New framework for monitoring urban mobility in European cities

The Europe 2020 strategy (COM (2010) 2020 final) for smart, inclusive, and sustainable growth highlighted the importance of an innovative and sustainable European transport system for the future development of the Union. It also stressed the importance of addressing urban dimension of transport. A key issue in the changes is to understand that urban mobility must be handled as a part of a wider shift: namely within the sustainable city concept. Urban mobility have to serve Europe's urban areas develop along a more sustainable path (both environmentally and financially) and that EU goals for a competitive and resource-efficient European area are met. While the integrative target is clear, practical elements of the urban mobility development and decision making time-to-time reserve earlier approachesThe integrated decision making at local, regional, national or EU level have to be helped with a similarly coordinated data, statistical, monitoring and evaluation system of urban transport. This paper's aim is to set up a framework for monitoring urban mobility by a criteria set which helps determining indicators from general objectives through urban (mobility) objectives. Indicators set up this way should be suitable to benchmark and compare progress of urban areas across the EU, paying special attention to integrated approach while defining the methodology.