This document provides information about Turku, Finland. It discusses Turku's history as the former capital city dating back to the 13th century. It notes the population was around 177,000 in 2010. Key points about Turku include it being the cultural and economic center of western Finland and having expanded through new residential areas around the old city core. The document then outlines Turku's sustainable energy action plan and priorities around green logistics, traffic management, biogas, and building controls. It proposes long-term solutions like light rail transport and a smart grid to create a sustainable infrastructure.

1. TURKU,FINLAND
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2. BACKGROUND
 Turku is an old city, going
back as far as the 13th
century.
 Located between Sweden
and Russia, Finland also
borders the Baltic
Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, and
Gulf of Finland. Finland's
area, at 337,030 square
kilometers (130,127 square
miles).

3.  Turku, Finland’s oldest
city and its former
capital, is dominated by
its winding Aura
river, the reason for its
existence as a port.

4. POPULATION
 The population of Turku was 177 606 in the year
2010, which makes it the fifth largest city in Finland
by population.
 There were roughly 303 500 inhabitants living in the
Turku sub-region in the year 2007, which makes it
the third largest urban area in Finland after the
Greater Helsinki area and Tampere sub-region.

5. THE CITY OF FINLAND
 Turku is the main city in its region as well as the
cultural and economic centre of Western Finland.
 The city’s profile has changed significantly in recent
decades.
 The city has expanded by building residential areas
around the old city.
 The city was rebuilt according to a grid pattern of
rectangular blocks in which the relatively broad streets
should prevent raging fires.

6.  The city’s most famous attraction near the mouth of
the river is its well-preserved medieval castle, dating
back to the days when Sweden ruled Finland in the
13th century.

7. BUILDING
 The present physical
structure of the inner
city is strongly
determined by the great
city of 1827 that
destroyed the
predominantly wooden
buildings of the old city
almost completely.
 The rebuilt wooden
houses have been
replaced nowadays.
• Within the grid by
building and blocks of
stone and concrete.

8.  The outer walls are
Medieval Castle
painted white with
stark, black-framed
windows, while inside is
an older medieval part
with rough stone walls.
 Behind the castle’s thick
stone walls, interlocking
corridors and courtyards
offer hints of its glory
days in the mid-16th
century, when the castle
served as the sumptuous
court of the Duke of
Finland.

9.  Turku City Library in
Turku, Finland by
JKMM Architects
 Located at the
historical centre of the
city.
 The new building is
the latest summation to
a complex with the old
library.

10.  European Oak are widely
used in the interior
wall furnishing and
furniture.
 Building structure was
constructed
from concrete cast
on site, which was left
exposed as an significant
part of the interior
design.
 Glass was given a seminal
role both in the outer
architecture and the
interior world.

11.  The major sources of
greenhouse gas
emissions in the city.

12. Turku’s
Sustainable Energy Action Plan (SEAP)

13. Priority infrastructure solution
Green logistic
• Downsize vehicle fleets and infrastructure
in the city centre and upgrade vehicles to
zero emission technology
Traffic
management
• Encourage P&R, guide drivers to the best
parking places, charge for entry to
congested areas, and car and bike sharing.
Biogas
• The gas can be piped for use directly as a
burnable fuel or used to power an
electricity generator.
Building control
and management
• Enable energy efficiency in new buildings
and renovations

14. Long term solution
 This 2 project very attractive but need substantial work
and funding.
 These longer term solutions would build on the immediate
opportunities to create a sustainable transport and energy
infrastructure.
1) Light rail transport
2) Smart Grid : Brings together the electricity and
communications infrastructure to help match supply and
demand.

15. Other Solution
 Geothermal/ground heat : Using heat stored in soil, rock
or water systems, transferred to a water-based heating
system using a heat pump.
 Heat machines and chillers : Capture heat that would
otherwise be wasted, either from cooling equipment or
heat production in boilers or power plants, and use it to
warm water for district heating or other purposes.

