The EU Green Deal sets challenging goals for cities, including a 90% reduction in Green House Gas (GHG) emissions from transport by 2050. This requires an integrated and coordinated approach to urban mobility planning, represented by Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs), and encouraged by European policies. However, the experience of cities with SUMPs varies substantially among the EU Member States. Using qualitative and quantitative methods of data analysis, this paper aims to explore the institutional settings, practices, and barriers to sustainable mobility in Czech cities and differences between cities with and without a SUMP. The data were collected using interviews and an online questionnaire survey among stakeholders who substantially influence the urban planning praxis. The data reveal that monitoring, evaluation, and public involvement are underestimated by analyzed cities and the perception of a need for a significant transport behavior change is still quite low among local politicians. A SUMP brings substantial benefits to Czech cities of all sizes, even in the initial phase of its implementation. The cities that have developed a SUMP apply various sustainable transport measures more often, create more participation activities, and are better at evaluation than cities without a SUMP.

The COVID-19 global pandemic has affected normal human behaviour in day-to-day activities. As a result of various restrictions, people have significantly changed their shopping and mobility to limit the spread of the pandemic. This article aims to determine the association between consumers’ shopping preferences and the frequency of selected daily activities during and before the COVID-19 pandemic using correspondence analysis. The total sample consists of 407 respondents from Slovakia. The data are obtained from an online questionnaire divided into several sections such as socio-demographic factors, shopping preferences, and frequency of selected activities per week. The results show that there is an association between consumers’ preference for shopping in supermarkets and the frequency of family visits per week during the pandemic, among other factors. These findings follow up on previous studies on the consequences of changing mobility as a result of the global crisis.

Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs) have become a key policy instrument for advancing integrated and climate-resilient mobility across Europe. This paper examines the Czech experience with first-generation SUMPs, focusing on the role of external factors in their preparation and implementation, and their links to spatial planning. We combine a PESTLE analysis of the national framework with a Delphi survey involving representatives of 35 cities to capture both structural conditions and local perspectives. The findings show progress in clean mobility, participatory planning, and the deployment of smart technologies, largely supported by EU and national funding. At the same time, persistent weaknesses remain, including fragmented institutional responsibilities, limited evaluation capacity, and insufficient coordination with land-use planning. Experts emphasize the need to improve urban space quality and to strengthen the integration of transport and spatial policies, while the adoption of the 15-minute city concept remains marginal. The study advances the international literature by providing insights into how national frameworks, institutional arrangements, and spatial planning contexts shape the effectiveness of SUMPs. It offers lessons for cities and policymakers across Europe and beyond, contributing to the debate on how to design SUMPs as adaptive, evidence-based, and socially responsive instruments for sustainable urban mobility.

Urban mobility represents one of the main challenges to the quality of urban life and climate neutrality of cities. Various policy, legal and planning instruments are implemented to support sustainable mobility. This chapter focuses on Czech and French examples - how policies, legislation and specific taxation tools support urban transport planning and its contribution to the climate targets. It investigates the settings of French and Czech main strategic plans at the local level - so-called Plans de Déplacements Urbains/Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans - and national planning instruments. Even if there is harmonisation at the EU level, specific national tools are approved for sustainable transport planning. Analysing frameworks in both countries and their relationships, we discover ways in which these policies may perhaps be better targeted to the climate change agenda, and provide policy implications.