Saturday, January 14, 2012

Cooperative Transportation Campaigns: Walking

Cooperative Transportation Campaigns.

Walking.

Walking campaigns increase the physical mobility and social interaction of participants amongst respective family members, friends, neighbours, and additional individuals and families. Within Walking campaigns, participants simply and intentionally increase the amount of regular walking that participants previously conduct. This includes recreational and exercise-based walking within parks and neighbourhoods, as well as choosing to walk within regular work and school commutes, when shopping and/or conducting additional errands, when pursuing entertainment experiences, and additionally. Walking campaigns are conducted informally and formally; individually, and with family and friends. Walking campaigns also involve coinciding campaigns, such as those of the Local Civil Service Corps and M/Myopic endeavours and the respective implementation of regular civil service patrols and weekly young adult walks through local neighbourhoods.

Cross Reference:

Local Civil Service Corps

M/Myopic

ACE Plan 2.4; 5 Additional Considerations:

Transportation

ACE Plan 5.1; 5 Immediate Ideas:

Cooperative Transportation

Cooperative Transportation: Metro Rails

Cooperative Transportation:

Faire Share Maxi Taxis

Cooperative Transportation: Pick Ups

Cooperative Transportation: Carpools

Wikiships Links:

www.cooperativetransportation.blogspot.com

Additional Organisations, Initiatives:

World Health Organisation

Cooperative Transportation Campaigns: Carpools

Cooperative Transportation Campaigns.

Carpools.

Carpools campaigns are organised cooperative transportation campaigns amongst established families and friends. Beyond the historic conventional practises of co-workers and classmates, carpools campaigns are increasingly intentional and comprehensive campaigns that proficiently attend to the respective transportation needs of participants. Carpools campaigns involve many different types of groups, including families, friends, co-workers, classmates, religious congregations, neighbours, community organisations, labour unions and professional trade organisations, fraternities and sororities, and additionally. Particularly within large Carpools groups, participants can complete a monthly schedule survey that includes the basic transportation needs that each participant respectively maintains, including commuting to and from work, school, religious services, community and additional meetings, shopping, health appointments, entertainment excursions, and additionally. The information within this survey includes respective locations, times, and the flexibility of these engagements. This information is then compiled within a “carpool algorithm” that identifies the most proficient opportunities for carpooling amongst the participants, including suggestions for adjustments within the respective monthly schedules of participants for increasingly flexible engagements (such as scheduling shopping and additional errands, health appointments, entertainment excursions, and similarly flexible activities). Whilst UIFAN has yet to proficiently identify any specific computer software that currently provides such a formal “carpool algorithm,” such calculation can substantially be done simply through manual comparison of the information provided within the monthly schedule surveys; and anyone with such computer software is welcome to share such services with these UIFAN Carpools campaigns, as well.

Cross References:

Honour System Coop Networks

ACE Plan 2.4; 5 Additional Consideration:

Transportation

ACE Plan 4.1; 5 Immediate Ideas: Cooperative

Transportation

Cooperative Transportation: Metro Rails

Cooperative Transportation:

Faire Share Maxi Taxis

Cooperative Transportation: Pick Ups

Cooperative Transportation: Walking

Wikiships Links:

www.cooperativetransportation.blogspot.com

Additional Organisations, Initiatives:

RTA

ODOT

USDOT

United Nations

Cooperative Transportation Campaigns: Pick Ups

Cooperative Transportation Campaigns.

Pick Ups.

Pick Ups are essentially grassroots/underground campaigns precipitating the formal establishment of Fair Share Maxi Taxis, amidst the transformation of metropolitan area vehicular transportation systems into metro rail transportation systems. Within the Pick Ups campaigns, participants maintain respectively ordinary driving routines. Yet, within these respectively ordinary driving routines, participants offer rides to commuters who are waiting at bus stops. The drivers offer to take passengers to the connecting bus stop or metro stop, or to the general point of destination where the passengers are respectively travelling. Rather than providing the full service of a private taxi, the driver simply transports the passenger closer to the passenger’s destination, without significantly deviating from the driver’s predetermined course of travel. Pick Ups provide drivers, passengers, and the general public with an increasing introduction of the concept of Faire Share Maxi Taxis and the general concept of Cooperative Transportation and the significance within Metro Rails. Within the Pick Ups campaigns, there are certain protocols that are beneficial; this includes: only offering to and/or accepting rides from people with whom an individual is sufficiently comfortable, concentrating the offering of Pick Ups during daylight hours and/or rush hour commutes (according to the driver’s comfort), affixing a sticker with an appropriate symbol on the front, passenger side door to signal to would-be passengers of the driver’s connexion with this UIFAN Pick Ups endeavour, providing written material on the concepts of Pick Ups and Cooperative Transportation, and additionally. Drivers are advised to abstain from soliciting monetary donations from passengers. Whilst Pick Ups may only provide a slight benefit for passengers (with respect to commuting waits and/or monetary expenses), there is the consideration that the increased practise and awareness of the Pick Ups campaigns establishes increased trust and cooperation within the Faire Share Maxi Taxis endeavour and the progression of Cooperative Transportation.

