This site is currently undergoing extensive review and revision by the project leaders in cooperation with several advising members of the International Advisory Council, the New Mobility Partnerships and the editorial staff of World Streets. It is our intention to post a substantially revised and extended site in support of a number of workshops and collaborative events on or before end May.

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Share/Transport, New Mobility and World Streets

"On the whole, you find wealth more in use than in ownership."
- Aristotle. ca. 350 BC

"Share/transport" is the largely uncharted middle ground between the familiar mobility poles of "private transport" (albeit on public roads) and "public" or "mass transport" (scheduled, fixed-route, large vehicle services) at the two extremes.

Share/Transport is a lively, important and often quite difficult transportation concept that has long been investigated and extensively supported at the project and policy level in many parts of the world by the New Mobility Partnerships, World Streets and our international expert network for more than two decades.

It is, in a phrase, a very hard sell; but despite the many problems and difficulties that it brings up just about every time and place, it is an important path for public policy and private practice in our sector. It is a form of mobility service that works when everything else fails or is simply not there.

For more on the New Mobility Partnerships coverage, we invite you to start with www.program.newmobility.org and for World Streets at http://tinyurl.com/ws-sharing . While you await further details on the conference and the supporting documents you may find it useful to examine these sources of further background on our topic.

As an example, in 2006 we had already created a listing under this heading in the Wikipedia which you can view at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Share_transport.

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Share/Transport in brief

This International Conference, the first of its kind, will bring together leading thinkers and sharing transport practitioners from around Taiwan, Asia and the world, to examine the concept of shared transport (as opposed to individual ownership) from a multi-disciplinary perspective, with a strong international and Chinese-speaking contingent.

The concept of shared transport is at once old and new, formal and informal, but above all one that is growing very fast. Something important is clearly going on, and the Kaohsiung event will look at this carefully, in the hope of providing a broader strategic base for advancing not just the individual shared modes (e.g., car-share, bike-share, street-share, taxi-share, etc.), but of combining them to advance the sustainable transport agenda of our cities more broadly.

Are we at a turning point? Is sharing already starting to be a more broadly used and relevant social/economic pattern? Is there an over-arching concept which we can identify and put to work for people and the planet? And what do you need to look at and do to make your specific sharing project work?

These are some of the issues we will be examining with prominent invited guests from the fields of economics, politics, psychology, who will join transportation experts to discuss these trends. Hosted in Kaohsiung, Taiwan's energetic second city, the event will take place during car free day celebrations, which conference guests will be encouraged to join.

The event will include presentations on leading projects related to transport sharing taking place globally.

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Who is checking out World Streets Share/Transport site today

In this map you can see the origins of the last eighty people to check into the World Streets Share/Transport site. The very wide geographic spread of the interest in our topic is worth noting and definitely a sigh of its importance in a wide variety of settings.

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