NEW 2030 ICELAND CLIMATE ACTION PLAN ANNOUNCED

Iceland will fulfil its commitments and more

– Reykjavik, June 23, 2020.

With the measures presented today, Iceland is expected to achieve a 35% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 – The binding Effort Sharing reduction target to meet the commitments of the Paris Agreement requires 29% reduction.

According to rough estimates, additional measures currently under development could result in a further decrease of 5-11%, bringing the total reduction in emissions to 40-46% compared to 2005 levels.

48 measures, 15 of them are new

Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir, Minister for the Environment and Natural Resources Guðmundur Ingi Guðbrandsson, Minister of Finance Bjarni Benediktsson and Minister of Transport and Local Government Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson presented the second version of the Climate Action Plan today.

A CRISIS IS A TERRIBLE THING TO MISS

Paris. 22 March 2020

So now what? Well, for sure life is about to get very interesting. With the unmet challenge of the world climate emergency, and now out of the blue the Coronavirus fast upon us, we are now in the process of putting the old century once and for all firmly behind us. Not so much because we want to, but because we HAVE to. It’s a new world out there and we must meet it!

2020 will be the year of transition. And at the end of this round we will never be the same. One way or another! Your call!

So for our bit, please stay tuned to World Streets and Co. Here and at . . .

A COMPENDIUM OF ONE HUNDRED BETTER, FASTER, CHEAPER MEASURES YOUR CITY COULD START TO IMPLEMENT TOMORROW MORNING TO SAVE THE PLANET . . . cut GHG emissions, get people to work on time, reduce traffic accidents, save lives, clear the air, improve health, strengthen the economy, create a sense of community and improve accessibility, mobility and quality of life for all.

We often hear that sustainable transportation reform  is going to require massive public investments, large construction projects, elaborate technology deployments, and above all and by their very nature are going to take a long time before yielding significant results. This is quite simply not true. This approach, common in the last century and often associated with the “American transportation model”, no longer has its place in a competitive, efficient, democratic city  And we can start tomorrow, if we chose to.

To get a feel for this transformative learning reality let’s start with a quick look at a first lot of ideas for Slow Street Architecture as a major means for reducing traffic related nuisances, accident prevention and improving quality of life for all.  These approaches are not just “nice ideas”.  They have proven their merit and effectiveness in hundreds of cities around the world. There is no good reason that they cannot do the same in your city. Starting tomorrow morning.

(For further background on external sources feeding this listing, see Sources and Clues section below.)

Like this:

Hello Eric,

 

It seems clear that climate is causing much of the migration from Central America into Mexico and then into the United States in recent years.

 

Climate is also responsible for temperature rise in the Sonoran desert, especially impacting the USA southern border state of Arizona and Mexican northern border states of Baja California and Sonora.

 

Children with disability, and children who become disabled by the trauma of migration, are thus impacted, with their lives disrupted and school attendance disrupted or eliminated. See graphs below, but these thoughts are just thrown together and need more careful wording, especially as to issues around walking and/or riding to school by children and youth with disabilities, which is a concern we are working on through a report on USA & Mexico border state school transportation issues.

 

Tom

Archives: Reykjavík Mobility Parade On Car-Free Day

Article by Ms. Lea Müller, appearing in the Reykjavik Grapevine of Sept 19, 2019.  The article is presented here below, and followed by historical background information and context on the Car Free Days phenomenon in which the city of Reykjavik and Iceland turned out to play a key  historic role.

September 19, 2019, Reykjavik

To celebrate the annual Car-Free Day in Iceland, some of the main roads will be closed in the Reykjavík city centre this Sunday, September 22nd. The Reykjavík Mobility Parade will start at 13:00 and move through Miklubraut and Hringbraut to Lækjartorg, where festivities will take place.

Starting in 1996, the Car-Free movement has a long history in Iceland. The idea originated from the Accessible Cities Conference held in Spain two years prior to Iceland’s first festivity and the event has significantly grown in size since. Its main objectives are to promote public transport, bikes and walking and give people a chance to reflect on motorisation and how traffic can be improved in cities.

2021 MASTER CLASS CHECKLIST: 240 Climate/Mobility Tools, Measures, Considerations, etc., for a Sustainable City

240 available  tools and concepts we will do well to be familiar with. (Among others.)

– Εάν όλα σας μοιάζουν ελληνικά, καλά, έχετε πρόβλημα.

