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"The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them."
-- Albert Einstein
| The New Mobility Agenda in brief |
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".
The NMA offers four principal avenues of information, sources, contacts and tools for anyone who wishes to get a feel for what is going on at the leading edge of policy and practice in this fast moving field, much in need of new thinking and a whole new class of policies and actions):
- First Stop World Information Shop on New Mobility:
A pretty good "first stop shop" for anyone seeking information, insight and leads on developments and practices at the leading edge, taking the user far beyond the usual transportsources and reaching far into the very wide range of disciplines and approaches which are needed to make the challenging transition to a new mobility system that meshes better with the requirements and the possibilities of our age.
Introductory presentation
- The Programs and Focus Groups:
The Agenda is organized into a steadily evolving constellation of semi-self-contained, informal international partnership projects, each of which can be usefully consulted either on its own or in parallel with the more general flow of information and materials being developed within this New Mobility Agenda site itself. More than a dozen collaborative programs have thus far been developed, with more coming on line regularly as the work and energies of the more than one thousand active participats in the various focus groups advance. Programs and site organization
- International Advisory Councel/Peer Network
At its core, the Agenda has over the years developed an international peer network that brings together more than a thousand leading authorities, public policy makers, operators, academics and activists working every day to advance the sustainably agenda in their corner of the world. And we try to bring them together with . . . International Advisory Council
- Our Communications Toolkit (The New Mobility Bridge)
And to tie this individual and group competence together -- an increasingly powerful set of communications tools, with not only the usual websites, libraries, documentation and source links, but also a whole new set of low cost, accessible IP mediated tools, which are available to extend the reach of our information, exchanges and contacts, in a field in which we need to make use of every tool and trick available. New Mobility Bridge
Beyond this we have a vision of what it takes to create a sustainable mobility system. Have a look at our Building Blocks page to see if this scans for you. And check out the latest collaborative projects, which shows what can be accomplished if we put our heads together.
The Agenda is entirely financed and delivered by The Commons, an unfunded independent international volunteer program in Paris. The Commons: pioneering new concepts for activists, community groups, entrepreneurs and business; increasing the uncomfort zone for hesitant administrators and politicians; and through our long term world wide collaborative efforts, energy and personal choices, placing them and ourselves firmly on the path to a more sustainable and more just world.
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The organization of this site, while sprawling and very comprehensive on the one hand, is or at least should be quite simple to put to work. The first key to its ready use is provided by the two main menus.
And while that's all there is to it, the following more detailed section may help to fill you in on some of the details.
But as you read on here, you may do well to bear in mind , if you will, that the ultimate key to the usefulness of all the rich display that you will find in these pages and their many extensions lies in the extent of your curiosity, flexibility and willingness to treat all this as raw materials, rather like the machine translations you will find on many of these pages. The rough translations they cough up do not offer clear and certainly not linguistically definitive answers to the meaning of the various texts, but rather they offer useful tools, hints really that you can make good use of, if you chose to. For example.
The Agenda is organized into a steadily evolving constellation of semi-self-contained, informal international partnership projects, each of which can be usefully consulted either on its own or in parallel with the more general flow of information and materials that are being developed within this New Mobility Agenda site itself. More than a dozen collaborative programs have thus far been developed. To access them refer to the menu to your left. If you have ideas for yet other concepts that can make good use of this approach, this is the place to turn with your suggestions.
How to get around here
Overall site organization
What is New Mobility, why we are here and what we intend to accomplish.
You will need to consult these only if you are not a confirmed user of the web.
Members of the group are working with Wikipedia to ensure that policy makers, researchers, students, the media and the general public have a full appreciation of the key components of the New Mobility Agenda. Click here to check out the latest.
Go here for a quick introduction to the programs, on-going international collaboration and a quick review of the main tools at our disposal.
Selected direct links to a handful of international discussion groups which serve specific interest groups exchanging ideas and information in areas closely related to the concerns of this program
Start your sustainable morning with a good cup of coffee and today's Sustainable Mobility News on your screen.
This newsfeed calls up items from the world print press which will tell you what has gone on in our sector over the last 24 hours (and month). Try it. you will come back for more.
We have three sets of assets that allow us to get together to support outstanding project initiatives: (a) a lot of committed people who know a great deal about our topic, (b) a shared interest not only in improving physical movements but also in the sustainability and social justice agendas, and (c) an effective networking and communications medium. Read on.
The International Advisory Council brings together a very broad cross-section of the outstanding leaders, thinkers and activists in the full range of fields involved, representing many countries, disciplines, areas of expertise and points of view -- who in their work are leading the way to show how we go about the difficult task of rendering our mobility systems and cities more efficient, livable and sustainable.
The first practically-oriented journal dealing consistently and with full independence with the major issues of sustainable mobility. Get your free copy of this great New Mobility resource here.
Without using it and using it well, you have to believe me: you will not be able to get there from here.
There is plenty of low cost technology available to support international collaboration & advance the sustainability agenda world wide. And though technology is not going to solve all our problems and dilemmas of sustainable development, its role in the move to a more sustainable world is going to be critical.. (In process: stay tuned.)
A series of windows that can help you find a wide variety of information on your topic. This is a quite vast site and there is much in here that may not necessarily jump out at you. But you can Search for it. Check it out!
This is all you need to do to sign up for the World Forum (and the NewMob Cafe) and have access to their features.
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If you come to Paris, we want you to have a good stay here. Here you have a few leads which may help you do just that.
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