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| Introduction to the Advisory Council profiles. |
Who are these people?
Professors, activists, civil servants, parents, researchers, politicians, climatologists, bikers, walkers and people who take pubic transport regularly, film-makers, land use planners, philanthropists, journalists, community workers, designers, lobbyists, doctors, gardeners, editors, videographers, urbanists, architects, actors, public entrepreneurs, bloggers, social workers, teachers, good neighbors, photographers, advocates for underserved people and groups, . . . and above all active concerned citizens.
This group -- just getting underway -- is above all distinguished by its quality, its relevance to the challenges we face, and its great diversity. Spanning all continents, disciplines and ages, from distinguished elder statesmen to energetic young people just a few years out of university but already actively involved with these challenges in the field. The present and the future. And a good number of highly qualified women leading the way with their work and vision. It is our hope that this easy framework of collaboration and eventual exchange will not only profit from their energy, experience and counsel, but that it will also possibly stimulate us all to think more about sharing -- the only path to achieve a sustainable planet. And oh yes, we understand full well that it will not be easy.
One last defining point that needs to be made about almost all of the members of this group, most of whom I have known for a number of years: -- and that is that they share the characteristic of continuing commitment and great stamina. These are not common qualities. They have not taken the easy road, so it takes not just brains, energy and a nice idea, but also the capacity to rise to the challenge again and again without losing the freshness of their thinking and commitment. Ladies, Gentlemen, chapeau.
Next steps:
This section is still just getting underway and considerable work will be needed to bring it to completion. Here are the tasks currently in process:
- Filling out the list of colleagues getting behind this project
- Posting photos of all members
- Direct links at end of each note to take the reader to more on the person and their work
- Editing of the text and approval by each concerned.
- Concentrating the search and invitations in such a way as to eventually be able to approach something approximating gender parity, in what we believe to be an essential key to sustainability in all its precious varieties.
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Toward the end of some of these entries you will find links to videos, for the most part very short and in all cases directly linked to the matters which bring us here. We hope you enjoy them and that they help you get a better feel for the individual personality of the maker or the subject.
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the about last thirty years. He was a member of the original Board of Directors of Friends of the Earth and has been involved in debates about environmental issues ever since. He has written extensively about transport issues. Transport Planning: vision and practice was his first book; more recently he has explored The Social Consequences of Hypermobility. John has taken a close interest in the way different road users - pedestrians, cyclists and motorists - relate to each other, a subject first examined in Risk and freedom: the record of road safety regulation and in numerous publications since. --> [
Urban and Regional Systems of the University of Lisbon. He was executive coordinator of mobility plans and participated in several European projects. Recently he worked on a report to critically assess the policies of the Portuguese government to achieve the Kyoto targets. He was part of the International Scientific Programme Committee of the conference Walk21 in Toronto and is National Coordinator of the COST Action Pedestrian Quality Needs. He was advisor for the Mayor of Lisbon and currently advisor for Lisbon´s Mobility Deputy Mayor. In 2010 he was the co-editor the book "The Walker and the City". Over the last decade wrote articles and presented numerous papers and seminars on topics related to transport and sustainable mobility.
educador ciudadano, investigador en temas urbanos, salud pública y desarrollo humano sostenible. Consultor de World Streets. Hace parte del panel colombiano de líderes de opinión. Comunicador científico, colaborador y columnista de los más importantes medios colombianos y de varias páginas web. Editor de diversas publicaciones, escritor y autor de obras sobre desarrollo humano. EDirector del espacio en radio ZONA F.M. noticias. Mrecedor de varios premios como promotor de la actividad física y de la movilidad sostenible. Autor en la ciudad de Pasto (Colombia) del Primer "Día sin carro" Car Free Day, voluntario con un éxito del 95% de aceptación. Autor y gestor de la performance "Mayor número de Santa Clauss en bicicleta" (Guinness record) Sub-campeón mundial de los 30 Juegos Mundiales de la Medicina y Salud - World MEDIGAMES - 2009
is actively involved in campaigning, project delivery and consultancy projects to improve streets in favour of pedestrians, working with many other organisations and individuals to achieve our vision. Previously he led the Cross Government Obesity Programme, Department of Health. He has a background in neighbourhood regeneration and renewal and health improvement, and has held a number of senior policy adviser roles in Government. He was a founder member of the Government's Neighbourhood Renewal Unit from 2001, where he was responsible for national work on neighbourhood management and health inequalities and the development of Local Strategic Partnerships. He also worked in a local New Deal for Communities partnership in East Brighton, where he focused on working with residents and local agencies to improve local services.
