ECO will launch in September the Mobility Hub, a permanent editorial project that brings together independent economic journalism, proprietary data, studies and debate on the impact of mobility on the productivity and competitiveness of the Portuguese economy. The new editorial space will analyze transport, logistics, energy, urban mobility and technology as components of the same economic system, evaluating what each investment changes for companies, investors and territories.
Portugal is facing decisions that will determine the country's competitive capacity in the coming decades, including the high-speed line between Porto and Lisbon and the Luís de Camões Airport. These are joined by choices regarding ports, logistics, electrification, charging networks, data usage in cities and artificial intelligence applied to mobility.
The main evaluation instrument will be the ECO Mobility Index, which will measure through five criteria whether the Portuguese mobility system facilitates or penalizes economic activity. The criteria cover time and accessibility, movement costs, infrastructure capacity for businesses to grow, productivity and operational efficiency, and a component dedicated to execution that compares announced plans with results effectively delivered.
In the first year, the initiative plans the launch of the ECO Mobility Hub Summit on "Competitiveness 2035", a list of 50 protagonists of mobility transformation, a barometer of data and executive perception, an annual study on business mobility, Mobility Talks with decision-makers and a Leadership Dinner. The project targets companies, investors, regulators, municipalities, technology operators, the energy sector, logistics, banking, insurance, industry and public administration, intending to track the distance between announced investment and achieved results.
