| Traditional Transportation Urban Plan | Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP), according to the EU Guidelines | |
| Limited area involved in the plan (e.g. administrative city area) | → | Functional area (and not administrative) involved in the plan in a vision of an “ample plan” |
| Plan implemented by technical designers | → | Plan implemented by multidisciplinary technical designers and stakeholders |
| City administration as the unique decision maker | → | Public Engagement for a participated and shared plan |
| Limited monitoring of the impacts produced by the plan | → | Extensive monitoring for quantify all the main impacts produced by the plan |
| The vehicle flows (private and public) is the aim of the transportation planning | → | The citizen and the quality of life is the aim of the transportation planning |
| Infrastructure or service interventions often in a mono-modal vision | → | Infrastructure or service interventions in a multimodal integrated (network) vision |
| Environmental impacts only marginally considered (transport externality) | → | Sustainable mobility as a primary aim of the urban transport planning |