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NEW! Manitoba Guidelines for Child and Youth-Friendly Planning
CST research associates, Dr. Richard Gilbert and Dr. Catherine O'Brien, have released a new edition of the Child and Youth-Friendly Land-Use and Transport Planning Guidelines for Manitoba.
These guidelines are based on research conducted by the pair and a series of national workshops. The Manitoba workshop was held at The University of Winnipeg in February, 2009. It featured representatives from rural and urban municipalities, city planners and a presentation on youth transportation needs and concerns from youth themselves.
Road Pricing and Sustainable Transportation
This paper looks at several types of road pricing schemes used in cities across the industrialized world, ranging from toll roads to cordon-areas to nation-wide kilometres travelled fees. Examples are drawn from Toronto, Singapore, London, Oregon and the Netherlands, among others. The paper then considers road pricing as an economic tool that can be used to address some of the sustainability challenges of road use, since it can affect demand.
To read the executive summary>>
Full document available in Members' Area.
Child and Youth-friendly Land-Use and Transport Planning Guidelines
Various. CST research associates, Dr. Richard Gilbert and Dr. Catherine O'Brien continue their work on accessible transportation planning for children and youth. After a coast-to-coast tour filled with workshops and presentation, the pair have published the following guidelines.
A 92-page guidelines document for Ontario, Version 2>>
A seven-page summary of the Ontario guidelines document>>
A two-page listing of the 21 guidelines, not specific to any province>>
More documents, including current drafts, are available at www.kidsonthemove.ca.
Eco-Energy: Otto Phase II (1.62MB)
Using OTTO to reduce transportation emissions by changing driving behaviours
March 31, 2009. This report looks at real-time vehicle performance feedback information included gasoline consumption, fuel economy, percentage of time the vehicle was idling and CO2 emissions, while the GPS data was used to remind drivers when they were speeding or idling for extended periods of time. The hypothesis of this study was that GPS and vehicle diagnostic real-time data feedback could improve driving behaviour and subsequently reduce CO2 emissions by generating fewer speeding and idling events and by raising public awareness about actual fuel consumption, costs and CO2 emissions.
National Workshop and Proceedings
When Energy Demand Exceeds Supply: Impacts on Transportation and Cities
April 19, 2008. The Centre for Sustainable Transportation, The University of Winnipeg, and the Institute of Urban Studies presented a symposium and free public lecture at the Winnipeg Art Gallery featuring James Howard Kunstler, author of The Long Emergency.
The following five documents are available from this symposium:
- The Peaking of Oil and Gas Supplies (9.2MB)
A presentation by Bill Buhay, Department of Geography, University of Winnipeg - Possible Urban Responses (7.6MB)
A powerpoint presentation by Stuart Ramsey, City of Burnaby - The Potential Impact of Very High Fuel Prices on Canada's Transport Systems and Cities (1.5MB) A presentation by Richard Gilbert
- When Energy Demand Exceeds Supply: The Marketplace Perspective (2.6MB)
A presentation by John Mawdsley, P.Geol. Senior Vice President, Research Analyst, Oil and Gas Sector, Calgary, AB - Notes from Oil Symposium Panel Discussion (116KB)
WinSMART Baseline GHG Emissions Study (166 KB)
May 31, 2007. The purpose of this report is to develop baseline transportation greenhouse gas emissions for the city of Winnipeg. This report provides the information gathered, assumptions taken, and methodology used in creating the baseline. The report also provides the results, sensitivity analysis and outlines suggestions for the future. The WinSmart project will be evaluated, in part, by the ability of the various measures, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transportation activities.
The City of Winnipeg and Transport Canada have developed the WinSmart project as part of the Urban Transport Showcase Program, with added funding from the Province of Manitoba.
Kids on the Move — Phase 2 Reports
April 27, 2005. This series of publications is a continuation of Kids on the Move Phase I, and deals with the needs of children and youth when constructing transportation and land use plans. It was funded in part by The Ontario Trillium Foundation.
Part 1 - Children friendly land use planning guidelines (1.2MB)
This 68-page, three-part document explains why land-use and transportation planning should be made more child and youth friendly. It includes 27 guidelines for application and discusses implementation issues.
