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Eric Britton, Managing Director, New Mobility Partnerships

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Eric Britton is a sustainability advocate who works as an adviser to government and industry on matters involving technological, environmental and social changes which are creating new circumstances for decisions of public policy and private practice. His life work is a commitment to the principles of sustainable development and social justice. An American living in Paris, he has worked with cities, ministries, public agencies, NGOs and transportation companies on five continents, as well as for the United Nations, European Commission, and OECD. In 1988 he founded the New Mobility Agenda, an open self-organizing collaborative network bringing together people of many backgrounds and from many countries who join forces to support new thinking and world-wide collaborative problem-solving on issues and strategies for sustainable transport in cities.

Born in Mississippi, his university education took him to Amherst College, Columbia Graduate Faculties, University of Rome, combining studies in the physical sciences, international affairs, and economics. Britton is a founding editor of the Journal of World Transport Policy & Practice, winner of the 2000 Stockholm Challenge Environment Award and of the 2002 World Technology Environment Award.

Recent Responses

February 10, 2009 03:05 AM

RE: How Will We Pay For The Transportation System We Need?

  I would like to start with Steve Heminger's excellent suggestion of yesterday afternoon that "Our guiding principle for financing the 21st Century transportation system ought to be "user pays" ", but take it one step further – and this on the grounds that one of the most valued contributions of a very good idea is that it may lay the groundwork for an even better one. So in the spirit, might we not jiggle this idea just a bit and take as our guiding principle "beneficiary pays"? Now ugly though this phrase may be I propose that it takes…  Read more

February 9, 2009 07:47 AM

RE: How Will We Pay For The Transportation System We Need?

The one thing we can be entirely sure of is that if we are to succeed with this challenge, it will be in very different ways than those we have relied on in the past, back in the long-ago, worn out 20th century if you will. This is one of these issues in which we have to be especially smart and flexible. The biggest challenge is the one in our heads. To get the job done we are going to have to execute a major paradigm shift when it comes to finding ways to bring additional funding into the sector,…  Read more
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