Project Details

Project goal

Indicators play a vital role in a city’s efforts to make and monitor progress towards a more sustainable mobility system. To support cities in this important activity, the European Commission (DG MOVE) funded the SUMI (Sustainable Urban Mobility Indicators) project to review and “Europeanise” the existing indicator set SMP2.0 of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development in order to make the indicators more suitable to the European context, more compatible with the availability of existing data sets and with the institutional context of data owners. Between 2018 and 2020, the SUMI consortium worked with nearly 50 urban areas in almost all EU Member States to apply this resulting indicator set and thus to test, validate and improve it. The overall goal was to have a methodologically rigorous, yet practical tool with concrete benefits for cities and with the potential to become the European standard of sustainable urban mobility indicators. The project also resulted in an online tool for cross-city comparison and benchmarking which is available from the SUMI page.

Results

The main result from the project were the (non-public) recommendations for the EC about further action, including ways in which the indicator set can be improved further, based on a thorough documentation and analysis of the experiences made with the concrete application of the indicator set by the cooperating cities.

Project partners

• Rupprecht Consult GmbH, Cologne, Germany
• TRT Trasporti e Territorio Srl, Milano, Italy
• Transport & Mobility Leuven (TML), Leuven, Belgium
• Polis, European Cities and Regions Networking for Innovative Transport Solutions, Brussels, Belgium
• Eurocities, The network of major European cities, Brussels, Belgium
• UITP - International Association of Public Transport, Brussels, Belgium

Follower

• City of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
• City of Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria
• City of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
• City of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
• City of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria
• City of Burgas, Burgas, Bulgaria
• City of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
• City of Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik, Croatia
• City of Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus
• City of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
• City of Aalborg, Aalborg, Denmark
• City of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
• City of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
• City of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
• City of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
• City of La Rochelle, La Rochelle, France
• City of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
• City of Athens, Athens, Greece
• City of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
• City of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece
• City of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
• City of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
• City of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
• City of Rome, Rome, Italy
• City of Milan, Milan, Italy
• City of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
• City of Daugavpils, Daugavpils, Latvia
• City of Klaipeda, Klaipeda, Lithuania
• City of Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
• City of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
• City of Gdynia, Gdynia, Poland
• City of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
• City of Guimaraes, Guimaraes, Portugal
• City of Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania
• City of Oradea, Oradea, Romania
• City of Arad, Arad, Romania
• City of Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia
• City of Žilina, Žilina, Slovakia
• City of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
• City of Nova Gorica, Nova Gorica, Slovenia
• City of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
• City of Vitoria-Gasteiz, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
• City of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
• City of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
• City of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
• City of Milton Keynes, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom