Genom projektet Malmöexpressen vill Malmö Stad uppnå en förbättring av kollektivtrafiken och öka tillgängligheten i centrum och utkanterna av staden samt regionen i sig. Det handlar också om att minska bilismen och säkra miljön för gång- och cykeltrafik. Denna magisteruppsats är förankrad i litteratur och tidigare forskning om Traffic Calming som koncept. Syftet med uppsatsen är att utvärdera och undersöka effekterna av ombyggnationen av Nobeltorget, Malmö med teorikonceptet Traffic Calming som utgångspunkt. I denna studie görs det en kvalitativ undersökning med fokus på främst interjuver med trafikplanerare från Gatukontoret i Malmö Stad. Vidare görs observationer för att stärka och underlätta framtagandet av en Space syntax- analys och en SWOT- analys. Till teorin, har det valts viktiga forskare vars verk anses vara relevanta och lämpliga för denna studie. Studien innefattar en projektplan och syftet med denna är att ta fram ett underlag för hur Traffic Calming kan utvärderas vid Nobeltorget i Malmö Stad. Uppsatsen avslutas med diskussion, slutsatser och förslag till fortsatt studie. / The project Malmöexpressen is brought by City of Malmö which purpose is to achieve an improvement of public transport, and increasing accessibility in the centre of the town and the outskirts but also the region itself. It is also about reducing car dominance and among other things, a safer environment for pedestrians and cyclists.This master’s essay is anchored in literature and previous research of Traffic Calming as a concept. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate and investigate the effects of the redevelopment of Nobeltorget at Malmö City, regarding Traffic Calming as a theoretical concept. In this study, a qualitative study focusing primarily on interviews with traffic planners from the Traffic Department of the City of Malmö, furthermore, observations take place to strengthen and facilitate the concept of a Space syntax analysis, and a SWOT analysis. As for the theory, important writers whose works are considered to be relevant and appropriate for this study have been chosen. The study includes a Project Plan and the purpose of this is to develop a basis for how the Traffic Calming can be evaluated at Nobeltorget in the City of Malmö. The paper concludes with a discussion, conclusions and suggestions for further study.

This thesis examines perceptions of sustainability and sustainable urban development among actors involved in the project of rebuilding Slussen in central Stockholm. Views on the suggested new traffic solution and what would make a sustainable solution, the concepts of sustainability and sustainable urban development and how these concepts are interpreted and applied as policy, are especially investigated. A semi-structured qualitative interview study has been carried out and the respondents include city officials, politicians, representatives of interest groups, consultants and researchers. Stockholm, European Green Capital in 2010, sets high goals for sustainability. As concept, sustainability is also frequently used in much of the city´s planning material such as the budget, environmental programme and urban development documents. However, it has not been included in the goals of the Slussen project. Even though, interviewees representing the city view the project as a sustainability project whereas other respondents clearly question this view. The study suggests that a determining factor for this division is how the sustainability concept is defined (or not), also how car traffic is viewed in urban sustainable development. The thesis shows that instead of planning for sustainable transportation, traditional business-as-usual traffic planning has dominated the Slussen project. The main reasons are that the new traffic solution, although including new walking and cycling bridges as well as a new bus terminal, includes planning for increased car traffic, an eight lane bridge to provide for it and a high degree of separation instead of integration of transport modes. Many of the interviewees also perceive of the suggested new main bridge as a motorway and the walking bridge as being both socially and culturally unsustainable in its long and narrow design. The new traffic solution in itself is viewed as unsustainable since it would bring about the abandonment of a more than 300 year old tradition of double and equal bridges at Slussen. Finally, the study suggests that the planned new traffic solution would have both looked different and been perceived of as more sustainable if sustainability had been included in the project goals. However, this would only have been the case if the concept was properly defined and implemented.