Track Focus: Sustainable mobility as a lifestyle
Achieving sustainable mobility takes more than just environmentally friendly modes of transport – it also means a socially responsible and economically viable transport network. Only like this, can sustainable urban mobility become an accessible and preferred lifestyle.
At the UITP Hamburg Summit on 15-18 June 2025, the world’s public transport professionals will hold four days of activities and discussions covering the most important topics in the public transport sector. And that includes on how to make sustainable mobility a lifestyle.
What is sustainable mobility as a lifestyle?
Sustainable urban mobility is not one mode or one ticket – it is everything. Making sustainable mobility into a lifestyle means making transport multimodal, convenient, and passenger-centric. With options for all ways to travel, through on-demand transport, MaaS, multimodality, active mobility, and more, mobility can be both inclusive and sustainable.
3 discussions about sustainable mobility as a lifestyle you can expect at the UITP Summit 2025:
How to integrate shared mobility and public transport
By its very nature as a high-volume service, public transport does not and cannot take passengers directly to their front door. So, let’s be clear: making public transport the best way to travel depends on multimodality. This is where shared mobility is important. Shared mobility can make mass public transport more accessible, whether it be by plugging the first/last mile gap, connecting underserved areas with mobility hubs, or by simply giving people more options.
Ultimately, implemented strategically, shared mobility can help support public transport encourage a modal shift away from the private car – and towards sustainable mobility.
Technology as an enabler for on-demand mobility
Technology moves fast. So must we. How can public transport take advantage of the latest developments in AI, for instance? In what ways can public transport further link up with on-demand mobility, so that we can coordinate and better respond to user needs?
And as the technology advances, so should our regulations. At the UITP Summit 2025, there will be space for public transport professionals from different cities to share their experiences on key issues such as:
- How to ensure public support,
- Regulatory strategies that ensure on-demand services can thrive,
- Effective incentives to encourage innovation and technology uptake,
- And more…
A shared and autonomous future of public transport
Shared, autonomous vehicles are another way to make sustainable mobility a lifestyle. Automated vehicles are yet to be rolled out at scale – for now, there are about as many autonomous vehicles worldwide as there are buses in Germany.
But automated mobility shows a great potential to support public transport. To get there, we must first establish clear business and governance models, as well as how to ensure automated mobility complements, not competes with, public transport. Supported by EU-funded projects with UITP participation like AI4CCAM, FAME, SHOW and ULTIMO, an economically viable and sustainable roll-out of on-demand autonomous vehicles is a close future. And it is at places like the UITP Summit 2025 where that future will be shaped.
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