T-SUM Transitions to Sustainable Urban Mobility in Sub-Saharan Africa

1. To develop a conceptual framework based on alternative development trajectories for (un)sustainable urban transport, drawing on data from cities across the Global North and the Global South.​

2. To assemble and co-produce evidence by interrogating urban transport and land use data in two rapidly developing cities in the region, Maputo and Freetown.

3. To initiate participative governance processes to foster new models of development based on a sustainable mobility trajectory, through evidence-based engagement with public and professional stakeholders across levels of governance and sectors.

T-SUM focuses on the co-production of knowledge between local and international partners in academia, government and the third sector to generate a conceptual framework, evidence base and practice experiences for accelerating sustainable and inclusive mobility development trajectories in Sub-Saharan African cities. 

One of our most important outcomes includes fostering new models of development based on a sustainable mobility trajectory through institutional and governance processes.
 
T-SUM's main beneficiaries will be the circa 3 million inhabitants from Maputo and Freetown and their periphery. We aim to expand the concepts and methods of this pilot study to other growing economies across the Global South.

Peter Jones
Principal Investigator, UCL 

Daniel Oviedo 
Co-Investigator,
Work Package Lead, UCL

Joaquin Romero
de Tejada
Mozambique Project Manager,
WAZA

Caren Levy 
Co-Investigator,
Work Package 4 Lead, UCL 

Joseph Macarthy 
Freetown Co-Investigator, 
SLURC 

António Matos 
Mozambique Co-Investigator, Eduardo Mondlane University 

Clemence Cavoli
Co-Investigator and Project Manager, UCL 

Braima Koroma 
Freetown Project Manager, 
SLURC 

Idelson Mindo
Mozambique Research Assistant,
Waza

Strategic vision for sustainable urban transport and mobility in Sierra Leone:
Lessons and insights from Freetown
June 2020