Mobility Forum

The establishment of a National Sustainable Mobility Forum as a means of providing a platform for collaborative engagement with national, regional and local stakeholders was one of the core actions set out on the SMP. The inaugural Forum took place in April 2023, and the second was held in Portlaoise on 23 May 2024.

change required for transport, in the form of youth participants and panellists from community organisations around the country.

The 2024 Forum was framed around the themes of Policy, Vision, and Practice. The first of these sessions was coordinated by Technological University Dublin and brought together national and international academics to consider the SMP from a variety of lenses, such as social integration, urban planning and health. In the second session, a panel of youth representatives drawn from the National Youth Assembly on Climate and participating delegates from the Transport Research Arena conference explored utopian and dystopian scenarios of how sustainable mobility could evolve between now and 2050, putting forward practical solutions to address the pressing transport issues of our time. The

This year’s Forum was focused on reviewing the effectiveness of the SMP, considering how our transport system will need to develop to meet our future needs, and reflecting on the behavioural and societal changes needed to realise our emissions reduction targets of 50% by 2030 and climate neutrality by 2050. This year, in light of 2024 being designated the ‘Year of Engagement’ on climate action, a particular focus was placed on those groups most likely to be impacted by the systemic

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third and final session heard from community representatives who are putting sustainable mobility projects into practice in their local communities and illustrated how behavioural change can be generated at a local level.

platform for sustainable mobility practitioners to share learnings and to access key information on funding, research, latest news and training as well as a large reservoir of usecases in the area.

A new Sustainable Mobility Academy was also launched at the Forum. This is an online

A report of the Forum has been published and is available to access here.

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