I am modern transport scientist incarnate of Sun Tzu who bestowed upon us his The Art of War which saw little use by outsiders until the leading up to the Great War, and I shall bestow upon you the knowledge
One of my Work-in-Progress posts published as-is just in case I no longer can do posts anymore.
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| 50 mile range, electric micro car Half-ton in weight, quickly charges, user replaceable battery |
High-end e-bike or the cheapest car
Both ways you're using zero emissions, saving a lot of space
Whichever method, if people who drive alone and regularly commute within 20 miles adopted these - a lot of space saved; fitting more people in the same road space, because you have less dead/not-used space.
Also at scale, will lengthen the road's lifespan as there's less 2-ton heavy electric cars (and SUVs being heavier) trundling about.
Ticks off the boxes the Mini did to cause it's revolution,
was the car (and second car) of choice during the oil crisis of the 1970s,
- the Mini having a smaller engine meant it was more fuel efficient (big selling point)
also less polluting but the public weren't as aware of pollutions dangers until the 1990s with Euro emissions rating
- and was mini too - if the name wasn't clear enough. Small and can fit easily, about 600kg in weight.
The art of London in 2003:
Congestion Charge (pay £money for entering designated area)
This worked very well due to the massive increase in bus frequencies, new bus routes, new bus lanes, as well as timetable improvements to the London Underground, including vehicle improvements to the DLR.
This saw a 30% reduction in car traffic.
The art of Barcelona:
Personal vehicles speed limits at 10 km/h.
"Superblocks" whereby blocks are pedestrianised with very limited access to cars, but always allow public transport through.
In London some boroughs decided to make every road 20mph, whilst TfL doubled down by having major roads also go 20mph (from 40mph in some instances).
I suggest that bus lanes re-increased to 30mph allowing also taxis (for better or for worse) to be noticeably quicker.
At a push, having buses of all sizes (minibuses, non-TfL and TfL alike) allowed to travel at 30mph on roads that are 20mph. This, I forecast will increase the likelihood of error between , however bus drivers are professionals
The art of Norway:
Taxation against combustion vehicles (with their oil funds they made it cheaper to buy electric cars)
All car parks are taxed. Sales tax of 50%.
The art of Japan:
No on-street parking
(their streets are very narrow, they have sizeably small garages for homes or small car parks near homes).
Perhaps in our use case where roads are narrow, we could (in the theory of reducing two-parked-lanes and one-road-lane into two-road-lanes):
- Narrow the road by half-width of a car
- Extend house front yard
- Pavement width remains the same
The arts of Helsinki and Amsterdam
Cars are second class citizens
Extra bus lanes, extra cycle lanes
The art of Talinn (Estonia), Matla and the country of Luxembourg
FREE PUBLIC TRANSPORT*
*(regional buses are not free, commuters trains free inside city limits)
This is in conjunction with a MASSIVE public transport budget.
Luxembourg is small but has more inhabitants than Estonia's capital of 420,000 residents.
What Luxembourg lacks in budget, it makes up for in high cost of living for it's own residents, most people that work in the country live outside the country anyways.
This is less possible to achieve with large transit systems, London included, for a variety of reasons. Some fears include increased vandalism as seen in some attempts in America, whereas the definite reason is how to pay staff.
It seems even for a university in California, there was a 56% increase in ridership with 20% reduction in driving. This is a small pool of university students, albeit this is an idea of how things could scale.
Poland has unconditionally free travel in some municipalities, whilst in Olkusz the freedom was only for registered car owners. Olkusz's demonstration lasted 15 months.
Likewise, France has areas that do free travel (mainly low population), Colomiers being the first in 1971.
In London, in Heathrow particularly, you have the Heathrow Free Travel Zone. Just get inside a bus or tube or train between terminals or Hatton Cross. Don't even tap on the bus. Heathrow Airport funds this of course.
A Swedish thought is to have private businesses pay for your personal travel. Think about it, when you're in a job that requires you to travel between countries by plane, your expenses are paid for. Why shouldn't that be the case domestically? Or rather, why shouldn't that be the case at large-scale?
How this goes about, I imagine, will be based on how many employees a business has
Unconditionally free travel on multiple modes would be expensive
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| If business pay for your travel + 2023 fares |
Some days of free transit is very worthwhile. It'd be appreciated on some festivals/holidays and even religious days. Diwali, Chinese New Year, Easter, Eid, Yom Kippur, Christmas Eve, New Years.
There is a lot of days if you look through all the religious holidays to the point you'd have more than a month of free travel, which won't be good news from the accountant.
If you're a devil, off-peak and peak separation of bus fares, so that tube-only users don't get salty of their complexes.
limited free arts
The above but limited in age groups, in Scotland buses are free for under-22s and over-60s (London is over 60 too, you need an appropriate Zip card for teens/young adults).
In Netherlands a student of some universities will have to finish their degree or pay back the amount of money.
The art of Germany:
Stricter driver learning
Yes
A city Freiberg, whose planning rules make it impossible to make new developments without access to tram.
The art of Canada:
Carbon Tax
A similar ULEZ-tactic that we face happens in North America, a cash grab exercise.
The art of China:
Registration plate even/odd numbers
Only able to drive every two days in accordance to the last numerical digit on your number plate, freeing 50% of traffic.
In the end, the goal is keeping the people who are disabled, have other health issues, as well as people who rely on vehicles for their job/trade.
Whilst using a motherload of a siv filter out people who can very easily switch to take a bus/train or cycle/walk, which will apply to a high percentage of the population. After all between London and Berlin, over 60% of people use the car...
I suggest
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One of my Work-in-Progress posts published as-is just in case I no longer can do posts anymore.
Stay safe and bless you.
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