SUMP: Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan
From 2026, municipalities across the EU are expected to have a Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP) in place, following the European Commission’s updated Third Edition SUMP Guidelines. A SUMP is a strategic, long-term plan for improving mobility and accessibility in a city or region, built around people rather than traffic flow, and developed together with residents, businesses and neighbouring authorities.
Meeting the EU’s requirements is only part of the challenge. A SUMP that actually changes how people move needs a realistic baseline, clear and measurable objectives, and a package of measures your organisation can actually deliver and monitor over time.
Curious whether your own municipality already has one? We’ve built a directory of officially published mobility plans across the Netherlands and Flanders — see which municipalities already have a SUMP, and which don’t yet.
A SUMP on paper changes nothing. A SUMP built around how your municipality actually works can reshape how people move for a generation.
Questions we help you answer
- Do we need a SUMP, and what does the EU’s Third Edition Guidelines actually require of us?
- How do we assess our current mobility situation and set realistic, measurable targets?
- Which measures – cycling, public transport, shared mobility, zero-emission zones – should our SUMP prioritise?
- How do we involve residents, businesses and neighbouring municipalities in the process?
- How do we monitor, report on and update our SUMP once it’s adopted?
How we help
Baseline & stakeholder analysis
Assess your current mobility situation, data and stakeholders to build a clear, evidence-based starting point for your SUMP.
Vision & objective setting
Set a shared long-term vision and measurable objectives that reflect what your municipality actually needs.
Measure selection & packaging
Select and package the mobility measures, from cycling to shared mobility to zero-emission zones, that will get you there.
Participatory process design
Design a participation process that brings residents, businesses and neighbouring authorities genuinely into the plan.
Monitoring & indicator framework
Build the indicators and monitoring framework your SUMP needs to track progress and stay EU-compliant.
EU compliance & funding support
Align your SUMP with the EU’s Third Edition Guidelines and identify the funding routes available to deliver it.
Proven Track Record in Mobility Planning
GEMINI: Greening European Mobility
Contributing to GEMINI, a Horizon Europe project piloting new shared mobility services across European cities to build the evidence base municipalities need for their SUMP.
SuSMo: Sustainable Shared Mobility
Helping cities design zero-emission shared mobility services that work with, not against, the existing transport system.
Ready to develop your SUMP?
Talk to our team about developing a Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan that fits how your municipality actually works.
Which Dutch and Flemish municipalities already have a SUMP?
We’ve mapped officially published mobility plans for municipalities across the Netherlands and Flanders — with direct links to each source document.
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