Projects Funded June 2005
The Barrie Telecommuting Project
Since the mid-1990s, the City of Barrie has been seeking to reduce commuter traffic on Highway 400. The impact study, workshop, education and outreach activities of the Barrie Telecommuting Project are designed to stimulate behavourial changes within the target audiences so that the project outcomes are sustainable and consumer/market driven.
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A Regional Fleet Assessment for Transit Services in Northern NB
The City of Bathurst and Bathurst Sustainable Development are in the process of conducting a transit test of public transit services within the City. Surrounding Municipalities (all within a 30-minute radius of Bathurst) have expressed interest in supporting a feasibility study on the potential to establish a Regional Fleet transit service which would connect these communities with the City of Bathurst transit system.
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2010 Plus: Stakeholder Alliance for Advancing Sustainability
Strong sustainability principles and targets can produce more efficient land-use and transportation investments and reduce overall costs of urban infrastructure. Design strategies to reduce or eliminate these conflicts have been successfully implemented in a number of locations in the Greater Vancouver region. What is needed now is a strategy for implementing these proven neighbourhood, district, and municipal scale strategies throughout the region.
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CAN-BIKE Cycling Development Project
The CAN-BIKE Development Project is designed to increase the numbers of people using their bikes for transportation or recreational purposes through building capacity for local communities to offer CAN-BIKE courses. The aim of the project is to meet market demands for improved levels of proficiency and confidence of commuter and transportation cyclists throughout Canada.
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Cycling in cities: Understanding people, neighbourhoods, and infrastructure to promote an epidemic of change
The overall goal of this project is to provide data to facilitate evidence-based urban planning, cycling infrastructure development, and marketing of cycling to produce a substantial increase in cycling modal share in the Greater Vancouver Regional District. The project design is based on an extensive review of the transportation, health, and urban planning literatures to identify previous studies of cycling rates and of factors thought to influence ridership.
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Making Tracks: Phases I and II
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Making Tracks is to make Active & Safe Routes to School (ASRTS) more effective in Nova Scotia and increase the use of active and sustainable transportation among students in pilot schools. The project will develop practical information and tools to improve the effectiveness of ASRTS, which is the only program of its kind in Nova Scotia.
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MultiMobile
In Quebec City, promotion of modes of sustainable transportation is focused on public transit. Employers, and as a result their employees, are rarely targeted during educational campaigns related to the environment and sustainable development. MultiMobile will suggest additional sustainable transportation measures (walking, cycling, carpooling, and car sharing) to employers and employees currently or potentially involved in the L'abonne BUS du Réseau de transport de la Capitale (RTC) bus pass program.
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International Youth Summit on Sustainable Urban Transportation
Among a number of stakeholders, youth have a key role as future decision makers. The successes of the 2002 and 2004 International Youth Summits on Sustainable Transportation (IYS) have received national and international recognition. The goal of the 2006 IYS in Montreal was to continue this up and coming youth movement centred around empowerment through awareness of, and action on, sustainable transportation issues.
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2010-02-03