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Demand Management. Teaches Sustainable Transportation Policy at 2 Colleges in Mumbai. As Transportation Consultant to the Mumbai Transformation Project, Mumbai, was able to formulate a large number of policies and initiate several projects that could initiate a shift to more sustainable transportation use in a Metropolitan Region with a population of over 19 million. Has worked with NGOs, State and Central Government Undertakings all over India. For the past 10 years, she has been focusing on Sustainable Transport Policy and Strategy, with emphasis on optimization of existing resources. Currently works out of Mumbai. --> [
hommes" ("Planet of mankind"). A member of the Green Party since 1989, he served as council to the then-leader of the French Greens de Dominique Voynet in the European Parliament, and in 1997 as special adviser to the French Ministry of Territorial Management. Since 1995 he has been an elected official of the 20th arrondissement of Paris. From 2001 to April 2008 he was directly responsible for the management of and innovation in the mobility sector for the city. He has been a major figure in the greening of Paris and specifically to leading and supporting a range of innovative projects and services that are transforming the mobility sector and making Paris into a world leader in this field. Currently he is vice mayor responsible for the city's programs and initiatives in the areas of sustainable development, environment and climate change. --> [
planning and engineering perspec-tives. Kris has advised Governments on strategic approaches to consultation and evaluation, especially in relation to the need for a consumer perspective and the involvement of people with mobility and accessibility problems. Kris is a member of the UK Independent Transport Commission and the Transport Associates Network. Previously Kris worked as an academic and before that for the World Bank International Finance Corporation. Kris is the director of Social Research Associates a company based in UK. A current project is to improve the quality of taxi provision including the encouragement of shared use. --> [
working with schools, governments, civil society and the media to reduce the number of child road deaths and injuries. Tom comes from a transport planning background, having worked as a consultant to the UK government's Highways Agency on influencing travel behaviour to encourage a shift away from the use of single occupancy vehicles and to encourage the use of sustainable transport. Having spent a significant part of the last decade in Africa, he is disturbed to see that increased prosperity is giving birth to the very problems of congestion, pollution and road deaths that we are trying to address in the West. While increased accessibility and mobility are undoubtedly needed for development to happen, the use of 4x4s as urban status symbols is something that must be addressed. In countries where a car is the first thing that somebody buys when they get money, there is need for travel demand management. --> [
close observer of transport and environment conditions in his home city Berga-mo, and more generally in Italy, Enrico Bonfatt came to realize that good ideas were not circulating well in Italy, not only concepts and projects taking place in other parts of the world but even on leading edge developments in Italy itself. His professional training is in the health field, which brought him early to the idea of healthy transport, namely bicycles, public transport and . . . shoes. As editor his job is to select and adapt articles from World Streets and international media to create a network of support for all those working on challenging issues of sustainable transport throughout Italy. In the first months, the vast majority of the content came from foreign sources. But the goal is to begin to give increasing weight to Italian content, up to at least one third of the total. --> [
relationships between urban form and perception, and in addition to this he works as a Policy Officer for the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (UK), on the committee of Carfree UK and his activism includes work on public space, time banking and transition to low(er) carbon intensive living. His is a member of the steering group for a program on time sharing & banking, and is working on public space activism with make-Pla(y)ce, a local group which is challenging the privatisation of public space. He is working on the side on a series of presentation on "car diets" and "road diets", both of which have a substantial sharing component and are aimed at easing the process of transition to new and more agreeable life styles. --> [
been sacrificed to build motorways and parking lots. Through our vision we aim to reduce the degree in which people sacrifice city space in order to use cars. Instead, we facilitate people to use cars in a way that is compatible with the city." Jan is one of the two Green-wheels founders who liked the concept but were sure it could be improved upon with the help of modern ICT applications such as on-board computers, chip cards and mobile telephony. They put their first 3 cars on the Rotterdam roads in June 1995. Helped by a partnership with Dutch Railways, their success lead them to take over StattAuto in 2004 and Shell Drive Deutschland in 2006. They now operate in 80 Dutch and 20 German cities. --> [
>culture and green living resources in 1992. A pioneer in internet-based collaboration, she has led the development of the global Green Map System, its acclaimed universal iconography, adaptable tools, inclusive methodology and locally-led global network since 1995. Now in 600 diverse cities in 55 countries, the NGO's most recent innovation is the interactive Open Green Map, as seen at http://GreenMap.org. An everyday cyclist whose work has been recognized by local and international bodies, Wendy has participated in numerous citizen-based transportation planning and assessment projects, starting with the class she co-taught on alternatives in the 1990's at Cooper Union and Parsons School of Design. She is currently on the Time's Up! advisory and the Manhattan Borough President's Go Green Transportation committee, and takes part in open planning and other mobility related projects. Sample Green Map here: 