1. 2021 city strategies 
2. 30 kph zones 
3. 50 kph zones (etc.)
4. Active travel directions 
5. Activity nodes/clustering 
6. Alternating odd/even license plates 
7. Alternative engines 
8. Alternative fuels 
9. Award & prize programs 
10. Barriers to change 
11. Behavior Change 
12. Bicycle university 
13. Bike and skate “masses” 
14. Bike and Walk Summit 
15. Bike delivery services 
16. Bike/transit interface 
17. Bus corridors and lanes 
18. Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) 
19. Car Clubs 
20. Car control strategies 
21. Car exit strategies 
22. Car Free Days 
23. Car pools 
24. Car Restricted Zones 
25. Carfree Cities 
26. Carfree housing 
27. Car-like mobility (implications) 
28. Car rental 
29. Carsharing 
30. Change Management 
31. Children’s and school programs 
32. Citizen activism and dialogue 
33. City cycle programs (shared use) 
34. Clean vehicles and fuels 
35. Clear Zones 
36. Co-housing 
37. Community Street Audit 
38. Community Transportation 
39. Commuting alternatives 
40. Company mobility management 
41. Congestion charging 
42. Contingency Planning 
43. Critical Mass 
44. CURBBBB 
45. Cycle paths and lanes 
46. Cycle parking 
47. Cycling access and support 
48. Delivering the goods 
49. Delivery hours 
50. Demand management 
51. Demand-responsive transport (DRT) 
52. Distance work 
53. Downtown revitalization support 
54. Driver license exit strategies 
55. Driver training 
56. Dynamic transit systems 
57. Economic instruments 
58. Electric or ecological vehicles (??) 
59. Employer transport programs 
60. Ethics vs. rules on the street 
61. EV charge stations 
62. e-Work 
63. Fair Transport labeling 
64. Flexible hours 
65. Flextime 
66. Free public cycles 
67. Free public transport 
68. Freight bicycle 
69. Freight transport 
70. Freight consolidation zones 
71. Funding sustainable transport 
72. Goods delivery innovation 
73. Goods movement and delivery 
74. Green maps 
75. Green modes 
76. Green streets 
77. Green wave 
78. Group taxis 
79. Handicapped transport 
80. Health and Fitness 
81. Hitch-hiking (Organized and other) 
82. Home delivery services 
83. Home zones 
84. HOV strategies 
85. Human powered transport 
86. Inclusive transport 
87. Innovations in Integrated Transport and Land-use Planning 
88. Intercept parking 
89. Integrated ticketing 
90. Intermodality 
91. International institutions (how to use) 
92. International peer support 
93. Jitneys 
94. Land use/New Mobility interfaces 
95. Land value tax 
96. Lane Diets 
97. Leading by Example 
98. Living streets 
99. Loading and uploading 
100. Local Agenda 21 
101. Locational efficiency 
102. Lost/distressed children measures 
103. Low car diet 
104. Low-occupancy vehicle (LOV) strategies 
105. Low speed projects 
106. M2W controls 
107. Media, film, audio, webcasting 
108. Metros and New Mobility 
109. Minibus 
110. Mixed-use development 
111. Mobil telephony interface 
112. Mobility centers 
113. Mobility management/centers 
114. Mondermans 
115. Motorized two-wheelers 
116. Movement substitutes 
117. Multifunctional areas 
118. Multi-Modal Access Guides 
119. Neighborhood initiatives 
120. Neighborhood streets 
121. New Mobility “Star” program (NMA strategies for small towns) 
122. New Mobility strategies 
123. New Urbanism: Clustered, Mixed-Use, Multi-Modal Neighborhood Design 
124. Noise reduction measures 
125. Non-motorized transport 
126. NOT going there (the options) 
127. Obesity strategies 
128. Obesity/Mobility Summit 
129. Odd/even entry schemes 
130. On-line skating 
131. Paid Parking 
132. Paratransit 
133. Park + Ride 
134. Parking management 
135. Parking strategies 
136. Pedestrian- friendly streets and roads 
137. Pedestrianization 
138. Pedicabs 
139. Pico y placa 
140. Play streets 
141. Pots and paint 
142. Private sector initiatives 
143. Propinquity (as policy) 
144. Public Awareness 
145. Public participation 
146. Public spaces projects 
147. Public transport should be free 
148. Public/private partnerships 
149. Rail transit (where it fits in) 
150. Real time travel information 
151. Reduce traffic controls/signals 
152. Residential parking 
153. Reverse commuting 
154. Rickshaws 
155. Ride-sharing 
156. Road diets (lane narrowing) 
157. Road pricing 
158. Road safety (radical enforcement) 
159. Scan, select, quantify, target 
160. Segregated cycle facilities 
161. Selling your message to the community 
162. Senior/Non-driver Local Summit 
163. Shared taxis 
164. Shared space 
165. Shared transport 
166. Simulations and visual scenarios 
167. Slow streets 
168. Slow zones 
169. Slugging 
170. Smart Congestion Relief 
171. Smart cards 
172. Smart growth 
173. Smart parking strategies 
174. Soft transport measures 
175. South/North transfers 
176. SOV measures 
177. Speed control measures 
178. Speed reduction 
179. “Strategies for the screamers” 
180. Street as a place of work 
181. Street furniture 
182. Street life 
183. Street obstacles 
184. Street people 
185. Street strategies 
186. Street venders and commerce 
187. Suburban solutions 
188. Sustainable mobility strategies 
189. Task Force (local) creation 
190. Taxi innovations 
191. TDM – Transportation Demand Management 
192. Telecommuting 
193. Teledilivery 
194. Telework 
195. Ten Point Pedaling Action Program 
196. Ten thousand steps 
197. The Mayors’ Game 
198. “They are supposed to scream” 
199. Ticketless Public Transport 
200. TOD – Transit-Oriented Development 
201. Tolls Then thousand steps +
202. Traffic calming 
203. Traffic control/management center 
204. Traffic restraint 
205. Transit shelters 
206. Transit/signal priority 
207. Transit stations and interfaces 
208. Transit strike planning 
209. Transportation brokerage 
210. Travel information systems 
211. Travel plans 
212. Travelchoice 
213. Trishaw Cycles 
214. Unified access and ticketing 
215. Unified fare cards 
216. University, campus transport strategies 
217. Urban boulevards 
218. Urban distribution center 
219. Urban regeneration 
220. User participation 
221. Utility cycling 
222. Value capture 
223. Vanpool 
224. Vehicle Buy Back Program 
225. Vehicle scrappage programs 
226. Video diaries/open blog 
227. Vision Zero (Sweden, road safety) 
228. Walk to school 
229. Walkability audit 
230. Walkability index 
231. Walkable communities 
232. Walking as transport 
233. Walking school bus 
234. Web sites to support New Mobility projects/program 
235. WitKar 
236. Women, Equity and Transport 
237. Woonerfs (Woonerven) 
238. xTransit (The Third Way) 
239. Zero carbon projects 
240. Zero Tolerance 

