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Cascais (Portugal)
Cascais has made sustainable mobility a core urban priority. To tackle congestion, emissions, road safety, and public space quality, the municipality created MobiCascais, its integrated mobility programme. It promotes mobility as a service, prioritizes public, shared, and active transport, strengthens rail as the backbone of the network, advances carbon-neutral mobility, integrates parking policy, and deploys smart mobility management with real-time public information.
Key measures include the Free Mobility Program, offering residents, students, and workers free access to municipal buses and bike-sharing, alongside a public transport tender that doubled bus supply. Over the next five years, buses will be progressively replaced by hydrogen-powered vehicles, supported by Portugal’s first hydrogen refuelling station.
MobiCascais improves last-mile connectivity through active mobility, expanding bike and scooter sharing, cycling infrastructure, and bike parking, while supporting public space regeneration. Parking management enables modal shift, with more than 8,000 on- and off-street spaces linked to mobility hubs, particularly rail stations.
The programme also integrates car sharing, school and non-urgent patient transport, and on-demand services through a single smartphone app, coordinating a complex multi-operator mobility ecosystem.
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213,608
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97 km²
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