Target True Zero: Unlocking Sustainable Battery and Hydrogen-Powered Flight

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...

Principles for Reporting Emissions from Urban Mobility

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...

How Mobility Shapes Inclusion and Sustainable Growth in Global Cities

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...

Road Freight Zero: Pathways to faster adoption of zero-emission trucks

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...

Pathways Towards a Cyber Resilient Aviation Industry

In collaboration with Deloitte

Autonomous Trucks: An Opportunity to Make Road Freight Safer, Cleaner and More Efficient

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...

Safe Drive Initiative: SafeDI scenario-based AV policy framework – an overview for policy-makers

Clean Skies for Tomorrow: Sustainable Aviation Fuels as a Pathway to Net-Zero Aviation

What is the World Economic Forum doing to help aviation meet net zero goals?

Autonomous Vehicle Policy Framework: Selected National and Jurisdictional Policy Efforts to Guide Safe AV Development

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...

Safe Drive Initiative: Creating safe autonomous vehicle policy

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...

Taxonomy for Segmentation of Autonomous Delivery Vehicles and Personal Delivery Devices

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...

Joint Policy Proposal to Accelerate the Deployment of Sustainable Aviation Fuels in Europe - A Clean Skies for Tomorrow Publication

What is the World Economic Forum doing to help aviation meet net zero goals?

10 Principles of Mobility Data Operationalization

Mobility Data Operationalization Principles

Guidelines for City Mobility: Steering towards collaboration

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 ...

Digitizing and Transforming Mobility Systems: Lessons from the Detroit Region

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...

Global Social Mobility Index 2020: why economies benefit from fixing inequality

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.

Transforming Rural Mobility in Japan and the World

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...

The Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report 2019

Inclusive Deployment of Blockchain for Supply Chains: Part 1 – Introduction

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...

Designing a Seamless Integrated Mobility System

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...

Electric Vehicles for Smarter Cities: The Future of Energy and Mobility

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...

The Known Traveller: Unlocking the potential of digital identity for secure and seamless travel

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 Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report 2017

Security in Travel: Promoting Seamless and Secure Travel through Cross-Border Data Sharing and Collaboration

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 ...

Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report 2015

Smart Travel: Unlocking Economic Growth and Development through Travel Facilitation

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 ...