Unveiling the 10 cities leading the way to address local mobility challenges

Bengaluru wants to address the growing road safety issues through a participative, evidence and data analytics-based approach. It intends to tackle infrastructure issues, accident reporting and enhanced road safety.

The city aims to tackle the health consequences caused by emissions from transportation, impacting one of Detroit’s most vulnerable communities in Eastern Market: a district with planned residential and trucking expansion that operates as Detroit’s main food production, processing and packaging hub as well as a nightlife, restaurant and entertainment destination.

Fortaleza aims to create a sustainable solution to improve financial access to the public transport system for vulnerable low-income populations, especially those living in housing estates and precarious settlements in areas not served by high-capacity bus lines.

Medellín faces a significant challenge in its quest to provide quality transportation service to various vulnerable groups of the population. The mountainous geography of the territory creates considerable physical obstacles for the mobility of people with disabilities, caregivers and for the growing migrant population.

Mexico wants to find a sustainable and ordered way to deliver and move loads in the historic downtown area. The commercial area has a pendular pattern, with 1.2 million daytime visitors and diverse commerce. Despite public transport options, narrow streets and various modes of mobility make planning solutions challenging.

With increased hurricane risk threatening coastal communities, there is a need for innovative solutions to the challenge of implementing City Assisted Evacuation – the transport of vulnerable residents from dangerous conditions to places of safe refuge and shelter, either within the city or beyond its boundaries.

Seberang Perai is looking to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from freight transport and personal mobility vehicles in the Batu Kawan Industrial Park (BKIP) part of the Penang automation cluster, through improved city planning interventions and public-private partnerships with companies in the industrial park.​

With e-rickshaws (battery operated three wheelers) growing in the city, there is a need to digitally integrate this sector with other modes of transport to provide better connectivity to the citizens and strengthen city’s mobility networks and create a safer and optimized network of service provision.

Venice wants to encourage behavior change towards sustainable mobility practices. The City aims to engage citizens in changing their mobility habits by promoting more sustainable choices such as sharing mobility services and/or replacing their current fossil-fuel water and land vehicles with electric or fuel cell ones.

York’s medieval street pattern requires innovation to assign limited shared space efficiently and sustainably; this requires data and urban governance innovation to achieve a better balance between people and goods across a range of competing mobility needs and vehicle types, while supporting the city’s net zero ambitions.