Tartu comprehensive plan 2040+·Emajõgi walking and cycling bridges

Where should Tartu build its next walking and cycling bridge over the Emajõgi?

Report: Karlova sample journeys and detailed northwest analysis →

Five comprehensive-plan locations, each on its own

Bridge location	Gain	Usage	Saving per bridge user	After Tuglase

Entire urban stretch of the Emajõgi, every 100 m

Each bar is an automatically generated bridge at that river location, added to today’s network. Its height shows the gain in accessibility to everyday destinations across the city’s population.

All screening locations as a table

km	Walking %	Cycling %	Status

Costs and constraints

Two separate impact analyses

One, the other, or both

Indicator	T = Tuglase · M = Marja · TM = both

Added value of the second bridge

The share of the combined impact added when the second bridge is built after the first.

Sample journeys

Journey times and routes for eight address pairs today, with Tuglase, with Marja and with both bridges are on the .

Sensitivity

Sample journeys (minutes)

Hover over a row to see routes on the map. The dashed line shows today’s fastest route. Click to pin the selection and zoom to the journey; hover over a time column to highlight that alternative.

Karlova/Rebase ↔ Annelinn and Ihaste

Current = fastest route in today’s network. Sõpruse and Ihaste columns show routes via that specific bridge. With Rebase = fastest route after adding the new bridge; if no time is saved, the existing bridge remains in use.

Journey	Current	Sõpruse via	Ihaste via	Rebase with bridge	Saving min

Eight destination pairs recalculated on the OSM network, dated 2 October 2026. Walking 4.8 km/h; cycling 10–16 km/h by road type and 14 km/h on the new bridge. The Rebase alignment comes from citywide screening; bank connectors are hypothetical, with a 15% travel-time allowance on the bridge and connectors. Times are between network nodes; building access time and gradients are excluded. CSV · XLSX.

Northwest examples: Tuglase and Marja

Journey	Current	T	M	TM

Eight address pairs from the original Overture screening. Times are between network nodes; building access segments (median ~20 m) are excluded and identical across scenarios. Green times are shorter than today. Identical routes are drawn only once on the map.