countries and cities of the region could focus attention on utilizing these resources for actual application and implementation a broad coalition of development partners to support regional cities in implementing sustainable urban transport master plans would be a step in the right direction an example of this approach is the transformative urban mobility initiative of the german federal ministry for economic cooperation and development bmz the objective of which is to enable leaders to plan and implement sustainable mobility concepts depending on the need for travel a journey usually involves more than one mode of transport the integration of urban transport modes is essential to promoting smooth intermodal transfer when there are two operators of different transport systems integrated ticketing makes it more efficient as well as convenient for users and many cities are now following this approach the physical interface between modes infrastructure and facilities at intermodal junctions should allow smooth transfer of passengers and goods from one mode to another