New Moblity Advisory/Brief No. 2: Road/Congestion Pricing, etc.

This volume will be distributed in advance to all those who have registered for this section, and will be one of the main background pieces in support of the Session.

For the present time, our objective here is to provide you with a first idea of the very substantial base of information and opinions (many and quite nicely contradictory as one might well expect) which are being cranked out as interest in the London and Stockholm projects lead the way. But the art of policy lies in ones ability to synthesize all this detail and contradictions into a coherent, well thought out world-level strategy for your city.

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Issues under discussion

The following points are among those that have come up repeatedly over the last two months in discussions with carshare operators, experts and city colleagues across Europe and North America as part of the run-up to this session; so we list them here to give you a better idea perhaps of the range and focus of the discussions during this very intense one day A/L Session. There is a lot of ground to be covered here as you can see; we shall try to cover those that are most important from the vantage of cities and organizations that are there to make carsharing happen.

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• State of the Art in 2007: Achievements, limitations, next steps
• Short history, overall accomplishments, practices and outstanding lessons since 1948
• Learning curve: Singapore, Hong Kong, Randstadt, London, and . . .
• Where are we today, how we got there, and what has changed of late?
• Presentation and discussion of Advisory/Brief:
  Vol. 1, No. 2. Road Pricing Strategies for Cities
• Critical analysis with in-depth commentaries by main actors and observers
• Shortcomings, differences, problems, barriers, recuperation strategies, fine-tuning, things forgotten ?
• Heavy focus on local government interface: pre-screening, preparation, communications, oversight, monitoring of results
• Good practice presentations
• Critical analysis with in-depth commentaries by main actors and observers
• Shortcomings, differences, problems, barriers, recuperation strategies, fine-tuning, things forgotten ?
• Heavy focus on local government relations, interface, cooperation and interactions
• Can strong pricing programs transform the city? How? Why is it important?
  
• What does city government need to do to ensure full success?
  
• Who else needs to be involved in the process ?
• The Mayor's Page (Why in a page you should. And why it may be a bad idea for your city.)
• Local partnerships - the key to success: Which local partners & how they can make it succeed
• What can go wrong (and how maybe you can fix or avoid it.)
• Can road pricing help poor people (and if so how)?
• Short expert notes on planning & implementing a project (the main stages) from:
  • A European perspective;
  • An American perspective;
  • An Asian perspective
• Communications and problem solving in the community
• The expanding role of logistics and mobile telephony
• The five next big things in congestion pricing
• Bibliography (The ten sources you had best have close at hand)
• Key links and sources (ten, organized by region and country for convenience)
• Where to turn for help in your project or plan
• Better, Faster, Cheaper (Other ways to achieve your objectives)
• Ten most important recommendations local government and local partners (in form of Manifesto?)
• Follow-up recommendations and next steps

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