Who? Mayors, city managers, elected officials, decision makers and their supporting staffs charged with making decisions about the transportation system of their city. And local environmental action and transport groups, consultants and university researchers. (> > > more.)
What? Three intense, tightly focused expert sessions in all, each organized around a single "hot" New Mobility topic -- prepared and supported by a high level international group with extensive hands-on experience in leading cities and implementations world-wide.
Each session focuses on policy and planning considerations from the specific vantage of city government, local leaders, and other concerned groups who are in a position to make these policies and measures happen in their cities and/or to support them so that they happen in a way that will benefit the entire community.
This year the assembled international experts, mayors, local leaders and their specialist advisors are looking at
Where? Monaco. The Grimaldi Forum (> > > more.)
When? 29 March -1 April 2007 (> > > more.)
Why? Because the tough truth is that we have arrived at a point of major discontinuity in the daily transport arrangements, in our cities and in our lives.
Look out the window this morning and what do you see -- despite all the hard work you have done and hard-earned taxpayer money you are spending on the sector? Increasing traffic congestion. Lost time. Mounting pollution and public health problems. Accidents. Poorly served groups and areas. Swelling subsidy costs. City centers in economic duress. Declining tax base. And now fears of $100 oil, global warming and suddenly the chilling prospect of energy blackmail. The old system may once have worked, but today it is clearly no longer doing its job. And in case you haven't noticed it, the voters are starting to. Sustainability and sustainable transportation are now emerging as major election issues.
And because few cities are as yet taking full advantage of the many, proven, low-cost, high-impact measures and policies that they can put to work and get visible results without delay - on the condition that the decision makers at the top put their minds to it. (The politics of sustainable transportation.)
Languages: The Dialogues will be supported by simultaneous translation into English and French. (Provision for additional languages can be negotiated with the organizers.) And to facilitate access to these materials for non-English language speakers, each page of the site provides one-click machine translation buttons for rough instant translations into Dutch, German, French, Italian Portuguese, Spanish and Russian. (> > > more.)
The Exhibition In addition to the Dialogues, EV/ER 2007 is supported by exhibits of outstanding cities, suppliers, agencies and others working to advance these important sustainability tools and concepts. (> > > more.)
Registration opens 1 November 2005. > > > more.
Additional background Check out the New Mobility Advisory/Briefs for more on both the general approach and on the developing details of all three tracks. > > > more.
Have any questions? > > > more.
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