Decathlon has signed the Manifesto for Active Mobility, one of four such documents put forth by a public-private joint partnership in Spain called (in translation) The Future of Mobility. (The other three concern multimodal mobility, urban logistics and electric mobility.)
The objective is to decarbonize transport so as to “generate more habitable, healthier, safer cities with better public spaces,” by “returning to a neighborhood scale.” The 73-page manifesto (in Spanish) is available online.
The prime movers behind the partnership are Connected Mobility Hub (“We articulate a change model by relying on a comprehensive community of startups, corporates and cities, executing mobility innovative projects that boosts the transformation of the industry”) and MObility VENtures (“We help cities and companies in the mobility sector to develop new, more sustainable mobility models based on a complete mobility innovation ecosystem and based on data intelligence and machine learning”). The funds come from the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre and the Spanish Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda. According to the manifesto, along with companies, a number of Spanish city halls are members of the partnership.
