GO SUMP set out to improve Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans and related measures across the Mediterranean, where cities face shared transport and planning challenges. The Interreg MED project brought local authorities and mobility initiatives together to compare progress, identify gaps and draw lessons from both successful and unsuccessful approaches.111
Rather than treating each participating initiative as a stand-alone effort, GO SUMP supported a wider community of six modular projects working on issues including university travel, cruise-destination transport, tourism mobility, citizen participation, congested urban districts and port-city mobility.37 Its partners included Málaga City Council, which led the project, alongside Eurocities, the Barcelona Metropolitan Area/MedCities, CODATU, UNIMED and the Regional Environmental Centre’s Ljubljana office.47
The project’s method centred on assessing practices for quality and transferability, then sharing findings through transnational exchange and joint strategies. Its aim was to help cities carry useful solutions across borders and bring sustainable mobility more consistently into urban planning and public policy.14 The project ran from November 2016 to October 2019.12
By the closing phase, the community had produced a sustainable urban mobility handbook and developed policy recommendations from the modular projects’ work. The final event in Málaga also brought project representatives together to present results and discuss continued cooperation on mobility planning.12 The project’s broader contribution was to frame Mediterranean mobility planning as a shared regional task, while recognising that solutions need to respond to local conditions.11