The Urban Mobility Scorecard Tool: Benchmarking the Transition to Sustainable Urban Mobility

The World Economic Forum's Global New Mobility Coalition developed the Urban Mobility Scorecard (UMS) Tool to assist cities in transitioning to shared, electric, connected, and automated (SEAM) transport. The tool evaluates cities across three pillars: Governance, Resilience, and Connectivity. Trials in Buenos Aires, Curridabat, and Singapore demonstrate the tool's applicability across different city sizes and economic contexts, highlighting specific strengths in space allocation and institutional coordination while identifying systemic gaps in investment and electrification coordination.

• Adopting a shared, electric, connected, and automated (SEAM) approach to urban mobility by 2050 could significantly reduce the environmental and economic burden of transport, potentially reducing passenger vehicle numbers from 2.1 billion to 0.5 billion and mitigating over 80% of CO2 emissions from passenger transport.
• The Urban Mobility Scorecard (UMS) Tool is structured around three pillars: Governance (focusing on institutional coordination, regulation, and innovation), Resilience (addressing space allocation and kerbside management), and Connectivity (prioritizing integration and equitable access).
• Trials of the UMS Tool in Buenos Aires, Curridabat, and Singapore showed that the framework is applicable to diverse urban contexts, ranging from city-states with high regulatory power to small authorities influenced by national-level decisions.
• Specific city achievements identified by the tool include Buenos Aires' creation of over 300km of cycle lanes (90% protected), Curridabat's 'Sweet City' nature-based urban planning, and Singapore's target to install 60,000 EV charging points by 2030.
• The initiative identified eight key priorities for cities to accelerate the transition, with three critical areas requiring further investigation: closing investment and funding gaps, scaling up the transition to electrification through better coordination with utilities, and ensuring accessibility and equity are central to planning rather than an afterthought.

APA

World Economic Forum (2023). The Urban Mobility Scorecard Tool: Benchmarking the Transition to Sustainable Urban Mobility. https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_The_Urban_Mobility_Scorecard_Tool_2023.pdf

Chicago

World Economic Forum. The Urban Mobility Scorecard Tool: Benchmarking the Transition to Sustainable Urban Mobility. 2023. https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_The_Urban_Mobility_Scorecard_Tool_2023.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{worldeconomicforum2023urban, author = {{World Economic Forum}}, title = {{The Urban Mobility Scorecard Tool: Benchmarking the Transition to Sustainable Urban Mobility}}, institution = {World Economic Forum}, year = {2023}, month = may, url = {https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_The_Urban_Mobility_Scorecard_Tool_2023.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }