“Street code”: A World Streets Campaign for 2018
The Highway Code: a collection of laws, advice and best practice for all road users, which mainly functions as a written basis for learning to drive as well as stipulating the letter of the law...
View ArticleToward a new paradigm for transport in cities: Let’s see what Carlos Pardo...
The construction of a well-defined, broadly accepted agenda for New Mobility until the present time has been sadly lacking. But what we and a numb er of our international colleagues have managed to...
View ArticleSLOW CITY: START HERE
FOR THE RECORD AND IN BRIEF: A Slow City is an urban development vision and quantifiable target, the first step of which is (a) to reduce traffic accidents and their human and economic costs to zero...
View ArticleOur Right to Walk is Non-negotiable
Anumita Roychowdhury, associate director of the Centre for Science and Environment in New Delhi, in a wide-ranging conversation with Faizal Khan reporting for the excellent Walkability Asia ( Clean Air...
View Article“Transport Refugees” – Victims of Unjust Transport Policies (From our 2009...
The term “refugee” if used in the context of transportation would normally be understood to mean “the movement of refugees”. But what we fail to comprehend is that for various reasons it is our own...
View ArticleYou figure
What is happiness? # # # About the editor: Click: eric britton new mobility — eric britton circular economy
View ArticleTown in Iceland Paints 3D Zebra Crosswalk To Slow Down Speeding Cars
In the small fishing town of Ísafjörður, Iceland, an exciting development in road safety has just popped up – almost literally. A new pedestrian crossing has been painted that appears to be 3D by way...
View ArticleCARS, BICYCLES AND THE FATAL MYTH OF EQUAL RECIPROCITY
– Ashley Carruthers – https://theconversation.com/amp/cars-bicycles-and-the-fatal-myth-of-equal-reciprocity-81034 Any public conversation about on-road cycling in Australia seems to have only one...
View ArticleOur mobile conscience
Dealing with good and evil (in traffic) In 2010 a 38-year-old motorist filled with remorse entered a police station in the Netherlands to give himself up. Twenty years earlier he had run over a child...
View Article. . . . . . . . . . . . MOBILITY, DEATH AND INJURY. . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
This posting is intended for informal peer review and comment here on World Streets in the context of a new international collaborative program of New Mobility Master Classes in the making for 2018....
View Article______________ THE NEED FOR SAFE SPEEDS ______________ A Safe City Primer...
Four Surprising Ways Slower Driving Creates Better Cities Text extracts from article from TheCityFix of 9 May 2016. Full text and excellent didactic graphics at https://goo.gl/9tydC6 Lower speeds...
View ArticleMANAGING THE SAFE CITY TRANSITION: . . . . . Notes for a Thinking Exercise ....
The New Mobility Safe City approach to bringing sustainable transport to your city . The Six Pillars CLIMATE: The most dire problem threatening our society, the planet and our collective future in...
View ArticleWHITELEGG ON MOBILITY. Chapter 1. Introduction
The following reproduces the full text of John Whitelegg’s opening chapter of his book, Mobility: A New Urban Design and Transport Planning Philosophy for a Sustainable Future, Straw Barnes Press....
View ArticleInternational Symposium on Road Safety Around the World: Future Concerns
19 March 2018. University of Chicago Center in Paris ICoRSI 19 March Symposium Programme The one day symposium is being sponsored by the Independent Council for Road Safety International...
View ArticleSAFE CITY STRATEGIES : MANAGING THE TRANSITION. (Working notes for a Thinking...
Safe City Strategies for bringing sustainable transport to your city . The Seven Pillars CLIMATE: The most dire problem threatening our society, the planet and our collective future in this mid-21st...
View ArticleArchives: Road safety: A public health challenge (India)
India’s hurried quest for development and its disregard for road safety have resulted in a major public health problem that demands serious thought and action. This article by Professor K.S. Jacob,...
View ArticleThe Mobility Complex: John Whitelegg lights a fire.
Important announcement: Mobility has been priced to move. Available in both paper and eBook form for less than USD 10.00. See http://tinyurl.com/zxclcz4 (Thank you John for thinking about students,...
View ArticleITDP. Pedestrians First: Tools for a Walkable City
Walkability is a crucial first step in creating sustainable transportation in an urban environment. Effectively understanding and measuring the complex ecology of walkability has proven challenging for...
View Article52 BETTER, FASTER, CHEAPER MEASURES your city could start to do tomorrow...
We often hear that transportation reform is going to require massive public investments, large construction projects, elaborate technology deployments, and above all and by their very nature are going...
View ArticleCAPITALIST TRANSITION ON WHEELS: Cars, motorbikes and mobility in Hanoi
Arve Hansen’s excellent PhD thesis on the transition from bicycles and walking to motorbikes and cars in Hanoi is available here bit.ly/2MJEPOU. Thanks to Javier Caletrío <jmontfra@hotmail.com>...
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