independent advisory group specializing in providing counsel for government and business on policy and decision issues involving social-technical innovation and sustainable development. Founder of the New Mobility Agenda (1988) and Managing Editor of World Streets (2009), the planet's only international sustainable transport daily. As part of his problem-solving approach he has created a nesting of collaborative programs which network several thousand experts and concerned citizens in more than fifty countries to exchange information and support on specific areas of sustainable transport, technology and public policy. Eric served as chair of the Stockholm Partnerships for Sustainable Cities. In recent years his work has concentrated increasingly on the vital transport/climate link, and he has concluded that the most powerful means to achieve better and more sustainable transport is to master the fine art of sharing, the largely unexplored third way of getting around in cities. Video on 
influential thinkers" by the Washington Post, is Founder and President of Earth Policy Institute, a non-profit environmental research organization based in Washington, D.C. During a career that started with tomato farming, Brown has been awarded 24 honorary degrees and has authored or coauthored over 50 books. One of the world's most widely published authors, his books have appeared in some 40 languages. His most recent book is entitled Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization. He is a MacArthur Fellow and the recipient of many prizes and awards. In 1985 the Library of Congress requested his personal papers noting that his writings and work had "already strongly affected thinking about problems of world population and resources." --> [
Kathmandu, Nepal. She is currently associated with the Clean Air Initiatives for Asian Cities, an organization that is active in 8 country networks and over 170 organizational members to promote and demonstrate innovative ways to improve the air quality in Asian cities through partnerships and sharing experiences. Charina currently leads the Walkability Index Survey in Kathmandu to promote improvements in pedestrianisation infrastructures and services. She is also active in developing mass education, awarness and media campaign related to Air Quality Management issues in Nepal through the Clean Air Network Nepal. --> [
Pacific Forum, and Scientific Committee Member of the Eastern Asia Society for Transport Studies. Advisor to the Mayor and Taipei City Government since 1994, Dr. Chang has on numerous occasions served as advisor for promotion of sustainable urban and transportation development to international institutes and NGOs. In April 2006, he created a program to train representatives from more than 80 cities for the first Car Free Day activities in China. He served as Principal Investigator to the program "Green Transport for Chinese Cities" from 2000 to 2003, coordinating demonstration projects in more than fifteen cities. He is now hard at work on and widely sharing his green transport theory of BBMW (Bike + Bus + Metro + Walk) in many cities across Asia. --> [
innovation and economic development. Robin is founder and former CEO of GoLoco, an online ridesharing community, and Zipcar, the world's largest carsharing company. She is on the Board of the World Resources Institute, as well as the transportation working group for the World Economic Forum. She has served on the Massachusetts Governor's Trans-portation Transition Working Group, and Boston Mayor's Wireless Task Force. She has received many awards for her work, including Time 100 Most Influential People, Fast Company Fast 50 Innovators, and Business Week Top 10 Designers. Robin graduated from Wellesley College and MIT's Sloan School of Management, and was a Harvard University Loeb Fellow. --> [
business from 17 locations to 77 with nearly 200 cars in 3 years and at same time maintained a healthy bottom line to build a viable service. He also helped to lead the growth of the Singapore carsharing market together with 3 other carsharing operators where the membership has grown by 5 times from 2002 to 2005. He is now the General Manager of INVERS Asia, where he is helping interested parties in Asian cities to setup and introduce car-sharing service to their community. He is now working on carsharing projects in China, Taiwan, Korea and Japan. From experience the road ahead can be challenging but it can be both fulfilling and rewarding. He believes in sharing as it helps to foster better resource utilisation and it empowers the society to build sustainable growth. --> [
Mobility is a specialised global network coordinated by a secretariat in the City of Stuttgart and promotes transnational cooperation between local governments, transportation companies, businesses, science and the civil society, with the aim of supporting the development of sustainable and efficient transport systems in the member cities around the world. Today, around 500 members from more than 70 countries all over the world participate in "Cities for Mobility" whose newsletters and events will be giving greater attention to the phenomenon of sharing in transport, as one of the responses necessary to move toward more sustainable and more livable cities. Their next annual conference will take place in Stuttgart in June 2010. --> [
In 1998 whilst in his final year at University, 2 weeks before Google was born, he set up 
