Unconstrained by bureaucracy, economic interests or schedules, The Commons' @ccess program was launched in 1988 as a focused, long term cooperative effort, intitially under the name "Cities without Cars". The idea was quite simply to work up and maintain an open international platform for critical discussions, exchanges of materials and views, and diverse forms of cross-border collaboration on the difficult subject of "sustainable transportation".

After more than a decade of work and accomplishment, today's revised and extended program now offers a whole new range of electronic group work tools, materials and interfaces to support transport thinking, policy and practice at the leading edge of our challenging field.

@ccess on the Web is organized into an evolving constellation of semi-self-contained partnership projects, each of which can be usefully consulted in parallel with the more general flow of information and materials that are being developed within this @ccess site itself. More than a dozen collaborative @ccess programs have thus far been developed. To access them refer to the menu to your left. If you have ideas for yet other concepts that can make good use of this approach, this is the place to turn with your suggestions.