Sustainability? Starting with ourselves.	Check out introductory videos here.
Welcome to the New Mobility Agenda Unconstrained by bureaucracy, economic interests or schedules, the Agenda was launched in 1988 as a wide open international platform for critical discussion and diverse forms of cross-border collaboration on the challenging, necessarily conflicted topic of "sustainable transportation and social justice". There are no easy answers - but there are answers is you are willing to take off the fetters and get to work.	What's the problem? Judged from a planetary or Kyoto perspective, or from an individual or public health perspective, or an economic perspective, or ... or ... our present arrangements for transport in cities are seriously damaged. As things stand today in city after city around the world, they threaten health in the city and on the planet. They are dangerous. They are costly. They are disruptive. They are thoroughly dysfunctional. And they are howlingly unfair.
World Streets: The New Mobility Daily Our planet's only sustainable transport daily. An independent, internet-based collaborative knowledge system specifically aimed at informing policy and practice in the field of sustainable transport, and as part of that sustainable cities and sustainable lives. Insights and contributions from leading thinkers and practitioners around the world	Share transport: The Third Way "Share transport" is the largely uncharted middle ground between the familiar mobility poles of "private transport" (albeit on public roads) and mass transport (scheduled, fixed-route services) at the two extremes. It needs to be far better understood by policy makers, researchers and practitioners alike. In most cities it is a missing opportunity that deserves a far closer look. So we are looking.
Does your city have a mobility philosophy Sorry, but if your city does not have an explicit, carefully thought out, coherent, widely supported, and consistently followed philosophy of the main underpinnings of your mobility arrangements, you can bet you're in trouble. Having a workable philosophy is the indispensable first step to a sustainable and viable system. There is no way around this.	Programs and Focus Groups The Agenda is organized into a steadily evolving constellation of semi-self-contained, informal international partnership projects; each can be usefully consulted either on its own or, better yet, in parallel with the information and materials within this New Mobility Agenda site itself. More than a dozen collaborative programs have thus far been developed as you will see if you click here.
International Advisory Council The 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 World Carshare Consortium This international networking program supports carsharing projects and programs, worldwide. Since 1997 offers a convenient place on the web to gather and share information and views on projects and approaches, past, present and planned future, freely and easily available to all comers. Carsharing is one of the many "two percent" solutions that together hold the key to the New Mobility Agenda. Check it out here.
The New Mobility Idea Factory The first pillar of our communications net, now updated and extended: Since 1996 offers a free, public, flexible, open discussion space for those who feel that our transport systems need to be, and can be made to be, more sustainable and more just -- and who wish to exchange ideas and information about it.	Knoogle New Mobility 1.1 The first iteration of a power search engine specifically tailored to help you efficiently scan several hundred programs, projects and sources that constitute the leading edge of up-to-date information on policy and practice in the new mobility field world-wide. It's main job: to connect all those great silos to mulitiply their impact by 10*100. Click here to try it out.
Why we try to translate? Not everybody on this teeming planet who cares about sustainable development and new mobility has ready access to English at the level that permits them to read through the many materials presented here, almost all in that language. From the outset of their availability we have tried to make best use of the free web-based translation tools. Click here to see how we are trying to handle this challenge in 2009.	The Commons A wide open, world-wide forum concerned with improving our understanding and control of technology as it impacts on people in their daily lives. Seeking out and supporting new sustainability concepts for business, entrepreneurs, activists, community groups, and government; a thorn in the side of hesitant administrators, politicians and businessmen in denial; and through our joint efforts, energy and personal choices, placing them and ourselves firmly on the path to a more sustainable and more just world.
And listen to that guy on the street ;-)	Check out latest NewMob Brainfood here
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