New Mobility ThinkPad

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  • Tough thinking about mobility, old and new

    The New Mobility ThinkPad is an open collaborative blog which brings together a collection of more than one hundred essays and extracts from international sources which look at problems and solutions from a wide range of perspectives.

    It is intended as an open group sharing instrument. Click here to see how it works.

    Here are a first set of challenging entries showing quite different perspectives, to which you can click to directly from here. What is it that they say is the key distinguishing characteristic of intelligence: that the person can keep two or more directly contradictory thoughts in mind without their head exploding? Well, here is a test for you.

    1. China’s Sustainable Transport: Strategy Vision and Policy Recommendations

    2. Wafrika waamke - African Transport Survival Forum

    3. Ending our mediocrity: A Planner's Eye View from Canada

    4. Motor Mania: 1951 IQ test

    5. Kyoto promises are nothing but hot air

    6. Anybody willing to do something about climate change?

    7. Climate Technology" -- Or how you drown a Fish

    8. Transport in cities: Why are we so desperately off target and doing so poorly in the States? (And everywhere else in the world where our examples and perspectives spill over)

    9. 12 Prescriptions for a European Sustainable Mobility Policy. Eh?

    10. Greenhouse Hypocrisy (What do you have to say to this?)

    11. Kyoto - amazing opportunity or political football? (What do you have to say to this?)

    12. Vision Zero Plan in Sweden

    13. Road design? He calls it a revolution

    14. What causes traffic jams? The depressing answer may be nothing at all

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