Shared mobility and a sustainable transport future in Latin American cities

This research paper summarizes a series of workshops hosted by the WRI Ross Center's Urban Mobility team between August and October 2023. The workshops, held in Bogotá, Mexico City, and Curitiba, explored how shared mobility tools such as bike sharing and ride-hailing can be integrated into sustainable transport ecosystems to support decarbonization and efficiency in Latin American cities.

• Shared mobility services, including ride-hailing and bike sharing, are viewed as established technologies that can contribute to decarbonization and sustainability, particularly when policies ensure they integrate with walking, cycling, and mass transit infrastructure.
• Latin American cities have a specific opportunity to use shared mobility to drive sustainable transport development because car ownership rates are currently low, although they are increasing.
• Effective sustainable mobility requires multifaceted collaboration between civil society, mobility operators, and governments across four primary areas: establishing cross-sector partnerships to reduce private vehicle reliance, creating electric mobility strategies (such as electrifying taxi fleets and charging infrastructure), using data for policymaking (e.g., analyzing pick-up/drop-off hot spots), and formalizing ride-hailing regulations.

APA

World Resources Institute (n.d.). Shared mobility and a sustainable transport future in Latin American cities. https://www.wri.org/research/shared-mobility-and-sustainable-transport-future-latin-american-cities

Chicago

World Resources Institute. Shared mobility and a sustainable transport future in Latin American cities. n.d. https://www.wri.org/research/shared-mobility-and-sustainable-transport-future-latin-american-cities.

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BibTeX

@techreport{worldresourcesinstitutendshared, author = {{World Resources Institute}}, title = {{Shared mobility and a sustainable transport future in Latin American cities}}, institution = {World Resources Institute}, url = {https://www.wri.org/research/shared-mobility-and-sustainable-transport-future-latin-american-cities}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }