.1108/13527619510101981","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/13527619510101981","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":441567,"journal":{"name":"World Transport Policy and Practice","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132013497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transport policy: a critical role for strategic environmental assessment","authors":"W. Sheate","doi":"10.1108/13527619510101990","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/13527619510101990","url":null,"abstract":"Transport policy - where it exists formally and strategically at - is frequently unsustainable in the author's view because the environment has rarely featured as a primary objective in the pas Only a fundamental shift in transport policy formulation which incorporates the environment and sustainable development into the objectives of transport policy will bring about a real change in impact transport has on the environment. The economic motor whic has driven transport policy for so long (even though a questionab basis in itself) is no longer appropriate in the context of sustainable development. Yet it still predominates. The view of governments is still to \"take account of\" the environment, not to make it a central objective. In this paper some specific transpo policy issues are discussed: the Trans European Network for Transport; motorway charging; airports; and new road construction Only a systematic assessment of environmental impacts prior to th adoption of a policy or policy change will enable a sensible choi of options to be made. In many cases the rhetoric is already the but not the action. Strategic environmental assessment (SEA) - a part of objectives-led policy formulation - is the logical answer but few politicians yet seem willing to support it.","PeriodicalId":441567,"journal":{"name":"World Transport Policy and Practice","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116118931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PARENTAL ATTITUDES TO CHILDREN'S JOURNEYS TO SCHOOL","authors":"M. S. Joshi, M. Maclean","doi":"10.1108/13527619510102016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/13527619510102016","url":null,"abstract":"The growth in accompanied travel to school has been one of the most pronounced changes in travel behaviour over the last 20 years. Hillman et al. (1990) have noted how the proportion of seven-eight year old children who travel independently to school in England has declined from 80 per cent in 1971 to 9 per cent in 1990. A full understanding of parental views on the journey to school is required if policy makers wish to encourage parents to behave differently. The implication of Hillman et al.'s finding is that, since traffic danger is of prime significance to parents, improvements in traffic calming, safe routes to school etc. would result in a decrease in parental accompaniment. However, if parental reasoning is more multifaceted than Hillman et al.'s data acknow- ledges, a single policy measure focusing only on traffic is unlikely to affect parental behaviour. The current study aimed to discover more about parental preferences and how these influence children's travel behaviour. KW: SR2S","PeriodicalId":441567,"journal":{"name":"World Transport Policy and Practice","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131002796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"URBAN SPACE AND LOGISTICS: ON THE ROAD TO SUSTAINABILITY?","authors":"M. Hesse","doi":"10.1108/13527619510102034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/13527619510102034","url":null,"abstract":"This paper deals with the interrelation of urban development, urban construction and commercial transport (goods movement, service industry) in towns, based on the research project \"Sustainable Commercial Traffic\" in the cities of Wuppertal, Solingen, Remschied (Germany) and other current German and Swiss activities. The project focused not only on steps for an integration of freight transport into urban transport planning but investigated also the different interests of urban planning and construction on the one hand and the companies on the other. To discuss problems and to moderate diverse interests between the operatives, a \"Regional Freight Traffic Round Table\" has been established. Concludes better communication is an important prerequisite for a sustainable transport development.","PeriodicalId":441567,"journal":{"name":"World Transport Policy and Practice","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132977517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"TRANSPORT FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED: A LOOK AT URBAN BRITAIN","authors":"T. Parry","doi":"10.1108/13527619510102007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/13527619510102007","url":null,"abstract":"There is much inequality of transport provision in Britain for the disabled and other vulnerable sections of the community. I am myself disabled and will use my experiences of being partially sighted. My disability ensures that I am unable to drive a motor car, and am therefore dependent on buses, trains, cycling and walking. For these modes of transport, provision is least developed and in some areas declining rather than developing. Problems experienced by visually impaired people, whether partially sighted or blind, are common to many other sections of the community who may be, or perceive themselves to be, vulnerable. These would include ethnic minority groups, the old or young, and physically disabled people using wheelchairs. Although the difficulties faced by disabled people are similar around the world, I will only compare the provision of facilities of urban Britain with those of urban western Europe, where in many countries transport planning has catered for the needs of disabled people. Having been fortunate enough to visit India, I recognize that the facilities for disabled people in urban Britain are substantially greater than those of many developing countries.","PeriodicalId":441567,"journal":{"name":"World Transport Policy and Practice","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129636451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rejoinder to parental attitudes to children's journeys to school by Mary Sissons Joshi and Morag MacLean","authors":"M. Hillman","doi":"10.1108/13527619510102025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/13527619510102025","url":null,"abstract":"Joshi and MacLean claim that the 1990 study by Adams, Whitelegg and myself (Hillman et al., 1990) employed a carelessly-worded questionnaire which produced misleading findings and that this has serious consequences in terms of interpreting the reasons given by parents for restricting their children's independence. Their reservations about the validity of the conclusions of our study stem from their observation that the parents in our survey were asked only for the main reason for the restrictions rather than being provided with the opportunity to cite multiple reasons. In their view, this explains why they found that \"stranger danger\" is a more common reason than our finding that \"fear of a road accident\" is more common. In an attempt to justify their judgement, they contrast the pattern of school journeys in their survey area in Oxford City and Oxfordshire in 1993 with ours by abstracting data from one of our 1990 survey areas, namely Nottingham, which the 1991 Census shows to have had a similar rate of car ownership to their survey area. What they seem to overlook is the fact that the differences in our findings on this issue are more likely to be accounted for by several important factors other than that parents in our survey were limited to providing only the main reason for imposing restrictions.","PeriodicalId":441567,"journal":{"name":"World Transport Policy and Practice","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121044104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}