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Sustainability? Starting with ourselves.

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Welcome to the New Mobility Agenda
Unconstrained by bureaucracy, economic interests or schedules, the Agenda was launched in 1988 as a wide open international platform for critical discussion and diverse forms of cross-border collaboration on the challenging, necessarily conflicted topic of "sustainable transportation and social justice". There are no easy answers, but there are answers . . . if you are willing to take off the fetters and get to work.

What's the problem?
Judged from a planetary or Kyoto perspective, or from an individual or public health perspective, or an economic perspective, or ... or ... our present arrangements for transport in cities are seriously damaged. As things stand today in city after city around the world, they threaten health in the city and on the planet. They are dangerous. They are costly. They are disruptive. They are thoroughly dysfunctional. And they are howlingly unfair.

World Streets: The New Mobility Daily
Our planet's only sustainable transport daily. An independent, internet-based collaborative knowledge system specifically aimed at informing policy and practice in the field of sustainable transport, and as part of that sustainable cities and sustainable lives. Insights and contributions from leading thinkers and practitioners around the world

Share/Transport: The Third Way
"Share transport" is the largely uncharted middle ground between the familiar mobility poles of "private transport" (albeit on public roads) and mass transport (scheduled, fixed-route services) at the two extremes. It needs to be far better understood by policy makers, researchers and practitioners alike. In most cities it is a missing opportunity that deserves a far closer look. So we are looking.

Does your city have a mobility philosophy? Sorry, but if you do not have an explicit, carefully thought out, coherent, widely supported, and consistently-followed philosophy of the main underpinnings of your mobility arrangements, you can bet you're in trouble. Having a workable philosophy is the indispensable first step to a sustainable and viable system. There is no way around this.

New Mobility Focus Programs
The Agenda is organized into a steadily evolving collection of collaborative partnership projects. All are international in coverage; each can be usefully consulted either on its own or, better yet, in parallel with the information and materials within the New Mobility Agenda program itself. The main current programs appear in the upper left here. For a more general introduction, click here.

International Advisory Council
The Advisory Council brings together a very broad cross-section of the outstanding leaders, thinkers and activists in the full range of fields involved, representing many countries, disciplines, areas of expertise and points of view -- who in their work are leading the way to show how we go about the difficult task of rendering our mobility systems and cities more efficient, livable and sustainable.

The New Mobility Idea Factory
The first pillar of our communications net, now updated and extended: Since 1996 it offers a free, public, flexible, open discussion and exchange space for those who feel that our transport systems need to be, and can be made to be, more sustainable and more just -- and who wish to exchange ideas and information about it. Also check out Talking New Mobility.

Why we try to translate?
Not everybody on this teeming planet who cares about sustainable development, sustainable cities, and new mobility has ready access to the English language at a level that permits them to read quickly and easily through the many materials presented here, almost all in that language. From the outset of their availability more than a decade ago, we have tried to make best use of the free web-based translation tools. Click here to see how we are trying to handle this challenge today.

The Commons
A wide open, world-wide forum concerned with improving our understanding and control of technology as it impacts on people in their daily lives. Seeking out and supporting new sustainability concepts for business, entrepreneurs, activists, community groups, and government; a thorn in the side of hesitant administrators, politicians and businessmen in denial; and through our joint efforts, energy and personal choices, placing them and ourselves firmly on the path to a more sustainable and more just world.

And listen to that guy on the street ;-)

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