Mobility and transport

You move from one place to another aiming to do so by cutting the journey’s time and costs. So, whatever the means of transport you use, you have the services and infrastructure available to you to make your journey as comfortable and efficient as possible: for travelling, changing your means of transport, parking, resuming your trip, sharing the journey, etc.

4,594,656 journeys were recorded in 2017 among the city's residents over the age of 15. We are talking about a high use of limited public space that requires coexistence between several means of transport (be it on bicycle, foot, public transport, private transport, etc.) to meet the mobility demand of people and goods and, what is more, to ensure the city’s social and economic activity and quality of life.

You can access these and other useful data on the City of Barcelona Statistics Year Book for 2018.

The Barcelona Urban Mobility Plan includes measures aimed at reducing the mobility system’s inefficiencies and the number of journeys made without added value, and for commercial mobility too. Such is the case with the DUM areas for loading and unloading goods or the micro-logistics platforms for concentrating goods intended for shops and their distribution using the most sustainable and appropriate means for the city’s neighbourhoods. These are environmentally, socially and financially efficient solutions for a great number of goods-delivery vehicles travelling every day through the city’s streets.

Barcelona has over 8,500 places intended for regulated loading and unloading activities, with over 45,000 instances of parking made every day (BSMSA, data from 2017).

Further information: Urban distribution of goods