The New Mobility Agenda: A Factory of Ideas for Sustainable Transportation

Unconstrained by bureaucracy, economic interests or schedules, The New Mobility Agenda was launched in 1988 as a broad-based, independent, collegial internet platform for critical discussion, exchanges of materials, and diverse forms of knowledge building and cross-border collaboration on the challenging, necessarily conflicted topic of "sustainable transportation and social justice".

The Agenda provides a free public platform for new thinking and open collaborative group problem solving, bringing together several hundred of the leading thinkers and actors in the field from more than fifty counties world-wide, sharing information and considering together the full range of problems and eventual solution paths that constitute the global challenge of sustainable transport in cities.

Please take note: The 2008-2012 program is 100% concentrated on the search for measures and policies that can have notable transforming impacts on the city within a two-three year time horizon -- and at costs considerably lower than those often associated with the sector. We call this our "patch". And that is "all" we do here!

  • Click here to go to the home page of the Agenda.
  • The Programs

    Among the main building blocks of the Agenda are the following focus programs:

    Other focus programs: some new, some old, some waiting in the wings for new energy and participants will be found by clicking here

    You may also want to check out the half dozen New Mobility Video Libraries

    As you will quickly appreciate, there is a useful synergistic relationship between these programs which are seen as part of a greater whole. Check out the Agenda's two-decade long track record of new thinking and international collaboration to advance the sustainability agenda. All the result of the good idea that if we put our heads together we can indeed make a difference.


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