Cross References:

ACE Plan 2.4; 5 Additional Considerations: Transportation

ACE Plan 4.1; 5 Immediate Ideas: Cooperative Transportation

Cooperative Transportation: Metro Rails

Cooperative Transportation: Faire Share Maxi Taxis

Cooperative Transportation: Carpools

Cooperative Transportation: Walking

Wikiships Links:

Additional Organisations, Initiatives:

RTA

ODOT

USDOT

United Nations

Cooperative Transportation Campaigns: Fair Share Maxi Taxis

Cooperative Transportation Campaigns.

Fair Share Maxi Taxis.

Faire Share Maxi Taxis are a rendering of the “Share Taxis” methodology, practised throughout the Earth and referred to by many different names. A “share taxi” may be considered as a combination between a conventional bus system and the practise of private taxis. Share taxis are a system of independently operating vehicles, usually minivans and/or commuter shuttle vans, that each travel along a fixed route, usually a 10 – 20 kilometer stretch of a main road, much like a conventional bus system. However, rather than having specifically designated stops, a share taxi simply picks up passengers along this route, as passengers appropriately signal from the street to the share taxi, and the share taxi drops passengers off respectively where passengers specifically indicate to the driver. The aggregate network of share taxis routes within a metropolitan area provide passengers with a proficient and efficient alternative to conventional bus systems and private taxis. The objective of the Faire Share Maxi Taxis endeavour is, particularly amidst the transformation of the Metro Rails, to establish proficient share taxi services within metropolitan areas, through amateur (grassroots, underground, and additional ad hoc) campaigns, as well as professionally organised, commercial enterprises. The idea is for residents of metropolitan areas to build across socioeconomic, religious, ethnic, and additional divides, and cooperate together in solving the commonly-held challenge of transportation.

Cross References:

ACE Plan 2.4; 5 Additional Considerations: Transportation

ACE Plan 5.1; 5 Immediate Ideas: Cooperative Transportation

Cooperative Transportation: Metro Rails

Cooperative Transportation: Pick Ups

Cooperative Transportation: Carpools

Cooperative Transportation: Walking

Wikiships Links:

www.cooperativetransportation.blogspot.com

Additional Organisations, Initiatives:

Wikipedia Article on Share Taxis

ODOT

USDOT

United Nations

(Share Taxi Companies)

Cooperative Transportation Campaigns: Metro Rails

Cooperative Transportation Campaigns.

Metro Rails.

The objective of Metro Rails is to establish proficient, comprehensive public metro rail systems within each metropolitan area, making such metro rail systems, along with pedestrian traffic, the predominant means of transportation within each metropolitan area. This endeavour includes the initial planning and design, the transitional stages of the infrastructure development, and the actual implementation and maintenance of these comprehensive metro rail systems. The idea is to simply build upon respectively existing infrastructures and transform vehicular transportation infrastructures into metro rail transportation infrastructures, where appropriate. The transformation and establishment of these metro rail infrastructures is perceived are perceived as intermediate- to long-term projects, involving approximately, and respectively 5 – 10 years, for proficient completion. During this transformation and construction, there is the intention of implementing additional, complementary forms of cooperative transportation to appropriately provide for the needs of metropolitan area residents, including Faire Share Maxi Taxis, Pickups, Carpools, and Walking. Certain metro rail infrastructures also include the maintenance of local trams to service residents within specific neighbourhoods, complimenting the basic, respective lines within respective metro rail systems.

Cross References:

ACE Plan 2.4; 5 Additional Considerations:

Transportation

ACE Plan 5.1; 5 Immediate Ideas:

Cooperative Transportation

Fair Share Maxi Taxis

Pick Ups

Carpools

Walking

Wikiships Links:

www.cooperativetransportation.blogspot.com

Additional Organisations, Initiatives:

ODOT

USDOT

United Nations