How to Create the Sustainable Travel Products Customers Want

As the travel and tourism (T&T) industry recovers from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the urgency of the need to combat climate change and other sustainability challenges has in...

Financing India’s Electric Two- and Three-Wheeler Fleets

India has the world’s largest fleet of two- and three-wheelers – its transition to electric requires financing of $285 billion. In this executive brief, the Moving India initiative, ident...

Sustainable Aviation Fuel Certificate (SAFc) Emissions Accounting and Reporting Guidelines

Corporate and private customers looking to reduce their scope 1 and 3 emissions can create a strong, long demand signal for certified emissions reductions from the use of sustainable avia...

Ten Principles for Sustainable Destinations: Charting a new path forward for travel and tourism

Tourism’s astounding growth in the past 50 years has contributed substantially to global job creation and economic development; but as with many sectors, it has not been without impact on...

Target True Zero: Unlocking Sustainable Battery and Hydrogen-Powered Flight

The World Economic Forum’s Target True Zero coalition was formed to understand how the development and deployment of new forms of aviation propulsion, such as those powered by batteries o...

Principles for Reporting Emissions from Urban Mobility

An increasing number of cities and mobility operators and providers report on annual carbon emissions to create better insight on their carbon footprint and to track their progress toward...

How Mobility Shapes Inclusion and Sustainable Growth in Global Cities

This White Paper, a joint effort between the World Economic Forum, BCG and the University of St Gallen, proposes innovative and expanded solutions for public- and private-sector mobility ...

Road Freight Zero: Pathways to faster adoption of zero-emission trucks

Road Freight Zero: Pathways to faster adoption of zero-emission trucks identifies three groups of solutions that can act as accelerators for faster adoption

Pathways Towards a Cyber Resilient Aviation Industry

This report aims to define a common language and baseline of practices and encourage collective initiatives for increasing cyber resilience across the Aviation ecosystem

Autonomous Trucks: An Opportunity to Make Road Freight Safer, Cleaner and More Efficient

Autonomous trucking has arrived! Trucks affect everyone’s lives, transporting everything from the food we eat to the clothes we wear, so automating this will deeply affect our lives.

Safe Drive Initiative: SafeDI scenario-based AV policy framework – an overview for policy-makers

Clean Skies for Tomorrow: Sustainable Aviation Fuels as a Pathway to Net-Zero Aviation

The World Economic Forum’s Clean Skies for Tomorrow coalition recognises that the most immediate action to achieve carbon-neutral flying is the investment in, and rapid scale-up, of susta...

Autonomous Vehicle Policy Framework: Selected National and Jurisdictional Policy Efforts to Guide Safe AV Development

The report defines and lays the foundation for creating an optimal AV regulatory environment: One that successfully advances technological enhancement and market readiness while ensuring ...

Safe Drive Initiative: Creating safe autonomous vehicle policy

Autonomous vehicles (AV) have revealed a governance gap, as policy-makers struggle to understand and keep pace with the emerging technology field. This paper identifies the tensions aroun...

Taxonomy for Segmentation of Autonomous Delivery Vehicles and Personal Delivery Devices

Small ground-based delivery robots exist in a governance gap; they are not subject to motor vehicle regulations, despite making partial use of the road at times. “Taxonomy for Segmentatio...

Joint Policy Proposal to Accelerate the Deployment of Sustainable Aviation Fuels in Europe - A Clean Skies for Tomorrow Publication

Developed through the World Economic Forum’s Clean Skies for Tomorrow coalition, this policy report is accessible on the Forum’s digital library and is signed by Airbus Group, Deutsche Lu...

10 Principles of Mobility Data Operationalization

The Mobility Data Operationalization Principles delineates key principles that all analysts, manager and teams should consider when planning projects that include working with mobility da...

Guidelines for City Mobility: Steering towards collaboration

Developed by the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Mobility, the Guidelines for Transforming City Mobility Systems reflect shared goals for liveable and just transport netwo...

Digitizing and Transforming Mobility Systems: Lessons from the Detroit Region

The pilot demonstrated that the power of data rallies across sectors, interests and operating models. In a world that still suffers deeply from socioeconomic disparities, persisting racia...

Global Social Mobility Index 2020: why economies benefit from fixing inequality

The World Economic Forum has created a new index to measure social mobility, providing a much-needed assessment of the current state of social mobility worldwide.

Transforming Rural Mobility in Japan and the World

Mobility-as-a-service (MaaS), autonomous shuttles and micro-mobility are attracting the attention of cities, businesses, investors and policy-makers to develop a smarter, more environment...

The Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report 2019

Inclusive Deployment of Blockchain for Supply Chains: Part 1 – Introduction

Distributed ledger and blockchain technology promise to have far-reaching implications for global trade and supply chains. However, the extent to which this new technology realizes its po...

Designing a Seamless Integrated Mobility System

How do we integrate disparate transportation modes (such as bikeshare, autonomous pods, ocean shipping and air travel) to enable faster, safer, cleaner and more affordable mobility for pe...

Electric Vehicles for Smarter Cities: The Future of Energy and Mobility

This report examines the major trends affecting the transformation of energy and mobility systems, with a special focus on cities. Topics addressed include: electrification, decentralizat...

The Known Traveller: Unlocking the potential of digital identity for secure and seamless travel

Is a Known Traveller Digital Identity the disruptive innovation the global travel security ecosystem needs? The cross-border movement of legitimate travellers has for decades enabled and ...

The Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report 2017

The Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index measures “the set of factors and policies that enable the sustainable development of the travel and tourism sector, which in turn, contributes...

Security in Travel: Promoting Seamless and Secure Travel through Cross-Border Data Sharing and Collaboration

The World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Future of Travel & Tourism, via this white paper, recognizes that security is central to the industry and urges states to move ...

Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report 2015

Smart Travel: Unlocking Economic Growth and Development through Travel Facilitation

The 21st-century traveller has high expectations when it comes to efficiency and a low tolerance for barriers to global mobility. Unfortunately, travel infrastructure and bureaucracy are ...