We are facing a new scenario of mobility, where we are collectively changing a mode that has been forged throughout the 20th century and which will bring profound changes in the way that we understand mobility today where other means of transport, such as walking, cycling, public transport and carpooling, must be protagonists compared to the private motorized vehicle with a low level of employment We are in a moment where we reflect on where extensive low-density urban planning promoted over the past decades has led us, which has meant that the only alternative many workers have to get to work is the private motor vehicle (car and motorcycle) , which has universalized its use and generated a collective dependence. The challenge is how to reverse this, reduce the impacts of mobility and gain in quality of life, safety, reduce the C02 footprint, reduce gender bias, ultimately gain in comfort for the majority of the population.

Mobility to access work is a mobility that, although it captures 16% of the mobility of residents in the metropolitan region of Barcelona in the pre-covid scenario (without consider returning home), 52% of this is done in a private vehicle and only 22% in active modes (walking, cycling or in personal mobility vehicles) (2019, EMEF). These figures, which have had an essentially stable behavior since 2005 in terms of modal distribution, have undergone a major turning point as a result of the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. The private vehicle for the purpose of work experienced a clear rise during 2020, reaching 60% for the first time since the historical series of the EMEF in the region as a whole.

Most administrations and companies continue to consider commuting to work as a private matter that each person must resolve on their own, although there is an obligation to have a PDE drawn up in companies of plus 199 workers, as contained in measure EA6.3 of the Mobility Master Plan 2020-2025 which proposes that these plans be drawn up for all companies in area 40 (established by the action plan for the improvement of air quality) with 199 workers or more, and more than 500 workers in the rest of the SIMMB area.

Also it will have to be drawn up by those companies that are considered to be a unique establishment, according to the requirements of the Decree that regulates the studies of Evaluation of Generated Mobility.

However, the environmental, social and economic costs of the daily mobility of the templates justifies addressing this issue with the participation of all the actors involved.

In this sense, it is important, on the one hand, to raise the awareness of the different parties, but at the same time to give them the tools and examples to to be able to deal with this issue as effectively as possible. Therefore, the aim of this day is to learn more and better how mobility impacts its structures, to reflect on how these impacts can be mitigated, to provide them with planning, monitoring and follow-up instruments for the development of measures. In short, it is necessary that there is a rush of awareness on the part of companies so that they become co-responsible for the challenges posed by the transformation of mobility, energy, environmental and social models.

Now it is necessary for all companies and administrations to be co-responsible for managing mobility at work by promoting the drafting of company travel plans and that the actions to be promoted are to promote public transport, the transport on demand, car sharing and active travel on foot and by bicycle.

In the case of thecity of Barcelona, the city council of Barcelona has had for a few months a resource aimed at companies whether they are public or private, which is the Labor Mobility Office, whose mission is to accompany companies in drawing up plans of company trips, a necessary piece to manage the mobility of its workers in their home-work trips.

The set of mobility actors in work, companies, workers and administrations must take part in the modal change in the city, for the benefit of the environmental, road and energy health of the citizenry as a whole

Manel Ferri Tomàs
Barcelona City Council Labor Mobility Office