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The initial partners behind this project have been led by the City of Kaohsiung in partnership with the Chinese Institute of Transportation in cooperation with the National Taiwan University. The contribution of the New Mobility Partnerships and Netowrk has been to work with the principal partners to share its international expertise in this new approach to a better balancing of the transport systems of our cities and rural areas, world-wide. with particular attention to low-carbon goals.
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As a contribution to international understanding in this fast
In order to develop Kaohsiung City as a livable and sustainable city, the policy of Transportation Bureau is public transportation oriented, adopting the idea of sustainable traffic, and standing by the principle of "give first, take later" strategy, offering mainline and shuttle buses for the Kaohsiung MRT and the High Speed Rail, purchasing new buses and weeding out old ones, adjusting bus routes, and establishing a bicycle traffic network and parking facilities.
Until public transportation becomes well-established, needs of private transportation will be discouraged and public transportation encouraged with the principles of economy. Our policy goal is to build Kaohsiung as a public transportation oriented ever-lasting city by increasing city-wide usage of public transportation to 15%.
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Since its establishment in 1985, the Chinese Institute of
Being the first integrated and most prestigious institution of
The leadership in this conference and the program behind it (World Share/Transport Forum) is led by the Division of Transportation Engineering, of the Civil Engineering Department in National Taiwan University. Click here for link (Appears in own window)- http://www.ntu.edu.tw/engv4/
The Taiwan National Science and Technology Program - Energy is the tenth national project promoted by the National Science Council. The program coordinates multidisciplinary and multiagency research teams in academic research, promotes industrialization of breakthrough technology, establishes core research facilities, and provides extensive education program to the public in hope to create the next "Taiwan Miracle". It has a large range with specific character. From a research point of
In line with its vision of building a green future for the community, Kokusai Kogyo Group has generously stepped forward to provide financial support for the Young Scholars/Future Leaders program through underwriting the creation of the 2010 Jason Chang International Fellowships. This contribution is permitting the organizing team to bring in a dozen highly qualified young people working on these issues from cities in China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Nepal, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and a substantial delegation of future leaders from Taiwan - for a program of site visits, brainstorming sessions, seminars, active participation in this first conference of the World Share/Transport Forum.
New Mobility Agenda: Unconstrained by bureaucracy, economic interests or schedules, the New Mobility Agenda was launched in 1988 as a wide open international platform for critical discussion and diverse forms of cross-border collaboration on the challenging, necessarily conflicted topic of "sustainable transportation and social justice". There are no easy answers - but there are answers . . . if that is you are willing to take off the fetters and get to work. Go to http://www.newmobility.org
World Streets: World Streets is an independent, internet-based collaborative knowledge system specifically aimed at informing policy and practice in the field of sustainable transportation, and as part of that sustainable cities and sustainable lives.
World Streets has four main functions: (a) It is a specialized weekly journal. (b) A collaborative international network. (c) An in-depth international resource. And finally (d) an active lobby for sustainable transportation, sustainable cities and sustainable lives, supporting projects and programs all over the world. Go to: http://www.worldstreets.org
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emerging but largely unexplored field, the city of Kaohsiung is organizing, together with an international team from the Chinese Institute of Transport (CIT), a three-day international conference and brainstorming session to take place from 16 - 19 September 2010, in which a number of people working at the leading edge of these matters will come together, first to examine together the general concept of sharing in the 21st century. And then, once this broader frame and understanding has been established, go on to consider how sharing as an organizational principle is working out in each of the individual mobility modes which are rapidly gaining force in cities around the world.
Transportation (CIT) has been endeavored to promote academic researches on the topics of transportation system planning, design, operation, and management. By exchanging professional knowledge and experience in conferences, CIT has been assisted local governments and transportation operators in developing more efficient transportation systems to improve their transportation service quality. (Click here for CIT link 
CIT is also a founding members of Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies (EASTS) in 1994 and since then CIT has initiated and taken an active role in several international cooperative research projects, including mixed traffic flows, transportation safety, ITS, BRT, and Transportation solutions for Mega-Cities.
(Click here for EASTS link 
higher education in Taiwan area, National Taiwan University has taken up the responsibility of promoting the level of academic research study and teaching in Taiwan, and has from the very start put emphasis on scholarly research in basic theory and on free atmosphere of academic thought. The University thus sets its objective for development in three major fields: humanities and social sciences, basic sciences, and applied sciences.
view, the content of the last few national projects (with national hazard mitigation projects being an exception) were technology areas that are still at the initial development stage and not yet mature. However, energy technology has been a global focal point for a century and deals with more mature technology fields like fossil energy, nuclear energy, renewable energy, hydrogen technology etc., which are no longer new terms or new territories. Even renewable energy, except biomass, has mostly been developed since 20 years ago and is now at the stage of market technology that pursues lower costs and higher efficiencies. Go to: 
