TRACC TRansport ACCessibility at Regional/Local Scale

and Patterns in Europe

ESPON 2013 Programme - Open SeminarEuropean Territorial Evidence-for

EU Cohesion Policy and Programming

13-14 June 2012Aalborg, Denmark

TPG

1. Spiekermann & Wegener, Urban and Regional Research (S&W), Dortmund, Germany (Lead Partner)

2. Charles University in Prague, Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Prague, Czech Republic

3. RRG Spatial Planning and Geoinformation, Oldenburg, Germany

4. Mcrit, Barcelona, Spain

5. University of Oulu, Department of Geography, Oulu, Finland

6. TRT Trasporti e Territorio, Milan, Italy

7. S. Leszczycki Institute of Geography and Spatial Organisation - Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

Main objectives

• to take up and update the results of existing studies on accessibility at the European scale using most recent available network and socio-economic data,

• to extend the range of accessibility indicators by further indicators responding to new policy questions and further developing the quality and validity of the existing indicators,

• to extend the spatial resolution of accessibility indicators by calculating, besides European accessibility, also global and regional accessibility,

• to explore the likely impacts of available policies at the European and national scale to improve global, European and regional accessibility in the light of new challenges, such as globalisation, energy scarcity and climate change.

TRACC and CSF Objective 7 key actions

• Core TEN-T infrastructure covering road, rail and sea transport, as well as multimodal and interoperable modes

• Core TEN-T railway infrastructure, secondary connectivity, upgrading of dense railway networks, improve interoperability

• Innovative road pricing

• Integrated, sustainable and accessible urban mobility concepts

TRACC Accessibility indicators

TRACC Regional case studies

TRACC impacts of policy scenario

s

TRACC set of accessibility indicators

Spatial Context

Basic characteristics

Generic type of accessibility indicator

Travel cost Cumulated opportunities

Potential

Global Travel Access to global cities

Global travel connectivity

Global potential accessibility travel

Freight Access to global freight hubs

Global freight connectivity

Global potential accessibility freight

Europe Travel (traditional)

Access to top ten MEGAs

European daily accessibility travel

European potential accessibility travel

Travel (new)

Travel speed Urban connectivity European potential acc. intermodal travel

Freight Access to nearest maritime ports

European daily accessibility freight

European potential accessibility freight

Regional Travel (Europe-wide)

Access to high-level transport infrastructure

Availability of urban functions

National potential accessibility travell

Freight (Europe-wide)

Access to freight terminals

Availability of freight terminals

National potential accessibility freight

Travel (case studies, tradit.)

Access to regional centres

Daily accessibility of jobs

Regional potential accessibility

Travel (case studies, to SIG)

Access tohealth care facilities

Availability of secondary schools

Potential accessibility to basic health care

Travel time to New York

intermodal

DRAFT

Generalised freight costs to Shanghai,

intermodal, maritime

DRAFT

European potential

accessibiity intermodal

DRAFT

Minimum intermodal

costs to nearest

maritime port (> 4 mio. t

handled)

DRAFT

DRAFT

European daily

accessibility, GDP

reachable within

allowed lorry driving time

DRAFT

Urban connectivity

road

TRACCRegional

case studies

Potential accessibility

by car (Poland

case study)

DRAFT

Jobs available within 60 minutes

car travel

time(Czech

case study)

DRAFT

Jobs available within 60 minutes

public transport

travel time

(Czech case

study)

DRAFT

Accessibility potential to

medical doctors

(Finland case study)

DRAFT

Car travel

time to nearest hospital

(EURAM case

study)

Accessibility scenarios

• What are the effects of the new proposal of the European Commission for Trans-European Transport Networks on accessibility?

• Effects on Europe-wide accessibility pattern

• Effects on regional accessibility pattern

Proposed core network

Impact analysis and scenarios

• Analysis of the relationship between accessibility and economic development and environmental indicators over time.

• Consistent set of long-term scenarios of European transport.

• Likely spatial impacts of European transport scenarios up to the year 2030 (regional accessibility, regional economic development, territorial cohesion, polycentricity, environmental impacts).

Relative GDP effects (%) Absolute GDP effects (€)

Outlook on possible TEN-T impacts