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title: "Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan – Dominican Republic"
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# Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan – Dominican Republic

![Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan – Dominican Republic](https://www.systra.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/santo-domingo-bay-1404622001.jpg)

**SYSTRA was selected to carry out the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP) for Greater Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic.**

In 2019, as part of the Mobilise your City programme financed by the French
Development Agency (AFD) and the European Union (EU), a comprehensive study of
mobility in Greater Santo Domingo was carried out by SYSTRA’s Consultancy teams,
with local technical coordination from INTRANT and the municipalities. This plan
is the result of a multi-sector dialogue conducted by INTRANT with all the
parties concerned.

![Palacio Consistorial clocktower in Ciudad Colonial](https://www.systra.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/san-domingo-1404620186.jpg)

_Palacio Consistorial clocktower in Ciudad Colonial, Spanish historic neighborhood in the city Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Hispaniola, Caribbean. (Photo by: Marica van der Meer/Arterra/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)_

## Better organisation of mobility to reduce congestion in the Dominican capital

The study revealed that the current transport systems in the city of Santo
Domingo are the result of rapid, uneven and unregulated urbanisation. To solve
these problems, the Dominican authorities made the ambitious decision to draw up
an Urban and Sustainable Mobility Plan, based on a survey of residents’
journeys, the first to be carried out in 20 years.

With the support of digital planning tools, SYSTRA was able to define a
structured plan and promote a strategy for the integrated development of urban
mobility in order to maximise the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from
transport. The aim is to reduce emissions by 50% by 2050.

From demand management to the coherence of public policies, the study was
carried out following a participatory process in cooperation with local bodies
and taking into consideration the opinions of representatives of the
institutions, civil society and technical operators in place. The SUMP acts as a
technical support for the definition of action plans and also aims to strengthen
the decision-making capacity of local players.

Of the scenarios presented, Santo Domingo opted for the most ambitious, largely
devoted to the development of a high-capacity public transport offer. Greater
Santo Domingo is one of only 100 cities in the world to have defined and
implemented a sustainable urban mobility plan.

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