Traffic and mobility management
Description
Traffic and Mobility Management
A question of direction?
The meeting will be introduced by Ir. Roel Bouman, policy coordinator of the Rotterdam City Region.
Accessibility remains in the news. The administrative drive to find solutions is strong. Expanding infrastructure is expensive, complicated and takes a long time. So for the short term, utilising existing networks is much more important. Utilisation is the magic word and in conjunction with it: cooperation and direction.
Since 2000, the Brinkman, Blankert and Luteijn commissions have successively looked at the A4 as a transit corridor and as a mobility market. This has led to wider awareness of two facts. First, that you cannot isolate a road from the connected network; so cooperation is needed. Second, that traffic on national roads is predominantly regional traffic and needs to be addressed at that scale level. The latter Luteijn committee formulated an approach for cooperation between governments and industry. This has now been experienced in Haaglanden and Rotterdam for several years with SWINGH and Nexus. Has that worked? What can we learn from it?
In Rotterdam, Nexus picked up the subject of dynamic traffic management, among others. How can we make the road network flow better by informing and guiding traffic. What do you need and who do you need for this? Again, this is not just about technology, but again an issue of organisation and direction. "Can I put your traffic light on red tomorrow?"
Utilisation is not just about managing supply, it is also about managing demand. A few per cent of motorists out of rush hour and congestion becomes manageable. Can't we bring supply and demand management into one? That is the task of a traffic company that Rijkswaterstaat, the Port Authority, Rotterdam municipality and the city region want to set up to open up the port of Rotterdam. A special experiment?
Things are not getting any clearer: The Council for Transport and Public Works recommends establishing regional road authorities, the Randstad is looking into a public transport authority. SWINGH and Nexus have merged in the South Wing to form Bereik! Not to mention public-private partnerships being talked about.
Weren't city regions once conceived to tackle regional accessibility problems? Ir. Bouman will try to guide you through this world of shifting panels. Fortunately, he will not just talk about organisation, but mainly about improving accessibility. "That's what we do it for, right?"
Location
KIVI NIRIA building, Great Hall,
Prinsessegracht 23, The Hague
Organiser
Technology, Society & Economics
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