TRANSITION TOOLS AND STRATEGIES: Selected Wikipedia checklist of key terms, concepts and references

Intended as a handy research aid, checklist and reminder for students, researchers and others digging into the rich Climate/Mobility nexus and related technical and policy challenges. A certain familiarity with these concepts is desirable; more than that I would say essential.

It is particularly important that those responsible for planning and policy be comfortable with these concepts. Anyone prepared to work in the field will already have familiarity with, say, 9 out of 10 of the concepts identified here. It concerns the stuff of sustainable transport, sustainable mobility and sustainable cities. (I would draw your attention particularly to those entries that are marked with two asterisks * * which touch on some of the more subtle and essential components of a sustainable transport policy.)

From the beginning in the late eighties the New Mobility Agenda was conceived as a shared space for communications and didactic tools zeroing in on our chosen topic from a number of angles, and over the last eight years World Streets has continued in this tradition. I hope that what follows may be useful to some of you. As you will see, I think it is an important and powerful tool — which those of us who care can help shape and put to work for the good cause.

How much can you trust Wikipedia — and what you can do about it

Article continues at: : https://wordpress.com/post/worldstreets.wordpress.com/19170

Also have a look at

* https://www.facebook.com/MobilityBehavior

* https://worldstreets.wordpress.com/tag/tdm-primer/

* https://worldstreets.wordpress.com/tag/2020actiontoolkit/  

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Eric Britton
13, rue Pasteur. Courbevoie 92400 France

Bio: Founding editor of World Streets (1988), Eric Britton is an American political scientist, teacher, occasional consultant, and sustainability activist who has observed, learned, taught and worked on missions and advisory assignments on all continents. In the autumn of 2019, he committed his remaining life work to the challenges of aggressively countering climate change and specifically greenhouse gas emissions emanating from the mobility sector. He is not worried about running out of work. Further background and updates: @ericbritton | http://bit.ly/2Ti8LsX | #fekbritton | https://twitter.com/ericbritton | and | https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericbritton/ Contact: climate@newmobility.org) | +336 508 80787 (Also WhatApp) | Skype: newmobility.)

