Sustainable Urban Mobility (SiMPlify)
Today, decisions taken in cities across the world will shape our future lives. SiMPlify offers a way for cities and businesses to collaborate on these decisions as they relate to mobility, with the goal of creating livable and sustainable cities where people can prosper.
WBCSD has developed tools that enable more effective and inclusive decision-making, to improve the performance of mobility systems in cities. A set of sustainable urban mobility indicators and an online mobility tool help cities identify and address mobility challenges, with a specific focus on improving commuters’ quality of life, limiting environmental impact and reducing air pollution.
The challenge
By 2030, around 60% of the global population will live in cities. By 2050 this will rise to 75%. Urban mobility currently accounts for 40% of all CO2 emissions of road transport and up to 70% of other pollutants from transport. Transport is one of the largest sources of GHG emissions globally and smog represents a serious public health concern. The question of how to enhance mobility while reducing congestion, accidents and pollution is a common challenge to all major cities in the world.
The business case
Business has the expertise, the strategic interest and the financial capacity to provide low-carbon mobility solutions in cities. As the need for urban mobility is growing, the way we travel and transport goods must change. To do so, each city must find the right responses to these challenges, taking their specific circumstances into account. To create better, smarter, more sustainable cities, cities and businesses need to work together on tailor-made solutions.
The solution
SiMPlify helps connect companies with city authorities and relevant stakeholders; proposing an objective model; promoting innovation in mobility systems and providing citizens with easy, safe and clean mobility. SiMPlify uses a fact-based mobility planning tool and a set of sustainable mobility indicators. It facilitates collaboration between business and cities to find ways to meet a city’s sustainability needs while helping create livable and sustainable cities.
Resources
Happening in our cities
News and insights
SDG Impact
SiMPlify has for vision to extend universal access to safe, inclusive and low-environmental impact mobility. The application of SiMPlify process will increase Road Safety (3.6), Energy Efficiency (7.3), Urban Access (11.2) and mitigate Air pollution (3.9) and Climate Change (13.2). SiMPlify works to base decisions in facts for more accountable Institutions. SiMPlify promotes effective public, public-private and civil society partnerships (17) for participative, representative and inclusive decision making in Sustainable Urban Mobility planning (9.1, 11.6). SiMPlify tools are easy to engage with and the process is developed to ensure capacity-building (17.9) for data collection and monitoring (17.18) as well as for solution implementation (17.8) and sustainable financing.
Members involved
Contacts
Thomas Deloison
Director, Mobility & Member of the Extended Leadership Group
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