Sustainability? Starting with ourselves.
Check out introductory videos here.

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 is 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 your city does 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.
Programs and Focus Groups
The Agenda is organized into a steadily evolving constellation of semi-self-contained, informal international partnership projects; each can be usefully consulted either on its own or, better yet, in parallel with the information and materials within this New Mobility Agenda site itself. More than a dozen collaborative programs have thus far been developed as you will see if you 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 World Carshare Consortium
This international networking program supports carsharing projects and programs, worldwide. Since 1997 offers a convenient place on the web to gather and share information and views on projects and approaches, past, present and planned future, freely and easily available to all comers. Carsharing is one of the many "two percent" solutions that together hold the key to the New Mobility Agenda. Check it out here.
And listen to that guy on the street ;-)
Check out latest NewMob Brainfood here
 


Site optimized for browsing with W3C standards and best viewed with resolution of 1024 x 768
Europe: 8/10 rue Joseph Bara 75006 Paris, France, Europe. T: +331 7550 3788
USA : 9440 Readcrest Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90210. T: +1 310 601-8468
No copyright © 1994-2010 The Commons ® Last updated on 20 July 2010