View complete profile

 

Call for papers: User Roles in Cycling Governance: Transitions and Innovations

Call for papers for the special issue in Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives:

•  User Roles in Cycling Governance: Transitions and Innovations

This special issue leverages scholarship on cycling and uses the bicycle as a lens to explore how users can play a role in accommodating (or rejecting) innovations in sustainable transportation. From debates over definitions of the bicycle as a physical object to exploring practices and meaning of cycling, concepts such as smart cities, socio-technical change, and mobility transitions are explored critically from user, industry, regulatory and governance perspectives. We invite contributions from scholars from diverse disciplines, including but not limited to, urban design, history of technology, transport planning, mobility studies, politics, and sociology. We encourage multidisciplinary perspectives to explore the relationships between urban planning, cycling and sustainable transport.

ICELAND: Getting to work in the morning

CLIMATE, SPACE, TIME, MOBILITY,

A quick shot from Reykjavik of a road at the start of a working day

That’s a good part of the challenge. Let’s go to work!

Source: Climate/Action/Plan Creating a New Mobility Ecosystem for Reykjavik 2020

FB Link: https://www.facebook.com/ClimateActionPlan-Creating-a-New-Mobility-Ecosystem-for-Reykjavik-2020-102044774511708/?modal=admin_todo_tour

# # #

Solve this one and you are well on your way.

A COMPENDIUM OF BETTER, FASTER, CHEAPER MEASURES your city could start to implement tomorrow morning to SAVE THE PLANET . . . cut GHG emissions, get people to work on time, reduce traffic accidents, save lives, clear the air, improve health, strengthen the economy, and improve accessability, mobility and quality of life for all.

We often hear that transportation reform  is going to require massive public investments, large construction projects, elaborate technology deployments, and above all and by their very nature are going to take a long time before yielding significant results. This is quite simply not true. This approach, common in the last century and often associated with the “American transportation model”, no longer has its place in a competitive, efficient, democratic city  And we can start tomorrow, if we chose to.

To get a feel for this transformative learning reality let’s start with a quick look at a first lot of ideas for Slow Street Architecture as a major means for reducing traffic related nuisances, accident prevention and improving quality of life for all.  These approaches are not just “nice ideas”.  They have proven their merit and effectiveness in hundreds of cities around the world. There is no good reason that they cannot do the same in your city. Starting tomorrow morning.

(For further background on external sources feeding this listing, see Sources and Clues section below.)

World Transport Policy & Practice. Vol. 25 No. 3. July 2019

* * * Full report here: http://worldtransportjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/25.3-Final-opt.pdf

25.3  Editorial

In the very first issue of this journal (volume 1, number 1, 1995) we published 8 articles that are still as relevant today as they were in 1995.  They discuss some of the most important themes in what we would now call sustainable transport, liveable cities or active travel.  All the articles are well worth re-reading and using in the debate around zero carbon transport.  The article by Professor Helmut Holzapfel “Violence and the car”  raised an important  issue that still goes unrecognised in the discussion around transport, cars, subsidy, road building and the promotion of a technology that rings with it serious societal, behavioural and psychological disturbances.

Holzapfel insights are dramatic and identify the need for an entirely new transport and mobility paradigm.  He says:

Oslo takes bold steps to reduce air pollution, improve livability

Source: https://www.unenvironment.org/news-and-stories/story/oslo-takes-bold-steps-reduce-air-pollution-improve-livability 

Norway’s capital city Oslo, home to over 670,000 people, is boldly pushing forward with a range of measures to improve air quality for the city’s inhabitants. Oslo is one of 42 cities who take part in Breathe Life, a campaign led by the World Health Organization, UN Environment and the Climate & Clean Air Coalition that inspires cities and individuals to protect our health and planet from the effects of air pollution.

Zero-emission vehicles play a key part in the city’s strategy to reduce C0² equivalents by 95 per cent in 2030, and city officials are encouraging people to make the transition to electric vehicles. Benefits for drivers include reduces taxes, access to bus and taxi lanes, free travel on toll roads and public ferries, and free municipal parking. Over 1,000 charging stations have been added in recent years.

Meanwhile, all public transport in Oslo and neighbouring Akershus county is to be powered exclusively by renewable energy by 2020.

A COMPENDIUM OF ONE HUNDRED BETTER, FASTER, CHEAPER MEASURES YOUR CITY COULD START TO IMPLEMENT TOMORROW MORNING TO SAVE THE PLANET . . . cut GHG emissions, get people to work on time, reduce traffic accidents, save lives, clear the air, improve health, create a sense of community, strengthen the economy, and improve accessibility, mobility and quality of life for all.

