The New Mobility ThinkPad

Mad Car Owner Speaks Out

2008-06-02T16:46:00.001+02:00

Mad Car Owner Speaks Out (And the New Mobility Agenda listens) By Eric Britton, 1 June 2008 · Tired of sitting in your car in traffic that doesn’t move? · Feel like you are paying too much for too little? · Panicked at that huge price rise at the

Pain Today, Pain Tomorrow

2008-05-13T13:51:00.000+02:00

Pain Today, Pain Tomorrow [1] It’s amazing how pain today trumps pain tomorrow. Every time. Let’s take a look at one burning example: gas prices at the pump versus the on-going planetary ecological collapse. There may be a lesson or two to be learned there. Here we are, it’s 2008 and the message that our planet is in true danger of

Slouching toward Bethlehem: A Handy Collaborator’s Guide

2008-05-08T10:00:00.002+02:00

None of us likes change. Not at least when it comes to the ways in which we organize our daily lives. And yet there are times when we must shake off our normal lethargy and rise to the challenges that define us. Today, Victory in Europe Day. --or as it is known here in Paris, Fete de la Victoire --is the kind of day that gets one to thinking about how we deal, or not, with the big challenges

Do city bikes reduce cars in cities?

2008-03-11T11:41:00.003+01:00

Our colleague Sebastian Bührmann writes on Wednesday 5 March: Can anyone help with data regarding the following two questions? 1) Do public bicycle programs have had a noticeable effect on the use of cars in urban areas? 2) What is their impact on public transit use (do they hurt public transport operators or do they help)? --------------------------------------------------------------------

Velib - A cool view from Paris

2008-03-09T11:50:00.000+01:00

Check this one out. It gives a bit of the flavor of what this project is all about. (Click title just above for link. You'll see.)

A Transit-Free Day in Paris France

2007-10-19T16:04:00.000+02:00

One terrific learning opportunity that we all seem to rush by is what happens when parts of the system go down. - Eric Britton, EcoPlan, Paris. (on a lark. . . of sorts) "A crisis is a terrible thing to waste" I have always thought so too, and in the field in which I do much of my work – i.e., the ways that people get around in

Become a Green Driver and love it

2007-10-03T13:24:00.000+02:00

You've got to ac-centuate the positive - Eric Britton, EcoPlan, Paris. (on a lark. . . of sorts) Unlike most of you, I have to admit that I have never had an original idea in my life. Most of what I come up with is usually either borrowed, more or less innocently purloined , or has already been put forward on numerous occasions without

The Greening of Paris:

2007-09-03T13:32:00.000+02:00

Paris’s New Mobility Model You can access this PowerPoint presentation by clicking the above title link or right here. http://www.ecoplan.org/library/paris-draft.ppt. - - - - Introduction from full Greening Paris report: The city of Paris has over the years created for itself a mobility system that works and that in recent years has been innovating at a world level in many areas, and this

Commentary: “Toward green mobility: the evolution of transport”,

2007-04-08T22:41:00.001+02:00

Commentary: “Toward green mobility: the evolution of transport”, Jesse H. Ausubel, Cesare Marchetti and Perrin Meyer. European Review in May 1998, published by Cambridge University Press (UK) for the Academia Europaea. I have just completed reading an excessively idiotic article on the future of transportation written by three highly intelligent, certainly well-meaning and otherwise

Roads Are Too Important to Be Left to Governments

2007-03-05T11:19:00.000+01:00

Editor's note: In the spirit of equal time. ************************* Gabriel Roth, September 26, 2006 Billions of dollars and an overwhelming amount of time are wasted every year in traffic congestion. Might there be relief in sight? Earlier this year, former Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta announced a federal initiative to relieve transportation congestion, largely with the help of

A Ladder of Citizen Participation

2007-01-27T11:52:00.000+01:00

Editor’s note: Thanks to Chris Bradshaw for his timely heads-up on this, which relates closely to the thinking behind our New Mobility Ladder, one of many tools we think we should be able to put to work in the context of our eventual collaboration with the Clinton Climate Initiative. Stay tuned. - Sherry R Arnstein 1. Citizen participation is citizen power 1.1. Empty Refusal Versus

Putting the Wikipedia to work for the New Mobility Agenda. And for you.

2007-01-20T10:39:00.000+01:00

Editor's note: I hope that what follows may be useful to some of you. As you will see, I think it is an important and powerful tool -- which we can shape and put to work for the good cause. (You may also want to click to http://ecoplan.org/wtpp/general/wikipedia.htm for more background on the New Mobility Agenda/Wikipedia fit.) Introduction: For the last couple of years I have

Honey, you got to slow down

2007-01-20T10:04:00.000+01:00

The Flicker Fusion Factor Honey, you got to slow down (originally published in The New York Times) By Robert Winkler http://pages.cthome.net/rwinkler/fff.htm The closest we come to free flight in our lives is not when we take off in an airplane. It is when we drive our cars. The speed, altitude, centrifugal forces, and sensations of flying that we experience in an SUV, a sports car, or, in

The Week in Sustainable Mobility ???

