In April, Cenit signed a research collaboration agreement with the Center for Liveable Cities of Singapore and Casa Asia. It provides a great opportunity to share experiences between Barcelona and Singapore in the field of mobility.
TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY LESSONS FOR SINGAPORE AND BARCELONA
RESEARCH OBJECTIVES
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Highlight strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats in Singapore and Barcelona’s mobility systems.
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Compare sustainable mobility initiatives and their success in achieving sustainability (e.g., Singapore’s road repurposing vs Barcelona’s superblock scheme, public transport systems, car-lite initiatives, freight distribution and logistics management, public response and behaviour changes).
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Identify key lessons and strategies for more future-ready and sustainable mobility systems for Singapore and Barcelona.
RESEARCH QUESTIONS
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What are the existing and future challenges that Barcelona and Singapore should prepare for in their mobility systems?
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What limitations are there to achieving greater, long-term sustainability?
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What key lessons for both cities can be learned from the case studies?
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What are the potential strategies and recommendations for mobility systems in Barcelona and Singapore to make them more future-ready and sustainable?
POTENTIAL OUTPUTS
- Deep dive case studies and comparisons of different cities’ mobility systems.
- Internal insights to circulate within government to make recommendations for Singapore to achieve greater sustainability in mobility
- Public Op-ed, from Insights Piece
- Publication on Sustainable Mobility
