Start Here Introductory Page- The AB2010 Forum has been created for the purposes of ensuring two main things about ITS developments in the greater Bilbao region: First, that the various systems and deployments which are made under this broad heading are developed on a coordinated basis from a broad regional perspective (rather than independent, ad hoc, and almost assuredly sub-optimal). And second, that they are planned and implemented not as "interesting technologies" but rather as instruments that can help the Bilbao region move in steady and rapid steps toward a more sustainable transportation system and a more sustainable way of life.

From Bilbao,

How To Get Around @Bilbao

@Bilbao provides an open electronic platform which is being built up deliberately and in stages in an attempt to provide an innovative "open work space", making thoughtful use of new communications technologies and organizational techniques to do this as they come on line, in order to advance the relationships and work behind the AB2010 long term agenda. As you will see the program is supported by an impressive array of communications and information tools, which are continuously being revised and extended to better serve the Forum, the transportation system, and the people of Bilbao.

Given the nature of our cooperation, and the fact that our Forum colleagues are not only geographically very dispersed throughout the Basque Country and beyond, but also are the main source of its orientation and content, it is important that the communications components permit us to function both efficiently and interactively. This is critical in a cooperative effort such as this, given that the greater part of the content and originality of this site ultimately will come from the ingenuity and willingness of each of us who are involved with the forum to contribute and share with others. These interactive capacities are thus the means whereby all this communication and sharing can take place. It is important too because it allows us to develop these platforms of cross-boundary collaboration and exchange that incorporate great diversity of backgrounds and points of view, and which encourage independent critical thinking.

The Key Working Tools

1. The Menu Bar
Your first guide in using these tools is the Menu bar just to your left, which provides a first set of indications and means of access. If this is your first time here, you may want to click your way down it to get a feel for how the site is organized. The Menu is your constant companion and source of orientation as you move around the site. You may notice that some of the links are preceded by a small icon. You may find it useful to click on these before using that link the first time, since they offer useful guidelines for their easy and full use.

2. The Help Desk
Your main guide and source of on-line help here is the Help Desk. You will see it sitting right on top of the Menu -- and there it stays no matter where you are on the site. In addition to providing a compact introduction to many of the tools that are included in our rather comprehensive package, it also can be useful as a check out for your own equipment, software and work routines. Strongly recommended for the first time user. You may be pleasantly surprised at how much it has to offer.

3. The @Forum
If you wish to make full and fluent use of these very useful interactive communications capabilities, you will want to familiarize yourself with the second major tool collection that has been prepared in support of this site, namely the @Forum. This you can enter simply by clicking the @Forum link to your left. As to the dozen or so information and communications tools that you will see below that icon, the workings of each is individually explained by a mini-help function that you can reach by clicking the small icon that precedes each link. For an overview of how the Forum is organised please go to Putting the @Forum to Work.

4. @Conferencing
You are now able to use the @Forum for real time voice and data conferences, bringing together speakers and discussants for useful joint sessiosn at a miniscule fraction of the economic and environmental cost of the usual physical meeting. To take full advantage of these terrific new tools, you will have to take the time and trouble to prepare them properly. Prepare them as carefully as you would any peer meeting and you will get results. You will find further help for this in the Conferencing section here, as well as under the Talk Help button of the eFrorum.

5. Software Tools
The material that is out there on the Internet for you to consult and use is placed there in many forms: many kinds of text files, graphics, voice, video, compressed files, etc. If you do not already have all the tools you need to access this information, the Software Toolkit is the place to turn.

6. Translations
There is a lot of materials out there on ITS and the other matters which are of concern to our group that are not available in Spanish. So have a look at what we have pulled together on Machine Translations, and decide if it may be useful for you. There is a huge lot of good stuff out there on the Web, and in more languages than any of us can master. This little utility is showing us the direction in which we are heading. Might as well start taking advantage of it now.

7. What's New?
This should be your convenient update on all the latest activity on the site, which you may want to check each time you come in... once you have mastered the basics of the site iteslf.

You will find that there is already a significant array of tools at your disposal: tools which are efficient, low cost and easy to access with a single mouse click. Moreover, this panoply of communications utilities is steadily being expanded and improved. Stay tuned.

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