Reinventing Transport:
An Open Brainstorm & Workpad
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    Introduction to Collaborator Workpad (ver. 1.1.0)

    Dear world-wide Colleagues,

    Welcome to this “workpad”: a rough assembly of ideas, references and images that I have pulled together over the last weeks as a contribution to (and with the help of) colleagues around the world who are hard at work on the challenges set out here. It draws on and considerably expands the opening keynote presentation I made on 11 June for the inaugural Cities for Mobility congress on the kind invitation of the Mayor and City of Stuttgart. It is supplemented by notes and additions which are intended to make it an easier read for those not present in Stuttgart. I have also expanded the final sections to provide some further leads about how cities might take advantage of this approach, after having been asked by several of those present to do just this.

    As you will quickly appreciate, what you will find here is no longer the stuff of a one-time presentation per se, but rather a set of raw materials intended for handy browsing, collegial exchanges, discussions, and eventual future presentations, including maybe by you. Long as it may be in this form, it shows just the tip of the very large iceberg of the considerable changes in thinking, policy and actual practices which are at work today shaping the transport sector of leading-edge cities around the world. But that of course you know.

    Need more? A good starting place is the References section (including two sets of rather striking short videos illustrating some of the problems and solutions our cities face in all this.) Beyond that you may find some help in the New Mobility Climate Emergency Program site at http://climate.newmobility.org and from the Cities for Mobility site at http://www.cities-for-mobility.org. (All references are directly clickable if you are looking at this in PowerPoint and are connected to the net.)

    For the Paris section most of the references are in French; in case you cannot read them easily, I would point you to http://translate.google.com/ where you can copy the URL into the address slot, to get basic working translations in German and English. The machine translations are far from perfect, but if you are genuinely interested to know they offer you a great start.

    The title page calls this an ‘invitation to an open brainstorm’ because I intend it as just that. So if you do have comments, corrections, challenges, or leads for how to make this better, please do get in touch. I would really be very pleased to hear from you and can use them for future editions. My coordinates: E: eric.britton@newmobility.org, T: +331 4326 1323. Skype: ericbritton

    Kind thanks, and I very much hope you have some fun with this. Eric Britton

    Eric Britton

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    To downloadlatest versions of New Mobility Collaborative Workpad

    Again these are quite large files and you have to be a bit prudent and make sure that your bandwidth is up to the task. In all cases you can find the file size indicated along with the software involved.

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    Some handy references

    Just below you will find some of the references to which we referred the some two hundred participants who came to Stuttgart from more than thirty counties on all continents. For more, we can refer you to the New Mobility Agenda references that you will find in the main menu of this site.

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