The report presents common political strategies and tactics used to advance transport priorities across our cases, a case-by-case overview of how these were used to ensure the successful implementation of path-breaking transportation policies, and concluding remarks about the relationship between policy success and transformative change.

The Role of Political Leadership (TUT-POL) seeks to advance our knowledge of how, when, and where political leadership has been critical to the successful implementation of path-breaking transportation policies. The project has done so through case study research of 8 democratically governed cities around the world: Los Angeles, Mexico City, New York City, Paris, San Francisco, Seoul, Stockholm, and Vienna.

The FUT Program’s thematic areas include Mobility and Access in Cities, Urban Freight, and Change Processes: Governance, Leadership and Financing. VREF launched "Transforming Urban Transport – The Role of Political Leadership" in 2013 as part of the latter.