A sustainable mobility model must reduce trips that do not provide benefits and that entail an environmental, economic or social cost. In addition, it must contribute to the fluidity of traffic and to improving people’s efficiency and comfort as they get around each day.

To achieve more efficient and healthier mobility, it is key to have a structured metropolis through active mobility networks (pedestrian and bicycle), interchanges and new centralities, together with a wide and coordinated array of sustainable modes of transport that allow residents to combine different means when moving around each day.

Planning is a key tool for ordering and regulating local land use and activities and is therefore the ideal instrument for achieving a city model that is consistent with how people inhabit it. Planning must integrate residents’ needs, rethink infrastructure and help to promote sustainable modes of transport.

The Barcelona metropolitan region concentrates the largest number of trips in Catalonia and the most complex pieces of infrastructure (such as the airport, the port, the railways, etc.). That is why we must promote an infrastructure network that structures the territory and that guarantees and encourages active mobility, supported by efficient services that respond to the metropolis’ environmental, social and economic needs.

The world is becoming more digital and sustainable, and mobility must follow along. The mobility industry must join the changes in consumption patterns and transform to ensure more sustainable, smarter and more efficient trips.

The great boom experienced by electronic commerce in recent years has confirmed the need to coordinate the urban distribution of goods, optimising movements, compacting loads, organising logistics and promoting the use of less polluting modes of transport.