2006-12-18T07:12:00.000+01:00

And if so, is this all there is to it? Comments welcome.Eric Britton The Week in Sustainable Mobility Mike Millikin http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/005605.html December 17, 2006 10:03 AM The global mean surface temperature in 2006 is currently estimated to be + 0.42°C above the 1961-1990 annual average (14°C / 57.2°F), according to the records maintained by Members of the World

Etymological evolutions - economics and politics

2006-12-17T18:35:00.000+01:00

A mail in from one of the active participants in our Land Café. Reactions? I suggest that you might add them both as Comments here, and copy to Dan via pimann@pobox.com. Eric Britton From: Dan Sullivan [mailto:pimann@pobox.com] Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 4:11 PM I am interested in the evolution of English-language words,

The Great Leap China Car Free Days Idea Factory

2006-12-08T12:58:00.000+01:00

Outline draft proposal for an open brainstorm Kindly preserve subject line in future posts; It’s soon 2007 and we have now accumulated more than a dozen years of international experience with Car Free Days of many sorts in many places. Against this background the goal of this proposed group thinking exercise is to see what we might get out of it if we launch an open group brainstorm on

China’s Sustainable Transport: Strategy Vision and Policy Recommendations

2006-11-27T08:52:00.000+01:00

Editor’s note: As part of our strategy over at the Journal of World Transport Policy and Practice, we are placing this summary introduction to the latest number here for your information and comment. To access the full volume all you have to do is click the above title. Let us know what you think of this, as well as any other ideas you might have for importing the journal and its potential

Sustainable Mobility: Seen to the Year 2030

2006-11-21T10:23:00.000+01:00

Wireless systems help drivers find a spot to park

2006-11-20T10:07:00.000+01:00

Editor’s Note: The following article taken from the International Herald Tribune of 20 November 2006 is interesting enough in itself, but what strikes me is that it gives us a pointer toward the kinds of “always on/always there” personal communications that are going to underlie what we here like to refer to as “xTransit”. The missing link, if you will. Stay tuned. This is only getting

Wafrika waamke - African Transport Survival Forum

2006-11-15T17:57:00.000+01:00

Wafrika Waamke - African Transport Survival Forum -----Original Message----- From: Eric Britton [mailto:eric.britton@ecoplan.org] Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 10:34 AM To: 'Sustran-discuss@jca.apc.org', 'GlobalSouth@yahoogroups.com' Subject: Wafrika waamke - African Transport Survival Forum Now, dear friends, here is a challenge truly worthy of your genius, imagination and compassion –

New Mobility Agenda – Focus programs and peer discussions

2006-11-12T14:59:00.000+01:00

The New Mobility Agenda – Focus programs and peer discussions Tuesday, November 21, 2006 The New Mobility Agenda has a twenty year track record as a independent, open, and diversified world wide collection of collaborative peer programs which undertake to demonstrate how progress can be made, step by careful step, toward more sustainable communities and lives by creating more human

New Mobility Kids Network - An Introduction and Update

2006-11-11T19:31:00.000+01:00

Paris, 11 November 2006 New Mobility Kids Network - An Introduction and Update An open letter to participants in the earlier Children on the Move! program (1999) and our friends in Lots Less Cars. And this is to ask if you and anyone on any of your networks might be interested to be informed about and perhaps even participating in some way in a new open collaborative project just

Eric Britton - invites your ideas as to how to develop the Kids New Mobility project

2006-11-10T15:07:00.000+01:00

Eric Britton - invites your ideas and suggestions in this quick draft video outlining an open plan as to how to develop Kids New Mobility project and tool kit in this next stage. For full details on site at http://www.kids.newmobility.org or click the title above.

Motor Mania

2006-10-29T19:22:00.000+01:00

Motor Mania - 1950 From Wikipedia entry at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_Mania: Motor Mania is a cartoon made by the Walt Disney Company in 1950. In this Jekyll and Hyde-spoof cartoon, Goofy, in one of his first episodes of the "Goofy the Everyman" series, takes on a split personality when he gets behind the wheel and provides the lowdown on how not to drive safely. The cartoon shows how

Paris, Parks, Public Spaces & Policy - Not an accident

2006-10-22T11:21:00.000+02:00

From National Geographic of October 2006 That we should find nature rejuvenating is hardly surprising. After all, our tribe arose not in cinderbelt but in wild forests and grasslands. Our ears are made not for the stinging scream of sirens but for the sly scratch of a predator's paws and the whistle of wind that warns of impending weather. Our eyes evolved to tease apart not the monotonous