Program Overview

In brief . . . Program Overview

New thinking about mobility - - >

3 sets fo things here

Most people may not have grasped this yet, but the simple truth is that we have arrived at a point of major discontinuity in the transport arrangements, in our cities and in our lives. Few are more aware of this than you: Increasing traffic congestion. Lost time. Mounting pollution and public health problems. Accidents. City center in duress. Poorly served groups and areas. Swelling subsidy costs, And now fears of $100 oil and global warming. The old system may once have worked, but today it is clearly no longer doing its job.

Fortunately not all the news is bad. Quietly a new era is taking shape and has already made sufficient progress so that it can be seen and learned from in the places where it is already doing its job -- offering real world, on-street and in-pocketbook improvements, many of which can be put to work in your city or community. And by contrast with traditional practices, these new approaches can generate results within an extremely short period of time -- and at much lower levels of cost.

What exactly do you have here? The store analogy

(In earlier working versions of this site as we were collecting critical comments and suggestions from colleagues and members of the International Advisory Council, we were told that they had some confusion as to what we were trying to do or "selling" here: Was it a publication? Consulting services? Free information? Useful challenges, which led us to developing the following attempt to explain in a few words the broad thrust of what we are trying to get up to.)

Think of this as a store. Our 'product' here is, in a phrase, an array of things that can lead you to more sustainable transportation arrangements. We call this product "New Mobility", -- and since there are in fact many different kinds of products, and because they relate potentially to each other in many useful ways, we call the entire product line, the New Mobility Agenda.

And like any good store or distribution point that is in or near a disaster area (sorry but . . . ), we have products which for various reasons (mainly relating to our costs) we are obliged to sell. And others that happily we are able to give away to those who are ready to put them to use.

When you come into this store, you will see that there are three main "counters", each of which gives you a way to obtain the goods and services that you may need.

The Briefs: The first of these counters sells a product which we call the New Mobility Advisory/Briefs. It is both an occasional publication, but also a kind of introductory kit which is intended to help our customers better understand how this particular product (measure or tool) is best situated and best used in their application area (in short, their city or community).
- Click here for more on the Briefs
The Advisory Services: The second counter deals in services, which can be had either independently or in conjunction with the Briefs. Some of these services are free, and others are available at a price. But since we know that most of our clients are not cash-rich when it comes to pursing these types of services, we have made a major effort to ensure that they are not only of very high quality, but also reasonably priced and highly cost-effective.
- Click here for more on the Advisory Services
The Do-it-yourself Kit: The third counter has no cash register, since its job is to give things away. This is what we call the Do-it-yourself New Mobility Kit, and while like any other good kit it requires thought and work to get it up and going, it is there and available for all who are looking for new ideas and tools to improve transport and quality of life in their communities.
- Click here for more on the Do-it-yourself Kit