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MIT researchers are working on an electric car that can be stacked. The innovative technology would reduce space and emissions - which is great - but if it succeeds in improving mobility it will be thanks to how it is used as much as to how it is made. Gil Friend points out parallels to some other attempts to improve personal mobility.

Most of these mobility examples use some form of what are now being called New Mobility Hubs. The modern incarnation of these hubs started in Bremen, Germany, and have spread in Europe and jumped the ocean to Toronto, Canada:

Today, Toronto has a wealth of traveling options, including public transit, taxis, car sharing, bike rental, bike sharing, and pedestrian networks. The effort to interlink these various options is gathering steam, with an initial HUB launched in April of 2006, at Exhibition Place / Liberty Village.

The key to these hubs is providing an innovative systems-based approach to transportation that provides viable alternatives for meeting travel needs.