The Mobile City: The Planning and Design of the Network City from a Mobility Point of View

Thinking about the future of cities and their level of mobility, the field of spatial planning is confronted with the notion of a city that has changed quite a lot over the last decades and centuries. In this thesis on the Network City, the author stresses that the multimodal and hierarchical infrastructure network has to accommodate the movements of personal transport. The author holds the view that this vitality is endangered most by the space consumption of infrastructure and vehicles; the decrease of the accessibility of urban areas; and the absence of coherence between the hierarchical levels in the urban web. After an introduction, the author discusses these issues in nine sections: sustainable transport and passenger chain mobility, activity-travel behavior theory, action space, the Network City and its planning, the city and region of Maastricht (Netherlands), collective demand-responsive transport and the activity-travel behavior of older adults, location of transfer points, the design workshop, and the conditions required for the planning and design of the Network City. In the Network City, supported by high-tech information and communication technologies, the traveler can compose and direct his own trips by combining several separate transport modes within one trip. The traveler may also order a multimodal door-to-door trip. In this concept a chain conductor would be responsible for the perfect connection between trains, buses, taxis, automated guided vehicles; this is known as demand-responsive multimodal transport. The author concludes that the location of transfer points within the Network City is one of the key success factors for multimodal transport. This, together with the architectural lay-out, the urban environment, and the transport function of transfer points, plays a crucial role in establishing the desired hierarchy and structure of a transport system of the Network City.

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• Authors:
  • Rooij, Remon M
• Publication Date: 2005

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Edition: TRAIL Thesis Series T2005/1
• Features: Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 314p
• Serial:
  • TRAIL Thesis Series
  • Publisher: Netherlands TRAIL Research School

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: City planning; Infrastructure; Multimodal transportation; Planning and design; Sustainable development; Transfer points; Transportation planning; Travel behavior
• Uncontrolled Terms: Network City
• Geographic Terms: Maastricht (Netherlands)
• Subject Areas: Finance; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society; I10: Economics and Administration; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01004111
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9055840637
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 26 2005 8:26AM