Accessibility and proximity
The focus of the strategy accessibility and proximity is to create conditions for sustainable travel patterns to encourage the residents to choose to walk, cycle or use public transport as their main form of transportation.
Stockholm Royal Seaport is designed and built to be an accessible and densely populated part of central Stockholm. The urban district house a selection of mixed functions to decrease travel demands, while at the same time, provide amble of opportunities for sustainable travel to and from the area.
The area is designed after a traffic hierarchy that gives priority to walking and biking, followed by public transport and private cars. This results in great accessibility for its resident and a city that is built to prioritise convenience for those who walk, bike, and use public transport.
The below table 2.1 shows number of bicycle parking and car parking lots per development phase. The results for Norra 1 and Västra are presented at the end of the table, since these where the first areas to be developed and only had voluntary requirements.
Table 2.1 Amount of bicycle and car parking spaces allocated per phase
| Etapp/xx | Norra 2 | Brofästet | Gasverket västra | Gasklocka 4 | Västra | Norra 1 |
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| Norra 2 | Brofästet | Gasverket västra | Gasklocka 4 | Västra | Norra 1 | |
| Status | Completed | Planned | Planned | Planned | Completed | Completed |
| Bicycle parking spaces | 1 536 | 2,62 | 192 | 820 | 2 816 | 1 420 |
| Bicycle parking spaces/apartment | 2,5 | 2,9 | Not relevant | 2,58 | 2,2 | 2,1 |
| Car parking spaces | 398 | 353 | 4 | 153 | 726 | 435 |
| Car parking spaces/apartment | 0,7 | 0,6 | Not relevant | 0,48 | 0,6 | 0,6 |
| Share of electric vehicle charging point | 13% | 22% | 0% | 20% | 7% | 3% |
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* For Gasverket Västra and Gasklocka 4 information is only reported from property developers.
Traffic planning for the city’s public spaces
The city provides bicycle-, carpool parking, electric charging points (including fast charging station) in several places in public space to complement those provided for the residents within development sites. The number and location of these services can be seen in table 2.2 below.
Table 2.2 Bicycle and car parking lots in public spaces
| Etapp/xx | Norra 2 | Brofästet | Västra | Norra 1 |
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| Norra 2 | Brofästet | Västra | Norra 1 | |
| Status | Completed | Planned | Completed | Completed |
| Bicycle parking spaces | 120 | 148 | 178 | 134 |
| Car parking spaces including carpool | 111 | 70 | 149 | 86 |
| Electric vehicle charging point | 8 | 5 | 13 | 6 |
| Prepared för carpool parking spaces | 8 | 5 | 13 | 6 |
The local neighbourhood
Proximity to private and public services plays a major role in creating sustainable travel patterns. The interactive maps below shows how long time it takes to reach different kinds of everyday services such as grocery stores, preschools, and metro stations.
Every circle in map 2.1 corresponds to a 5 minutes’ walk, about 450 meters.
Map 2.1 Five minutes walking distance to grocery store, preschools, bus stops
Map 2.2 Ten minutes walk to the metro
Traffic planning for development sites (buildings)
Stockholm city planning requirements specify that there should be more parking places for bikes than for cars. In Norra 2, the requirement per development site is to provide 2.2 parking lots for bicycles and 0.5 parking lots for cars. From Brofästet and onwards the requirements for bicycle parking has increased to 2.5 parking lots apartment. There are also qualitative requirements promoting the use of bikes.
Summary of requirements:
- Parking lots for bicycles; 2.2 – 2.5 parking lots per apartment, depending on development phase.
- Parking lots for cars, 0.5 lot per apartment, at least 20% of parking lots must be provided with electric charging infrastructure from start. From Brofästet and onwards, at least 20% of parking lots must be ready for electric charging, and the remaining parking lots must be prepared for electric charging for easy installation at a later stage.
