<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 12 (filtered medium)">  <style>  </style>  </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=WordSection1> <img width=189 height=57 id="Picture_x0020_53" src="cid:image001.png@01CB2908.F75A7990" alt="cid:image001.png@01CB2908.F75A7990"><o:p></o:p>                          Heavy traffic on the way to sustainable cities and sustainable lives . . .<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Paris, Thursday, July 22, 2010 <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Subject: Sustainable transport's missing link.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Dear Friends,<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I would very much like to invite your comments and ideas on the game plan for what I believe is going to be the world's first international conference solely devoted to the theme of sharing in transport.  And if sharing seems like a minor idea to you, an inconsequential detour, well let me point you first to the attached short media release and from there to our 95% ready to go website at <a href="http://www.kaohsiung.sharetransport.org">www.kaohsiung.sharetransport.org</a>  and invite you to read on.  We might well think of it as sustainable transport's missing link. <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Here are several points in our preparations that I would like to ask your counsel on (for now in private to <a href="mailto:eric.britton@newmobility.org">eric.britton@newmobility.org</a>  and then I can get a resume to the group later if it seems useful for them).<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <![if !supportLists]>·         <![endif]>Your critical observations and suggestions to improve the still not quite finished website.  (What you do not already see on line are our detailed two-page work programs and background information for each session. We call these our 90 minute Master Classes. To follow next week.) <o:p></o:p> <![if !supportLists]>·         <![endif]>Your good thoughts on the rough draft page on the eventual Young Researchers add-on project. We have already gotten some enthusiastic expressions of interest from young researchers and activists, and think this is something really worth doing. But we are going to need a budget for it? Any clues for us? <o:p></o:p> <![if !supportLists]>·         <![endif]>Want to be part of the conference? Do you have a working paper or web reference that could be useful to the group? If so, please let's hear from you.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <![if !supportLists]>·         <![endif]>And should you be interested in joining us in Kaohsiung, I am afraid that our ground zero budget does not have any fat in it for air travel or local accommodations, but I am sure that we will be able to arrange free access to all the conference events in the case you are able to pitch in join us. <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Finally, one last wrinkle on what we are trying to achieve here. Yes, to organize and conduct a first rate conference on this important and largely neglected topic. But also to provide a continuing useful resource to anyone anywhere in the world who wishes to know more about share/transport strategies and techniques. <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I hope you find this of useful and await with real interest your comments and suggestions. And who knows, we may even see you in Kaohsiung.  Let's talk about it.<o:p></o:p>  <o:p></o:p> With all good wishes,<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Eric<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> * World Streets is available daily at <a href="http://www.worldstreets.org/">worldstreets.org</a> and <a href="http://www.facebook.worldstreets.org">www.facebook.worldstreets.org</a> .<o:p></o:p> * Africa Streets is getting underway at <a href="http://www.africastreets.wordpress.org">www.africastreets.wordpress.org</a><o:p></o:p> * Les Rues du Monde in start-up mode at <a href="http://www.lesruesdumonde.org">www.lesruesdumonde.org</a>  <o:p></o:p> * And the New Mobility Partnerships and its collaborative programs at <a href="http://www.program.newmobility.org">www.program.newmobility.org</a>   <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <img border=0 width=824 height=37 id="Picture_x0020_46" src="cid:image002.png@01CB2908.F75A7990" alt="cid:image002.png@01CB2908.F75A7990"><o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> </div> </body> </html>