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With 8.5 million motorized vehicles and 100-kilometer-long traffic jams, São Paulo is the sixth most congested city on earth. In 2011, the Bank Group launched pilot "Voluntary Corporate Mobility" programs in São Paulo and Mexico City to ease traffic congestion in these two mega-cities, while also helping business and municipal organizations identify and adopt new ways of getting people to and from work. Despite the two cities’ differences, common lessons emerged from the pilot programs, which were implemented by the World Bank's Latin America and the Caribbean Transport Unit with support from ESMAP.