The "Transportation and mobility" incentive programme is designed to improve the scientific basis of our knowledge about transportation and encourage the progressive use of the know-how thus developed for resolving transport policy problems.
The programme is designed according to an integrated approach of problems linked to transportation and mobility, i.e.:
- a multimodal approach : complementarity and integration of the various modes of surface transportation (road, rail, waterways);
- a multi-criteria approach: taking socio-demographic, economic, technological, environmental, safety and other factors into account.
The programme aims for a maximum co-ordination over time and space between the various forms of public-private, individual-collective transportation and for their effective use, taking their environmental consequences into account.
This notably involves contributing to the solution of the growing problem of traffic saturation, in particular in major urban centres, by developing management models and simulating phenomena of traffic and mobility of persons and goods.
A complementary objective is the establishment of a platform for a more effective presence in the European research programmes (EURET, DRIVE2: Advanced Road Transportation Telematics, COST, EUREKA, etc).
The programme has 4 strands:
- logistical information system: inventory and evaluation of the existing statistical information and implementation of a relevant, coherent and accessible system of information exchange;
- modelling: development of a multimodal interregional model (MIM) and urban traffic models which capitalise on knowledge acquired elsewhere;
- forecasts: drafting of medium- and long-term development scenarios relating to spatial shifts, the impact of new technologies, and town and country planning;
- tools for assessing transport policies: development of decision-making assistance tools for evaluating investments, tax and rate policies, taking the social and environmental costs into account.
Within the framework of the programme, operational units are set up within the public administrations concerned by the objectives of the research which will participate in concretely implementing the programme together with the research teams.
TR/A1/001: Coordination of data exchange/logistics device
TR/A1/002: Information logistics device: Inventory
TR/A3/003: New transport survey
TR/A4/004: Documentation bank on regulations governing the road transport of goods and dangerous waste
TR/B1/005: Production and representation of the Multimodal Inter-regional model (MIM)
TR/B2/006: "Generation" and "Modal Split" development modules for goods transport in the Multimodal Inter-regional Model (MIM)
TR/B3/007: Development of generation modules and modal choices for the transport of persons
TR/B4/008: Distribution of road traffic
TR/B5/009: Distribution of rail transport
TR/B7/010: Modelling of inland waterway traffic on Belgium's navigable waterways
TR/B7/011: Urban behavioural models and analysis of modal choices in Belgium
TR/B7/012: A model for the routing of traffic in an urban environment
TR/B8/013: A model for the routing of traffic in an urban environment
TR/B8/014: "Generation" and "Modal Split" development modules for goods and services transport in the intra-urban region
TR/C0/022: Study of relations between planning and transport policy
TR/C1/015: Travel in Europe Travel in Belgium Impact of the computerisation of services on traffic
TR/C3/016: Congestion in large towns and the reorganisation of conglomerations (C3) Impact of the computerisation of industry and services on road traffic (C4b)
TR/C6/017: Evaluation of road and non-road investments
TR/C6/018: Evaluation of investments in road and other infrastructures
TR/C8/019: Proposed reform of urban transport charging systems
TR/C9/020: Evaluation instruments for an alternative road transport - Road transport taxation
TR/C9/021: Evaluation instruments for an alternative transport policy - Intra-urban and inter-regional prices policy
Présentation du programme et des projets (Transport et mobilité)
SSTC, 1997 (SP0502)
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Voorstelling van het programma en van de projecten (Transport en mobiliteit)
DWTC, 1997 (SP0503)
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