Säker utformning av gång- och cykelbana i Arninge

Sammanfattning: The bicycle has for a long time been a way of traveling short and medium-term trips. The popularity has varied over time but today it is increasing in popularity. The main reason for the increasing popularity is because its ecological, economical, and social sustainable. In areas where the bike is popular one often talks about a “bicycle culture”. A bicycle culture cannot be built just by redesigning the streets, but when designing the streets in the right way, the municipality can create benefits for cyclist which in the longer run can lead to more people preferring the bike. There are documents with recommendations and guidelines for how specific streets should be planned in order to be safe and pleasant for bike users. These are available on a state, regional and local level, but may differs depending on which document you get your information from. In the municipality of Täby, no streets have previously been designed for pedestrian and cycling lanes in urban environments. Therefore, local recommendations and guidelines have not been updated and not been used. Instead urban and traffic planners have used extern documents. Recently intern documents have been updated and started to be used when planning pedestrian and cycling lanes, which will be examined in this thesis. The purpose of this master thesis will be to explore opportunities and challenges that occur when planning safe walking and cycling lanes. By examining general and Täbys recommendations and guidelines in a document study and in a case study investigate how the planning of walking and cycling lanes goes into practice these conditions and answers have been identified. First of all, the control documents will have a great impact on how the final design will be. These guidelines and recommendations serve a basic function for all planning of walking and cycle lanes. The existing condition of an area affecting how its possibly to plan a street. For example, it could limit the width of the street or the flow size of pedestrians. There are also external influencing factors such as politics, economics and interests that can influence the design of the street. A service person who is working for the municipality can also have a great impact on the outcome. The service person can deviate from the control documents or make own solutions where there is lack of documents. In order to make as many people as possible satisfied, it's also good in the future if structural traffic issues are being solved in a detailed comprehensive plan or structure plan in advance for people to express their thoughts. Otherwise the risk of getting the interested party unsatisfied with the results.