Initiative. He has been a teacher of economics and worked many years with the City of George Town (a UNESCO World Heritage Site) and the United Nations on the burning issues of urban governance, including public transportation, in Asia and the Pacific. A social activist, he is a multiplier and accelerator of ideas and movements, with a passion for pioneering global citizen's networks on public interest issues affecting social justice and peace - peace with oneself, peace with others and peace with the planet. Anwar has been awarded the Right Livelihood Award (popularly known as the "Alternative Nobel Prize"), the UNEP Global 500 honor, Mother Earth Hall of Fame and the Gandhi-King-Ikeda Community Builders Peace Award. --> [
efficient utilization of the existing transport resources on this planet. Transaid is an international development charity that seeks to reduce poverty and improve quality of life through providing better access to basic services such as health, education and economic op-portunities in Africa and the developing world. We do this by building local skills and knowledge to make transport safer, cheaper and more effective. Much of Transaid's work concerns the effective and efficient management of large fleets such as those used by Ministries of Health; the aim is to see fewer vehicles doing more. During Transaid's work in the Department of Health in South Africa fleet reductions of up to 60% were experienced without harming service delivery. --> [
from the Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service and a BA in English Literature from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She served on the Advisory Committee for the 2005 White House Conference on Aging, as a National Transit Institute Fellow and for nine years on the Transportation Research Board's Committee on the Safe Mobility of Seniors. She Chairs TRB's Joint Subcommittee on Transportation Options for Seniors, and sits on the TRB Committee on Safe Mobility of Older Persons. Katherine received the 2006 Maxwell Pollack Award from the Gerontological Society of America, a 2006 award for Leadership in Innovative Enterprise Ideas from the Social Enterprise Alliance, the 2004 Archstone Award for Excellence in Program Innovation from the American Public Health Association, and the Giraffe Award for sticking her neck out for the common good. In 2009 Katherine was named as an AARP Inspire Award Honoree. --> [
sustainable transport and environmentally friendly mobility. Key objectives of all these projects are the integration of lifestyle issues and urban development with transport issues. Car-Sharing is an important element of many projects - as in the European moses-project and the ongoing 
urban settings. An avid city cyclist, his work has focused on the rejuvenation of downtowns, waterfronts and neighborhoods, regional growth management, and new community planning in his own city Toronto and in such cities as Amsterdam, Paris, New York, Boston, Montreal and San Juan. In each city, with each project, he tries to use a strategic, consensus-building approach Ken is a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Institute of Architects and the Institute for Urban Design and a frequent participant in the Mayors Institutes. His work has garnered awards from the Canadian Institute of Planners, Progressive Architecture, the City of Toronto, the Canadian Architect and the American Planning Association. Much of his work involves managing the transition from auto dependence and high energy use to more sustainable futures. -> [
cultural adaptation in Germany, the UK and India (Eastern Assam, Delhi, Jaipur and Varanasi), returned to Basel as Founder and director of Sphinx Publishing Company and the German edition of the Brain-Mind Bulletin. Founded the international literary agency Gaia Media AG in Basel, today Hagenbach & Bender GmbH agency in Bern. President of Gaia Media Foundation in Basel since 1993. Committed to the communication and networking of information about a holistic and up to date understanding of our existence, and the potential of human consciousness. "After being involved in town-planning during my early studies, I'm confronted ever since with the issue of how to reach the highest quality of living and working in towns and urban agglomerations, and subsequently how to minimize private car intrusions and how to organize and optimize public transport." --> [
space and the factors that promote civility has helped transform established assumptions and practice surrounding traffic engineering, speed and safety. As director of Hamilton-Baillie Associates, he provides consultancy advice on traffic and urban renewal for local authorities, government agencies, developers, and community groups. He has researched and promoted fresh approaches to traffic management and street design, exploring new ideas for reconciling the relationship between people, places and vehicles. He is an advisor to the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) and to English Heritage and served on the European "Shared Space" research project. He is a visiting lecturer at the Universities of Bath and the West of England. --> [
activist, writer, researcher and founder/editor of Mobility magazine, an independent, quarterly publication for decision- and policy-makers in southern Africa. "In the developing world, as anywhere, mobility is a human rights issue: the struggle for mobility rights in our country is at the heart of all the other rights in our constitution, as without mobility we are not able to access all our other rights. As the only pro-sustainability transport magazine in South Africa, we focus on public planning, shared and public transport, safer roads, vulnerable road users, and the democratic use of road and other public space." Gail is currently engaged in doctoral research into the stories of social movements and their role, campaigning for improved access and mobility, particularly around shared spaces and shared transport. --> [
