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  • Thinking exercise - The project in 100 words

    Is there a requirement, a potentially useful role for a more creative and powerful system of linkage, dynamic multi-level interaction, information exchange and eventually collaboration between the many and fast growing number of outstanding programs and their considerable knowledge and competence bases, with specific reference to the issues, roles and possibilities of the new mobility transport policy, planning, and practice?

    And if so: who, how, when, what next?

    Defining New Mobility - Key words

    What you have here are a net of terms and concerns which taken together differentiate the New Mobility approach from the traditional practices which are giving us so much difficulty in this hew and very different century.

    Access, transport, cities, climate, health, carbon, resource balance, emergency, sustainability, choice, consistency, time management, economic viability, social justice, non-car majority, women, children, freight, transport avoidance, land use, demand management, eTransport, digital, sharing, slowth, slugging, full cost pricing, taxes, near term action, international, viral, information, at-hand, organic, complex adaptive systems, seamless.


    Thinking about the learning community - key words

    These are proposed as clues and thinking points for this exercise and search for solutions. They will be more useful to those who are part of the search for new, better and fairer solutions.

    Research-policy-industry-public interest, independent units, focused, high expertise, innovative, data silos, universal search, peer-to-peer, dynamic sub-groups, open stacks, confidentiality, prioritizing, self-organizing collaborative network, swarm intelligence, open networking, layered access, new tools, multi-media, IT, GIS, full media streaming, social/professional networking, gated-access, mobile, always on, Dewey Decimal, DARPA.


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