10 July 2008: Still work very much in progress

This section presents our working vision of the overall report structure at this point, along with a working list of titles currently under discussion with group members and eventual authors. This is an iterative and a cooperative process. Additional topics are also under consideration. A more definitive listing will be posted here in the weeks ahead. But this should be enough to give you an idea of the intended flavor of this issue of the Journal. In the meantime do no hesitate to share your ideas and suggestions with us.

Setting the stage:

• Editor's note:
• Why we are here

Part 1: The New Mobility Environment: Out of the box of Old Mobility

1. It's a system, Stupid.
2. How Old Mobility went wrong.
3. The new metrics of New Mobility
4. A behavioral psychologist looks at Old Mobility patterns and behavior
5. The old positive feedback loops (And how to work our way out of them)
6. A worst case example of innovation gone wrong
7. Cars are not the enemy
8. How to create exponential decline in car use
9. Pressure points for change (Speeds, weights, straight lines, gas, perceptions, minds)
10. The risks of waiting (And what we can do about it)

Part 2: New Mobility Measures, Services and Strategies

1. Bike city (Transport cycling)
2. Carfree Housing: Gaining momentum
3. Carsharing, Working title: "Making sure that carsharing will be better implemented in city & environmental planning then it is today."
4. Convincing the agencies and foundations
5. Did I hear someone say (shared) taxis?
6. "Free" public transport (The new magic carpet)
7. Inclusive design practices: Making a difference
8. Mapping New Mobility - step by step
9. NewDrive: Strategies for car drivers in the new mobility environment
10. Old mobility diets (Cars, rides, hours, dollars, gallons, lanes, streets, speed, etc.)
11. Paying your way (Fair pay for cars and trucks)
12. Public Bicycle Systems
13. Public Transport - Redefines itself
14. Reconciling short and longer term
15. Ride-sharing: The way to go
16. Shared Space Principles for Street Design (Homage to Hans Monderman)?
17. Smart Growth - partnership strategies
18. The space between buildings
19. TPS (Transport Priority Systems: BRT, HOVs, etc.)
20. Unified New Mobility Pass (Smart card, all mode coverage)
21. Walkable Communities: Short term strategies and accomplishments
22. Why move? A New Mobility strategy you may not have thought of

Part 3: New Mobility Tools

1. Blogging the city into action
2. Carfree Days - What we have learned since 1994
3. Citizen maps show the way
4. Congestion charging; Lessons we have learned
5. Digital hitchhiking: It's in the pocket
6. Mesh networks:
7. Modeling the Near Term - to improve confidence in a different future
8. New Inicators for New Mobility
9. New Mobility Hubs
10. Playing the future: It will look like this

Part 4: New Mobility Agenda: Tying it all together

1. The importance of "packages of measures"
2. The Greening of Paris
3. Selected city profiles
4. Eastern European cities: Finding the way to New Mobility
5. Birth of a New Mobility Industry (new products and services)
6. Paying for it
7. Transformative strategies: Cities and people
8. The Happy City: Happiness and Mobility
9. Now what?

Afterword: The editor

Missing, insufficient coverage thus far:

• Freight
• E&H
• Land use/adjustment possibilities
• Congestion as policy
• Policing and enforcement
• Gettig rid of traffic lights and signs
• Playing by ear: Mobility and sound
• A gracious exit (or fight to the death)
• Compass and map, both needed
• Other???

You may have noticed that these are working titles, intended to remind us as we move ahead of the basic ideas that need to be captured. The time will come to be smoother.

Again and as a reminder, each author will be reviewing the experience and lessons of one or more specific exemplary cases in which city teams are showing the way as to how to being on high impact projects on line within the tight time frame that is our only responsible choice.

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