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| New Mobility Partnerships: Connecting Sustainable Cities | |
For further information and a sample program, click here
| Mexico/Paris Mission - August 2008 | |
This sustainable cities connection project has been organized by the New Mobility Partnerships and the Center of Sustainable Transportation of Mexico, in cooperation with the Walk and Bike for Life program of Canada. The objective is to bring a high level planning/policy team from Mexico to visit and confer with colleagues in three European cities which are leading the way in sustainable transport innovation: London, Copenhagen and Paris over the period 29 July - 5 August 2008.
These three cities have been selected for the outstanding way in which they are combining environmental and climate awareness, land use and urban planning, public health, new mobility measure and strategies, together with more effective economic measures to create integrated packages of services better fit to deal with the special problems that Mexican and most other cities are facing in this very different and very challenging 21st century. (The brief introduction to the film Contested Streets available here provides background clarifying why these three cities were selected for this first cooperative field trip.)
The Paris events combine site visits, seminars and expert exchanges, focusing on the city's approach and accomplishments both in terms of overall strategic planning and policy - but also looking into the outstanding accomplishments of the Paris team in terms of specific new mobility services, such as public bikes, safe cycling measures, BRT and transit priority, carsharing, livable streets, "green quarters", and public space management. (For more click here.
The CTS team and visit is being recorded by a film team, so that the findings can be made more broadly available both within Mexican cities and elsewhere.
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| Seven steps to reinvent transport in your city | |
Virtually all of the necessary preconditions are now in place for far-reaching, rapid, low cost improvements in the ways that people get around in our cites. The needs are there, they are increasingly understood -- and we now know what to do and how to get the job done. The challenge is to find the vision, political will, and leadership to get the job done, step by deliberate step:
Welcome to this open group brainstorm which has been prepared to stimulate debate concerning the need for high-urgency reform of transport in cities. This section is presented here for your information and comment as a rough-cut working assembly of materials, ideas, references and images we have pulled together over the last months as a contribution to (and with the help of) colleagues around the world who are hard at work on the challenges of, no less than, "Reinventing transport in cities". It builds on a continuing research and advisory program (The New Mobility Agenda, since 1988), and over this last year has been the subject of series of presentations, workshops and meetings with a wide range of concerned people and groups in more than a dozen cities in Europe and North America.
The five presentations you find here have also benefited from critical scrutiny and commentaries by members of our highly respected International Advisory Council and by worldwide colleagues in the New Mobility Idea Factory, much of which has been incorporated into the materials as they now stand.
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