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Navigating Järfälla
Navigating Järfälla: A Pathway to a Sustainable Traffic Strategy
By Hamza Arroum, Meztli Cambray, Daniel Hjort, Elpida Stratopoulou, Henrick Sundbom and Malin Wallin
The Jarfalla municipality has pointed out the need for a comprehensive traffic strategy to guide its traffic planning. A traffic strategy is needed to ensure that day-to-day traffic planning contributes to political goal achievement and to provide decision support for the planners. The purpose of this project is to form a basis for the development of such a traffic strategy. The goal is to combine knowledge of the present state of the transport system and contemporary research on the field of sustainable transport with a sustainable future in mind.
Traffic strategies are a response to the rise of the goal-oriented traffic planning paradigm. They became popular among Swedish municipalities in the early 2000s in response to the Swedish national TRAST guidebook publication and the later Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan {SUMP) project from the EU.
In this project, we have performed a review and analysis of the present transport system to establish the Jarfalla context and enable us to develop suggested contents for the municipality to iterate upon in the process of developing a traffic strategy. Reviewing the transport system, we find an emphasis on large trunkline based topologies, successful reductions of traffic accidents and progressive parking management policy. Reviewing trends that will affect Jarfalla, we find the development of a regional city center, changes in commerce and work behavior, new vehicle technologies and expansions of inter-municipal road network. Reviewing the comprehensive plan goals and strategies, we find a set that we deem relevant to the transport system.
Based on the methodology proposed in TRAST and SUMP, we suggest an adapted process of developing a traffic strategy for Jarfalla. The process serves to guide the development of the traffic strategy to ensure political feasibility, but also to build political support in itself.