The plan proposes a charge of between NIS 0.10 and NIS1.00 ($0.03-0.30) per kilometer of travel inside the city, based on traffic congestion.
The finance and transport ministries are planning a pilot program with 1,200 drivers and Ayalon Highways in a few months.
Under the congestion pricing pilot scheme, participating vehicles will have GPS transponders installed, which will measure several factors: travel time, location, and distance in order to determine the amount of the congestion charge allocated to each driver.
Friday, May 6, 2011
Distance Based Congestion Charge
One of the ways that our regional government is looking to help pay for transportation infrastructure and reduce congestion is the possibility of pricing roads. While many see that charging a toll to cross a bridge as unfair for people in the South of Fraser, one of the other ways of pricing roads is the use of distance based pricing. I found this article on the Israeli Diamond Industry website of all places.
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Congestion Pricing - New York
Here is an interesting video about congestion pricing that was proposed for New York City in 2008, but didn't get passed the state's government.
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Greenhouse gas emissions
I found these interesting charts on Environment Canada's website with a breakdown of GHG emission sources by province and by sector nationally.
Not surprising but Alberta is responsible for a full 33.4% of Canada’s total GHG emissions. That means per capita Alberta produces 84 tons of GHG emissions which is the same as Saskatchewan. This compares to the per capita GHG emissions of Ontario and BC which are 17 tons each while in Quebec it is 12 tons.
It's no surprising that in our current political environment, nothing will be done to combat climate change. In the ideal world, the federal government would work with the prairie provinces to help them move away from fossil fuels for electrical generation, thought the elephant in the closest is how to provide good paying jobs in Alberta while moving them away from the deadly oil and gas sector.
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| Regional Greenhouse Gas Emissions, 2008 |
Not surprising but Alberta is responsible for a full 33.4% of Canada’s total GHG emissions. That means per capita Alberta produces 84 tons of GHG emissions which is the same as Saskatchewan. This compares to the per capita GHG emissions of Ontario and BC which are 17 tons each while in Quebec it is 12 tons.
It's no surprising that in our current political environment, nothing will be done to combat climate change. In the ideal world, the federal government would work with the prairie provinces to help them move away from fossil fuels for electrical generation, thought the elephant in the closest is how to provide good paying jobs in Alberta while moving them away from the deadly oil and gas sector.
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| Sources and Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions, 2008 |
Monday, May 2, 2011
Thoughts on Election Day
With Election Day on hand, I encourage you to vote. For those of you that don’t think your voice matters or that nothing every changes, I encourage you to look at these chats which are a combination of all the polling company results in BC and Quebec.
One of the big changes during this election campaign is the coming of age of social media. During the campaign, I was practically spammed with party rhetoric and was responsible for some myself. While the general public's involvement in the election campaign was up, political parties and their candidates haven’t fully embraced the two-way nature of social media.
Personally, I was disappointed at most of the local Langley candidates this federal election. In the 2008 federal election we heard from all candidate with the exception of Mark Warawa who continues to have a policy of not responding to questions unless it is major media outlet or local media like the Langley Times or Langley Advance. So I was not surprised the he didn’t respond, but I was shocked that only Craig Nobbs of the Pirate Party of Canada had time this federal election to reply to our email request to answer a few questions on sustainable community building. Apparently, Carey Poitras of the Green Party, Piotr Majkowski of the NDP, and Rebecca Darnell of the Liberal had no time to reply to our email.
During the 2009 provincial election, we heard from most Langley candidates including from the incumbent BC Liberal candidates, so I don’t know what happened with the federal candidates this time around. I know that many candidates now have twitter feeds, facebook pages, and email. If they want to attract the younger generation, they need to realize that the Internet is a two-way street. Hearing from a candidate when you tweet them with a real question is very exciting. Sadly, I didn’t not experience it this election.
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| From Andrew Heard |
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| From Andrew Heard |
Personally, I was disappointed at most of the local Langley candidates this federal election. In the 2008 federal election we heard from all candidate with the exception of Mark Warawa who continues to have a policy of not responding to questions unless it is major media outlet or local media like the Langley Times or Langley Advance. So I was not surprised the he didn’t respond, but I was shocked that only Craig Nobbs of the Pirate Party of Canada had time this federal election to reply to our email request to answer a few questions on sustainable community building. Apparently, Carey Poitras of the Green Party, Piotr Majkowski of the NDP, and Rebecca Darnell of the Liberal had no time to reply to our email.
During the 2009 provincial election, we heard from most Langley candidates including from the incumbent BC Liberal candidates, so I don’t know what happened with the federal candidates this time around. I know that many candidates now have twitter feeds, facebook pages, and email. If they want to attract the younger generation, they need to realize that the Internet is a two-way street. Hearing from a candidate when you tweet them with a real question is very exciting. Sadly, I didn’t not experience it this election.
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