Face New Challenges

The Global Mobility Report 2017 produced by the Sustainable Mobility for All (SuM4Amm) initiative⁽¹⁾ shares the following key figures:

About 450 million people in Africa – or more than 70% of its total rural population – are estimated to have been left unconnected to transport.
Transporting a container of avocados from Kenya to the Netherlands requires 200 interactions and more than 20 documents, at a cost equal to that of shipping. Efficient supply chains can increase farmer income 10-100%.
Almost 1.3m people die on the world’s roads every year and tens of millions are seriously injured. Traffic crashes are the leading cause of death among young people aged 15-29.
Transport emits 23% of all energy-related greenhouse gases; its CO2 emissions could grow by 40% by 2040.

Adopt the Strategy

Governments are responsible to provide populations with multimodal solutions, allowing the people, goods and services’ efficient mobility; this ability to “Go anywhere anytime” safely, whatever the circumstances, and leveraging the latest technologies available and the most efficient and sustainable sources of energy.

To play their “pivot” role at the national and international level on this great challenge, public deciders needs to:

Impulse the appropriate innovation dynamic for the country, establishing public private partnerships and securing international funding for strategic developments.
Develop critical infrastructures to ensure a full territory coverage.
Finely monitor emerging trends or constraints and decide on what sustainable mobility strategies to invest (energy choices, infrastructures development, research and innovation, funding…).
Guarantee a safe public transportation environment.
Anticipate and adapt production and supply strategies even in case of disrupted logistics situation
Analyze, decide and collaborate on complex situations (crisis mode) or complex projects (normal mode)