This research project is part of a more general reflection on the relation between land and urban development and mobility, particularly in view of reducing greenhouse gas emission.

On the basis of a typology of railway stations, including how many people actually use them and where they are located (major urban stations, smaller urban stations, rural stations), we defined guidelines for a new planning not just of the station itself but of the whole area around it. We discuss the stations in terms of their centrality and their function as intermodal hubs, as well as in relation to what places travellers come from or go to.

- Reference to general literature on mobility and more specialised literature on railway stations.
- Survey of flows in major Walloon railway stations.
- Drafting a typology of Walloon stations based on how many people actually use them and where they are located.
- Proposing global development strategies and patterns depending on what kind of station is concerned.

It is advisable:
- to concentrate flows of transports and slow modes in the vicinity of urban railway stations;
- to further tertiary activities – services, shopping and public facilities;
- to develop residential areas in the vicinity of both rural and urban stations by using all available land including abandoned factories and building sites;
- to see a station as a bridge between the centre and surrounding areas, and as a facility used both by local people and train or public transport users.;
- to carefully plan public areas and reconnect the urban network.

Conférence Permanente du Développement Territorial (CPDT), Région Wallonne
Belgium
http://cpdt.wallonie.be/
Mr. Yves Hanin (CPDT – UCL – CREAT) (Professeur chez CPDT – UCL – CREAT)), tel. +32 10 47.24.21

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/09/2005

Véronique Clette, Amélie Daems, Thomas Dawance, Martin Grandjean, Yves Hanin, Véronique Rousseaux

research

Urban Policy > Urban environment

Land use