Sustainable development and strategic transport management in the Øresund region

Abstract

Traffic planning has developed over the years and has produced both long-term and short-termed solutions of different kinds. In general, however, in many urban and regional areas, traffic planning has until now not been able to treat and resolve the increasing problems relating to uncurbed traffic growth. Therefore new planning strategies and approaches are needed. In addition, the quality of transport networks and other types of traffic infrastructure are becoming more and more important features for metropols and regions when competing in attracting investment, development and knowledge. This is especially relevant for a cross-boarder region as the Øresund region treated in this paper. To ensure a sustainable development while at the same time upgrading the quality of urban and reginal transport is thus a major challenge. To deal with this situation the paper outlines a wider approach to sustainable regional transport planning. This is done by setting up a so-called holistic approach to planning and afterwards, based on holistic planning, by presenting the ideas of Strategic Transport Management (STM) as an important new planning and management concept. Finally some conclusions are given together with a perspective.

Development of sustainable traffic planning: analysis of Danish planning visions 2005 and 2015

“…This method may rely on calculations and simulations, and though these can be rather uncertain this method does try to set up plans with a long-term perspective. The visionary planning, for example by formulating a set of interrelated visions, provides planners with the possibility to model an ideal world by introducing new thought patterns and in that way create new solutions [2].…”