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A revolution in the transport economy : Comments

By Tristan Ewins, published 20/8/2008

With skyrocketing oil prices there is an incentive for governments to restructure their transport economies.

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Not sure about the relative GHG friendliness of PT v private cars. There is research that shows that cars compare well with PT (particularly buses); see http://www.demographia.com/db-australghg.pdf
Posted by OC617, Monday, 25 August 2008 4:54:29 PM
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Tristan (and anyone else who is interested) please contact me (cscoxk at gmail.com) if you would like to be kept informed and perhaps contribute to ideas on a project we are about to embark upon. We are currently working on modelling the system and specifying it. We then intend to build the system and at the same time look for an transport authority who would allow us to implement the system.

The project is to construct an integrated on demand transport information system to include buses, trains, trams, minibuses and CAR POOLING.

Initially the system will be a simple Car Pooling system where we pay people to both ride in a pooled car and to drive a car with other passengers. The twist is that the money you receive for car pooling can only be spent on public transport. The money to pay people comes from the existing public transport subsidy. That is some of the subsidy to the transport system is spent first on pooled cars then it is used on the public transport. Even if meant that all the sales of public transport went through car pooling it means we could get almost twice the value in terms of transport miles from our public transport subsidy.

Our initial guesses are that the cost to run the system will be between 5 and 10% of the money put through the system and that it will make a significant reduction in the peak hour traffic.
Posted by Fickle Pickle, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 10:58:50 AM
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Just writing to let subscribers to this thread know that there will be a follow-up article of mine being published tomorrow (Wed) in OLO...

This article will focus on welfare, industrial relations, water and private infrastructure - and the influence all these issues have on the cost-of-living crisis...

Hope to hear from you again tomorrow...

most sincerely,

Tristan
Posted by Tristan Ewins, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 3:55:59 PM
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