What do we have here? @ccess Mobility Solutions is a new site on The Commons (11 January 2000). It is intended to serve as an open, dedicated area on the Web for posting, sharing and developing new transportation concepts and demonstrations that rely on altogether new synergies between the age-old needs for mobility and access (and for amenity), and the means that we actually have at our disposal in this new century.
Today, in the year 2000, all this is often presented as if it were brand new, right out of the bottle, and never thought about or worked on before. That of course is patently untrue, and if you have any doubts about that we invite you to consult the references and background materials that have been assembled in the @ccess on the Web site, which traces these interactions and developments over the last three decades.
What is new and fully worthy of our attention as we charge into the new century, however, is the speed of these developments and the fact that they are crossing thresholds of performance which are finally opening up the market and the world of transport in cities in ways which previously were perhaps conceivable but just not yet possible. Today, much of this is rapidly becoming possible -- but now the problem in most places is to help the concepts to catch up with the reality. That specifically is the targeted job of this site and the cooperative program behind it.
For the time being, this site is still something of an empty box -- or almost. While its content and structure will take several weeks of work at least to get the site fully operational and ready for anyone's easy use, already we can offer a few reference points and links that can even now begin to be of some interest. Indeed it is the potential for creative interaction and the links which are among the main goals of this whole exercise. These you will find on your left, and as new candidates roll in we shall be working to make them visible and helpful.
What about you? Have any ideas about how we can do all this faster, better? About something that you might want to do along these lines? A project or program that you think could be usefully posted here for others to see and think about? A joint project or some form of cooperative undertaking? This is the place to come to share them.
Finally, we would direct you to the @ccess on the Web site, which is the broader superset of thinking and activity of which Mobility Solutions is one part. We think you will find that the two work pretty well together. but we can now leave it to you to judge this for yourself.
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Updated 12 January 2000