Overview
The Sustainable Mobility Project (SMP) was established
in 2000 to consider how global mobility patterns
might evolve in the period to 2030 and beyond, what
strategies exist to influence this evolution in ways that
might make transport more sustainable, and what is
required to enable these strategies to succeed. The
project concentrated on mobility issues related to road
transportation.
In July 2004, the project concluded by releasing a
comprehensive report on the topic, Mobility 2030: Meeting the Challenges to Sustainability.
The WBCSD provided a platform for the participating
companies to carry out dialogues and discussions with a
wide range of stakeholders inside and outside the
industry. The WBCSD has been playing a coordinating
role in the global rollout of the project.
An initial study Mobility 2001 ( 1.6 MB) assessed the worldwide
state of mobility and identified the particular challenges
to making mobility more sustainable.
The new report develops this thinking and shows how
sustainable mobility might be achieved and how
progress towards it could be measured. We have
concentrated on road transportation, reflecting our
member companies’ expertise in this area.
One
conclusion of the Mobility 2030 report is
that the way people and goods are
transported today is not
sustainable if the present
trends continue.
Mobility 2030 proposes
seven goals that, if achieved,
would improve the prospects
for sustainable mobility:
- Reduce conventional emissions from transport so
that they do not constitute a significant public health
concern anywhere in the world.
- Limit greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from
transport to sustainable levels.
- Reduce significantly the number of transport-related
deaths and injuries worldwide.
- Reduce transport-related noise.
- Mitigate traffic congestion.
- Narrow “mobility divides” that exist within all countries
and between the richest and poorest countries.
- Improve mobility opportunities for the general
population in developed and developing societies.
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The companies supporting the project regard these
goals as a framework that could form the basis of a
global initiative to make the world’s transport systems
sustainable in the 21st century.
Launch events for media and stakeholders for Mobility
2030 were arranged in Brussels, Detroit and Tokyo in
July and August 2004. The participating companies and the WBCSD considered these meetings as the start of a
dialogue with a wide range of stakeholders and have
been participating in a great number of events
throughout the world.
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