Key Research Themes: Urban Mobility

This research paper reviews urban transport pricing and regulation, identifying a gap in research regarding the wider economic and land-use impacts of these policies and the need for integrated, sustainable policy packages.

• Current research on urban transport pricing and regulation has primarily focused on traffic impacts, while results 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.
• Despite EU-funded projects like OPTIMA and FATIMA attempting to create methodologies for optimal policy packages and financing, research has continued to prioritize direct environmental and congestion impacts over public acceptability and wider effects.
• The most urgent research priority is the design of consistently structured packages of transport measures that are financially sustainable and maintain political and public support while meeting their objectives.

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

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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} }