Part 2 - Information Booklets
This part of the project focuses on the development of booklets on children and transportation for five target audiences.
• Information for Health and Recreation Professionals (836KB)
• Information for Educators (848KB)
• Information for Municipal Officials (elected and staff) (796KB)
• Information for Parents (736KB)
• Information for Youth (506KB)
Defining Sustainable Transportation (166KB)
March 31, 2005. This report provides a brief review and analysis of some current definitions of sustainable transportation in various parts of the world, it highlights 25 examples of where the Centre’s definition, or versions of our definition, is used. The report was commissioned by Transport Canada.
Child Friendly Transport Planning (196KB)
February 29, 2004. The Centre for Sustainable Transportation published this report as a step to developing child-friendly planning guidelines. It contains a consideration of a limited literature survey and canvass of several planning experts to determine whether child friendly planning guidelines have been developed elsewhere in the world.
Sustainable Transportation Performance Indicators
The work on sustainable transportation performance indicators-the STPI project-sought to develop sets of transportation indicators to measure the progress of the Canadian transportation system as it moves toward a more sustainable system.
The indicators have several purposes and functions:
- To compare similar trends across jurisdictions,
- To compare different phenomena,
- To assist with the understanding of trends, and
- To help evaluate progress towards defined goals or targets.
Phase 1 (456KB), June, 2000. Includes a review of relevant worldwide activity and development on this topic and the development of an initial, long list of indicators.
Phase 2 ( 792KB), March 11, 2001. Includes a workshop of all stakeholders to review the findings of Phase 1 and to reach consensus on the list of indicators to be fully developed.
Phase 3 (1MB) December 31, 2002. Includes the actual development of indicators for sustainable transportation and a data report on 14 environmental, societal and economical indicators.
The CST also completed three sub reports:
- Synopsis Report (1.1 MB)
- Compilation of Data and Calculation used during Phase 3
- Underlying Data and Calculations (207KB), March 2003.
Kids on the Move – Phase 1 (852KB)
October 1, 2003. Based on a remarkable European Union publication, Kids on the Move, CST examined the effects of transportation on children in an effort to educate others on how to create ways of making children’s mobility more environmentally sound, safer, healthier, more helpful, more enriching and to help build the groundwork to lifelong sustainable travel habits. With the support of The Ontario Trillium Foundation, the Centre focused on the Halton/Peel regions in Ontario.
Phase I of the two-part study considers whether the initial report can and should be modified for use in North America, a presentation of available data on children's travel in Halton and Peel regions, and identifies what actions can be undertaken to improve children’s mobility in this region and elsewhere.
National Workshops on Sustainable Transportation
Sept. 9, 2002. Between 2001 and 2002, the CST hosted workshops to discuss how transportation in Canada can be moved toward sustainability, particularly in the post-Kyoto period beyond 2012. The one-day workshops, held in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, and Halifax debated policy directions and actions necessary to meet targeted reductions in transportation emissions and other impacts under a small number of scenarios that reflect alternatives for transport development in Canada.
Three documents are available from these workshops:
- Background Paper for a Post-Kyoto Transport Strategy (628KB), outlines the trends and issues to consider after 2012.
- Draft Strategy for Transport in Canada for the Post-Kyoto Period (272KB), the proposed policy actions for consideration.
- The Final Report, findings from all the workshops. (404KB)
Inquiry on Sustainable Transportation
April, 1998. This publication, funded by Health Canada's Population Health Fund, was produced in conjunction with the Ottawa-based organization Learning for a Sustainable Future (LSF). It is a series of brief readings on sustainable transportation are organized under nine headings: how transportation has changed, transportation today, our love affair with the car, transportation and the economy, transportation and the environment, transportation and society, reducing transport's impacts through better technology, other ways of reducing transport's impacts, and what sustainable transportation could be like.
The inquiry will be one of a series used by LSF in workshops for high-school teachers on sustainable development.
To download, click: Sustainable Transportation: Reflections on the movement of people and of freight with special attention to the role of the private automobile.