growth and the future of the city. He studied with Margaret Mead and worked with William H. Whyte on the Street Life Project, assisting in observations and film analysis of corporate plazas, urban streets, parks and other open spaces in New York City. The research resulted in the now classic 'The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces'. Since 1975, the group he founded, Project for Public Spaces, have worked in more than 2,500 communities in 40 countries around the world, helping people turn their public spaces into vital community places, with programs, uses, and people-friendly settings that build local value and serve community needs. And by definition all those spaces, which include streets and their lively borders, are shared spaces. --> [
Susan was Deputy Director of the Taipei Children's Transportation Museum and, prior to that, she was a veteran business news reporter and newspaper editor for the China Times and Independence Daily in Taipei, where she was a particularly influential press reporter for the motor vehicle manufacturing industry. Today, besides running Mega Trans, she also volunteers as Advisor to the Motorcycle Safety Association of Taiwan. Susan hopes to bring CarSharing to the Taiwan Market in the near future. --> [more]
founder of the non-profit organization, two time winner of the Best BIke Promoting Campaigns National Prize, Transporte Ativo (Active Transport) from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Activist in Transport and Urban Mobility is a Member of Rio de Janeiro government urban-cycling workgroup where he works as a liason between city administrration and bycicle users, bringing ideas from all over the world to local planners that has became out of paper like the 30 Km speed limit zone in 34 streets in Copacabana that started in september 22, 2009.The main objective is to improve the quality of infrastructure for cyclists and pedestrians and their connections with public transport, making the city less dependent on the private car and consequently a better quality of life. --> [
sector bodies, private sector businesses, the voluntary sector and academic in-stitutions. Her capacity for 'big picture thinking' means she unravels complexity and presents it clearly to non-specialists. As a communicator, she builds bridges between an organization and its stakeholders, enabling the organization itself to deliver the change it needs. Her work covers international project management, high performance teamwork and turning strategy into workable practice. Past clients include major retailers, global banks, major transport bodies, district councils, international charities and universities. She has written: "When inclusive practice becomes part of mainstream practice within an organisation the resulting gains in understanding and accord between the various stakeholders are a powerful force for change." -->[
, a membership association with over 400 corporate members promoting good practice in travel behaviour change programmes. Previous to joining PTRC he worked in the bicycle business, and while based in Taiwan, the global home of the bicycle industry, he organised a variety of sustainable transport campaigns. He currently serves on the steering committee for several voluntary organisations including; Carfree UK, Urban Green Fair, Bike Week, and is the serving European Mobility Week Coordinator for the UK. Rory sees sharing as a common element of many sustainable travel campaigns, be it information, space, or vehicles; and is therefore excited to see the development of a theory for organising transport based on this most fundamental of values. --> [
a formalisation of that unique method of carpool formation found in Washington D.C. and the San Francisco Bay Area (also known as "casual carpooling"). Arguing that for more carpooling we need meeting places rather than databases, Mr. Minett has been making steady progress towards testing of this alternative mode. A recent report by the UC Davis Energy Efficiency Center estimated the energy saving potential and explored barriers to implementation. He is currently carrying out a feasibility study of flexible carpooling to transit stations in Seattle WA, and is expecting a Washington State Department of Transportation call for projects to implement a flexible carpooling pilot project in Seattle during 2010. --> [
the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He obtained his BTech in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, followed by a Masters degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from the University of Delaware and then a PhD in Biomechanics from the University of Michigan. He started his research career working on mechanical properties of human aortic tissue. This was followed by work on injuries and injury tolerance, effectiveness of helmets, child seats and the first evaluation of airbags in real world crashes. Concerned with mobility and safety of people outside the car he is trying to integrate these issues within a broader framework of sustainable transport policies, urban transport options and people's right to access and safety as a fundamental human right. Recipient of: Distinguished Alumnus Award of Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, the American Public Health Association International Distinguished Career Award. --> [
New York City environmental group, StreetFilms. In these she gave us a few precious moments inside her SUV to talk about roads, traffic, cyclists, and big cities. After instructing us on proper honking techniques for "old people" and children, she also offered up some choice bons mots. Here's a sample: "People need to be able to drive their cars - that's an American right. Right?" If you are interested to hear what Ms. Moss has to say about transport in cities, here are two short films which summarize her vision.
