Mobility is a development engine. The challenge is to make it sustainable, inclusive, safe and connected. With this objective in mind, 6,667 million of the Next Generation funds will be used to boost it from the Public Administration, while promoting private investment in green energy and digitization. An ambitious plan that plans to create 130,300 direct jobs and contribute 9,400 million euros to GDP.
In fact, the potential impact of the sector is so great that the estimates for the year 2040 made by ANFAC assume that the sustainable mobility market will mean adding 310,000 million billings; between 860,000 and 1.4 million jobs, and will entail an investment of 54,000 million euros for all the sectors involved.
As a country, Spain faces the challenge of completing the European corridors, accelerating the modal shift from road to train, reducing our dependence on oil and generating green energy alternatives, improving the capillarity of regional transport to create wealth in an empty Spain and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
At the urban level, large cities face the challenge of transforming themselves into smart cities, smart and connected cities in an inclusive and non-polluting way. This is what the councilor and delegate of the Environment and Mobility Area of the Madrid City Council, Borja Carabante, believes: “We must integrate all modes of mobility. It is necessary to transcend that old concept of intermodality between car and public transport to talk about integration with new modes of mobility, such as scooters, bicycles, pedestrian mobility...”
With this process of transformation underway in the background, the Global Mobility Call, the first world congress on sustainable mobility, will be held in Madrid between June 14 and 16, which will be -according to José Vicente de los Mozos, president of the Executive Committee of IFEMA MADRID, "the event with the greatest impact for the industry and job creation. An unprecedented meeting, promoted by the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda and organized by IFEMA MADRID and Smobhub, where public institutions, corporations and private initiatives, start-ups and experts in the field of infrastructure, energy, logistics, finance, strategic consulting or the automotive industry, among others". For this, more than a hundred panels have been organized with the participation of more than 250 speakers from different countries, in which more than 15,000 attendees will participate.
Over three days, a program of presentations will be developed inspired by world leaders in this transformation, business leaders, CEOs and key speakers of recognized international prestige will share their experience and knowledge for the redefinition of the framework of sustainable mobility.
Among the main figures that the congress will bring to Madrid are Michio Kaku, renowned scientist and authority in forecasting trends who will address "Sustainable mobility: travel 2050"; Jeffrey Sachs, academic and advisor to the UN and author of two reference books on smart and sustainable global development - "The end of poverty" and "The era of sustainable development" - will speak on "The future of sustainable mobility and its impact on climate change; Monica Araya, Senior Climate Change Policy Advisor, and Carlo Ratti, Architect and Director of MIT's Senseable Lab, expert in urban planning. Together with them, the analyst Shivvy Jervis, chosen among the "Women of the year 2021" in the United Kingdom, will intervene in the talk "Mobility 5.0, a more citizen-centered approach".
Joy Aljouny, entrepreneur and founder of Fetchr, and Uri Levine, co-founder of Waze, and investor in start-ups, will also speak, who will offer a panel on "How entrepreneurship has changed the world of mobility, what comes next?". or Adina Vãlean, European Commissioner for Transport, and Shivvy Jervis, futurist and specialist in citizen-centered innovation, among others. Among the Spanish business leaders, the congress will feature CEOs and senior managers of large corporations such as David Pistoni Pérez, CEO and founder of ZELEROS Hyperloop, who will give the conference "Hyperloop, the future of intercity transport". Also the founder of Cabify, Juan de Antonio, who will present his approach on "New solutions to improve urban mobility".
The sustainability of aviation will be discussed at the congress by Luis Gallego, CEO of IAG, and Javier Sánchez-Prieto, CEO of Iberia, will speak on "Sustainability as the central objective of the mobility of people and goods in transport aerial". Along with them, Josu Imaz, president of Repsol; Isaías Táboas, president of Renfe; María Elena Antolín, president of Antolín; Berta Barrero, General Director of Mobility at Indra; Silvia Roldanç, CEO of Metro Madrid; Sergio Vazquez-Torrón, president of Ineco; Antonio Sendrero, CEO of Arriva; Pilar López, president of Microsoft Ibérica; Ana Paula Assis, president of IBM Latin America, and Laura Ross, CEO of VW Spain, among others.
Global Mobility Call arrives at an unbeatable moment of necessary changes and provides the framework to close synergies, learn about some of the great international projects that are already underway and find out how citizens face this new scenario. This is the case of the PAsCAL project, a European initiative to understand the impact of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAV) on society.
There will also be space for reflection on the environmental impact of having billions of citizens on the move every day and the need to redraw urban functionalities. “At WWF we work on mobility associated with avoiding the generation of Greenhouse Gases (GHG). We support initiatives to promote electric mobility, active mobility and behavioral changes by choosing the means of transport for daily use”, says Paula Alexandra, a specialist in sustainable cities at WWF.
All these contents are grouped into five major thematic forums, which represent the five priorities of the sector: urban connectivity, public-private cooperation, sustainability, new technologies and automation, and the new emerging demographic and social challenges.
