Cleaner Engineering and Technology 5 (2021) 100271 Available online 10 September 2021 2666-7908/© 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Sustainable mobility scale: A contribution for sustainability assessment systems in urban mobility Su´ elen Bebber a, * , Bianca Libardi b , Suane De Atayde Moschen c , Marcelo Benetti Correa da Silva d , Ana Cristina Fachinelli e , Matheus Lemos Nogueira f a Doctorate Student in Business Administration at University of Caxias Do Sul, Scholarship Sponsor PROSUC/CAPES. Master in Business Administration at University of Caxias Do Sul. Undergraduate in Architecture and Urbanism at University of Caxias Do Sul. 1130, Francisco Getúlio Vargas, Caxias Do Sul, 95070-560, Brazil b Undergraduate in Civil Engineering from the University of Caxias Do Sul (2020), Brazil c Doctorate Student in Business Administration at University of Caxias Do Sul, Scholarship Sponsor PROSUC/CAPES. Undergraduate in Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Caxias Do Sul (2016), Brazil d Doctorate Student in Business Administration at University of Caxias Do Sul. Master in Business Administration at University of Caxias Do Sul. Undergraduate in Architecture and Urbanism at Universidade Do Vale Do Rio Dos Sinos. Undergraduate Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at University of Caxias Do Sul, Brazil e Postdoctoral in Strategic Intelligence at Universidad de Deusto. Doctorate in Information and Communication Science at Universit´ e de Poitiers. Master in Strategic Information at Tecnol´ ogi - Universit´ e Daix Marseille. Member of the Iberoamerican Community of Knowledge Systems, Executive Board of the Annual Knowledge Cities World Summit, International Advisory Board of the World Capital Institute, and Professor of the Postgraduate Program in Business Administration at University of Caxias Do Sul, Brazil f Doctorate Student in Civil Engineering at Federal University of Rio Grande Do Sul. Master in Civil Engineering at Federal University of Rio Grande Do Sul. Undergraduate Professor of Civil Engineering at University of Caxias Do Sul, Brazil A R T I C L E INFO Keywords: Sustainable mobility Sustainable development Citizen perception ISO 37122 ISO 37120 UN SDG ABSTRACT The sustainable development of a city directly connects to the conditions of urban mobility. It is essential for public and private managers to know the citizens’ perceptions of their mobility in the city. To this end, this research aims to develop and validate a scale to evaluate mobility according to the sustainable dimensions established by ISO 37120, ISO 37122, and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The Sustainable Mobility scale (SMob scale) was developed from concepts underlying objective indicators to identify subjective attributes related to citizen perception. The fnal scale resulted in 21 attributes distributed in 6 dimensions through exploratory and confrmatory factor analysis. As an additional contribution, a gap was identifed related to urban mobility attributes for reduced mobility people. Given the changes necessary to promote an effective mobility strategy in South American countries, this study contributes to translating citizens’ perceptions to identify weaknesses and then plan and propose improvements, contributing to sustainable mobility development. 1. Introduction Faced with the unregulated increase in the urbanisation process, especially in emerging cities, the complexity of meeting urban demands has also increased. Cities are drivers of economic growth, and urbani- sation is a part of this growth. According to Habitat IBGE (2010), by 2030, 60% of the world’s population is expected to live in cities, mainly in the suburbs, and by 2050 6.4 billion people are expected to live in urban areas. Adequate public transport remains inaccessible to a large share of the world’s urban population, with uncontrolled growth worsening the disparity between where people live and where they work and obtain services (Sustainable Mobility for All, 2017). Urban planning has always been associated with mobility aspects, and city growth is infuenced by the transport modes offered to the population (Magagnin and Silva, 2008). As Steg and Gifford (2005) presented, a concept incorporated into urban mobility planning is sus- tainability. Sustainable development balances environmental, eco- nomic, and social aspects in the present and future urban interventions (Magagnin and Silva, 2008). Sustainability, linked to its science, con- tinues to be a feld of research developed in recent decades and has gained importance in international literature and policies (Lehner et al., 2018). * Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: bebber.suelen@gmail.com (S. Bebber), blibardi@ucs.br (B. Libardi), suanemoschen@gmail.com (S. De Atayde Moschen), mbcsilva@ucs.br (M.B. Correa da Silva), acfachin@ucs.br (A. Cristina Fachinelli), mlnogueira@ucs.br (M.L. Nogueira). Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Cleaner Engineering and Technology journal homepage: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/cleaner-engineering-and-technology https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clet.2021.100271 Received 1 November 2020; Received in revised form 6 August 2021; Accepted 6 September 2021