
Space Traffic Management and Orbital Debris
The Space Traffic Management and Orbital Debris workstream, in collaboration with the European Space Agency, is working on addressing key challenges through best practice recommendations,...
Accelerating the global transition to safer, cleaner and more inclusive transportation systems, optimizing the delivery of goods and ensuring easy access to mobility for everyone.
Mobility – the movement of people and goods – provides access to jobs, education, healthcare and trade. Yet today’s mobility systems cannot meet future demand without increasing congestion and pollution. We are seeking to change that by providing a platform where business leaders can partner with policy-makers to develop a global mobility system that is safe, clean and inclusive.
The world’s population will swell to 10 billion by 2050. In the face of this rapid growth, mobility systems in megacities are being overstretched while rural areas are falling further behind. How can sustainable and inclusive mobility be ensured?
Cutting-edge technologies such as autonomous vehicles (AVs), biometrics and drones are creating opportunities to transform mobility by enabling innovative business models and mobility services for new and changing customer demographics.
Our Platform brings the world’s major mobility companies together with key stakeholders across all sectors to create mobility systems and guidelines that meet 21st-century demands.
The Space Traffic Management and Orbital Debris workstream, in collaboration with the European Space Agency, is working on addressing key challenges through best practice recommendations,...
The ChallengeIn the near future, space debris will become a critical challenge for the global community, endangering access to space and the benefits this access brings. In recent years,...
The ChallengeThere is growing consensus that total miles driven is not a sufficient metric for the safety of autonomous vehicles. Nor is disengagement reporting a good indicator of qualit...
The challengeShipping is central to the movement of goods around the world and a driver for global trade. Although it is considered one of the lowest emitting means of transportation, the...
The ChallengeDemand for road freight is expected to triple by 2050, while the sector must almost entirely decarbonize in the same timeframe, to meet the Paris Climate Agreement. Given the...
The Mission Possible Partnership is a coalition of public and private partners working on the industry transition to set heavy industry and mobility sectors on the pathway towards net-zer...
The ChallengeUnmanned aircraft systems, commonly referred to as drones, are democratizing the sky and enabling new participants in aviation. Drones already can increase crop yields, make ...
In order to avert a catastrophic climate disaster, global clean energy investments of approximately $4-5 trillion are required annually by 2030 – a more than threefold increase from exist...
Hydrogen is increasingly identified as a critical success factor for the transition to a net-zero world by 2050. However, clean hydrogen is currently not scaling fast enough to deliver on...
Goal:Reshape public-private and cross-industry collaboration in the software-defined mobility age for maximizing the benefits and expanding values of the transition to data-rich ecosystem...
The Clean Skies for Tomorrow Coalition provides a crucial global mechanism for top executives and public leaders, across and beyond the aviation value chain, to align on a transition to s...
The missionIndia has committed to a national net-zero target by 2070 at COP26. The road transport and automobile sectors in India can reach net-zero ahead of 2050 through targeted public-...
With the engagement of 100 plus global organizations and 250 executives – the Circular Cars Initiative (CCI) launched at Davos 2020 – is rapidly accelerating the transformation of circula...
8 million tonnes of plastic waste leaks into the ocean each year. By 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in the ocean—if we do not take urgent, collective action. Co-founded by part...
In a nutshellThe Global New Mobility Coalition (GNMC), curated by the World Economic Forum, is an active and diverse community of over 200 globally renowned experts, NGOs and companies fo...
The World Economic Forum’s Target True Zero coalition was formed to understand how the development and deployment of new forms of aviation propulsion, such as those powered by batteries o...
An increasing number of cities and mobility operators and providers report on annual carbon emissions to create better insight on their carbon footprint and to track their progress toward...
Access is an essential prerequisite for social equity and prosperity. To take full advantage of the opportunities available in a society, they must be accessible to as many people as poss...
Currently, energy infrastructure availability and financing gaps are key barriers to faster zero-emission truck adoption. For the industry to achieve the 1.5°C target, two-thirds of total...
In collaboration with Deloitte
The logistics sector is currently experiencing a paradigm shift – autonomous trucking. The technology involved has the potential to significantly decrease the cost of transporting goods o...
What is the World Economic Forum doing to help aviation meet net zero goals?
This report provides decision-makers with a detailed guide for developing a regulatory framework to govern the testing and commercial operation of autonomous vehicles (AVs). Written in co...
Autonomous vehicles (AV) have revealed a governance gap, as policy-makers struggle to understand and keep pace with the emerging technology field. This paper identifies the tensions aroun...
Small ground-based delivery robots exist in a governance gap; they are not subject to motor vehicle regulations, despite making partial use of the road at times. “Taxonomy for Segmentatio...
What is the World Economic Forum doing to help aviation meet net zero goals?
Mobility Data Operationalization Principles
How people and goods get around our cities is undergoing considerable change. As new mobility options are introduced, cities and communities are trying to lower emissions, improve safety ...
Since its inception at Davos in January 2017, the Seamless Integrated Mobility System (SIMSystem) project has challenged the present set of transforming technologies of the Fourth Industr...
The World Economic Forum has created a new index to measure social mobility, providing a much-needed assessment of the current state of social mobility worldwide.
Mobility-as-a-service (MaaS), autonomous shuttles and micro-mobility are attracting the attention of cities, businesses, investors and policy-makers to develop a smarter, more environment...
Distributed ledger and blockchain technology promise to have far-reaching implications for global trade and supply chains. However, the extent to which this new technology realizes its po...
How do we integrate disparate transportation modes (such as bikeshare, autonomous pods, ocean shipping and air travel) to enable faster, safer, cleaner and more affordable mobility for pe...
This report examines the major trends affecting the transformation of energy and mobility systems, with a special focus on cities. Topics addressed include: electrification, decentralizat...
Is a Known Traveller Digital Identity the disruptive innovation the global travel security ecosystem needs? The cross-border movement of legitimate travellers has for decades enabled and ...
The World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Future of Travel & Tourism, via this white paper, recognizes that security is central to the industry and urges states to move ...
The 21st-century traveller has high expectations when it comes to efficiency and a low tolerance for barriers to global mobility. Unfortunately, travel infrastructure and bureaucracy are ...