In order to meet global challenges, cities must be governed efficiently, be compact, and as a result more sustainable, socially coherent, strong and competitive at economic level. Initiatives taken in favour of urban mobility may help in shaping of the global society, putting the main focus on the quality of life, citizens› needs and the principle of sustainable development. These actions aim at focusing citizens› attention on the need to improve air quality, decrease congestion in city’s main streets, but most of all to invest in your own health and physical condition, which increases the level of citizens’ life conditions, and in turn provides the city with considerable economic benefits. However, is it quite a challenge to ensure a sustainable urban mobility pattern which requires a high level of stakeholders’ participation and establishing a detailed complex planning process. The aim of the paper is to present, based on the available literature and data sources and also survey research results, shaping life quality in the aspect of mobility in the context of current megatrends, taking as a case study the CIVITAS DYN@MO project implementation in the city of Gdynia.

This paper compares the idea of the Human Smart City, that Polish cities plan to implement in terms of sustainable mobility, with the solutions implemented by leading Polish cities in this field. Documents developed by the European Commission — Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs) — are an important element contributing to the development of active mobility. This study investigates to what extent Polish cities — which implement sustainable mobility as an element of the smart city idea — are simultaneously applying measures to increase the accessibility of active mobility forms and the directions, tools and methods that are used. The analysis includes solutions developed in eight Polish cities — beneficiaries of the competition of the Ministry of Development Funds and Regional Policy ‘Human Smart City: Smart cities co-created by residents’. These are compared with solutions implemented by three cities that are leaders in sustainable mobility implementation in Poland.