committee member of the fist CarSharing Cooperative in Switzerland, in 1997 Peter becomes vice chairman of Mobility CarSharing Switzerland, in 2001 he switched into operations as COO and in 2004 Peter becomes CEO of Mobility International Inc., a Mobility subsidiary that helps clients in other countries to establish their own car sharing services. Since 2008 Muheim is working as an independent expert for car sharing companies to support them in strategic questions and to optimize their operation. He also consults companies and city authorities in managing their mobility impacts into a more sustainable direction and how to integrate and to support car sharing activities. --> [
Kenworthy 'Sustainability and Cities: Overcoming Automobile Dependence' was launched in the White House in 1999. He invented the term 'automobile dependence' to de-scribe how we have created cities where we have to drive everywhere. In 2001-3 Peter directed the Western Australia's Sustainability Strategy in the Department of the Premier, the first state sustainability strategy in the world. In 2004-5 he was Sustainability Commissioner in Sydney. In 2006/7 he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Virginia where he co-authored 'Resilient Cities: Responding to Peak Oil and Climate Change' and 'Green Urbanism Down Under'. He was a Local Government Councillor in the City of Fremantle from 1976-80, and is a Board Member of Infrastructure Australia that is funding infrastructure for the long term sustainability of Australian cities. --> [
Living with HIV/AIDS. Pascal is a crusader for just causes, and in the world of cycling advocacy and support is member of the Executive Boards of Velo Mondial & Velo.Info / Spicycles and on the Advisory Board of the World Carfree Network. As Executive Director Velo Mondial he is involved in setting up research projects that promote sustainable urban development at a wider level, making information for sustainability better available. Recently Pascal co-founded 'Amsterdam Cycling to Sustainability' and the 'Amsterdam International Academy for Sustainable Mobility', trying to gather and share as much information on sustainable mobility with anybody interested. .
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in Canada to create child and youth friendly communities and Catherine is currently developing child and youth friendly land use and transport planning friendly guidelines for every Canadian province. She co-authored the Ontario guidelines which have been endorsed by the Ontario Professional Planners Institute. More recently, she has been exploring how sustainability and happiness studies can contribute to a more sustainable future. Catherine is an education professor at Cape Breton University where she developed the first university course in the world on sustainable happiness! Articles on sustainable happiness can be found at www.sustainablehappiness.ca. Catherine lives in Sydney, Nova Scotia with her husband, two teenage children, a dog, a cat, and a turtle. --> [
Institute (CRRI), New Delhi on developing an air quality model for the city of Delhi. She was a research intern for a Government of NCT of Delhi project on energy and environment impact assessment for transportation systems in the city. The focus of her Master's thesis was Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) and she analyzed the opportunities and challenges for REDD in India. During her Masters programme, she also developed TERI University's Environmental Management Plan with a group of students and recently, she helped establish the Sustainability Cell in the university. She has done internships at WWF-India, LEAD-India and ClimateLab. She lives in New Delhi, India with her family and in her free time likes to read, cook, learn new languages and write poetry. --> [
As Commissioner of Parks, Sport and Recreation for Bogota, he led his team to design and build over 200 parks, as well as to open 91 kilometers of car-free city roads on Sundays, Ciclovia, where over 1.5 m. people come out weekly to walk, run, skate and bike. He also works as Senior Associate with NYC's Project for Public Spaces, and serves as Senior Consultant for the renowned Danish firm Gehl Architects. He serves on the Boards of Directors of American Trails and City Parks Alliance, and has advised cycling, walking and public space projects across North and Latin America. Gil lives with his wife and their three children in Ontario. --> [
development issues for years. He has led teams in developing advancements in environmental compliance, transit funding, employee transit benefits, ridesharing, and BRT systems within financially viable development strategies. He has been responsible for management of design, development and implementation of environmental-compliance programs for regional, transport systems which have used offset-trading markets structured around mobile and stationary sources and other leading-edge compliance strategies. These projects have often been built around multi-organizational, cooperative frameworks. In managing these systems-development and organizational-development processes, he has built in risk reduction through inclusion of adaptive facility/enterprise design and market development. Integrated Transport Planning is currently helping clients implement developmentally-integrated, market-financed, BRT/HOV networks together with their management systems.. --> [
projects. David has worked extensively in the Greater China region and Asia as a transport consultant. He is better known in Taiwan as the former Director General of Taipei's Department of Transportation, where he initiated a net-work of exclusive bus lanes that greatly alleviated travel congestion in Taipei some 15 years ago. A life-long proponent for pedestrian and transit priority in our cities, David continues to work on bringing sustainable transport concepts to the attention of city leaders and planning and engineering professionals. As a firm believer of creating win/win solutions, he is also working on the creation of business models that will allow for-profit businesses to have greater participation in sustainable transport development. David is serving as Program Director of Kaohsiung 2010. --> [more]
