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The transport sector is responsible for almost 60% of oil consumption in OECD countries and drives future growth in OECD oil demand. As the IEA and its Member countries are concerned with increasing the security of energy and oil supplies as well as reducing the emissions resulting from energy consumption from fossil fuels, the transport sector's current trends demand that the IEA and its Member countries strive to improve the energy efficiency of the transport sector, to develop new means and technologies that will reduce oil dependency and greenhouse gas emissions.

In 2002-2004 the IEA collaborated with the World Business Council on Sustainable Development (WBCSD) on the Sustainable Mobility Project (SMP) which resulted in the Mobility 2030 report of the WBCSD published in 2004. A foundation for the analysis in this project was the SMP model, developed at the IEA. After the completion of the project, several of the companies involved (BP, Honda, Nissan, Shell, StatoilHydro and Toyota) continued working with the IEA and in 2004 started the Mobility Modelling (MoMo) effort, allowing the Agency to further develop the SMP model into what is now called the “MoMo model”. This has contributed to on-going improvements in the IEA’s ability to characterise and project transport sector activity, efficiency and energy use around the world. The project is expected to continue, with on-going efforts to improve data and modeling capability, particularly with respect to developing countries.