Transport provides a critical enabling environment to support economic and social development necessary to reach the SDGs. Also, the international community adopted the New Urban Agenda at the Habitat III conference in Quito, Ecuador, which outlined the importance and imperative of improving the sustainability of transport systems to mitigate the challenges of rapid urbanization. For instance, transport is a key policy component of the action program that landlocked developing states have agreed upon, evolving them toward land-linked states. Some elements of transport were included in various SDGs, (e.g., road safety, carbon emissions, etc.) and over the past two years, the international community made several commitments related to transport. And yet, transport was not endorsed as a distinct global Sustainable Development Goal (SDG), largely because the sector could not talk with one voice to influence this global process. Having a long-term term perspective which focuses on sustainability is a defining factor in the future of mobility. Globally, the number of vehicles on the road is expected to double by 2050. Mega projects like the China’s One Belt, One Road will connect more than half of the world’s population and roughly a quarter of the goods and services that move around the globe through maritime links and physical roads. In fast-growing places like India, China, sub-Saharan Africa, and Southeast Asia, billions of people will have higher lifestyle expectations, and new mobility aspirations. By 2030, passenger traffic will exceed 80,000 billion passenger-kilometers-a fifty percent increase-and freight volume will grow by 70 percent globally. One of the toughest environmental and social challenges of our time is managing the mobility of people and goods.
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