ØRESUND METRO COPENHAGEN MALMÖ Jarl Zinn City of Copenhagen Finance department ØRESUND METRO COPENHAGEN MALMÖ
Key points in the Øresund perspective The Øresund integration is decreasing after a growth period from 2000 – 2008 - the financial crises has stoped the integration. Danes are moving back to Copenhagen. The fixed link has up till today created positive value within the region: 7,6 billion Euro - mostly due to labor comuting across the sound. Growing population in the region and the main cities – Copehagen and Malmø possibilities for a more integrated labor marked need for more housing on both sides need for better infrastructure connecting the core cities
Growth in population
By 2025 there will be ca. 4 mio. Inhabitants in the Copenhagen – Malmo region
Infrastructure in the Øresund region
COPENHAGEN-MALMÖ IN 15 MINUTES COPENHAGEN-MALMÖ IN 15 MINUTES – DEPARTURE EVERY 5 MINUTES SWEDEN – DEPARTURE EVERY 5 MINUTES COPENHAGEN MALMÖ DENMARK
THE COMPETITIVE POSITION WILL BE STRENGTHENED 27% of Denmark and Swedens GDP is created within the Øresund Region % ANNUALY GROWTH (GDP 1995-2007) COPENHAGEN MALMÖ HELSINKI STOCKHOLM
COPENHAGEN AIRPORT WILL BE STRENGTHENED MIO. PASSENGERS RANKING OF AIRPORTS IN EUROPE
SUPPOSITION: Copenhagen and thereby strengthen the region’s SCANDINAVIA A RAPID AND HIGH-FREQUENT RAIL CONNECTION WOULD: 1] Increase the integration between Malmö and Copenhagen and thereby strengthen the region’s competitive position in Northern Europe 2] Provide an opportunity to use the existing connection to widen the airport’s catchment COPENHAGEN MALMÖ EUROPE WORLD
THE METRO CREATES FAST AND DIRECT CONNECTIONS TRAVELTIME WITH PUBLIC TRANSPORT Minutes from CPH airport ______________ THE METRO CREATES FAST AND DIRECT CONNECTIONS > 180 120 - 180 60 - 120 < 60 GOTHENBURG Could widen the airport’s catchment in Sweden and Jutland Especially Gothenburg is interesting COPENHAGEN MALMÖ CPH AIRPORT
CITIZENS IN MALMÖ AND COPENHAGEN INFRASTRUCTURE VITAL FOR GROWTH students inhabitants ØRESUND REGION 2012 ØRESUND REGION 2012 CITIZENS IN MALMÖ AND COPENHAGEN TOTAL inhabitants COPENHAGEN ØRESUND REGION 2025 MALMÖ
2020: THE ENTRANCE TO SCANDINAVIA-EUROPE SWEDEN Stockholm/ Oslo 2020: THE ENTRANCE TO SCANDINAVIA-EUROPE DENMARK COPENHAGEN 18 UNIVERSITIES MALMÖ 300.000 STUDENTS FEHMARN BELT LINK RØDBY PUTTGARDEN 8.300.000 INHABITANTS LÜBECK GERMANY HAMBURG
COMMUTE IN HALF THE TIME: DIRECTION ORESUND TRAIN METRO Malmö C – Copenhagen C 34 min. 15 min. COPENHAGEN MALMÖ
Possibillities We are investigating the possibilities of building a new metro line connecting Copenhagen and Malmø directly the ecomomic, cultural, labormarked etc. Effects the impact on the common infrastructure system how to build a metro line – tunnel or bridge