Through his own consultancy, EcoPlan International, Britton undertakes projects which mainly relate to improving urban transport sustainability. is an umbrella for related discussion groups and online resources relating to sustainable urban transport, The Commons and its related online journal World Streets aim to promote and disseminate best practice. Much of his work involves co-ordinating the collaborative New Mobility Agenda, which encompasses a number of possible transport solutions, including car free days, carsharing, bikesharing and shared space projects.
Previous projects
1975. Led open working group to prepare first strategy study for the French Ministry of the Environment what eventually became the French Carte Orange. As part of a broader innovations program entitled, «Points de pression pour la gestion de l’environnement urbaine»
1988. High level international peer program in support of collaboration on the New Mobility Agenda which by 2006 brought together more than one thousand international colleagues and agencies working in the area of sustainable mobility and the politics of transportation
1994. In Toledo, Spain on 14 October publicly announced and then organized the International Car Free Days Network , an open society initiative which over the intervening years has led to several thousand events and city projects, the goal of which in each case is to create favorable conditions for sustainable transport reforms city by city. In 2000, organized the first Earth Car Free Day with the Earth Network, and in 2002 United Nations Car Free Days program with the Nations Division for Sustainable Development.
1997. Created the World Carshare Consortium to support carsharing innovation worldwide. Today serves more than five hundred individual experts, innovators, public agencies and carshare operators.
2004. Organized the annual Monaco Sustainable Cities/New Mobility Policy Dialogues – aimed at organizing “Accelerated Learning Sessions” for city managers, planners, decision-makers and activists concerned with improving the sustainability of transport in cities.
2006: Reinventing Transport in Cities: 2007-2012 program, a new collaborative project aiming to bring together thinking about transport in cities in the new century.
2009: Founded the online daily journal World Streets.
Publications
Britton has authored, co-authored or contributed to more than two hundred reports, books and articles, co-founded and acted as editorial adviser to the "Journal of World Transport Policy and Practice", and served on editorial/advisory boards of “Traffic Engineering & Control”, and Mass Transit journals.
“New Technology and Transportation: 1970-1995”, EuroFinance, Paris, 1969
“Adelaide into the Eighties: Strategies and Directions for Project Policy in the Decade Ahead”, Director General of Transport, Adelaide, Australia, Sept. 1979
“Energy, Growth and the Environment: A Three-Pronged Policy Strategy for Europe in the Decade Ahead”, with Hans-Holger Rogner of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Energy Directorate, European Commission, Brussels, 1993.
“Thursday: Breakthrough strategies for reducing car dependence in cities”, La Ciudad Accessible, Toledo, Spain. Oct. 1994
“TaxiCom: New Technology and Management Applications for Taxis”. Technology Sharing Program. Federal Transit Administration. DOT, Washington DC. Aug. 1995.
"Rethinking Work: New Ways to Work in an Information Society". Editor and principal author. Information Technology Directorate General, European Commission, Brussels, Nov. 1996,.
