Unique measurement of work commuting in Lund
In the project CoAction Lund There are 25 affiliated partners working jointly with a climate-neutral Lund by 2030 as a goal. Lund Municipality is the project manager and the work is focused on two main areas, mobility and energy. One of the many sub-projects is Green Itinerary where virtually all activities — including three additional ones — will work with their travel by, among other things, conducting a travel habits survey that goes out to about 25,000 people working in Lund. One of the objectives of working with the Green Itinerary is that a maximum of one third of all commuting trips should be by car for all partners together at the end of the CoAction project period.
- We have the potential to capture commuting trips for many of those moving to and from work in Lund, but also their needs and conditions in terms of travel, says Pernilla Hyllenius Mattisson at Trivecteur Trafic. This is a unique project in that the survey is done with so many activities at the same time in a city, and that through the project we can find actions that both individual activities can do and efforts that can be done jointly by several activities.
The Resvane survey was sent out on October 8 and is then open until November 8. The survey itself is well proven and is conducted by Trivector Traffic. In it, employees get to answer questions about how they get to work, how they travel in the service and what could facilitate a more sustainable journey for them. The Travel Vane Survey also provides a basis for the calculation of annual distance travelled by different means of transport and CO2 emissions for commuting trips, partly for all of them together, and divided into each workplace separately.
- Each company has also carried out a progress study that shows how far the operations have come with conditions for sustainable travel, says Pernilla Hyllenius Mattisson. Together with the results of the travel habits survey, this will form the basis for a green itinerary for each of the activities involved, with the aim of implementing at least five measures in 2025 and 2026.
Some of the activities will involve activities that the businesses can do themselves, such as developing and communicating a travel policy, improving the availability of service bikes, promoting a ride-hailing service or having a public transport card.
- It will be like a smorgasbord with about thirty actions to choose from.
CoAction Lund will also take advantage of the benefits of so many people making efforts at the same time and together. There is room to share experiences and to inspire each other, but in practical terms it is also possible to share communication materials for events, to start mobility hubs where you can share vehicles or carpooling services, and to achieve a collaboration between the activities and the municipality, Skånetrafiken and other actors.
In autumn 2025, a follow-up travel survey will be carried out to measure differences and to provide a basis for discussions on new goals and measures. At the same time, it will be possible for more people to jump on and the hope is to double the number of operations.
- Activities have a great potential to influence the travel conditions of many people who move around the city, and it feels really nice that we are now starting this collaboration in a systematic and targeted manner, concludes Pernilla Hyllenius Mattisson.
As a complement, CoAction will also test Travalytics, a tool developed by Trivector Traffic and Backtick Technologies, to measure commuting trips via an app as part of companies' sustainability reports. Four companies in CoAction Lund will try the tool during October.
CoAction Lund includes the organizations Akadeiska hus, Alfa Laval, Axis, Camurus, Coride, EC2B, Energy Opticon, ESS, Future by Lund, Ideon Science Park, Innovation Skåne, Kraftringen, LKF, LKP, Lund Municipality, Lund University, Medicon Village, Modity, Rise, Skånetrafiken, Tetra Pak, Trafikverket, Trivector, viaEuropa and Wihlborborg Gs.