What you have here is a pure brainstorming exercise. It is meant as food for thought if you are on the lookout for innovative ideas and new approaches with proven track records that just might adapted to do an important job in your city, at a time when the circumstances are radically different from what most of us faced in the past.

If you are interested in discussing your problem, project or opportunity, get in touch and we can talk it over. In the meantime, if you wish to get a better feel for our work and approach, we invite you to have a look at three of more than a dozen major on-going programs here.

1. City Audits/Peer Reviews. Short-term collaborative advisory missions provide rapid independent expert audit/ peer review in support of a city team, public agency or other sponsor engaged in early phases of laying base for a new program, project or approach that breaks with traditional sector practices.

2. World Streets. The 21st century newspaper published by the New Mobility Partnerships that has a single job: to provide you with high quality, readable , concise food for thought, and leads specifically on the topics of sustainable mobility, sustainable cities, and sustainable lives, world-wide.

3. The New Mobility Agenda. Does your city have a mobility philosophy? Sorry, but if you don't have an explicit, carefully thought out, coherent, widely supported, and consistently followed sustainability philosophy, you're in trouble. Having a workable philosophy is the indispensable first step to a sustainable and viable system. Check out the Agenda for some ideas on this.

4. Messages to America. Immediately after the US elections in November, the National Journal in Washington, DC, created an expert blog in which they have invited a couple dozen "transportation insiders" (their words) in order to provide a diverse conversation and eventually counsel and decision guidelines to the transportation team of the incoming Obama administration. You can find our contribution by clicking here.

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