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Mobility within, towards, out of and around Brussels

Introduction

Road traffic in Brussels is growing denser and denser; the speed and regularity of public ground transport has regressed; plans to launch a bicycle sharing service, such as Paris's Vélib, are pedalling uphill, and delivering merchandise has become an ordeal.

Description

What is going on in Brussels? How can it be that, despite a quarter of its budget earmarked for mobility, the Region is incapable of doing better and has set a distant target (2020) for the objective to reduce automobile pressure by 20%?

How to make quality mobility available to all?
How to reduce the automobile's hold on public space?
How to make the future RER a true asset for mobility into and out of Brussels?
How to turn public transport stops into full-fledged urban spaces?
How to rethink the STIB/MIVB fare policy?
What about an urban distribution centre with electric vehicles?
What kind of financing for a "Marshall Plan" to develop a policy for sustainable mobility in Brussels?

Knowledge dissemination

Within the framework of the Citizens’ Forum of Brussels, Brussels Studies published this synopsis on mobility in Brussels. A conference debate was organised on January 12th, 2009. It was hosted at IHECS, in Brussels.

Conclusions

Several policy options are mentioned in the article:

establish a Mobility Observatory;
encourage locations that require less car travel;
eliminate motor transport for a maximum number of trips;
make the RER a true asset for mobility into and out of Brussels;
reduce the offer of road infrastructure in step with improvements in the alternative transport offer;
invest in the different forms of public transport, considering all the parameters and the overall urban system;
turn public transport stops into full-fledged urban spaces;
rethink the fare policy of the STIB/MIVB;
maintain the place of urban logistics and promote the use of vehicles that respect;
a Regional Transport Organising Authority integrated in an Urban Transport Communitythe environment;
get the concerned actors involved;
find an overall solution to the financing problem.

Contact info

Brussels Studies
Brussels
Belgium
info@brusselsstudies.be
www.brusselsstudies.be
Michel Hubert (Editor-in-Chief), tel. +32 02 211 78 53

Publication date

05/01/2009

Researcher

M. Hubert, F. Dobruszkes and C. Macharis

Links

Click here to visit the website of the Citizens' Forum of Brussels Click here to visit the website of Brussels Studies, the e-journal for academic research on Brussels

Download the article 'Mobility to and from, around and about Brussels' (PDF, Eng, 1.94 MB)

Document type

research

Themes

Urban Policy

Keywords

Transport and infrastructure