Deadline 16 June 2025
Accelerating Access to Low Carbon Urban Mobility Solutions (ACCESS) through Digitalization is a joint project of nine organisations (UN Environment Programme - UNEP; Institute of Transportation and Development Policy - ITDP, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy; UN Development Programme - UNDP; UN Human Settlements Programme - UN-Habitat, Local Governments for Sustainability - ICLEI, Urban Electric Mobility Initiative, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT; and Centro de Movilidad Sostenible - CMS) supporting six countries in Latin America (Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru). The project’s goal is to introduce digitalization policies and tools into urban transport systems in order to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the transport sector. Planned measures are: 1. Developing national policies to enable digitalisation of mobility; 2. Developing local policies and implementing pilots at city level; 3. Documenting and curating lessons, knowledge, data in order to develop tools and resources to be shared at regional level through capacity building and replication. The project is transformative and will benefit citizens in each country who use urban transport by providing more efficient low carbon transport options and in the longer term healthier and cleaner environments, as well as benefiting national and city government stakeholders and the private sector. Potential digitalization interventions have been discussed and identified in collaboration with the countries for demonstration projects during the project preparation phase in 2022, including urban freight and logistics, electric mobility uptake, public transport, walking and cycling, transportation demand management, clean and more efficient vehicles, and vehicle operation monitoring. ACCESS will conduct in-depth country and city baseline assessments and stakeholder engagement to assess the current context, opportunities, and challenges for sustainable mobility and digitalization, examining the local needs and context. Tailored solutions will be designed, finalized, and implemented for each city and will be designed to allow replicability in other cities and countries in the region through a strong regional component (via the work package on the Regional Resource Centre & Upscaling). UN-Habitat invites Expressions of Interest from universities and NGOs based in Argentina and Ecuador to support the implementation of the ACCESS activities in the respective countries.
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