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The Greening of Transport in Cities:
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| Seven steps to reinvent transport in your city |
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Virtually all of the necessary preconditions are now in place for far-reaching, rapid, low cost improvements in the ways that people get around in our cites. The needs are there, they are increasingly understood -- and we now know what to do and how to get the job done. The challenge is to find the vision, political will, and leadership to get the job done, step by deliberate step:
- Vision and leadership: Open your eyes, break with the past, take on the real problems of mobility, well-being and economic health in your city.
- Tighten time frame for action: Set firm targets for all to see and judge -- gearing all actions to achieve visible results within 2-4 year time frame.
- Build a coherent integrated policy frame: that explicitly drives and aligns all goals, measures and actions so that they move together in interactive synergy
- Frugal economics: You are not going to need another round of high cost, low impact investments to make it work
- Focus Projects : Select FIVE new mobility innovations to lead your transformation, and then package and integrate them for success.
- Ownership: Make your New Mobility program a broad-based collaborative enterprise that listens to and engages the whole city.
- Pick winners: New approaches demand success. Chose policies and services with track records of success and build on their experience.
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| Brainstorm/Outreach for success |
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Welcome to this open group brainstorm which has been prepared to stimulate debate concerning the need for high-urgency reform of transport in cities. This section is presented here for your information and comment as a rough-cut working assembly of materials, ideas, references and images we have pulled together over the last months as a contribution to (and with the help of) colleagues around the world who are hard at work on the challenges of, no less than, "Reinventing transport in cities". It builds on a continuing research and advisory program (The New Mobility Agenda, since 1988), and over this last year has been the subject of series of presentations, workshops and meetings with a wide range of concerned people and groups in more than a dozen cities in Europe and North America.
The five presentations you find here have also benefited from critical scrutiny and commentaries by members of our highly respected International Advisory Council and by worldwide colleagues in the New Mobility Idea Factory, much of which has been incorporated into the materials as they now stand.
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| The New Mobility
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Unconstrained by bureaucracy, economic interests or schedules,
the New Mobility Agenda was launched in 1988 as an open international
platform for critical discussion, exchanges of materials and views,
and diverse forms of cross-border collaboration on the challenging,
necessarily conflicted topic of "sustainable transportation and
social justice".
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World City Bike Implementation Strategies |
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The concept of public bicycles is getting a great deal of media attention, and cities around the world are looking into the potential of this powerful transformative new mobility tool. This project is aimed to advise cities, public authorities and agencies as to how best to go about scouting, planning and implementing a city bike system of their own. But careful: it's not just "one more nice bike project". It is a New Mobility initiative -- and that all that goes with it. A real challenge -- and leraning opportunity -- for your city. More > > >
| World Carshare Consortium (1997 - present) |
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This cooperative program supports carsharing projects and programs, world wide. Since 1997 it offers a convenient place on the web to gather and share information and independent views on projects and approaches, past, present and planned future, freely and easily available to all comers. Your first stop shop for creating a world level carshare operation in your city.
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| The New Mobility Advisory Briefs |
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An open collaborative program aimed specifically at informing mayors, city managers and others who want to have a shot at making their transportation arrangements more agreeable and efficient in their city. And who are on the lookout for new ideas and approaches to get started. More > > >
| Accelerated Learning: Dialogues, Workshops, Outreach |
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Aimed at local decision makers, their staffs and advisors, these intensive two-day expert and public sessions bring together leading edge actors and materials focusing on specific high impact, low-cost New Mobility tools and measures. The first sessions are slated for Europe in March 2007. Others covering other areas are presently under discussion. More > > >
| The Journal of World Transport Policy & Practice (Since 1993) |
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Experts in transport, economics and ecology contribute probing papers dealing in an informed and even-handed manner with cross-cutting issues in world transport, case studies and reports of trials, and assesses the difficulties of balancing economic and ecological considerations as we strive to develop better and fairer transport systems.
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