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Turku will implement a package of winter measures to improve the activity, attractiveness, comfort, and safety of the winter season.
During the summer season, the city is an active and joyful place for events and diverse mobility. In winter, on the other hand, life slows down considerably when it comes to outdoor activities and outdoor events. Darkness, cold, snow and ice often hinder being outdoors and moving around.
In recent years, Turku has invested in guiding and developing event guidance in cooperation with event organisers. In 2022, a physical guidance experiment was carried out in connection with the Knotfest event, which has resulted in the Handbook for Event and Emergency Guidance, which is available on the City of Turku's event organisers' instructions pages: http://www.turku.fi/tapahtumaopastaminen (in Finnish)
Encouragement can be done by nudging
Carbon-neutral urban logistics
As part of this measure, Turku is preparing its Sustainable City Logistics Plan. The Sustainable Urban Logistics Plan (SULP) guidelines are a policy support tool aimed at many small and medium-sized cities in Europe that may not have the resources to significantly assess and model sustainable urban logistics.
Activation model for sustainable mobility for daycare centres and schools
"Knowledge, skill, stopping to make choices, and the joy of moving!"
Link to Turku service map
The scale-up project has developed a mobility view as part of the Turku service map. The Turku service map allows the user to search for services provided by the city and now also by others using various search criteria. The address can be used, for example, to search for nearby services. Special attention has been paid to the accessibility of information on the service map, and accessibility information is also available for many City offices.
The transport of people and goods causes costs, climate emissions and noise, as well as congestion and dangerous situations. Transports are put out to tender and managed in various administrative silos, which increases costs and underutilises transport capacity.
The Scale-up project will create a generic platform that enables different ticket combinations to make it easier to integrate Föli's tickets into different ticket products. In addition, park-and-ride facilities will be created in the Föli app, and this will be tested in commuting traffic and in connection with various events in 2024.
The city's goal is to enable smooth and diverse mobility by several means of transport. The aim is to make the travel chains of city residents and visitors as efficient as possible and intuitive all year round.
The City of Turku's forest plan 2019–2029 guides the management and felling of the forests owned by the City of Turku in the coming years. The now completed program replaces the latest forest plan drawn up for the years 2001–2010. The forest plan includes 4,295 hectares. The total area of Turku's forests is 4846 hectares, including Ruissalo. Ruissalo has its own management and use plan, so it has not been included in the forest plan.
For companies
Companies and employers can advance sustainable mobility in workplaces. One easy way to start is to favor remote meetings and possibly favor remote working also. Favoring carpooling helps to increase sustainable mobility in workplaces. Companies and employers can create or update mobility and travelling plan where sustainable mobility is considered. Workplaces can actively encourage employees to use sustainable vehicles and public transport and improve the possibilities to use these vehicles and not the private car.
Electric cars in a nutshell
There are different types of electric cars that are fully electric car, hybrid and plug-in hybrid. All-electric cars only have one electric motor, plug-in hybrids and hybrids both have electric motor and combustion engine. The difference between plug-in hybrids and hybrids is that plug-in hybrids electric battery is rechargeable like fully electric cars and in hybrids the electric battery is charged only during reverse braking and with the power of the internal combustion engine.
Turku Energia
In cooperation with Turku Energia are smart energy solutions to district heating, electric grid, building and transportation being developed.
Skanssi shopping centre
Diverse shopping centre which has a hypermarket, several other stores, restaurants, recycling point and EV charging points. The shopping centre is fully wheelchair accessible.
Turku's urban tree plan is the city's common policy, the main goal of which is to increase knowledge and protect the well-being and values of trees. The real estate department prepared the policy in cooperation with urban planning, building control, environmental protection, and museum services. The plan is a continuation of the development work related to trees, for which Turku received the honor of European city of trees in 2011. The goal is for Turku to be a large urban tree arboretum in the future.
The blue-green coefficient is a tool for checking yard plans. It is used to estimate:
- the amount of vegetation and surfaces on a plot/block
- the quality of vegetation and surfaces on a plot/block
- an indicative estimate of how much the site's vegetation, surfaces, and possible stormwater structures delay stormwater
The blue-green coefficient breaks down the green efficiency of the plot/block, i.e., the ratio of vegetation and ecologically useful surfaces to the built-up area.
Over the years, City of Turku has invested in electric mobility and acted as a pioneer in many matters. The electrification of Turku started already in the 90s.
It all started in the 1990s
City of Turku acquired its first electric cars already in the 1990s. At the same time, it also inspired others to move around in an environmentally friendly way. New charging stations appeared on the street, which electric car drivers could use for free.
The city of Turku is a partner in the Horizon 2020 project called SCALE-UP (Scale up user-Centric and dAta driven SoLutions for ConnEcted Urban Poles), i.e. the expansion of user-oriented data-based solutions in regional traffic nodes. The main leader of the project is the city of Antwerp. In addition to the urban areas of Turku and Antwerp, the project also includes the urban area of Madrid. Partner implementers of the Turku complex are Varsinais-Suomen liitto, Turku University of Applied Sciences and Vinka oy.
Today, cycling is as important a mode of travel in Turku as public transport. More than 90 % of Turku residents live less than a 30-minute bike ride from the Market Square. The importance on cycling will be further emphasized in the congested urban transport of the future. The ecology and health benefits of cycling area also a key motive for cycling.
The City of Turku encourages cycling by providing a wide range of services for cyclists.
Turku offers plenty of interesting and convenient cycling routes all year round for home-to-work travelers, hikers and tourist alike. In Turku, you can cycle both in urban areas and in environments close to the nature. Archipelago routes are also easily accessible.
Year-round cycling is encouraged by, among other things, the approximately 12-kilometer-long winter cycling route, which is in the center of Turku and in the Kupittaa area. Thanks to brush salting, the route is also safe in the winter.
Walking is one of the most important forms of travel in the urban area. Each of us is a walker at some point of our travels.
The advantage of walking is the calm pace and the opportunity to explore the surroundings while walking. Increasing the use of sustainable modes of transport such as walking, and cycling will also play an important role in achieving Turku`s climate goals.
Climate neutral cities by 2050
The purpose of the RESPONSE-project is to create sustainable and safe cities while simultaneously improving the quality of life and mitigating the impacts of climate change.
The project aims to find out how the energy production and -consumption of cities as well as its safety, equality and affordability can be combined with the sustainability of the environment on building, block and district levels.
The project is based on interconnected energy supplies and services that promote energy sustainability.