Planning helps the Finnish Transport Agency come up with solutions, which promote effective and safe travel and transport chains as well as an efficient transport system while considering environmental aspects. Effective travel and transport are achieved by means of collaboration between the different transport modes.
The most important highway and railway sections, complemented by the central ports and air ports, form the basis for the planning of the nationwide transport system.
The transport system work is a prerequisite for land use planning. At the same time long-term development and efficient use of the economic resources regarding the trunk network of land transport is secured.
The Finnish Transport Agency and the Centres for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment (ELY centres) participate in the transport system work, including e.g. the drawing up of plans, letters of intent and the follow-up, regarding both the provinces and the urban regions.
New aspects to the work include the planning and arranging of public transport, developing of the mobility control as well as letters of intent between state and municipalities regarding land use, living and transport.
Combining land use and transport is important in regions where the land use is developing rapidly. Important objectives are a sustainable community structure and competitive public transport.
