Parta Dialogue has organized a prospective debate on the future of mobility for the two year anniversary of the interactive platform Eco-mobility.tv. The purpose of the event was to use the dynamics of interactive dialogue in order to generate collective intelligence. During the conference, attending experts and bloggers used iPads to share their ideas with citizens from all around the world through social networks. The event was live streamed; therefor internet users could directly interact with the debate and helped imagine sustainable mobility in 2025.

During the events, 784 tweets in French and English used the hashtag #mob2025.
Anne-Sophie Novel, Ecolo-Info founder, moderated the debate during which the experts highlighted a few key points:

Bruno Marzloff, Groupe Chronos: “Today, there is a peak driving similar to the peak oil with an exponential inflation of travels. In order to address this issue we need the government and institutions to take a strong stand to develop a new kind of mobility. Transversal answers appear, for example, internet allows managing everyday tasks without traveling with e-shopping and remote working. In order to develop this new kind of mobility, we need to be even more creative than Jules Verne.”
Robin Chase, Buzzcar: “When it comes to cars, the paradigm is currently shifting from the object to the use. The economy of car as a service needs to be developed. One way to do it is by adding transparency to car traveling costs.”

Eric Lemerle, in charge of new mobility at Renault: “The biggest challenge is to go from a niche market to a mass behavior by building human ecosystems based on sustainability. Today the aim of innovation is to mitigate the impact of constrained mobility through awareness raising and improved efficiency. With its range, electric car makes the driver more sensitive to energy consumption and generates more responsible behaviors.”

Ludovic Bu, writer of the book « Les transports, la planète et le citoyen »: “We could live differently by changing our practices. It is a good thing to find new solutions, but we need to be more efficient with what already exists. Today, there is an average of 1.2 passengers per car; we could raise this number with carpooling. When we look at developing countries, we see that people do not need regulation to find solutions, necessity leads to creativity.”

To conclude, there are many solutions for mobility in 2025 and intermodality will be the key, as we can see from the survey taken by the 106 people attending #mob2025.