videographer for the online vlog Street-films.org. As part of Streetfilms advocacy, Elizabeth has traveled to make videos that demon-strate best practices for better biking, walking and mass transit. From Paris, France she pro-duced a video showing how bike share works and Curitiba, Brazil, Bus Rapid Transit. Elizabeth received her MFA in Electronic Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a focus in community media. She produced for the independent TV/Radio program, Democracy Now, edited for Worldfocus on PBS, freelanced for Grit TV with Laura Flanders and taught a video production and community activism class at New York University. Her videos have screened in festivals all over the world, including a grassroots organized tour with her documentary, "Still We Ride". Sample video: 
Europe. In his day job he is Professor of Construction and Transportation infor-matics at the University of Maribor, currently visiting professor at Stanford University and the University of Novi Sad. Interested in digital models of buildings and building processes and lately in building from nano-to-meter scale using bionanorobots. from a technical perspective his work keys on the integration of new informatics technologies and applications to transport planning and management, while from a community perspective his work involves organizing and leading public interest groups to support needed sustainability implementations, such as shared bikes, carsharing and other more environmentally effective uses of public space and resources. --> [
dissemination of best practise of car clubs and car sharing within the organisation. Currently this involves leading programmes of work for the DfT and TfL whilst managing research work for local authorities across the UK. Antonia set up the Car Club Accreditation Scheme which encompasses a comprehensive data collection and survey system for the industry. She has also directed: the production of online guidance, regular knowledge sharing seminars for officers, a public facing website with comprehensive bay data and the creation of a set of generic branded marketing materials. --> [
industry. Especially interested in "how things fit together", Alon has been working actively with World Streets and The Commons over the last 15 years - notably to further the understanding of how technology affects the way people work and live, and what potential it has to improve the quality of our lives. As a 'facilitator of learning' for many talented students from around the world who are showing active interest in sustainable development and taking care of our planet, Alon believes we are on the right track but we need to share with the new generation the underpinnings of a proper (but malleable) framework to help them help the planet. Sharing our understandings, pooling our experiences and working together to create collective intelligence - while avoiding groupthink - appears key. --> [
products and projects, with special focus on sustainable transportation concepts. His work aims to both reducing the number of conventional motor cars in urban areas for environmental and public health reasons, and provide people with viable alternative means of getting around in the city. Luud is the person who set the pattern for free (shared) city bike projects in Amsterdam back in the sixties. And if most of his original White Bicycles eventually disappeared, his example blazed the way to more work and thought, bringing us to where we are today. In 2006 he was elected again to the Amsterdam Municipal Council, and is currently working on a new WitKar-type project for Amsterdam as well as continuing to promote community cycles in Amsterdam and elsewhere. Luud is Managing Director of the Ytech Innovation Centre in Amsterdam. --> [
reports and publications on carsharing in North America, Asia, and the world.. She has a Ph.D. in ecology from UC Davis. She is Chair of the Emerging and Innovative Public Transport Systems and Technology Committee of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) and served as the founding chair of the Carsharing TRB Subcommittee from 1999-2004. In 2007, she joined the Transportation Sustainability Research Center at UC Berkeley and is a co-director. She was named the first Honda Distinguished Scholar in Transportation at UC Davis in 2000. She also holds a joint research faculty appointment at UC Davis, where she serves as a co-director for the transportation track of the Energy Efficiency Center. --> [
and regional level. Between 1999-2008 she served the Finnish Ministry of the Environment as a senior technical adviser responsible for sustainable transport and urban form development, dealing with issues of different scales from climate change mitigation and noise abatement to traffic calming and transport planning details. In her present post as a head of unit she warmly welcomes other cities´ experiences and knowledge about new mobility ideas and applications. Because the growth of transport is not an inevitable law of nature but a result of human choises, our duty as city planners is to offer people sustainable choises that nobody can resist. -> [
Toronto, New York, Vancouver, Paris, Montreal and Amsterdam. A focus was public bicycle sharing programs and their success. In 2002, he led an international jury selecting best-practice sustainable development projects for inclusion in an on-line "Virtual Exhibit" at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg. He helped produce the live on-line program that broadcast interviews with world leaders during the Summit. His films have dealt with questions of treatment of the mentally ill, illegal immigration from the third world to the West; urban poverty; and natural history themes on the recovery of threatened species. Currently he is producing a film that looks at the stories of several people who survived and have transcended the horrors of Apartheid in South Africa. --> [More]
transport sector. She has worked widely with government, non government, bilateral and multilateral agencies in Africa in general and Uganda, in particular. Key competencies include strategic planning; programme/project design, appraisal and evaluation; governance and organisational/institutional development; and gender analysis, gender responsive budgeting and gender training.
