ABSTRACT
Urban mobility and metropolitan transportation systems are at the core of the most significant challenges facing our cities in the twenty-first century. The New Urban Agenda (NUA) draws attention to the essential value of urban mobility and transportation as a fundamental feature and condition of every city’s social function, including social and ecological dimensions. One traditional, tested approach is to establish environmental and pollution threshold values for fossil-fuel-driven vehicles, different kinds of fiscal and regulatory incentives to foster the transition to other forms of mobility, such as electric cars, and partial bans on the use of some kinds of vehicles in certain cases. Another fundamental issue in developing the NUA’s strategic approaches within the jurisdiction of local authorities pertains to decisions regarding the use of urban public space. Any coherent global strategy adopted by a local government willing to comply with the NUA has to adopt regulations to promote other kinds of shared mobility beyond ride-sharing and car-sharing platforms.
