Necessary cooperation between local authorities and researchers
Cross reflection amongst researchers, elected representatives of local authorities and citizens
The Forum aims at providingla platform to carry out worldwide discussions, amongst those who have a deep knowledge of the risks and problems of mobility, in the hope of meeting the challenges of sustainable development.
Ce The Forum will be an opportunity for dialogues between managers in charge of mobility policy with local authorities and experts and researchers specialised in the very complex mobility issues.
Globalisation and urban concentration have a major impact on mobility, especially on daily movements. At the same time, our planet has to face climatic changes as well as a sharp decline in oil-based resources.
How then can one make it possible for individuals to lead their daily lives (work, education, public equipment, culture, hobbies…) and for goods to be delivered for economic exchange, without appropriate activities and equipment (communication networks, modes of transport, space infrastructure …) – which permit it – making the problems worse and risking to destroy the planet?
In urban and regional areas, the mobility of people together with the transportation of goods fall increasingly in the world within the responsibility of public local authorities. Local authorities are indeed the organisations where the implications and the implementation of sustainable mobility should be promoted, beyond the mere question of public transport.
The debates and exchanges organized by the Nantes World Forum between elected representatives, engineers, specialists and researchers will focus on the anticipation of mobility policies and governance of sustainable mobility within and amongst urban areas.
The Forum Pilot Committee has defined 5 priority issues
- How to position Mobility as part of the sustainable development policies adopted by cities and territories with a view to reducing emissions of greenhouse gases.
- Identify the conditions of success to contribute to the objectives of sustainable mobility: what level of decision? What type of financing? What is the appropriate questioning related, amongst others, to the objectives of cooperation and international exchanges and to the disruption of the “carbon economy”?
- Measure the effects and opportunities of sustainable mobility policies:how to draw conclusions from the current practices? Which research programmes should be initiated? What type of new cooperation to encourage? Which financing tools should be used? What type of governance?
- Raise the issue of coordination amongst authorities: the position of local authorities in the definition and the implementation of mobility policies, the tools necessary for national and international coordination, the position of social influential organisations and of citizens.
- Measure the impact of sustainable mobility policies on the environment, individual and social behaviour and the economy.
