Site map

1 Sept. 2006: This page in still in process. It should settle down in a week or so as we complete work on the site .

This is a rather large and sprawling site, and as such and even with the menus it can be easy to get lost. Fair enough, so here in a nutshell is our basic map of the action. Since it's always available to you on the left menu, we invite you to click it every time you are not clear about where you are or can't find something. Failing that, or if you spot anything which is clearly wrong or not clear, please click here and get in touch. We will try to fix whatever it is quickly, for you and for others who come here. Thanks.

Search engine:
Always available to you at the base of the left menu. Provides solid information on all content of site. Try it. For Search Help click here.

Top Menu:
Offers a quick left to right first time introduction to the program. Also a place where we occasionally post new sections that may be of interest. Here are a couple of the latest additions:

Fast track - If you are in a hurry . . .
Overview - Background and introduction to the program
Jump Start - A series of short videos which are intended to provide some lively brainfood
Idea Factory - The New Mobility Agenda discussion and exchange space where some three hundred international experts, practitioners and observers exchange information, leads, comments and critical appraisals. Also contains an extensive reference library and library of links and bookmarks.

START HERE:

1. Letter to the Mayor:
Our attempt to make concise contact with the city's leaders and policy makers and make the case for the New Mobility Advisory service and Briefs.

2. The Challenge:
This section has as its goal to see if we can convince as to why the old thinking and more traditional transportation approaches may not be the best way out of the environmental, service quality, and economic impasses in which most of our cities find themselves today. It is divided into sections as follows, so of which open to yet further pages within that broader heading.

The public health challenge
Old Mobility impasse - Practices and perspectives
OldMob living examples (videos)"
Old Moblity reminders - Visual evidence and commentaries
Big expert problem - Why are we in the US doing so poorly?
Pattern Break needed - Where do we start?
International cooperation - World eid partnership search

3. The way ahead:
Organized in five parts: has as its object to challenge your thinking and see if we can provide a certain number of mind-opening materials and media tools.

THE BRIEFS:
Explains how the program behind the Briefs is being organized, titles and coverage of future Briefs, and the process by which they are being produced.

Production Team:
Organized in several main parts: The production/editorial team is supported by the competences of the International Advisory Council, and for each brief with a distinguished panel of contributing editors.

International Advisory Council:
The International Advisory Council brings together a 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 -- people who in their work and through their personal examples 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.

Volume 1, Number 1. Carshare Strategies for cities:
Just about everyone with an ear to the wind has heard about carsharing. But do you know that until now there is almost no city in the world that has a strategy to make sure they get most our of it? Which is the goal of this first Brief.

Briefs Work Pad:
Here for now you will find assorted working materials that are being assembled for now in a semi-random way to support and eventually perhaps argue for new Briefs. This is work in progress and intended only as a first reference and organizational tool.

IMPLEMENATION: :
Here for the record is a pattern of use that we have observed in one recent project in a medium sized city which seemed to work very well for them. You will of course have your own.

Language editions:
It is our firm intention to make the Briefs available in other languages. And while the details as to how this is going to be accomplished are not as yet clear, the path already is.

The do-it-yourself tool kit:
Save yourselves four hundred dollars and create your own New Mobility Agenda and advisory service. A word of caution though, if your goal is to introduce short term improvement in your city, this process is going to take time, energy and patience. But it can be done.

BACKGROUND & ORIGINS:
Introduces four most important programs that have prepared the base and opened the way for the Briefs and the New Mobility Advisory Services.

Subscription:
Details on how to subscribe. Once these have been sent in, the subscriber will be invoiced and the subscription will begin with the next number.

Getting in touch:
Leads in to communications and distance group work tools which are central to this project, most of which via free or very low cost IP technologies.

Print dossier:
An abbreviated version of the main content of this site. Intended to serve as a quick print summary to have in hand, but not as a substitute for the coverage and interactive qualities of the full website.