Journal of Urban Mobility (Dec 2022)
Re-shaping urban mobility – Key to Europe´s green transition
Abstract
This paper outlines the vision of EIT Urban Mobility towards sustainable urban mobility. EIT Urban Mobility is an initiative of the European Institute for Innovation and Technology (EIT), a body of the European Union. EIT Urban Mobility's ecosystem counts more than 260 organisations from cities, research & academia, and industry working to enable people and goods to move affordable, fast, comfortably, safely, and cleanly.In the context of climate emergency and extreme weather events that an increasing number of European cities are already facing, it is of utmost importance to develop, and scale decarbonised urban mobility solutions. Such solutions must address acute challenges faced by cities and their inhabitants, linking urban and mobility planning, while actively engaging with citizens at all stages of transformation processes, from design to implementation.Our vision aims to facilitate this process by channelling public and private efforts towards priority areas of transformation, which are technological and behavioural pathways leading to more sustainable urban mobility spanning from street experiments to connected and shared on-demand mobility. The paper also identifies structural enablers of change, which are key technological and regulatory innovations required to turn our vision into an everyday reality.
