The overall traffic development across Öresund
The opening of The Øresund Bridge in July 2000 has resulted in an explosive increase in traffic across Öresund. Between 1995 and 1999 traffic increased by about 10 percent per year. Traffic soared by 43 percent and over the past year traffic across the entire Öresund rose by 13 percent. Traffic across The Øresund Bridge increased by 17 percent in 2007 while traffic between Helsingør and Helsingborg increased by 3 percent.
During the 1990s some 2 to 3 million vehicles crossed Öresund. In 2007 the corresponding figure was 9.2 million vehicles and 35.5 million travelers crossed Öresund by car, train or ferry. Passenger cars make up the main part, 91 percent, of all traffic across Öresund, while truck traffic comprises 8 percent and bus traffic 1 percent.
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73 percent of all road traffic across Öresund is via The Øresund Bridge. 76 percent of passenger car traffic is across the Øresund Bridge, while more than half (55 percent) of truck traffic is via the ferries between Helsingør and Helsingborg. 69 percent of all persons travelling over Öresund do so via The Øresund Bridge, either by car or by train.
Train traffic
In 2007 some 9.7 million train passengers crossed Öresund - an increase of 25 percent compared to 2006. Four of five train passengers live in Sweden and one of five in Denmark. The Öresund train serves mainly as a local means of transport in the region since 90 percent of the train journeys are regional.
Around six out of ten train passengers commute to their studies or to work, and this commuter traffic is the driving force of growth in train traffic. Leisure traffic comprises the greater part of the remaining 40 percent of train travel, while business and holiday travel make up a smaller part.
Car traffic
In 2007 passenger car traffic increased by 18 percent. The reason for this significant increase is primarily the regional development in the Öresund region; many Danes have moved to Skåne and many from Skåne have received employment in Copenhagen and the surrounding area.
• Commuter traffic comprised 35 percent of passenger car traffic in 2007, and is clearly the fastest growing traffic segment, rising 42 percent per year. The increased commuter traffic is a reflection of the more integrated labour and housing markets that are arising around Öresund.
• The regional business traffic comprises somewhat less than one fourth of passenger car traffic on the bridge and has increased by 8 percent in 2007. The increase is due to companies beginning to take advantage of the potential of the Öresund region, by for instance setting up offices and departments on either the Danish or the Swedish side of Öresund. Products and services are also sold across Öresund to an ever-increasing degree.
• Holiday and leisure traffic accounts for the remaining 42 percent of passenger car traffic on The Øresund Bridge.
- Purpose of travel with passenger car accross the Øresund Bridge
Source: The Øresund Bridge
Starting point and destination for traffic over the Øresund Bridge
The regional traffic accross the Øresund Bridge between the Danish and the Swedish part of the Öresund region comprises 73 percent of all passenger car traffic. International traffic across over The Øresund Bridge which neither starts nor ends within the Öresund region only makes up 7 percent of passenger car traffic on the bridge. The distribution of travellers from Denmark and Sweden respectively depends on the purpose of the trip. Nine out of ten commuters live in Sweden and seven out of ten leisure and business travellers are Swedes. The Danish travellers are only in majority regarding holiday traffic, with 45 percent compared to 35 percent of Swedish travellers.
- Travel flows for passenger car traffic accross the Øresund Bridge 2007
Footnote: The data is from questionnaire surveys and can therefore be combined by statistical uncertainty. Source: The Øresund Bridge
