56 Transforming Cities with Transit
Figure 2.4 Copenhagen’s “finger plan” for urban development
Urban areas Rail system Primary roads
Source: Cervero 1998; reproduced with permission from Island Press, Washington, DC.
new state-of-the-art mobile ticket for transit trips. Customers are now able to buy and display tickets on their mobile phones for transit rides on the metro, suburban commuter rail lines, and city buses. Stockholm: First-Generation Transit Necklace, Second-Generation Urban Regeneration
The last half century of strategic regional planning has given rise to regional settlement and commuting patterns in Greater Stockholm that have substantially reduced dependency on automobiles in middle-income suburbs. Stockholm’s investment in radial rail lines has given rise to a “string of pearls” urban form and a balanced use of land for work and housing. By consciously establishing a balance between jobs and housing along railserved axial corridors, Stockholm planners produced directional flow balances in commuting periods. During peak hours, 55 percent of commuters are typically traveling in one direction on trains and 45 percent are heading in the other direction. Stockholm’s transit mode share is nearly twice that found in larger railserved European cities, such as Berlin; it is even higher than inner London’s