A strategy to move towards more sustainable mobility
The Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (PMUS) of Sant Just Desvern 2018–2024 defines the municipal strategy to move towards a more sustainable, safe, and efficient mobility model. The document reviews and updates the existing planning with the aim of adapting it to the new environmental, social, and urban challenges of the municipality.
The plan analyzes the municipality’s mobility patterns, the distribution of trips, and the operation of the different transport networks, to define a set of actions that allow for reducing dependence on private vehicles and promoting active mobility and public transport.
The PMUS aligns with metropolitan sustainable mobility policies and establishes an integrated strategy that combines interventions in public spaces, improvements in public transport, traffic regulation, and communication and awareness actions.
Review of the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan of Sant Just Desvern for the 2024 horizon
Ten challenges to transform mobility in Sant Just Desvern
The Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan of Sant Just Desvern is organized around ten main challenges that guide the municipality’s actions.
- Prioritize pedestrian mobility: The plan establishes as a main objective to facilitate walking as the priority mode within the urban core, improving the continuity of pedestrian routes, universal accessibility, and the quality of public spaces.
- Promote cycling mobility: Another strategic line is to facilitate the integration of bicycles into urban traffic and enhance their role in interurban connections with nearby municipalities, strengthening the cycling network and the safety of routes.
- Develop the green corridor of the Sant Just stream: The PMUS (Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan) is committed to promoting sustainable mobility in the green corridor of the Sant Just stream, consolidating it as an active mobility axis that connects different neighborhoods and natural spaces of the municipality.
- Transform the Carretera Reial (Royal Road): The transformation of the Carretera Reial is proposed as an opportunity to improve urban quality and foster sustainable mobility in one of the municipality’s main axes.
- Improve accessibility to industrial estates: The plan also addresses mobility in industrial estates, with the aim of improving accessibility through sustainable alternatives to private vehicles and strengthening connections with public transport and active mobility.
- Optimize public transport networks: The PMUS proposes optimizing the bus network to improve intermodal relations and facilitate connecting travel with other municipalities and with the metropolitan transport network.
- Rationalize and pacify the road network: The plan also establishes measures to rationalize and pacify the road network, reducing traffic speed on certain streets and improving coexistence between different modes of transport.
- Strengthen the role of public space: Another strategic line is to enhance public space and the attractiveness of the urban center, improving the quality of streets and promoting social and commercial activity.
- Promote more efficient vehicles: The plan incorporates measures to positively discriminate in favor of more efficient motorized vehicles, fostering the use of less polluting technologies.
- Communicate alternatives to the car: Finally, the PMUS also includes actions to communicate and positively promote alternatives to private vehicles, fostering new mobility habits among citizens.
