Welcome to the New Mobility Agenda
Unconstrained by bureaucracy, economic interests or schedules, the Agenda was launched in 1988 as an Open Society platform for critical discussion, exchanges of materials, and diverse forms of cross-border collaboration on the challenging, necessarily conflicted topic of "sustainable transportation and social justice". Check out the Agenda's aggressive 20/20 New Mobility Action Program.
WBCSD 'Sustainable Mobility report'
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development has just issued an ambitious and much heralded report by a consortium of auto and energy producers in which it set out to identify 'pathways to sustainable mobility'. We have invited critical discussion and comment in the form of an International Peer Review. Their report and the group's critical review is available from here .
New Mobility World News
The internet gives unprecedented opportunities to stay abreast of latest sustainable mobility developments world wide. This new tool set provides one click overviews of latest developments in five languages (and counting). Read it with your morning coffee. You may be surprised at how much is going on in this patently unsustainable world.
World Car/Free Days
Cities around the world are beginning to work with this ice-breaking sustainability approach. It's not research or theory; it is policy and practice. Information, discussion space and ideas for those who care about sustainable mobility and aren't afraid to work at it. (Major push underway to organize workshops/dialogues to support more amibitious C/FD programs with enhanced local support.)

World CarShare Consortium
Why are we supporting a concept that may to some appear to be so off-beat and marginal as carsharing? Simple! We think it's a great, sustainable, practical mobility concept whose time has come. Carsharing: the missing link in the world's new sustainable transport system. 2004 is the first year of the new carsharing era. Consider it for your city today!



Value Capture Initiatve
When our public servants invest our hard earned taxpayer dollars in investments that improve our communities and increase the value of real estate in the impacted areas, some or all of this increment should be recouped in order to fund much needed public services. This is easy to say but hard to do. So tune in here and lend a hand in this important task.
Children on the Move
A place to share and develop ideas, materials and collaboration on matters involving the ways our children can and could move around in their daily lives. And how we can perhaps help them better understand and link their personal mobility choices to the broader challenges of sustainability and full lives. (To be jointly reactivated in 2004. Check it out.)
Collective Actions/Peer Support
We have 3 main assets that allow us to get together to support outstanding project initiatives: (a) a group of highly knowledgeable committed people with diverse backgrounds and points of view, (b) a strongly 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 to see how we are putting this to work in 2004

World Transport Policy & Practice
Since 1995 the first practically-oriented journal dealing consistently and with full independence with the major issues of sustainable mobility. Click here to visit the electronic version of the Journal through 2002. (And here to get the latest copy of the Journal direct from John Whitelegg at the new site for Eco-logica in Britain.)
United Nations Car Free Days Programme
The Commons was approached by the UN in 2001 to lead this cooperative program in preparation for the World Summit on Sustainable Development. This program has made some useful first steps but now needs to be re-examined, overhauled and redirected in order to achieve its ambitious objectives. Negotiations & hard thinking in process.
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.
Stockholm Partnerships for Sustainable Cities
Building blocks of your new system
 

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