First generation of sustainable urban mobility plans in Spain: socio-technical transition and instrument characterization

The paper is based on a state of the art of the recent scientific and institutional production on sustainable urban mobility plans in Spain and explains the result of a research divided into two parts. The first part deals with the political-institutional and technical process that gives rise to this type of plans and the second part tries to characterize the first generation of SUMPs carried out for medium-sized Spanish cities. The methods include literature and documentary review, interviews with agents active in the process and evaluation of plans through quantitative and qualitative analysis. Among the results, the first part reflects the importance of public policies for the development of new instruments. The second part reveals an instrument with potential, but also important shortcomings, to achieve its proposed objectives.