TEN YEARS OF THE ZURICH MOBILITY STRATEGY - LESSONS LEARNED AND OUTLOOK

摘要

This paper takes a close look at the Mobility Strategy of the city of Zurich, Switzerland, and reflects on ten years of experience in applying that strategy. After a short introduction with relevant facts about Zurich’s situation with regard to mobility, it briefly explains the structure and contents of the Mobility Strategy along with its eight principles and 19 substrategies. The achievements attained after ten years of implementation are quite considerable: city-wide low-speed zones in residential areas, a demand-oriented public transportation system, stabilized motorized transport as well as good progress in establishing a mobility culture among the city’s population and commuters. This experience shows that implementing a Mobility Strategy is generally not done in large steps but rather with modest yet continuous efforts towards established goals. The 19 substrategies of the Mobility Strategy are not prioritized, yet priorities among them must be set on a project level by applying specific processes. In a brief outlook, the future challenges of Zurich’s Mobility Strategy are outlined, among them the contribution of the transportation sector towards reaching the city’s goal of a “2000 watt society”, the increasing conflicts between functionality and quality of time spent within public spaces along with actions to resolve the divergent requirements of speeding up public transportation and slowing down traffic to improve co-existence on public grounds.