Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs)
A Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP) is a strategic plan developed in a participatory and integrated way to meet people's and businesses' mobility needs in cities and to harmonize and integrate existing planning approaches. It sets cities on a sustainable course regarding land use and urban mobility. Because each city is starting with a different baseline of transport plans, MobiliseYourCity implementing partners and city members work together to adapt the SUMP process for local needs.
Because each measure is costed and prioritised, an adopted SUMP gives a city a credible investment pipeline to present to governments, development banks and other financiers.
National Urban Mobility Policies and Investment Programmes (NUMPs)
A National Urban Mobility Policy or Investment Programme (NUMP) is a strategic, action-oriented framework for urban mobility, developed by national governments, enacted to enhance the capability of cities to plan, finance and implement projects and measures designed to fulfil the mobility needs of people and businesses in cities and their surroundings in a sustainable manner.
It aligns ministries, regions and cities around shared priorities and connects them to national budgets and development finance, so that city plans have the backing they need.
Implementation support
A SUMP or NUMP defines priorities, but its measures are not yet projects. Implementation support adds the technical, financial and institutional detail needed to build, finance and run them.
It is now the largest share of the Partnership's work, with a focus on areas that are often underfunded, such as paratransit reform, walking and cycling, and governance.
Most projects combine several of these types, depending on local priorities and capacity.
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- SUMP or NUMP implementationContinued engagement after the planning phase to turn plan measures into real projects, usually combining the three types below.
- Pilot projectsSmall, quick interventions that test and demonstrate new approaches before they are scaled up.
- Project preparationPre-feasibility and feasibility studies that turn planning priorities into project concepts ready for financing.
- Institutional strengtheningSupport for the governance, coordination and technical capacity of public authorities in member cities and countries.
SUMP toolkit
