Combining resilience and sustainability in urban mobility: A scoping review and thematic analysis

The need to address long-term sustainability goals while ensuring short-term resilience to unexpected disruptions is placing an increasing challenge on urban mobility systems. This study organizes an analytical framework that compares and integrates the concepts of sustainability and resilience in urban mobility. A scoping review and thematic analysis were conducted to identify and compare the definitions, dimensions, and operational features of these two paradigms. The results reveal that, although they are conceptually distinct, sustainability and resilience share subjects of analysis, including multimodality and diversity of transport modes, the impacts of climate change, and social equity issues. However, they also present tensions between the dimensions of efficiency and redundancy, speed of recovery and sustainability of implemented solutions, and new vulnerabilities introduced by sustainable technologies. These synergies and trade-offs underscore the necessity of an integrated, systemic and holistic approach to urban mobility planning. The study emphasizes that building resilient and sustainable urban mobility requires coherent policies across government levels, technical capacity, public engagement, and comprehensive indicators. Recommendations for future research include developing integrated metrics and planning tools to support evidence-based decision-making.