Each city, its own Dialogue

Here you will find some general materials and thoughts as to ways of organizing the Dialogues, as based on our own experience in a number of cites and with some very different partners. But when it comes time to get to organize, each city will have to work with the New Mobility team to develop the approach that is going to serve them best.

This component of the program reports not only on successful experiences in concrete operating situations, but also provides insights on projects and problem-solving, including damage control when a given project may run into trouble along the way. Innovation is not always fully successful the first time around, and the process of performance monitoring, debugging and fine-tuning are critical to success and need to be understood by future innovators.

Public presentations

This opening session of the 2008 City Dialogues opens with a first set of five presentations and public discussions, which are intended to demonstrate in a collegial setting ways to manage the transition from old to new mobility based on our study of experience and accomplishment at the leading edge. Each presentation is intended to provide a step in a collaborative process of discovery, which not only attempts to communicate the lessons learned through actual path-setting projects and programs in cities around the world, but also to engage those present in an open discussion of if and how some of the best of these ideas might be put to work in the context of their city.

The selected earlier versions of the presentations you can access here have benefited over the last year from the critical scrutiny and commentaries by members of our highly respected International Advisory Council and by worldwide colleagues in the New Mobility Idea Factory.                Go to > > >

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New Mobility Fast Track: 2008-2012

This parallel project of the Agenda is intended among other things to provide useful follow-up materials, leads and counsel to flesh out the exchanges taking pace during the Dialogues, and in this way ensuring that there are practical raw materials in hand for following up and going further on the concerns and the ideas expressed in the Dialogues.

This major collaborative international project is charting the potential and the pragmatic step by step methods in which cities can move away from their stifling old mobility thinking and patters, into new practices which provide a far better match with the exigencies and the opportunities of twenty-first century cities. To appear as a special issue of the Journal of World Transport Policy & Practice in Autumn 2008.

For more on this collaborative international project, click here .

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Local outreach and dialogues:

From the vantage of the Agenda we consider it important that any such more general public presentations be complemented by direct contacts, exchanges and focused discussions with key groups and projects in the host city. Typically these exchanges stretch out over a day or more, so as to provide a wide base of views and expertise. This will be particularly important clearly for the fifth and last of the presentations, "Now, what about your city?".

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For more on this collaborative international project, click here .

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