Background Note - Eb - Share Transport Conference - Jiaozou-5sep12

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S h a r e / T r a n s p o r t : J i a o z o u 2 0 1 2

B a c k g r o u n d n o t e o f 0 3 - O c t - 2 0 1 2 P a g e 1

Share/Transport 2012The Third International Share/Transport Forum - Jiaozou China 2012

I n t r o d u c t i o n

This International Forum, the third in the series which got first underway in2010 in Kaohsiungand met

again inChangzhe in 2011, is once again bringing together leading thinkers and sharing transport

practitioners from the People's Republic of China, Asia and the world, to examine the concept of "shared

transport" (as opposed to individual vehicle ownership or established forms of public transport) from a

multi-disciplinary perspective, with a strong international and Chinese-speaking contingent.

The concept of shared transport is at once old and new, formal and informal, but above all one that is

growing very fast and changing in many respects just as fast as it grows. Something important is clearly

going on, and this year's event will look at this carefully and from many angles, in the hope of providing

a broader strategic base for advancing not just the individual shared modes (e.g., car-share, ride-share,

bike-share, taxi-share, street-share, time-share, cost-share, etc.), but of combining them to advance the

sustainable transport agenda of our cities more broadly.

Are we at a turning point? Is sharing already starting to be a more broadly used and relevant

social/economic pattern? Is there an over-arching concept at the base of all this which we can identify

and put to work for people and the planet? And what do you need to look at and do to make your

specific sharing project work?

These are some of the issues that we shall be examining with prominent invited speakers from the fields

of economics, politics, psychology, who will join transportation experts to discuss these trends. Hosted

this year in the dynamic city of Jiaozou with its strong industrial tradition, the event will take place during

Car Free Day celebrations, which conference guests will be encouraged to join.

The event will include presentations on leading projects related to transport sharing taking place

globally. and above all will be taking care to present the various projects, modes and approaches in the

very necessary broader sustainable transport, sustainable cities (and sustainable lives) context. Because

if the vehicles, technology and delivery systems of the various share transport modes are important,

transport sharing at the end of the day is basically about people and the choices they make.
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S h a r i n g i n t h e 2 1 s t c e n t u r y - W i l l i t s h a p e o u r c i t i e s ?

After decades of a single dominant city-shaping transportation pattern - i.e., for those who could afford

it: owning and driving our own cars, trucks, motorcycles and bicycles, getting into taxis by ourselves,

riding in streets that are designed for cars and not much else -- there is considerable evidence

accumulating that we have already entered into a world of new mobility practices that are changing the

transportation landscape in many ways. It has to do with sharing, as opposed to outright ownership.

But strange to say, this trend seems to have escaped the attention of the policymakers in many of the

institutions directly concerned. It is not that they are not increasingly aware of the new generation of

projects such as bicycle, car, taxi and street sharing, those we are seeing develop largely under their own

steam. But the broader strategic frame for understanding and shaping these projects is something we

still need to build and put to work.

However transport sharing is an important trend, one that is already starting to reshape at least parts of

some of our cities. It is a movement at the leading edge of our most successful (and wealthiest and

livable) cities -- not just a watered down or second-rate transport option for the poor. With this in view,

we set out in 2010 to test these concepts in a range of international cities and fora, examining not just

the qualities (and limitations) of individual shared mobility modes, but also to put this in the broader

context of why people share. And why they do not. And in the process to stretch our minds to consider

what is needed to move toward a new environment in which people often share rather than necessarily

only doing things on their own when it comes to moving around in our cities worldwide.

As a contribution to international understanding in this fast emerging but still largely unexplored field,

the City of Jiaozou is organizing, together with Global Environment Facility/World Bank, the PMO in

Beijing and the China Urban Transport Development Strategy Partnership, this third World Forum on

Share/Transport in an international conference and brainstorming session to take place from 20 - 22

September 2012, in which a number of observers and experts working at the leading edge of these

matters will come together, first to examine together the general concept of sharing in the 21st century.

And then, once this broader frame and understanding has been established, we will go on to consider

how sharing as an organizational principle is working out in each of the individual mobility modes which

are rapidly gaining force in cities around the world. But the conference will be looking far beyond

project level innovation, and to the broader public policy issues which have yet to be sorted out.


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W h a t i s " s h a r e / t r a n s p o r t "

Here is a quick concept diagram which is intended to give a first rough idea about how share/transport

as a broad class fits in with the other more traditional mobility options. It makes it clear why it is also

called Third Way transport, bridging the two older categories which for many years were about the only

things the planners and authorities ever thought about when it came to ways to get around in the city.

To fill out this quick image of introduction you will find here a "mind map" which is meant to give a visual

clue as to the quite large variety of modes, media, motivations and values that together constitute theshare/transport agenda.


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"On the whole, you find wealth more in use than in ownership."

- Aristotle. ca. 350 BC

F o r m s o f S h a r e / T r a n s p o r t

And here you have the initial brainstorming list that we developed as a broad framework to sort through

and figure out which of the shared transport modes and cross-cutting vectors should be selected for

consideration by the conference. (This list has been discussed, prioritized, pruned and consolidated as

useful for the conference. It will be reconsidered and revised as useful, subject to what the Forum helpsus to better understand.)

1. Bike/sharing (Check out the informal 30 second video on this at

http://www.vimeo.com/6856553)

2. Car/sharing (includes both formal and informal arrangements

3. Fleet-sharing

4. Ride/sharing (carpools, van pools, hitchhiking - organized and informal).

5. Taxi/sharing

6. DRT and paratransit

7. Shared/Parking

8. Truck/Van/Sharing (combined delivery, other)

9. Street/sharing 1 (example: BRT streets shared between buses, cyclists, taxis, emergency vehicles)

10.Street/sharing 2 (streets used by others for other (non-transport) reasons as well.)

