7 November 2006: This page has yet to be updated.

This free, informal, non-governmental forum has been created on the Internet by The Commons to serve as a shared central repository of international information, experience, tools and counsel for people and groups who feel that we can and need to provide a better mobility environment for our children and this for a wide variety of reasons which are going to be further explored and developed via this collaborative exchange and project.

Before biting into the content of this site, we would like to suggest that you first spend a few minutes familiarizing yourself with the operational terrain. Your first reference, as you will have already noted, is the menu frame that looms just to your left. Let's take a minute to work our way down the main headings together.

• The Road Map offers our quick opening guide to the basic mechanics of the Web site and its tools. We hate to say it but it's recommended reading.

• The Backdrop takes on the task of identifying what we think is the right problem focus for this cooperative activity, as well as identifying as many of the main groups and programs who are already active in the area and with whom we are hopeful of cooperating and supporting as best we can.

• Our Main Focus: There are two main physical target areas taken from our children's daily lives that we propose to concentrate on here: (a) the trip to school and (b) playing in the street near or close to home.

• 1st Joint Project exposes our first proposed international cooperative project: the development of a special Issue of the Journal of World Transport Policy & Practice, on the subject of The Walk to School.

• The eToolkit puts at your fingertips a fair range of software and tools that are intended to be useful both in helping contacting others with interests and experience in these matters, as well as for your own research purposes.

• The World Forum is where those directly involved in and interested in our shared agenda can come together to exchange information, questions, and hints.

• The IP Communications Bridge which provides a set of mainly free communications tools that will permit us to get together to share ideas, information and peer support.

• The final section on the menu takes you to the several dozen programs that presently make up The Commons, some of which have important overlaps with the matters that are under consideration here. We strongly recommend at least a brief tour here for first time visitors.