The future role of station communities is crucial for urban and regional development. A development of these communities can enable a transport-efficient urban planning, a sustainable economic development and an attractive region. Densifying station neighborhoods is a common challenge for many actors and stakeholders. Mistra Urban Futures are therefore along with several partners, Swedish Transport Administration is one of them, in the process of developing a project about urban station communities. The project will increase knowledge about the complexity in planning station near locations and create conditions for development of station communities. The project focuses on revitalizing and supporting municipalities regular planning processes to stimulate the building of an efficient transport region with attractive and dense station communities. Mistra Urban Futures think that the design of public transport nodes is an important parameter to increase travel by public transport and reduce emissions of carbon dioxide. The design of the station locations is a globally important issue and the project can bring important knowledge to the platforms in Mistra Urban Futures. The Swedish Transport Administration has funded the European research team YDF for the work of the "Low Carbon station for low carbon cities" - a research of station areas and how, through effective design and planning of flows for travel and transport can reduce carbon emissions. Purpose of the research has been to develop general recommendations that can be used in the design of the station areas and its flows. To get a basis for a generalizable knowledge with recommendations that can be used in all countries, has YDF examined and compared station areas design, features and capabilities in several continents cities. In Sweden has the station areas in Stockholm, Malmö and Gothenburg been examined. The first part of the project’s report contains general questions about the energy efficiency linked to the travel, transportation and design for sustainability in metropolitan regions from a station perspective. The project's second part of the report contains advice and recommendations on methods, the design of useful knowledge that are increasingly in demand. Anne Leemans , Secretary General of the Foundation YDF: “As citizens and design professionals we moreover feel we have an obligation to undertake what is within our power and capacity to help mitigate climate change. We started doing research from the perspective of passengers on the link between perceived security and design of urban public transport stations and developed a methodology to improve perceived security in and around stations. It has proved to be important not only to increase the number of passengers and users of the station but also to boost the turn-over of retailers in the station. How can we positively influence the attraction of public transport to passenger? How can we make sure more people trust public transport? The next question was, considering the need for accessible mobility is location and climate independant, how can we contribute to a better integration of stations in the urban tissue both in the global South and North.”