New Mobility Consult: Your Partners for Sustainable Mobility

One way of looking at World Streets and its worldwide network of diverse international partners, publications, programs, multiple networks, focus groups. continuing research and professional activity in our chosen field is to see it as the visible tip of a very large iceberg of experience and competence available to be put to work on your projects and programs.  The greater part of this considerable mass is the New Mobility Agenda, an open collaborative program that has been dedicated to sustainable transport policy and practice since 1988.   Here are some of the ways in which this international competence can be put to work for your city, agency or firm in 2013 and beyond.

On Carsharing: New Thinking about Transport in Cities

World Carshare Cities Program 2013: Brainstorming notes of 11 April 2013

1. There are many many different ways to share cars in 2013 (far more in fact than most of even the experts talk about when they make presentations on carsharing).

Equity, efficiency and the invisible majority

The old transport paradigm, the one we are still living with today, is far too narrow in terms of the range and quality of people targeted and services offered, and in the process fails to serve what is — in fact — the transpiration majority.

The “transportation majority” is not what most people think, transportation planners and policy makers among them.  The transportation majority are all those of us who increasingly are poorly served by the mainline service arrangements that eat up most of our taxpayer money and fail to offer them acceptable and efficient choices that mesh with their special needs and circumstances. And each year as our populations age this majority grows in numbers.

Sustainable mobility’s dirty secret – 2013 Italian sequel

This article by Enrico Bonfatti appeared yesterday in our sister publication Nuova Mobilità, and we are pleased to present it here, if only in a Google translation. If your Italian is up to it, best that you click here and read it in the engaging orignal. But if not, with a bit of patience and detective work on your part, the following is clear enough for the interested leader to be able to read and follow the main lines of the arguments.

xTransit – The Third Way of Getting Around in Cities

Our 21st century cities and the people who live and work in them have transportation requirements that have little in common with the historical patterns. Our actual service needs are closer to what we can see in successful car-based systems than the patterns associated with traditional public transport. That is to say, user requirements in this new life system are for the most part not linear, nor strictly time-cadenced. (This introduction is the first in a forthcoming series of articles on xTransit that will  appear in these pages. And you can be sure it will not be the last. xTransit is an important part of our worldwide transportation future .)

The Seven Simple Truths of Sustainable Mobility (Come argue with me)

Sometimes in life things can be simple. Let’s look at one case.

One of the problems with the hard up-hill fight for “sustainable transport” in cities and countries around the world is that so far everyone seems to have a different definition and a different agenda. True, there are an enormous range of interests and concerns. Among them such important things as :improving conditions for pedestrians and cycles, car access and parking control, more ridesharing, carsharing, taxisharing, more flexible and responsive public transport services, strategic deployment of economic instruments (to reflect full social costs), BRT, congestion charging, speed reductions, etc. The long list goes on.

xTransit, Ridesharing and next steps?

I would like to ask you two questions about this xTransit forum. It is a bit of an anomaly to me, in that the topic is really of very high importance – at least it should be – but this forum has not proven very lively. But first . . .

Dhaka city has its “own brain”.

On Behalf Of SAM Aminul Hoque
Sent: Friday, 24 December, 2010 02:24

Dhaka city has its “own brain”. Many transport system would not survive in most

of the other parts of the world but for Dhaka they are in operations. Traffic

are running there in a Mix traffic situation. Within Dhaka, the number of

transport mode in operation are not straight -like A) Bicycle & motorcycle, B)

Car, C) bus, D) Goods vehicle light & heavy E) Rail