Key Research Themes: Urban Mobility

The document assesses research on urban transport pricing and regulation, noting a gap in understanding how these policies affect land use and the wider urban economy compared to their impact on traffic. It argues that the most urgent research need is the design of consistently structured policy packages that are financially sustainable and politically acceptable.

• Existing research on urban transport pricing and regulation has primarily focused on traffic impacts, while findings regarding the effects on land use and the broader urban economy—such as whether road pricing causes job loss or decentralization from urban centers—remain inconclusive.
• While EU-funded projects like OPTIMA and FATIMA have developed methodologies for identifying optimal policy packages and financing, they have focused on environmental and congestion impacts rather than public acceptability or wider systemic effects.
• Effective urban transport policy requires a consistently structured package of measures; the most pressing research priority is designing these measures to ensure they are financially sustainable and maintain political and public support.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2016). Key Research Themes: Urban Mobility. https://www.sei.org/publications/key-research-themes-urban-mobility/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Key Research Themes: Urban Mobility. 2016. https://www.sei.org/publications/key-research-themes-urban-mobility/.

Wikipedia

{{cite report |author=Stockholm Environment Institute |title=Key Research Themes: Urban Mobility |date=5 January 2016 |url=https://www.sei.org/publications/key-research-themes-urban-mobility/ |access-date=17 August 2026 |via=Climate Insights Directory}}

BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2016key, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Key Research Themes: Urban Mobility}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2016}, month = jan, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/key-research-themes-urban-mobility/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }