Better living - more future
Sustainable traffic
A better life:
more mobility
better health
more work
more pleasure
more safety
Sustainability:
climate change
acid rain
resources
accidents
air pollution
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Sustainable traffic is bearable for people and the environment. New Mobility is a "free way" for all. No more traffic jams and time loss - more life, more future.
The media in Switzerland (in German)
We will all enjoy better a life:
- More mobility
- Better health .....
- More work .....
- More pleasure .....
- More safety .....
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The halving of motorised road traffic does not stop people driving for "pleasure". Much traffic is because of societal structures that have developed in the last two centuries. This growth cannot continue, for simple environmental reasons.
For instance, climate change, up to a third caused by traffic exhaust gases (carbon dioxide and ozone):
The greenhouse effect leads to global warming and climate change. To halt the greenhouse effect the emissions of greenhouse gases must be reduced to one fifth of the present levels.
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Greenhouse gases are partially a result of our excessive use of fossil energy. The chart compares the annual energy use per person in some countries.
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The below table shows the increase in world population and world energy use over the last 250 and 140 years. The circular graph shows the contribution of the major energy sources: Kernenergie = Nuclear power; Wasserkraft = Hydo power (dams); Erdöl = Oil; Erdgas = natural gas; Kohle = coal.
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"Sustainability" is a keyword of our time. This decade may be decisive for the future of our children.  Rather than explaining it all in academic language, we invite you to visit the pages of
Tiki the Penguin with many cartoons![top]
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Motorised road traffic is unhealthy and dangerous (for people and hedgehogs), noisy, expensive, and resource depleting. Exhaust gases are a major factor in air pollution, acid rain, and global warming and climate change. Roads cut through communities and landscape. Space is limited. We have run out of space, in populated areas as well as in the countryside.
The below links represent two examples of road traffic effects.
For male adults aged between 15 and 44 road accidents are the main cause of death. This is one of several stark findings of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies'
World Disasters Report 1998.
The car has claimed an estimated 30 million lives in the last hundred years. The first pedestrian death occurred in 1896; first driver killed in 1898. By 1990, with at least 500,000 people being killed annually, traffic accidents were acknowledged to be the world's ninth biggest killer.
Down To Earth -- Special Report (CSE
Vol 8, No 12 November 15, 1999 Preparing you to change the future every fortnight SPECIAL REPORT Playing with facts - An affidavit filed in the Supreme Court by the Indian automaker TELCO suggests a misinterpretation of the WHO’s views on air pollution.
 The arguments at umverkehR - Switzerland
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