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Overcoming the drawbacks of buses – Bus Rapid Transit
Bus services are often seen by the travelling public, policy makers and planners alike as an inferior... »
Summary of the event – Transport: Visions for a sustainable future
Professor William Mitchell – Director MIT Design Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Wants to “democratize” public transport. Judging by later comments I think he was getting at “transport equality”, where everyone, everywhere should have equal access to public transport. Focus on urban personal mobility. In this case, mainly battery-electric ultralight foldable vehicles (2 seats), although other... »
Our problem in a nutshell
I posted this on Smart Passengers forums and Riccardo invited me to share it here for a wider audience. Problem: Transport planning in Victoria so far has largely been based on each different service being provided by one technology, for instance urban transit with trams, metro transport with electric trains and interurban transport with diesel trains. On... »