Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP) Toolkit

The SUMP Toolkit is a set of products intended to support national and local government officials, planning practitioners, and policy makers of transitional and developing countries to design and implement a process for developing a Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP).

To offer practical advice to implement a SUMP, the SUMP Toolkit builds on existing planning practices and takes into consideration integration, participation and evaluation principles following the MobiliseYourCity approach.


Developing Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs)

Since its inception in 2016, the MobiliseYourCity Partnership has been a leading force in disseminating Sustainable...
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Content Overview SUMP Toolkit

General Information and Outreach This introductory chapter provides information on the concept of SUMPs, its global...
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Topic guide – Participatory processes in urban mobility planning

Co-construction is the driving force behind the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs). Indeed, urban mobility planning...
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Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans FAQs

MobiliseYourCity created an FAQ document that addresses the most important questions around our core methodology – the Sustainable...
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MYC Tools and Methodologies

MobiliseYourCity has developed a comprehensive methodology that is openly accessible and easy to use by decision-makers,...
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Sustainable Urban Transport in the Developing World: Beyond Megacities

This article reviews the potential role and impact of nine commonly considered options when transitioning to...
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Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans: Implementing the New Urban Agenda

The main goal of the Sustainable Urban Transport Project (SUTP) is to assist developing and transitioning...
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Good Practice SUMPs

This selection of Good Practices offers politicians, officials from local and national governments as well as...
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Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning in Metropolitan Regions

The SUMP topic guides were created to supplement the guidelines. They were also updated with the...
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SUMP Guidelines 2.0

This is Europe’s major strategic planning instrument for authorities to develop and implement a long-term sustainable...
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MobiliseYourCity: SUMP Factsheet

This factsheet explains the concept of Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs) and how MobiliseYourCity supports local...
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Topic guide – Transport modelling for mobility planning

This topic guide aims to support practitioners (local authorities, mobility experts, consultants, and international development officials)...
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Coordination and Steering Structure

A tool for the main stakeholders to set up a steering structure for SUMP development and...
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SUMP Model Terms of Reference

This document constitutes the official model of Terms of Reference for the development of a Sustainable...
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Institutional Cooperation: “CH4LLENGE Kit”

The EU project CH4LLENGE sought to identify and help assist with pressing challenges of SUMP development....
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Using GPS Technology for Demand Data Collection

Travel demand data is a necessary basis for urban mobility planning, but especially in developing and...
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SHAPE-IT Guidelines for Policy-Makers

This resource contains ten practical recommendations for using SUMP as a tool for integrating policy goals...
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Institutions and Low Carbon Transport: The Case of Decentralizing Indonesia

The article examines how processes of decentralizing governance over the past decade have affected planning for...
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Stakeholder Mapping

The Stakeholder Map helps identify and visualise the relevant stakeholders and their relationships, thereby facilitating a...
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MobiliseDays Standard Terms of Reference

MobiliseDays refers to an initiation measure for the preparation of potential technical assistance. MobiliseDays focus usually...
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Annotated Table of Contents for Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs)

The document provides information on how a SUMP (or other related strategic mobility planning document) is...
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How to Plan on a Metropolitan Scale – the Story of Mexico

In 2018, the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area (AMG) started with an ambitious goal: to improve mobility planning...
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Co-Creating Urban Environments to Engage Citizens in a Low-Carbon Future

The article highlights the challenges of co-creative stakeholder engagement processes when designing and creating eco-neighbourhoods as...
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Inclusive Markets Development: Guide to Partnership Building

This document offers guidance on how to build strategic partnerships across different sectors necessary for any...
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Participation: Engaging Citizens and Stakeholders in the Development of SUMPs

The EU project CH4LLENGE sought to identify and help assist with pressing challenges of developing, implementing...
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10 Principles for Sustainable Urban Transport

A city is more civilised not when it has highways, but when a child on a...
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Why Urban Mobility and Gender?

