Sustainability issues are pushing forward a new chapter in how people get around in cities. From using shared mobility, to buying electric vehicles, urban mobility is a fast-changing industry. The briefing examines urban mobility trends, focusing on commuting habits, transport spending and vehicle ownership. It touches on the opportunities and challenges cities are facing, examining key issues such as urbanisation, mobility as a service, and low and zero emission mobility.
This report comes in PPT.
Global urbanisation by 2030 will reach 60.0%, and 63.7% by 2040. This will require urban planners to engineer a new approach to mobility - a focus on delivering clean and shared mobility that will help mitigate the pitfalls of cities such as high traffic congestion and excessive air pollution.
Public transport and private passenger car travel remain the most popular modes of commuting in major cities. Public transport has faced a hit due to the COVID-19 pandemic which resulted in large-scale social distancing, but will rebound in 2021. Passenger car travel is being targeted by municipal governments with parking restrictions and congestion charges, in an attempt to encourage alternative mobility.
Emerging market cities will remain the cauldrons of economic growth over the next 20 years. This is expected to drive transport expenditure as more consumers enter the middle class. Cities such as Shanghai, Mumbai and Jakarta are expected to deliver some of the fastest rates of transport expenditure growth in the next two decades.
In the 2021 Mobility Survey, 83.0% of global respondents suggested having at least one gasoline-powered vehicle, followed by diesel (27.2%), hybrid (10.6%) and electric (8.9%). However, electric vehicles are becoming more popular. Compared to the Mobility Survey in 2020, the share of electric vehicle owners increased by 1.5 percentage points in 2021.
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