To meet the Paris Agreement, the Swedish Parliament has decided on interim targets for reducing Sweden’s climate impact. By 2045 at the latest, Sweden should have no net emissions of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and, after that, achieve negative emissions. Negative emissions mean that emissions are less than zero, reducing the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. This is Sweden’s long-term climate goal, which is part of the climate policy framework.

In Sweden, Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs) are essentially the same strategies resulting from the Transport for an Attractive City (TRAST) handbook published by Trafikverket. TRAST has supporting materials designed to help local authorities in their planning work in creating sustainable transport strategies, plans and programmes. The transport strategy is at the heart of TRAST and can be considered equivalent to a SUMP. The first edition of TRAST was published in 2005; the third (and most recent) in June 2015. TRAST evolved from other planning initiatives, including the Environmentally Adapted Transport System (MaTS) concept, showing a sustainable urban mobility planning tradition stretching back approximately 20 years.

In the practice of strategic planning in many Swedish cities, a high degree of integration and interconnection between various strategic documents can be observed. Specific programs developed with a precise time horizon fit within the framework of higher-level documents, and monitoring systems are well-integrated.