We often hear that transportation reform  is going to require massive public investments, large construction projects, elaborate technology deployments, and above all and by their very nature are going to take a long time before yielding significant results. This is quite simply not true. This approach, common in the last century and often associated with the “American transportation model”, no longer has its place in a competitive, efficient, democratic city  And we can start tomorrow, if we chose to.

To get a feel for this transformative learning reality let’s start with a quick look at a first lot of ideas for Slow Street Architecture as a major means for reducing traffic related nuisances, accident prevention and improving quality of life for all.  These approaches are not just “nice ideas”.  They have proven their merit and effectiveness in hundreds of cities around the world. There is no good reason that they cannot do the same in your city. Starting tomorrow morning.

(For further background on external sources feeding this listing, see Sources and Clues section below.)

Challenge Partners (Working draft)

Incomplete working draft of 28 July

(Introductory para here to explain, etc.)

Thus far ( 21/07/2019), eventually with direct link and 2-3 lines of comment + Key Contacts

• World Streets, France – Journal of reference and record
• Journal of World Transport Policy and Practice, UK – two Special Editions: Winter 2019-2020 and Spring 2021
• SOLVED, Finland –
• Ytech Innovations Centre, Netherlands

Plus under initial discussion at this time:

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Op-Ed: Why Electric Scooters Companies Are Getting Serious About Safety

• By SARAH HOLDER.   July 16, 2019. CityLab at https://www.citylab.com
•   * * * Full article and illustrations HERE.

Lime has joined Bird in establishing a safety advisory board tasked with helping the e-scooter industry shape local regulations—and shake its risky reputation.

Lime, the micromobility company that’s flooded the streets of more than 100 cities around the world with fleets of green-and-white electric scooters, launched a Public Policy and Safety Advisory Board last week. The group, which convened for the first time at a safety summit in San Francisco, is tasked with determining what research and policy initiatives to pursue, what regulations to advocate for, and how to generally smooth the company’s sometimes-bumpy relationships with cities, riders, and riders-to-be.

Lime’s announcement reflects a growing acknowledgement within the e-scooter rental industry that safety concerns present a major barrier to mass adoption.

Op-Ed: The changing landscape of shared mobility

   – By Caroline Samponaro, head of bike, scooter, and pedestrian policy at Lyft.

• Center for Transportation Studies, University of Minnesota
• http://www.cts.umn.edu/publications/catalyst/2019/july/mobility

From the quick rise of the electric scooter to Lyft’s expansion of bike-share networks across the country, change is constant in the shared mobility industry. This changing landscape was the topic of the CTS Spring Luncheon presentation by Caroline Samponaro, a longtime bike and pedestrian advocate in New York City who now leads micromobility policy at Lyft.

ODE TO CLIMATE CHANGE . . .

Hello!

CLIMATE?

Of course. No doubt. Yes, Yes. . . Of course. Of course.

Archives: The New Mobility Agenda

This posting, taken with minor updating from the original 2008 Wikipedia entry under that title, traces the history of the New Mobility Agenda from its founding as part of an OECD program of the Development Center under the leadership of Eric Britton and Mikoto Usui,.  It charts the history and evolution of this innovative transport planning and policy concept from its beginning in the early seventies through 2008, at which time this international networking role was taken over by the international collaborative “World Streeets: The Politics of Transport in Cities” at https://wordpress.com/worldstreets

THE 2020 FIVE PERCENT EMERGENCY CHALLENGE: (Cross-cutting issues, measures, sources & startup strategies)

Executive Summary:

QUESTION: Is it going to be possible to cut greenhouse gas emissions resulting from day to day transport in your city by five percent next year?

RESPONSE: Yes *

___________________________________

* But you have to be very smart

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?  (Attributed to A. Einstein)

THE FIVE PERCENT CHALLENGE (continued)

 * * Very rough first draft.  Requiring careful rewrite for content and clarity.   * *

CLIMATE/NEW MOBILITY  2019-2020 EMERGENCY ACTION PLAN

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?  (Attributed to A. Einstein)

 

Working Notes: Building Blocks:

The sources,  references and links that follow here – we call them building blocks or parts of the much larger puzzle – are presented here in first working draft form and are intended to be useful to inform and guide students, researchers, concerned citizens and others interested in getting up to speed on the wide range of challenging topics that need to be brought in to the analysis and eventual work plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the local transport sector by a radical target and in a single year . These references include a considerable variety of issues, hints and developments (examples, free public transport, economic levers, value capture, full gender parity, etc., etc.) which have important roles to play in this wholesale reconstruction of the new mobility ecosystem.

WORLD CLIMATE EMERGENCY