ORIGINAL PAPER Assessment of neighborhood sustainability in terms of urban mobility: A case study in Dhaka City, Bangladesh Md Hamidur Rahman 1  — Mamata Jafrin Mouli 2 — Fajle Rabbi Ashik 3 1 Department of Earth Sciences, The University of Memphis, Memphis, USA 2 Department of City and Regional Planning, The University of Memphis, Memphis, USA 3 Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh  sumon.adpc@gmail.com Abstract For achieving sustainable cities, sustainable mobility is one of the key elements. Poli- cymakers around the world are taking diferent strategies to ensure sustainable urban mobility at the local level. However, sustainable urban mobility assessment at neighbor- hoods of a developing country received a signifcant research gap. This study attempts to close this research gap by deriving and comparing neighborhood sustainability based on three indicators: modal share, travel time, and travel cost, in Dhaka city, Bangladesh. Using a two-step cluster model, neighborhoods were grouped into three clusters. Study results classifed 41 (44.6%) neighborhoods as sustainable, 30 (32.6%) as potentially sus- tainable, and 21 (22.8%) as unsustainable neighborhoods due to less positive outcomes of sustainable mobility policies. Later, median income and jobs-housing ratio value for dif- ferent neighborhood types validated the classifcation result. Findings from this study reveal insights for transport planners, development agencies, policymakers to identify areas where mobility of the residents needs to be improved on a priority basis; advocate further research on comprehensive sustainability assessment at the neighborhood level. Highlights for public administration, management and planning: • There is a signifcant diference in modal share, travel time, and travel cost in neigh- borhoods. • A traditional neighborhood of the city is comparatively more sustainable than newly developed ones. • Neighborhoods with similar sustainability status tend to be clustered on the city scale. • Median income and jobs-housing ratio can efectively capture the diference in sus- tainability level in terms of urban mobility. • Sustainable urban mobility assessment can contribute city planning and develop- ment process. Keywords Transport Sustainability, Neighborhood Sustainability, Modal share, Cluster Analysis, Dhaka Received: 20 April 2021 Received in revised form: 15 January 2022 Accepted: 6 March 2022 1 Introduction 1.1 Background of the study Transportation is widely recognized as a signifcant component of sustainability (Asadi-Shekari et al. 2013; Litman 2007; Shen et al. 2011). Urban trans- portation drives cities’ social and economic devel- opment and ensures access to basic urban ser- vices (Gudmundsson 2004). However, the trans- port sector is a major source of fossil fuel-based air pollution and emissions (Colvile et al. 2001). Urban transport-based mobility infuences the en- vironment through energy consumption, land use provision for transport infrastructure, noise-air- water pollution, and climate change (Gudmunds- son et al. 2016). The economic impacts of inefi- cient urban transportation systems, i.e., trafic con- gestion that consumes a signifcant working hour, hamper the economic growth (Chandran & Tang 2013). Also, the transport sector impacts social life © Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem 1