Jokkmokk Winter Conference 2014 Eco-Mobility Best

Jokkmokk Winter Conference 2014
Eco-Mobility
Best practice examples from Swedish
Eco-municipalities
Kenneth Gyllensting
Coordinator
The National Association
of Swedish Eco-Municipalities
“Sekom”
The Sekom network
• The oldest municipality network for sustainable
development in the world
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A voluntary network for local authorities in Sweden
• Formally
a Local Government Organization
Municipalities in Sweden
have large possibilities to
work on sustainability
290 self-governed units with their own taxation,
only a small amount of the direct taxation is national
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• Runs
most of public service from schools to elderly
care. Monopoly on physical planning and land use.
The four sustainability principles
These principles are used as guidlines by the members:
In a sustainable society, nature is not subject to systematically
increasing…
1 ...concentrations of substances extracted from the Earth’s crust
2 …concentrations of substances produced by society
3 …degradation by physical means
And in that society…
4 …human needs are met worldwide
Short facts on Sekom
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The first Eco-Municipality in Sweden, Övertorneå,
was declared in 1983
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The networking started in mid eighties and the
National Association of Swedish Eco-Municipalities
(Sekom) was founded in 1995.
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92 Swedish municipalities are members today (~31 %)
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Largest Member: Stockholm (900 000 inhabitants)
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Smallest member: Sorsele (2 700 inhabitants)
Sekom member
municipalities
Organisation
• A board of 12 leading politicians from the
member municipalities lead the association
• A committee of 8 skilled officials from the
members support the board
• Head office in Karlskrona municipality
• More info on the web-site, www.sekom.se
International partnership
Ecomuna – International
Web campus
Some examples of eco-mobility
from our members
Example 1: Helsingborg
On the road towards sustainability
An Eco-Municipality since 1995
Food waste as a resource
City integrated vehicle biogas system
City integrated vehicle biogas system
Farmer integrated distribution system for the
sludge, used as fertilizers
10 km pipeline
Largest number of electric
pool cars in Sweden
• The car pool company
Sun Fleet has 40 electric
cars stationed in
Helsingborg
• The municipality owned
company Öresundskraft
has 6 electric cars in a
public car pool. 3 of those
are charged with solar
power
Example 2: ELMOS - Introducing electric mobility as
intermodal transport mean in small and medium sized
cities in the South Baltic Area
Partners
City of Karlskrona
City of Växjö
Commune of Trabki Wielkie
Energy Agency for Southeast
Sweden
Hanseatic City of Rostock
Polish Union of Active Mobility
Rostocker Straßenbahn AG
The Municipality of Malbork
Associated organisations
Blekinge Public Transport
ExtraEnergy reg'd.assoc.
Kronoberg Public Transport Cooperation
Municipality of Gdynia
Union of the Baltic Cities (UBC)
Initial European survey showed:
• A great number of European cities have various emobility measures in place – but only very few take a
strategic approach towards e-mobility
• E-mobility strategy development is still in an early phase
• The smaller a city is, the less likely it is to have a
municipal e-mobility strategy
Expected outcomes 2014
• E-mobility plans for the member
municipalities
• Promotion of pedelecs by letting test groups
try them for a period of time (ongoing)
• Multilingual handbooks for electric mobility
in small & medium sized cities
www.elmos-project.eu
Example 3:
Commute
Green
(Pendla Grönt)
Municipality of Karlstad
Some different actions to promote biking
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”Commute Green” project: 37 test
commuters (both bike and bus),
switching from car. Also promoting
winter biking.
”Biking Council” w officials, NGOs, and
companies, about 30 people meeting a
couple of times a year.
Campaign ”Bike to Work” every year
since 1999 – in total 15 000 employees
have taken part.
Biking Barometer – real time measuring
http://www1.infracontrol.com/cykla/kar
lstad_cykelinfo.htm
Route planner for biking on the web
Free lending of bikes as modal shift from
buses at the central square. Since 1997!
Example 4: STOCKHOLM ROYAL SEAPORT
Development period 2009 - 2030
Sustainable transportation
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Minimising transport needs (ICT)
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Walking & biking
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Public transport
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Car-pool (biogas & electric)
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Private cars (biogas & electric)
TRAFFIC HIERARCHY
Example 5: Municipality of Sigtuna
Towards
Uppsala
43 000 citizens
E4 Arlanda airport
SIGTUNA
MÄRSTA
ROSERSBERG
Towards
Stockholm
Airport City Stockholm with a Podcar system
Thank You for
listening!
www.sekom.se
[email protected]
and also on Facebook:
www.facebook.com/sverigesekokommuner
or
www.facebook.com/ecomunicipality
(international)