{"title":"Living without a car","authors":"M. Glotz-Richter","doi":"10.1108/13527619510075684","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/13527619510075684","url":null,"abstract":"A housing estate reserved for people living without a car is planned in Bremen, Germany. Herewith a modern urban lifestyle of different mobility patterns should be supported by advantages in the direct environment. Less noise, less pollution, more space, better urban design and less costs are main points of a higher urban life quality. To support projects like \"housing without cars\" means to save energy and find new qualities of urban life. Mobility is guaranteed by walking, cycling and public transport and also by organized car- sharing (StadtAuto-member of ECS European Car Sharing). For 210 housing units in the Bremen-Hollerland estate only 30 parking lots (for car-sharing, visitors and handicapped people) are necessary instead of 180 otherwise required in a housing project of 210 housing units. The Bremen-Hollerland estate is to be under construction in 1995. The project shows the chance to redevelop an urban lifestyle as a part of a sustainable development. Around 27 per cent of all households in West Germany are living without a car. (A)","PeriodicalId":441567,"journal":{"name":"World Transport Policy and Practice","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117205453","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":"THE WELL-TRAVELLED YOGURT POT: LESSONS FOR NEW FREIGHT TRANSPORT POLICIES AND REGIONAL PRODUCTION","authors":"S. Boege","doi":"10.1108/eum0000000004024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/eum0000000004024","url":null,"abstract":"Freight transport on roads has increased greatly, especially in the food sector. The growing distances in goods transportation are decisive determinants of environmental and social impacts. There are capacity limits which become evident in the environmental field and in the social field in decreasing quality of life. The concept of a product related transportation analysis which analyses the product- related transportation procedures has been accomplished for a strawberry yogurt. Eight thousand kilometres of roads are used for producing and distributing the examined yogurt. If one 150g strawberry yogurt is purchased in a supermarket in southern Germany, it will have been responsible for moving one lorry over 9.2 metres. So-called \"environmental\" products are not environmental if the distances are included. A regional product label can identify the origin of the ingredients and the total distance travelled. Suggests product-related transportation analysis can give the basis for such a scheme. (A)","PeriodicalId":441567,"journal":{"name":"World Transport Policy and Practice","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132655742","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":"Planning for more cycling: the York experience bucks the trend","authors":"J. Harrison","doi":"10.1016/B978-1-85573-581-1.50013-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-1-85573-581-1.50013-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":441567,"journal":{"name":"World Transport Policy and Practice","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127558153","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":"HOW AMSTERDAM PLANS TO REDUCE CAR TRAFFIC","authors":"Leo Lemmers","doi":"10.1108/13527619510075648","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/13527619510075648","url":null,"abstract":"In 1993, the city of Amsterdam published a scheme to reduce car traffic in the historical city centre. This article describes the backgrounds and origins of the scheme; its relation with a local referendum, held in 1992 on the subject of traffic reduction; the objectives; a sustainable form of transport for a thriving economic city centre; the main elements of the scheme itself; its impact on the city's economy and on environmental qualities, the way public support has been created; and finally the results of the decision-making process. (A)","PeriodicalId":441567,"journal":{"name":"World Transport Policy and Practice","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130761304","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}