TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORTATION
OECD International Conference, Vancouver Canada, 24-27 March 1996

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Web Site Organization

Web Site Organization - A First Introduction

This Web site has been specifically constructed to support and enhance the March 1996 Vancouver Conference, Toward Sustainable Transportation. It has been structured not only to serve as a state-of-the-art electronic extension of and aid to the meeting -- itself an important and worthy objective -- but also to make a strong statement concerning the topic of the meeting itself.

Since transport as traditionally practiced -- if by that one means only brute physical movements of people and objects -- is in all too many situations in our modern world intrinsically un-sustainable, it was decided that it would be more than appropriate for this meeting, given its title and its announced objectives, to demonstrate to the world in concrete and visible ways that these objectives can be efficiently addressed by finding just the right admixture of what one might call the “old transport” (i.e., all those who are coming to Vancouver in order to be able to take advantage of the kinds of interactions and exchanges which really do require physical presence and proximity) with the “new transport” (which is essentially electronic in nature and which is the stuff of this electronic environment).

Against this somewhat unique background, this WWW site has been developed with two main objectives in view. First, to provide the physical meeting with a state-of-the-art supporting information and exchange backdrop, as a means for encouraging more intensive and efficient interaction, contacts and exchanges than the usual “manual” practices of the last half century. Second, to provide a base for what we might wish to think of as a “time-less and place-less electronic extension” of the Vancouver conference and its important topic. This last -- the electronic environment -- is intended as a means whereby the concerns and contributions of the meeting can be freely shared with what will, hopefully, eventually prove to be a very large number of people in many places around the world who are interested in and concerned about these issues but who may, for one reason or another, may not chose or be able to make the trip to Vancouver.

Those who come to this site for the first time should find it at least fairly easy to find their way around. It will probably be worth your time, if your are a first time user, to get some help and handy hints for easy navigation.

The reader is finally reminded that while this site has been developed with the encouragement and support of the Conference’s official sponsors, it nonetheless appears here as an independent effort on the part of EcoPlan and their electronic environment collaborators, and that the sponsors are in no way responsible for the contents, presentation or use of what is set out in these pages. If you have suggestions, reservations or objections, you are asked to contact:

EcoPlan, Centre for Technology & Systems Studies,
10 rue Joseph Bara, 75006 Paris, France
Tel. (331) 4326.1323 Fax (331) 4326.0746
100336.2154@compuserve.com
ISDN/videoconferencing (331) 4441.6340 .

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