Table 2.3 Bicycle and car parking spaces on the development sites
| Etapp/xx | Norra 2 | Brofästet | Gasverket västra | Gasklocka 4 | Västra | Norra 1 |
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| Norra 2 | Brofästet | Gasverket västra | Gasklocka 4 | Västra | Norra 1 | |
| Status | Completed | Planned | Planned | Planned | Completed | Completed |
| Total bicycle parking spaces | 1 416 | 1 561 | 192 | 820 | 2 676 | 1 268 |
| Bicycle parking spaces/apartment | 2,3 | 2,6 | Not relevant | 2,6 | 2,1 | 1,9 |
| Share of indoor bicycle parking spaces | 83 % | 73% | 0 | 85% | IU | IU |
| Total Car parking spaces | 295 | 288 | 4 | 153 | 590 | 355 |
| Car parking spaces/apartment | 0,48 | 0,48 | Not relevant | 0,48 | 0,5 | 0,5 |
| Share of Car parking spaces with electric charging | 15% | 25% | 0% | 20% | 7% | 2% |
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Bicycle- and car spaces per stage and property developer
All developers in the development phases with mandatory requirements, i.e. Norra 2 and Brofästet, comply with requirements for bicycle and car parking lots. The two first development phases (Norra 1 and Västra) had voluntary targets.
Diagram 2.1 Average amount bicycle and car parking spaces per apartment
Maps 2.3 Bicycle parking lots
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Several developers have provided both indoor and outdoor bike parking. 15% of car parking lots have been provided with electric charging infrastructure.
During the course of the project the city realised that quantitative demands on bicycle parking needed to be supplemented with qualitative requirements.
Diagram 2.2 Bicycle and car parking spaces per apartment, Norra 2
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- SSM provided carpool vehicle at the housing association, and built more parking lots for bikes which granted them approval for fewer car parking lots.
- Erik Wallin received approval to provide one car parking lot per urban townhouse.
- Stockholmshem, Skanska, Bonava, and Wallenstam; have provided stacked bicycle parking in dedicated bicycle rooms.
From Brofästet and onwards, the requirement for bike parking lots has been increased and supplemented with qualitative demands.
All property developers comply with the accessibility requirements, together with an even distribution between indoor and outdoor spaces. 24% of the car parking lots are provided with electric charging points.
Diagram 2.3 Bicycle and car spaces per apartment, Brofästet
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- Tobin Properties, Stockholmshem, Riksbyggen, and HSB; have provided stacked bicycle parking in dedicated bicycle rooms.
- Stockholmshem has planned for bicycles to be parked on balconies, either by suspension, or a bike stand, whichever gives the best result.
- Åke Sundvall received approval to provide one car lot per urban townhouse.
In Gasverket Västra there’s a mix of both historic and new buildings. The historic buildings do not have any development site space for bicycle parking and limited opportunity to provide car parking, this resulted in bicycle parking to be placed on public space and car parking is limited to a few disability parking lots.
- SISAB:s Bobergsskolan (the school): has 136 bicycle parking lots within the site development, but bikes will also have access to 208 parking lots in the public space immediately adjacent to the school
- The sports hall provide 56 parking lots for bikes, these will be shared with a preschool.
The developer, Oscar Properties, is planning to build 318 apartments, has met the requirement of 2.5 bicycle parking lots per apartment via a “bike corridor,” with space for 700 bikes, between the main building and the garage.
From Södra Värtan and onwards, the developed ‘Mobility index’ has been implemented. Mobility Index is a tool developed in the Stockholm Royal Seaport to promote sustainable mobility solutions.
This area is still in early planning phase and the results will be presented later this year. The Mobility Index was inspired by the Green Space Index and provide the property developer with a better opportunity of assessing solutions for the property.
The requirements for these two development phases are based on voluntary agreements, the results are according to the property developer’s own accounting and have not been reviewed by the City of Stockholm.
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Key figures
- 2, 1 bicycle parking lots and 0,5 car parking lots per apartment on the properties.
- 7% of the car parking lots on the development sites have electric charging.
- 5 minutes to everyday services.
Accessibility and proximity
Planning facilitates walking, cycling and travel by public transport.
