Sustainable and efficient urban transport interchanges
Ideally, urban networks should allow for the seamless use of different means of transport. However, many of today's urban interchanges are not optimised enough, thus failing to meet the needs and demands of modern commuters, especially women, the elderly and persons with disabilities. To achieve seamless transfer for improving public transport use, the EU-funded CITY-HUB (City-Hub) project set out to create solutions to deploy, manage and operate urban interchanges. The project followed a dynamic process to intensify the main actors and factors for efficient interchanges. It involved the expertise of almost 100 stakeholders, interviews with practitioners, surveys to users and data collected at 27 selected case studies across Europe. Focus was placed on the design of an integrated model that takes into account all aspects of an urban interchange while addressing the needs of commuters. It proposes novel tools and provides guidelines to support stakeholders in improving urban interchanges. The model considers key issues within a life-cycle approach concerning governance, services and users, for different typologies of interchanges. By addressing challenges through guidance and recommendations, CITY-HUB contributed to smarter, cleaner, safer and more integrated urban interchanges. The main City-HUB project outputs have been compiled in the book entitled City-HUBs: Sustainable and Efficient Interchanges in order to make them available to a wider audience.
Keywords
Public transport systems, urban transport interchanges, means of transport, seamless mobility, business model, transfer