To achieve sustainable mobility, we must integrate the experiences and realities of the half of the...
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12 Messages to Consider When Planning for Sustainable Urban Mobility

This MobiliseYourCity leaflet summarises 12 important messages to consider when planning for sustainable urban mobility.
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Adapting Urban Transport to Climate Change

Many transport decision-makers in developing countries are already confronted with extreme weather events, such as flooding,...
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Selecting the Most Effective Packages of Measures for SUMPs (CH4LLENGE Kit Manual)

The CH4LLENGE Kit Manual can also be used for cities who are already in the process...
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Complete Streets Framework Toolkit

Complete Streets is an IDTP project that uses the same principles as SUMPs to promote non-motorized...
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Policies for Sustainable Accessibility and Mobility in Urban Areas of Africa

This is a policy paper that gives an overview of trending accessibility and mobility issues faced...
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Decision-Making in Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning: Common Practice and Future Directions

This paper highlights the challenges for cities in selecting sustainable transport and mobility measures due to...
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Manual on The Integration of Measures and Measure Packages in A SUMP: Start for Beginner Cities

Manual on The Integration of Measures and Measure Packages in A SUMP: Start for Beginner Cities...
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Communications for Enhanced Project Outcome

The working group Transport & Environment (T&E) of the GIZ sector network TUEWAS supports the active...
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Sustainable Urban Mobility Indicators Project

The European Sustainable Urban Mobility Indicators Project (SUMI) developed a tool that assists cities with performing...
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Guidance for Transport Impact Evaluations: Choosing an Evaluation Approach to Achieve Better Attribution

This is a technical source about how to design and conduct a systematic evaluation of the...
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Assessing the Impact of Measures and Evaluating Mobility Planning Processes

The EU project CH4LLENGE sought to identify and help assist with pressing challenges of developing, implementing...
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Evaluation Matters: A Practitioners’ Guide to Sound Evaluation for Urban Mobility Measures

This is an easy-to-read, hands-on book of tips and advice when designing a framework for urban...
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Funding and Financing Mechanisms for Sustainable Mobility

This report summarises the main mechanisms identified with the potential to generate resources for sustainable urban...
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Mobilising Private Investment in Sustainable Transport Infrastructure

This brochure and working paper respectively introduce and detail a set of financing mechanisms to up-scale...
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Topic Guide: Funding and Finance of Sustainable Urban Mobility Measures

The SUMP topic guides were created to supplement the SUMP “core guidelines”. They were also updated...
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Who’s Paying What in Terms of Public Transport?

Across the world, urban sprawl and traffic congestion in cities have generated an ever-growing need for...
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Sustainable Urban Transport Financing from the Sidewalk to the Subway

This technical guidebook proposes a comprehensive urban transport financing framework to support cities in developing countries...
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MobiliseYourCity Emissions Calculator

The MobiliseYourCity Emissions Calculator supports cities and countries in calculating GHG emissions in transport as well...
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A Beginners Guide to Emissions Accounting in Transport

This brief guide outlines key principles for quantifying greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in transport and gives...
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Monitoring Greenhouse Gas Emissions

This report aims at enabling environmental authorities in Chinese cities to generate a regular emissions inventory...
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Content Overview: Transparency Toolkit

Our designated Transparency Toolkit aims at tracking mitigation actions in the transport sector and will support...
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Manual for Calculating Greenhouse Gas Benefits of Global Environment Facility Transportation Projects

The Transport Emissions Evaluation Models for Projects (TEEMP) was initially developed by the Clean Air Initiative...
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Core Indicator and Monitoring Framework

This document sets out the core indicators framework and monitoring principles for the MobiliseYourCity Partnership. Objectives...
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MobiliseYourCity: Overview SUMP Training Materials

General Information To scale and facilitate the capacity-building process, MobiliseYourCity developed a full overview of training...
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Paratransit Toolkit – Part I/II: Understanding Paratransit

The first mobility plans completed by MobiliseYourCity member cities in Africa demonstrate how relevant paratransit is...
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Paratransit Toolkit – Part II/II: Reforming Paratransit

The first mobility plans completed by MobiliseYourCity member cities in Africa demonstrate how relevant paratransit is...
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Mastering Mobility Training “Introduction to Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans”

These training materials will introduce you to Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning. They are structured around how...
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