Some first thoughts

We are going to be spending three lively days in Kaohsiung in September and certainly many of us are going to find this was a creative experience. But now what? Once the doors close in Kaohsiung do we simply make our ways back home three days older and ready to get back to the "real work" at hand? Or was our time together, for some of us at least, the beginning of something new and important? This we will have to meet and work at together in order to be able to answer.

But from the outset the organizing team, the Task Force and the International Advisory Council behind them, have a few thoughts about what can be usefully done next, or at least consider. in order to advance the share/transport agenda in the year ahead.

• World Share/Transport Forum 2011; The Kaohsiung conference is seen as the first in a series of international and regional attempts to put our heads together to advance the cause of share/transport both in general and in its many specific proven forms both in specific places and more generally. So where will the World Share/Transport Forum meet in 2011? And what about the 2012 Conference? It is not too early to get started on both. We shall need to talk about this as well.

• Workshops/Master Class sessions: It strikes us that there is now considerable potential for finding partners, international, regional and other, for organizing workshops and Master Classes in specific cities and countries that feel that they will do well to know more about this "new" way of getting around in cities.

• A Public Resource: How to organize to continue making this website a useful resource for those interested in various aspects of share transport in general and perhaps more specifically for Taiwan and China, at least over the six months following closure of this first Forum. The site already contains quite of bit of information and a structure for helping others research and get to know the topic better. It would be a waste if we were simply to close it down on the last day of the Kaohsiung conference.