Her work involves research activities which deal with different dimensions of transport and development. Her on-going research at Makerere University-Uganda permits her to pursue issues which she cares deeply about [such as fair transport] with the state-of-the-art knowledge. Her professional and personal interests include promoting equity in general, and gender justice in particular. She thinks a lot about the future of her three small children.
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She oversees America 2050's research, advocacy, and planning, in partnership with the Regional Plan Association, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and the Rockefeller Foundation. She oversees a research program on high-speed rail in America and is a frequent speaker on the topics of transportation policy, megaregions, and national planning. Todorovich has worked at Regional Plan Association, where America 2050 is based, since 2001. She received a B.A. from Vassar College and a Masters in City and Regional Planning from Rutgers University, and is presently an Assistant Visiting Professor at the Pratt Institute Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment and member of the Board of Advisors of the Eno Transportation Foundation. --> [
getting on the bus. She chose the latter and as of 2004 has resided in China, where she co-founded and edits Chengdu's only English-language city magazine (www.chengdoo-magazine.com) and website (www.gochengdoo.com), slipping in as many carfree pieces as a city magazine can tolerate. She shies away from the words "sustainable" and "green," although the color of some of Chengdu's buses are, in fact, green, as is her bicycle. --> [
fellow at Project for Public Spaces, a New York-based organization that helps citizens enliven their communities by improving public places. He is a Contributing Editor for National Geographic Traveler, reporting regularly on sustainable tourism initiatives and is also editor-at-large at Ode magazine. Walljasper is author of The Great Neighborhood Book (2007, New Society). He was editor of Utne Reader for fifteen years, during which time the magazine was nominated three times for a National Magazine Award for General Excellence. He is co-author of the book Visionaries (New Society, 2001). For many years he has explored fresh ideas from the fields of urban planning, sustainability, politics, travel, community development and culture about how to improve people's lives. --> [
of a transport disability charity, Vice-Chair of Trans-port for London, and for 17 years an elected local Councillor, positions held include Chair of Environmental Planning and Leader of a London Borough, and for 5 years Chair of Transport for the Greater London Council. His work has been largely devoted to the development of sus-tainable, affordable, accessible and reliable transport. This has involved improvements to public transport, walking and cycling plus the introduction of road pricing, road safety and travel demand management. Together with others, he has developed an implementation strategy for public services like transport to be efficiently, fairly and equitably financed through land values. Dave currently works as a policy consultant in transport and public services and is Chair of the Professional Land Reform Group and President of the Labour Land Campaign. --> [more]
Sustainable Transport at Liverpool John Moores University and Professor of Sustainable Development at the Stockholm Environment Institute, and is founder and editor of the Journal of World Transport Policy and Practice. Research interests encompass transport and the environment, definition of sustainable transport systems and a sustainable built environment, development of transport in third world cities focusing on the relationships between sustainability and human health, implementation of environmental strategies within manufacturing and service industry and development of environmental management standards. He has written books and over 50 papers, including Transport for a Sustainable Society: the Case for Europe (John Wiley, 1993) and Critical Mass: Transport, Environment and Society in the 21st Century (Pluto Press, 1996). John is a local councillor in Lancaster, and Leader of the North West (of England) Green Party. --> [
to 2004, she co-founded and directed Moving the Economy (MTE), a Canada-wide "link tank" that works to catalyze and support sustainable urban transportation innovation as well as New Mobility industry development, an integrated industry approach. As a transport planner for the City of Toronto, she worked for over 15 years developing and leading transportation and liveability initiatives. She has advised on a range of local, national, and international initiatives, including Transport Canada's Sustainable Development Advisory Committee, the OECD's Environmentally Sustainable Transport (EST) Project, the Stockholm Partnerships for Sustainable Cities, and the European Conference of Ministers of Transport (ECMT). She was a long-time board member of Canada's Center for Sustainable Transportation and founding board member of the Green Tourism Association. --> [
