Today’s urban planners and scholars emphasize the necessity of a shift towards sustainable modes of transport. Among these, bicycle highways have emerged as an innovative infrastructure solution. Characterized by their broader lanes and separation from other transport modes, they offer a safer and more efficient alternative to traditional bike lanes. However, the implementation of bicycle highways presents challenges as they cross several municipal borders and involve multiple stakeholders across various governmental levels. This thesis explores the advantages and challenges of implementing bicycle highways in Skåne. By interviewing eight officials working with bicycle highway planning at various governmental levels, the thesis aims to explore and analyze the gaps in translating frameworks, such as multi-level governance, into practice. It also investigates the differences in frameworks, values, and attitudes to explore how these variations affect the conditions and efforts for collaboration across various governmental scales. The thesis discovers multiple advantages perceived by officials within the field in terms of a higher-quality design of the bicycle infrastructure, while also discovering the challenges of implementing such infrastructure. It also recognizes that collaboration within various governmental scales is needed to develop seamless bicycle highways. Different approaches among road actors related to prioritized values, allocation of budgets, political ideals, and timeframes are identified, and could affect the effectiveness of collaboration across scales. However, attitudes continue to be a crucial factor in the success of bicycle highways between urban areas.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:mau-67621 |
| Date | January 2024 |
| Creators | Åsberg, Sofia |
| Publisher | Malmö universitet, Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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