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The rough road to sustainable mobility: Values, priorities, behavior . . and...

What many people call “transportation” . .  is at its very essence not about road or bridges, nor vehicles or technology, and not even about money.  Above all it is about people, their needs, fears,...

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Outreach for success: Local actors & implementation partners

Too often when it comes to new transport initiatives, the practice is to concentrate on laying the base for the project in close working relationships with people and groups who a priori are favorably...

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Seventeen plus 1 reasons why I am prudently optimistic about the...

Shortlist of Transformative Realities and Trends One of the great recompenses of having watched the sustainable transportation and related technology developments evolve over the course of several...

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Op-Ed. The car has a chokehold on Britain. It’s time to free ourselves

From The Guardian. George Monbiot, 1 August 2017   We tell ourselves that we cherish efficiency. Yet we have created a transport system whose design principle is profligacy. Metal carriages (that...

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Transportation Innovation and Reform: The Path to Social Sustainability

As wise and balanced a summary as you will find of the fine art of dialogue and engagement when it comes to the hard job of developing and integrating new transport arrangements into a space as varied...

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WHOSE OPINION MATTERS? Lessons from a Stakeholder Engagement Process for...

Lessons from a Stakeholder Engagement Process for Penang, Malaysia Author: Minal Pathak • MIT-UTM Malaysia Sustainable Cities Program 2017 – Commentary by Eric Britton, Professor of Sustainable...

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OP-ED: WHOSE OPINION MATTERS IN PENANG?

Lessons from a Stakeholder Engagement Process for Penang, Malaysia For background and details see...

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Why Alternatives Analysis is critical to Penang’s transportation future

Alternatives assessment or alternatives analysis is a problem-solving approach used in environmental design, technology, and policy. It aims to minimize environmental harm by comparing multiple...

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Battles of Ideas

This section is intended to be developed into an international reference set to be useful for researchers, students, the media and for concerned citizens and activists on the lookout for ideas and...

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Taiwan East/West New Mobility Innovation Challenge 2017. Events: Getting...

Events: Getting ready for Taiwan 2017 Collaborative Mission This year’s program combines site visits, brainstorming sessions, conferences, presentations and vigorous questioning, looking, listening and...

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The World Climate Emergency . . . and the Legend of the Hummingbird

The bedtime story I tell to my grandchildren: One day, a very long time ago and in a faraway place, or so the legend goes, there was a huge forest fire that was raging the entire countryside. All the...

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THANK YOU FINLAND ON YOUR HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF INDEPENDENCE AND...

Part I: Flashmob in Helsinki A flashmob choral intrusion that took place on one more winter day in the main train station of Helsinki, the capital of Finland. But what are they singling about? (A flash...

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THE TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE ZOMBIE: (It never sleeps.)

— Get ready for WTPP Volume 23.3&4 December 2017, In which an even dozen outstanding international transport experts take on (and take apart) the Transport Infrastructure Zombie, limb by painful...

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Case Study: Lessons from a Stakeholder Engagement Process for Sustainable...

Lessons from a Stakeholder Engagement Process for Penang, Malaysia – Author: Minal Pathak • MIT-UTM Malaysia Sustainable Cities Program 2017 – Commentary by Eric Britton, Professor of Sustainable...

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Joseph Stiglitz: America has been afflicted by an ideology that doesn’t work

Exclusive: America has been afflicted by an ideology that doesn’t work, says Joseph Stiglitz Excerpts from article by Ajith Vijay Kumar, April 28, 2018 | http://www.timesnownews.com/...

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Corruption index correlates directly with bad (or zero) transport policy and...

For country details (2017) click to https://www.transparency.org/news/feature/corruption_perceptions_index_2017 Did it ever occur to you that there might be a strong positive correlation between...

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FPT AND THE HIGH ART OF FREE-RIDING

Stockholm’s professional fare dodgers For almost two decades a Swedish group of campaigners have defied authority and flipped the passenger-operator power balance by banding together to avoid fares....

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FRANCE CYCLING/FAST FORWARD 2024:  MULTIPLY MODAL SHARE BY A FACTOR OF FOUR....

Yes we can! Report by Jérémie Almosni, head of ADEME’s transport and mobility department, Mathieu chassignet, expert in sustainable mobility, Véronique Michaud, general secretary of the Club des Villes...

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World Cities offering differing forms of “Free” “Public Transport”

Here is a list of cities around the world that currently providevarious forms of  public transport for free. This resource is extremely useful for researchers, and for further information on any of the...

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Tallinn 2018: Free public transport for all. Dream or reality

The program for the recent Tallinn international conference contains useful information and contacts for researchers, planners, policy makers and others wishing to understand the variety of approaches,...

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One small reason why Tallinn may feel they could use more public transport

To get a better feel for this from the perspective of day to day reality when it comes to trying to get wherever you want to go during morning rush hour in Tallinn, let’s have a look at a report by two...

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Africa Streets and MOBILIZE, Dar es Salaam, 26-28 June 2018

Subject: Help wanted to bring Africa Streets to Dar es Salaam for the 26-28 June 2018 ITDP MOBILIZE events Dear Friends of sustainable transport, sustainable cities and sustainable lives, greetings,...

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A Short History of Car Free Days (Weeks, Months, Cities): Origins, Timeline,...

Toledo (Spain), 22 Sept. 1994 . Ciudades Accessibles (Accessible Cities) Conference “Every day is a great day to take a few cars off the street and think about it.” Here is how the Car Free Days...

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Penang Op-Ed. Why bulldoze through Penang undersea tunnel project?

  This is the fourth article in a series to explain why the Penang state government should get an independent review of the Penang Transport Master Plan (PTMP). Ahmad Hilmy & Lim Mah Hui  |...

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17 plus 1 reasons why I am prudently optimistic about the Climate/Mobility...

Shortlist of Transformative Realities and Trends One of the great recompenses of having watched the sustainable transportation and related technology developments evolve over the course of several...

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CLIMATE EMERGENCY ACTION PLAN? THE NEW MOBILITY AGENDA

* AFTER KATOWICE:  International media roundup.   http://bit.ly/2LB92ku START: World Streets Climate Emergency Action Plan:  http://bit.ly/2SGXWNu # # # Project Coordinator and contacts:  

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THE CLIMATE/MOBILITY/PLANET NEXUS? (And why we are not solving it . . . )

  * AFTER KATOWICE:  International media roundup.   http://bit.ly/2LB92ku START: World Streets Climate Emergency Action Plan:  http://bit.ly/2SGXWNu # # # Project Coordinator and contacts...

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17 plus 1 reasons why I am prudently optimistic about the Climate/Mobility...

Shortlist of Transformative Realities and Trends One of the great recompenses of having watched the sustainable transportation and related technology developments evolve over the course of several...

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Time to make bus travel free, says Friends of the Earth

  – By Ekklesia reporter. Feb 6, 2019 – http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/27675  The latest government figures show that transport was the largest source of climate changing greenhouse gases in the UK....

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What is a Transport User Group? (And why are they so important for your city)

World Streets has committed to carry out a series of articles, in cooperation with informed on-the-spot collaborators, looking into various aspects of transport user groups, on the grounds that they...

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