High-quality public transport in Nijmegen

High-quality public transport in Nijmegen

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High standard public
transport in Nijmegen
The region
City region: 720,000
inhabitants
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Arnhem/Lingewaard/
Overbetuwe/Nijmegen:
394.000 inhabitants
Nijmegen: 160,000
inhabitants
95,000 jobs (15,000 of which
in the city centre)
Continuing urbanization
Increasing amount of traffic
jams
Optimizing accessibility
  New bridge over the river Waal
  Dynamic Traffic Management
  Selective extension of our network of roads
  Park and Ride
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  Focus on the use of bicycles: fast cycle tracks, parking
SLIM
  Operating room for Traffic Management (VMC)
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  …and: High standard public transport!
What is high standard public transport?
  Exclusive and uninterrupted
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tracks and trajectories
Large capacity
Reliable and trustworthy
Fast
Comfortable and attractive
Clean
Frequent
Accessible
High standard public transport: why?
  Reinforcing economical nodes (accessibility)
  Enabling developments in the field of town planning,
increasing the quality of public space
  Connecting the city centre to the northern part of the city
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(Nijmegen-Noord and ‘Waalsprong’)
  Offering sustainable public transport and positioning
Nijmegen as city of sustainability
  Creating an equivalent alternative for the use of cars as
means of tranportation
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High standard public transport: decision making
2006 - 2007
  Regional network: cooperative development
  3 Keizer -trajectories in Nijmegen
  Starting with line 1
2009
  Ordinance of the Nijmegen town council as to the
development of the high standard transport connection/axis
Bemmel – Heijendaal
  Cost calculation of: investment, exploitation, management
and maintenance
2010
  Project organisation for high standard public transport in
Nijmegen (june)
  Bill at the Dutch House of Commons as to
MIRT (december)
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High standard public transport Arnhem – Nijmegen
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Trajectory high standard public transport LINE 1
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Crossing borders!
High standard public transport: state of things
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2011
  Input for combined research by Sintropher: preference for a
regional tram system between Nijmegen and the German
town of Kleve (january)
  Dialogue with citizens and stakeholders (may-june)
  Research into the technical and transportational aspects
(november)
  Business case (november)
  Preferred scenario (december)
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Elst
Bemmel
High standard public
transport, prepared for
implementation of
trams
HOV Bus voorbereid
op tram
Bus: 2017
Ovatonde
Knoop Lent
HOV Bus vanaf 2017
Waalbrug
Tram:
2025
Tram
vanaf 2025
Traianusplein
Plein 44
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Beuningen
Nijmegen CS
Sintropher
Goffert
Heijendaal
Campus
Kleve
Tram/train:
Tram/trein
2017
2017
Future proof?
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