This report explores the question: How prepared are large Canadian municipalities in planning for, adopting, and advancing urban mobility innovations. To answer this question, Transport Canada performed a municipal policy scan for eight of the country’s largest urban centres, including regulatory documents, policy documents and guidelines, council reports, and budgets. Each municipality was given a SWOT analysis, which provides a broad, easy-to-digest assessment of its specific strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. It also includes a Mobility Innovation Index which maps how municipalities use transportation projects to support sustainability, innovate with technology, and advance the public good.

Dresden’s City Council passed SUMP 2025plus on 20 November 2014. The resolution included a requirement to report to the City Council at three-year intervals on the implementation of the plan. This report contains the results of the first evaluation as of 2017. Work on a quarter of the 90 short term measures has been completed, almost two thirds are still in process, nearly ten percent has not been started yet, and four are currently not being pursued. Of the 57 long term measures, 51 are currently being applied, five have not been started yet, and one has been postponed. In terms of objectives, the SUMP target of increasing the number of residents within the local public transport catchment area has been achieved. Overall, the City of Dresden’s SUMP 2025plus plan has earned recognition at national and international level. It is a reliable basis for action as a strategy for the future of mobility in Dresden. It is also the foundation for other plans, such as the Integrated Urban Development Concept (INSEK). Not least thanks to the broad-based participation of specialists and the public, it has succeeded in proving its legitimacy. 

The aim of this document is to present the Good Practices (GPs) that were collected as part of the activities of the EU REFORM Project. The goal of the REFORM project is to improve, through a mutual learning process, the policies of Regional Operational Programs supporting the funding and diffusion of SUMPs as the main planning instruments for shifting mobility towards a low carbon intensive mobility. The state of SUMPs in the REFORM Project Regions (Central Macedonia in Greece, Emilia-Romagna in Italy, Greater Manchester in the UK and Parkstad Limburg in the Netherlands) is described in this report, as the basis for the identification of Good Practices. A total of 26 Good Practices were identified and the document reports on the actions undertaken in order for them to be identified and described. It provides a review of actions to improve sustainable mobility and promote SUMP implementation and adoption.

This report reflects on experiences with engaging citizens during the development of SUMPs in the capital cities of Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and Tirana (Albania) in 2019/2020. The initial lessons learnt in these cities (as well as other examples from South East Europe) may be a helpful starting point for other cities in the region who are just getting started with their own path towards Sustainable Urban Mobility and public participation.

This report provides the status of SUMP development in Europe in 2017. A total of 1,000 SUMPs weren identified in Europe and of these, 328 cities participated in a survey undertaken by the CIVITAS SUMPS-UP team. 37% of these cities had a plan that qualifies as a SUMP. The national SUMP programme analysis pursued the following main research questions:

• What is the current status of SUMP development in Europe?
• What are the drivers to develop a SUMP?
• What are the barriers to develop a SUMP?
• What is the current status of national SUMP programmes and SUMP take-up in Europe? 
• Which elements of existing national SUMP programmes work best?
• What do countries need to (further) develop their national SUMP programme.

The report contains 2 Annexes that compile all national inventories and interviews conducted during the data collection phase and 21 best practices for topics concerning national programmes. 

The European Court of Auditors examined the extent to which EU support was effective in contributing to improving urban mobility in a sustainable way. In particular, they assessed whether EU cities have made progress towards improving sustainable urban mobility since the 2013 Urban Mobility Package. They concluded that:

• There is no clear trend towards more sustainable modes of transport.
• Overall there has been no significant reduction in private car usage.
• There are still many cities exceeding EU minimum air quality standards.
• Greenhouse gas emissions due to road transport have been steadily increasing.
• Travel by public transport often takes more time than by private car.

 They made the following recommendations

• Collect, submit and publish regularly relevant data on urban mobility; and
• EU funding for urban mobility should be conditional on the existence of a SUMP.

In order to have a first-hand impression of the impacts from the pandemic in urban environments, a group of 16 cities was surveyed and interviewed by EIT (the European Institute of Innovation & Technology). Some cities have used COVID-19 in their favour to foster the development of mobility plans and/or new measures to transform their mobility system taking advantage of the clear window of opportunity. Cities did not radically change with the pandemic, instead, they adapted and evolved at a higher pace with already existent solutions but not yet deployed at a higher scale. Distinct scenarios can be found in different cities. Such as the ones who barely changed their plans or infrastructures compared to the already existing ones; others due to staff redeployment and budget constraints had to put most of their strategic plans on hold to tackle more urgent health needs created by the pandemic; and others that had the chance to push new mobility projects they had in the pipeline forward as the need for change became even more evident with the pandemic. Cities are trying to face challenges with various strategic approaches: proximity urban planning, seamless inter-modality and public space redesign