Major development zones currently being built, the associated creation of new jobs and housing, altered leisure-time and consumer behaviour on the part of the city's residents and visitors due to more liberal shop-opening times and laws governing the catering trade...: Zürich city council realised that if justice is to be done to all these developments, the previous, sector-focussed transport policy built on five pillars will no longer suffice.

The Sustainable Mobility Strategy adopted in 2001 is the city's answer to this challenge. The strategy comprises four interlocking elements: sustainable development, focal activity areas, sub-strategies and implementation rules.

Focal activity areas are:

• optimising and networking existing features and systems,
• complementing infrastructures in a targeted manner,
• opening new horizons for mobility patterns that permit sustainable urban development,
• developing and promoting innovation,
• aiming towards cost transparency and achieving more flexible financing.

  Target groups: all citizens
  Fields: integrated approach / urban transport plans

  This case study is one of 175 projects from the Smile Project Local Experiences Database listed on this website.