ABOUT TMWC

Tomorrow.Mobility World Congress (TMWC) is the ultimate event to accelerate sustainable and intelligent urban mobility. Our goal is to act as a global benchmark for the mobility and transport sector, combining an ever-growing leading event with an all-year-round digital platform and an innovation hub attracting the industry’s key players.

WHAT MOVES YOU?

Driving towards more liveable and sustainable cities.

Things in life go up and down. Backwards and forward. Life is movement. What moves you, charts your own path. And so does mobility in cities. Mobility is the backbone of urban life as it doesn’t just imply moving people and goods from A to B but being able to access education, employment, culture, and leisure. As such, it helps support a stronger economy and higher standard of living for citizens.

The COVID pandemic has altered the way we’ve moved around for the last two years. Now that the New Normal is carving its way into our lives and that traffic jams and pollution are getting back to prepandemic levels in many places, cities need more than ever to embrace new technologies, business models and management systems to definitively move towards environmentally friendly and affordable transport options.

That means using smart, electric, shared, and autonomous mobility combining on-demand, MaaS and other schemes to help improve urban development plans and climate change.

Yet the big question is: How can cities do this in the current energy crisis context? How can they encourage citizens to use these new models? And ultimately, will it be enough?Tomorrow.Mobility is the unique event to answer these questions and redefine cities’ visions of urban mobility to adapt to the new global scenario. Because what moves you, defines you.

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WHAT WE ACHIEVED TOGETHER

Tomorrow.Mobility World Congress, held within the framework of Smart City Expo World Congress,
brought the following to Barcelona:

19900

In-person attendees

20000 +

Online attendees

700

Exhibitors

390 +

Speakers

120

Countries

120

Side Events

EIGHT STRATEGIC ENABLERS FOR SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY GROWTH:

Mobility Data Spaces

Establishing governance structures and policies, including their associated business models, is a key step to enabling data sharing and unlocking the potential of mobility data to enable and/or improve sustainable mobility services (international rail travel, in-car data powering insurance, or traffic management, for instance). Connecting different mobility data ecosystems in a secure way (cybersecurity) will provide better tailored, higher quality mobility services.

Inclusivity, Affordability & Fairness

Inclusivity, Affordability & Fariness

A major aspect to design the future of mobility is inclusivity policies to benefit all population groups and don’t leave anyone behind: from gender equality in transport planning and operations to redesigning services for an ageing society (15-minute cities), reducing transit deserts (transport on-demand), safer street designs that enhance children’s autonomy, or policies that have the potential to reduce transport poverty.

Connected, Cooperative & Automated Mobility

CCAM

To enable the adoption of automated vehicles for passengers and goods, it’s necessary to allow the exchange of information among vehicles and the road infrastructure. The accelerated deployment of 5G connectivity corridors, artificial intelligence and semiconductors, cybersecurity for resilient digital infrastructures, is very important. Enhanced last-mile logistics can benefit from CCAM applications, as well as more efficient public transport network operations.

Sustainable Urban Logistics

Last mile urban logistics must gain higher levels of efficiency through concepts like the better integration of ports and cities, new delivery models, pick-up points, shared goods services, digitalization of the logistics value chain, or new models to improve reverse logistics due to new customer e-commerce habits. Logistics can benefit from the deployment of technologies like electrification, and artificial intelligence for route optimization and demand prediction.

Multimodality

Better travel options for citizens capable of reducing private car ownership, such as multimodal e-ticketing and payments systems, enabling multimodal travel services that integrate public transport and micromobility for better end-to-end traveler experience will power data for multimodal traffic management integrating information from the public, private-own and private-shared fleets. Such integrations can optimize transport networks and nudge travelers’ behavior towards more sustainable choices.

Urban Air Mobility

While policies and user acceptance enabling UAM still suggest the medium to long term horizon for passengers, several use cases are emerging for air mobility: freight distribution in geofenced areas like ports or industrial parks, event management, or emergency response coordination. For such use cases, eVTOLs and drones can cater to specific use-cases and add value to our existing transport systems.

Energy Transition

As the transition to net-zero economies accelerates, different models of energy storage compete to power electric vehicles: battery technology aims to optimize dependency on specific scarce materials, while green hydrogen emerges as an alternative that can guarantee sovereignty in energy supply. Energy communities based on local generation, vehicle-grid integration and smart management systems are also key. Ramping up recycling capacity will be crucial to leverage the benefits of circular economy for the energy transition.

Active Mobility

In 2021 bicycle and e-bike sales reached an all-time record in the EU, with over 22 million units sold. In that year, total sales of bicycles and e-bikes increased 7.5% in comparison with 2020, reaching almost €20bn. This trend, together with the growth in popularity of micromobility services, gives a boost to active mobility in our cities. Combined with journeys by foot, it makes a significant contribution to quieter and cleaner streets, while directly improving citizens’ health.

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A COLLABORATION TO PUSH
THE INDUSTRY FORWARD

TMWC is created in collaboration between Fira de Barcelona and EIT Urban Mobility – an initiative of the EU’s European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), the largest European initiative transforming urban Mobility.

SUSTAINABILITY & INCLUSIVITY AT THE
CORE OF THE EVENT

Towards Zero Waste is a dedicated sustainability initiative in line with the European Commission’s Circular Economy strategy based on use of fewer materials, reuse and recycling of products, and no food waste.

A smart city is not only forward-thinking and sustainable, but fully inclusive, leaving no one behind. At Smart City Expo World Congress, we strive to integrate inclusivity into everything we do, in addition to creating space for debate on how to build a fairer and more egalitarian society.

CO-LOCATED EVENTS

Be sure to check out the events held at Fira de Barcelona in parallel with TMWC, all of which support each other and reinforce the smart city ecosystem.

Barcelona Innova Week, formerly Smart City Week, is an initiative from Barcelona City Council organized by the municipal foundation BIT Habitat to reflect on and experiment with the relationship between people, technology and cities.

PUZZLE X is the first convening forum to bridge the world of Frontier Materials, societal impact, entrepreneurship, venture building, corporate innovation, bleeding edge of material science and United Nations Sustainable Development Goals to facilitate the use the materials of the future to help our world today.

Tomorrow.Oceans is the new global summit dedicated to promoting and developing the potential of the Blue Economy. It will celebrate its first edition within the framework of Smart City Expo World Congress 2022.

ABOUT TMWC

WHAT MOVES YOU?

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Event

Digital platform

Innovation Hub

WHAT WE ACHIEVED TOGETHER