11.Public space/Sharing

12.Work place sharing (neighborhood telework centers; virtual offices; co-workplace; hoteling)

13.Sharing SVS (small vehicle systems: DRT, shuttles, community buses, etc.)

14.Cost/Sharing

15.Time/Sharing

16.Successful integration of public transport within a shared transport city? Including bus and rail

17.Team/sharing

18.Knowledge/Sharing (including this conference)
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A n d w h y p e o p l e s h a r e t r a n s p o r t

Transport sharing in its many forms is, in fact, a very old form of getting around. But the first structured

attention that started to be given to it by observers, practitioners and scholars, and a bit the media, was

in the early seventies. This was in part because it was for many reasons the opening shot in the world

environmental awareness and one might call it revolution. And the first studies of sharing in transportvirtually all had to do with carsharing. Life has moved on considerably since then, but that we pretty

much how the whole thing got started.

At the time there was a fair amount of discussion concerning why people carshare. And while economics

and convenience clearly had much to do with it, there was a whiff of environmental consciousness that

was probably more in the eyes of the beholders than the people who actually did it.

But today with fully half a century of experience and thousands of sharing projects of all kinds in many

places and with huge variants, we can nonetheless spot form the literature and pure observation the

broad trends and patterns of the motivations for people deciding to get involved in some way in

transport sharing, and of these the "top six" and perhaps in this order might include:

1. Need2. Availability

3. Convenience

4. Affordability

5. Complementarity

6. Reliability

7. Choice

Not that environmental issues have disappeared entirely from the screen, but in addition to the above

here are some of the reasons that are cited by users and observers:

Economy

Environmental

Equity

Fair

Flexible

Friendly

Hopeful

Human

Informal

Peer-to-Peer

Presence

Profitable

Responsible

Social

Let's not forget that people use share transport not because they are ordered to do it, but because they

chose to do it. So if we want more people to get out of their cars and use something better for

themselves and the community as a whole, it is good to keep this in mind for both planning, policy and

operational purposes.

And oh yes, and this is not as trivial as it may at first seem. People increasingly like to us share transport

because they think it is cool. Policy makers and entrepreneurs will do well to keep their eyes on this.

To conclude: What you have here are intended as background materials and views to encourage the

discussions and exchanges in Jiaozou. Upon completion of the Forum it is our intention to report on the

main finds, conclusions and recommendations. All of which should be helpful to prepare the base for

the planned 2013 Forum.


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2012 Sharing Transport ForumJiaozou, China, Sept 20-22, 2012

Tentative Agenda

9/20

Registration and City Tour

9/21

0900~09:45 Opening Ceremony

Leader of NDRC

Mayor of Jiaozou

Representative of the World Bank

09:45~10:00 Break and Take Photo

10:00~12:00 Session 1: Keynote Speeches (Chair: Jason Chang)1. Prof Eric Britton, Founder of World Car Free Day

Sharing Transport and Social Equity (30 min)

2. Dr. Manfred Neun, President of European Cyclists Federation (ECF)

Cycling to Work (30 min)

3. Expert recommended by NDRC (30 min)

4.

12:00~14:00 Lunch Break

14:00~15:30 Session 2: Sharing Transport for EcoMobilty (Chair: Eric Britton)

1. Prof Jason Chang, National Taiwan University

2. Prof Haixiao Pan, Tongji University3. Mr. Lloyd Wright, Asia Development Bank

4. Mr. Dave Krentz, Editor of Green Passport, Canada

5.

15:30~15:45 Tea Break

15:45~17:30 Session 3: Panel of Cycling Environment (Chair: Huapu Lu)

Speakers

1. Mr. Tom Godefrooij, Dutch Cycling Embassy, The Netherlands (TBC)

2. Mr. Shannon Bufton, Co-Founder, Smarter Than Car

3. Prof Takayuki Morikawa, Director of International Research Center for Sustainable

Transport and Cities, Nagoya University, Japan

4. Chairman Jeng, Wuhan Public Bike System

Panelists: Eric Britton, Jason Chang, Lloyd Wright, David Krentz, Manfred Neun

18:30 Dinner


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9/22 Announcement of National Cycling Day

09:30 Ceremony of Public Cycling Day (organized by PMO and Jiaozou City Government)

Welcome Speech (Mayor of Jiaozou, Eric Britton, Manfred Neun)

MOU Signing of National Cycling Day (All city mayors or representatives, witness by all

invited speakers)

10:30 Parade of Cycling in Jiaozou City (TBC)

Participants

Mayors and or Vice Mayors from partner cities of CUTPP

Department Heads from partner cities of CUTPP

Working Group Members from partner cities of CUTPP

Experts involved in the GEF projects

Graduate students

Invited Speakers

Eric Britton, Founder of World Car Free Day ([email protected])

Dr. Manfred Neun, President of European Cyclists Federation (ECF) ([email protected])

Haixiao Pan, Professor of Tongji University ([email protected])

Huapu Lu, Professor of Tsinghua University ([email protected])

Also in attendance:

Lloyd Wright, Asia Development Bank ([email protected])

Dave Krentz, Editor of Green Passport, Canada ([email protected])

Tom Godefrooij, Dutch Cycling Embassy, The Netherlands ([email protected])

Takayuki Morikawa, Professor and Director of International Research Center for Sustainable

Transport and Cities, Nagoya University, Japan ([email protected])

Shannon Bufton, Co-Founder, Smarter Than Car, Australia ([email protected])

Jason Chang, Professor of National Taiwan University ([email protected])

Experts recommended by the World Bank

Experts recommend by ADB

Experts recommended by EcoMobility Alliance
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