16.  Public lighting : Technical and operational options can
cut energy use, including sodium-vapor lamps instead of
mercury, LED technology and improved control
systems.
 Micro combined heat and power (CHP) :small-scale
power generation producing electricity from heat at low
temperatures using a fluid such as silicon oil instead of
water.
 Smart parking: using parking regulation to encourage
lower emissions vehicles and co-modality.

17. PUBLIC TRANSPORT

18. LIGHT RAIL
A way to improve air quality
and diminish environmental
impact by reducing CO2 and
pollutant emissions via
traffic reduction and
optimization.
Light rail gives also an
opportunity to
reshape, harmonize and
develop a city
An opportunity for Turku to
take the path towards a
sustainable transportation
system and a wealthy and
livable environment.
The integrated light rail
solution is the result of both
the implementation of the
light rail and a set of
targeted policies aiming at
favouring green
transportation as well as
triggering city development.

19. Trunk bus network will be
implemented in
Turku urban region 2011 to
2014, covering
suburban Turku and centres of
neighbouring
Trunk bus lines to villages are
municipalities
defined :
• Skånetrafiken Pendeln a good
example
Centres and periphery of the villages
.
• Fast and effective public transport
lines
serve the centres every day from
morning to night
• Public transport lines can be
extended
over
Centres of separate villages function the centre to the periphery
as
intermodal interchanges between
public
transport, walking and cycling
TRUNK BUS

20. SUSTAINABLE
MOBILITY

21. Edges of central area (e.g.
Varissuo-Littoinen)
• Cycling and public transport
should continue to the edge
and be competitive with car
• Local services reachable by
walking
Outside built-up areas
• It should be possible to
connect to public transport by
car or bicycle at the nearest
built-up areas.
Separate built-up areas (e.g
Masku, Nousiainen, Mynämä
• It should be possible to walk or
cycle all trips within the area all
year round
• There should be an attractive
cycling and public transport
connection to the centre.
From the central areas
• Important recreational
sites, workplaces and services should
be reachable by cycling or public
transport, possibly depending on the
season
To the central areas
• Transports into the central areas should
not congest the main nodes into the City of
Turku or in the regional road network
• It must be possible to connect to the
public transport at the edges of the
congested area

22. Mobility Management
Mobility management means
promotion of:
• Walking and cycling
• Public transport
• Sustainable car use

23. BEST PRACTICE
BENEFITS
AT
TURKU

24. Benefit From Light Rail Network
 It is the cooperation with the city of Turku and Siemens.
 The study evaluated the effects a light rail network would
have on Turku from an ecological and economic point of
view.
 An integrated light rail solution would reduce carbon
emission by 11 percent by 2035.
 Properties value alongside the network would increase by
an estimated total of 480 to 850 million euro in
conservative scenario.

25. Benefits for the city’s competitiveness
and attractiveness
 Increase in the use of public transport can reduce the gas
emissions.
 The integrated light rail solution would increase the
number of public transport trips in Turku by 40 percent
before 2035.
 A third of the residents of Turku will live along the
planned light rail system in 2035.

26. REDUCE EMISSIONS
 It is estimated that CO2 emissions from vehicle traffic in
Turku will rise by 25 percent, 130,000 tons by 2035.
 Approximately 88 percent of emissions come from cars
and 12 percent from buses.
 The integrated light rail solution would reduce CO2
from vehicles by 11 percent by year 2035.
 Corresponding to an emission level of 110,000 tons.

27.  The integrated light rail solution would reduce NOx by an
additional 12 percent to about 250 tons in 2035.
 One light rail carriage is equivalent to 40 cars and two
buses.

28. PROPERTY VALUE WILL RISE
 The study shows that property values will rise in areas
that are within walking distance of the light rail system
 The price increase is expected to occur in 800 meter
buffer zone along the planned light rail lines.
 The value estimated would rise about 480 to 850 million
euros in 2035.

30. ROUTE MAP