In 2004, 11th World Congress on Intelligent Transport System(ITS) was held in Nagoya, Japan. I (Oguri: oguri@cuc.ac.jp) organized a special session on "Speed Adaptation for Safe and Livable Community" with attendance of EU, Swedish, Australian and Japanese experts on ITS, who are especially concentrating their efforts on safe speed initiatives.
Speed has been regarded as the most attractive feature of automobiles since their birth at the end of 19th century, and actually attracted enormous number of people, or, in other words, most of the humanity.
Speed has been, on other hand, most dangerous elements of automobiles killing and harming people. Many parts of the cities and villages of the world have been demolished to construct more roads for more cars with the speed of cars as given factor.
To develop harmonious relationship between people, cars and communities, "safe speed" has to be the key concept, and initiatives for safe speed have been taken by many people all over the world.
In the Special Session of Nagoya ITS World Congress, all the panelists and participants agreed to develop "World Wide Platform for Safe Speed Initiatives", and the platform has been working to facilitate mutual communication on such initiatives.
This blog today starts to empower such communication and to develop a strong platform for safe speed initiatives all over the world. Those who wish to inform what is going on in their cities, universities, companies, governments, etc., to invite people to their activities, or to ask help from others, please send me an e-mail to oguri@cuc.ac.jp. Your mail will be posted on this blog. You can simply send URL's and the attachment of pictures and illustration is highly welcome.
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