<html> <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 10 (filtered)"> <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1>   Dear Friends,   We are sufficiently concerned about the challenges set out here and in particular that of how to deal with the traditional, small bus and other shared vehicle systems in our cities – areas in which public policy and practice seem for the most part to be hasty and extremely ill advised – that we have set up a new program within the New Mobility Agenda  that is looking specifically at this neglected but indeed indispensable part of any sustainable transportation system.   We call it xTransit, the home page (working form still) can be found at <a href="http://www.xtransit.org/">http://www.xtransit.org/</a>, and we are defining it as . . .   xTransit: Getting people in and around cities in road vehicles, smaller than full sized buses, driven by real human beings, dynamically shared with others, and aided by state of the art communications technologies -- and all of that as no less than the only way to offer "car like" mobility in most of our 21st century cities without killing the cities themselves (the old mobility way).   The email list for the group is <a href="mailto:xTransit@yahoogroups.com">xTransit@yahoogroups.com</a> – and it would be much appreciated if you might copy any future posts that concern this important area of transport policy and practice to that address as well.   “Sustainable transport – No one ever said that it was going to be easy” </div> </body> </html>