The Transumo mission is:

to accelerate/encourage the transition to sustainable mobility. This will be achieved by initiating, and establishing for the long term, a transition process that leads to the replacement of the current, supply driven, mono-disciplinary technology and knowledge infrastructure, with a demand driven, multidisciplinary and trans-disciplinary, participative knowledge infrastructure.

The transition to the new knowledge infrastructure leads to advances that help to strengthen the competitiveness of the Dutch transport sector (‘Profit’) and to preserve and improve spatial and ecological (‘Planet’), and social (‘People’) aspects of mobility.

Transumo in itself cannot directly establish the aspired transition in the way that management takes place in the field of mobility, in the political decision-making processes, and the investment decisions; however, Transumo does provide a significant contribution in the available knowledge that enables the development of sustainable mobility. The mission of Transumo is considered successful when at the end of the knowledge project (January 2010) a tripartite, that is, involving private parties, government, and scientific institutes, knowledge infrastructure has been achieved that enables the actual realization of innovations for effective management, solid performance of trade and industry, innovative investments and a strong position of research and development centres.