Photo: Knut Opeide, Statens vegvesen Miljøpakken is soon entering its
third phase in 2017. Earlier this year, Trondheim signed the first Urban Environment Agreement among Norwegian cities. This agreement between the national and local authorities will bring more financial resources for green mobil- ity in Trondheim.
GREEN HIGHWAY – A REGIONAL COLLABORATION IN MID-SCANDINAVIA The Mid-Scandinavian region between Trondheim in Norway and Sundsvall in Sweden shares a com- mon cultural heritage and has been connected through trade and other types of collaboration for more than 1000 years. This connection has been strengthened through “Nordens grønne belte (The Nordic Green Belt)” under the European Union Interreg Sweden-Norway programme3
. Other than reduction
of GHG emissions and environmen- tal issues, green growth, innova- tion and job creation are also policy goals of the programme. In recent years, this region
has been devoted to sustainable mobility. The key drivers of this development are the municipali- ties of Sundsvall, Østersund and
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Trondheim. The SØT-cooperation has been developed through three periods of three-year-long Interreg IVA projects during 2008-2018 based on the vision of establishing a fossil- free, inter-regional transport corri- dor. The 460km of highway E6/E14 between Trondheim and Sundsvall is called the Green Highway®. After years of close collabora-
tion, the three cities have become pioneers in widespread usage of electric vehicles (EV) and charg- ing infrastructure. Since 2015, the focus has also shifted to activities that promote and enhance the total value chains of biogas and hydrogen as options for fossil-free fuels.
FOSSIL-FREE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION FROM 2019 In Norway, the regional authorities are responsible of the public trans- port system. While the Norwegian National Transport Plan for 2018- 2029 has proposed that city buses shall be zero-emission by 2025, South-Trøndelag County Authority (STFK) and its public transporta- tion company AtB aim at achieving a fossil-free public transportation in the Trondheim region as from 2019. The buses will be mainly fueled by biogas and partly by biodiesel,
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supplemented by fully battery elec- tric buses. In terms of holistic and strategic planning matters, STFK has struc- tured their work for future-oriented public transport in five elements: fuels and energy forms, land-use analysis, route structures, super buses in Trondheim and mate- rial strategy (for procurement pri- orities). In August 2019, the public transportation system in Trondheim will be totally revamped. Three lines of super buses will form the back- bone of the system, supplemented by five lines of electric buses and other measures to make the con- nection as seamless and user- friendly as possible. Some 40 fully electric buses will
be purchased in 2017, and this will be the largest order of its kind in Norway. The driving distances vary from 3 to 15 kilometers throughout the five lines. The electric buses will be charged rapidly by panto- graphs at the end station(s) of each line. These vehicles, low in CO2 and other types of emissions and noise level, are well-suited to the urban environment. Perhaps even more importantly, an economic analysis
Trondheim, Norway’s capital of technology, puts great efforts in low-carbon mobility
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