Sustainability? We have to start with ourselves.	Check out the 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. Click here to see how this works..	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.
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 New Mobility Advisory/Briefs There is a great gulf between what is being looked at and done in the transport sector in most cities -- and the way it is being handled at the leading edge. But many of the most useful things that local government can put into play are insufficiently known in most places. The Briefs provide concise information and decision counsel to leaders on measures and policies that are making their way in leading world cities.
The NewMob 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.	Tough thinking about mobility, old and new The New Mobility ThinkPad is an open collaborative blog which brings together a steadily expanding collection with already more than one hundred essays and extracts from international sources which look at problems and solutions from a wide range of perspectives. It is intended as an open group sharing instrument. Click here to see how it works.
The New Mobility Bridge The Bridge is thus an ever-evolving, state-of-the-art, multi-level, low cost IP communications toolset developed over the last decade and deployed in our work with an expanding group of international partners and technologies in various configurations in specific projects aimed at advancing the sustainability agenda.	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 2007.
Kyoto World Cities 20/20 Challenge This wide-open international collaborative program is taking direct aim at this challenge. It is very ambitious and proposes rigorous, open and checkable short-term performance targets at the level of each participating city. But there is a lot more to this than "just" Kyoto Compliance.	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.
And listen to that guy on the street ;-)	Check out the latest NewMob Brainfood here
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