TITLE: Sustainable and smart urban mobility strategies of the EU countries and the Western Balkans
AUTHORS: Valentina Ivanović, Arnela Mujić, Edin Gadžo, Osman Lindov
ABSTRACT: Speeding up the transition to clean, sustainable and smart mobility is key to improving the citizen’s life quality and contributes to the EU climate goals set by European Green Deal, which represents EU strategy for achieving the climate goal for 2050, actually the reduction of emissions associated with transport for 90%. The fact that the countries of the Western Balkans are one of the most affected by climate changes in Europe, mostly due to transport sector influence, is the basis of the sustainable and smart mobility Strategy of the Western Balkans adopted in 2021 within the Transport Community Secretariat. This Strategy sets goals and a coordinated approach to create sustainable and smart urban mobility of the Western Balkans on the model of the EU sustainable and smart mobility Strategy, adapting the EU goals and actions to the actual situation and the possibilities of transport sector decarbonization and digitization in these countries. This Strategy defines leading steps to make transport in the Western Balkans cleaner, safer, smarter, greener, more resilient, more competitive and sustainable. The paper will review the activities of Bosnia and Herzegovina in terms of achieving the goals set by the EU and the Western Balkans sustainable and smart mobility Strategy.
KEYWORDS: Strategy, Sustainable and smart mobility, Transport, European Green Deal
PAGES: 85-93
DOI: 10.59478/ATCT.2023.12