The project - Sustainable Nordic Cities with Focus on Climate-Smart Mobility - aims to contribute to sustainable urban development by supporting the transition to fossil-free transport and accessibility in Nordic cities and urban regions. The potential to organise the Nordic society to be more transport-efficient is significant, and the remaining transports must become increasingly fossil-free. A transition like this requires several changes in our societies: an increased share of plug-in vehicles with deployment of charging infrastructure will be necessary as well as urban planning for long-term sustainable accessibility. Innovative mobility solutions that promote a transition to public transport are also requisite, as well as the promotion of walking and cycling in cities and surrounding areas in addition to promoting efficient urban logistics.
This report has been compiled from some of the most interesting applicable examples found in the Nordic countries. In here we present policy recommendations and good examples on how to accelerate the transition to climate-smart mobility and accessibility based firmly on these Nordic exchanges of knowledge and experiences. The Nordic cities and municipalities are leading the way. We see that Nordic cities want to be frontrunners in this field; however, they typically rely on national support to create favourable market conditions as well as to set examples - in terms of legal framework – in order to promote shared mobility.
This project shows, that there is plenty of relevant know-how in the Nordic countries. However, the ability to learn from examples and implement subsequent policy measures relies on the capacity of authorities to convey this knowledge into operational practice. To invest in local authority capacity-building, ensures the conditions to implement policy measures in scale. Which is necessary in order to reach national climate goals as well as the Paris agreement. This project has identified urban logistics, electric mobility and gender equality together with the needs and perspectives of the young and elderly as being particularly important.
This project wants to emphasis the potential to learn between the Nordic countries. These countries are often at different levels of change, an advantage which provides good opportunities to learn by comparison. There has been great interest in what is being done in other Nordic countries and the participants have expressed hopes of continuing to exchange experiences for knowledge of what is going on each other’s nations. Measures for more sustainable mobility requires cross-border collaboration. These boundaries can be national but there is also lineation between academia with business and public activities, which provides many benefits to cooperate.
