High Level Groups

Smart Move is a global campaign to promote the use of collective passenger transport by bus and coach and increase substantially – indeed, where feasible, to double - their use, as the most affordable and efficient competitor of the private car.

Smart Move advocates the creation of public-private partnerships at the appropriate level, to establish jointly agreed local-, country- or region-specific policy “Road Maps”, with the objective to progressively enable a legislative, fiscal, market and administrative framework, as well as city and land use planning strategies conducive to door-to-door public transport service provision, and to offer adequate public investment to allow collective road passenger transport, in particular by bus, coach and taxi, to compete successfully with the private car.

The Smart Move global vision and recommendations need to be adapted – in a genuine public-private partnership – to the specific needs of the various cities, countries and/or regions, depending on their specificity and priorities.