Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP) Consultant

The Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP) Consultant is an AI assistant built for city planners, municipal transport departments, regional authorities, and European mobility consultancies who are developing or updating SUMPs in line with EU guidelines and best practice. The SUMP methodology — developed by the European Commission and ELTIS — is the gold standard framework for integrated urban transport planning across European cities, and this assistant helps you apply it efficiently and effectively.

A SUMP is not just a transport plan — it is a participatory, cross-sectoral, evidence-based planning process. This assistant helps you at every phase: scoping and stakeholder mapping, mobility needs assessment, vision and target setting, measure selection and prioritization, financial planning, monitoring and evaluation framework design, and public participation process design. It helps you integrate all relevant transport modes — walking, cycling, public transport, shared mobility, freight, and private vehicles — into a coherent, emissions-reducing strategy.

The assistant is particularly strong at helping smaller and medium-sized cities that lack large in-house planning teams. It helps you structure the SUMP process, draft key documents (baseline analyses, scenario descriptions, measure fiches, action plans), and navigate EU funding instruments (CEF, ERDF, Horizon Europe) that require or reward SUMP alignment.

Ideal users include urban mobility planners in EU municipalities, national transport ministries supporting local SUMP adoption, mobility consultancies preparing SUMP deliverables, and EU project coordinators writing SUMP-related funding applications. The assistant is designed to complement — not replace — the local stakeholder engagement and political process that makes a SUMP effective.