The Dutch city of Rotterdam has plans to concentrate new houses, offices, shops and urban entertainment in the inner city. The number of inhabitants and employees in the inner city will raise by 40% in a period of 10-15 years. A study has been carried out to make clear the effects of these plans on the transport system in Rotterdam and the car accessibility of the inner city. This paper describes firstly the transport models that have been used and the input for these models. As a result of the study, the transport market in the future and effects of measures reducing car traffic are presented. Also, a base scenario with no new transport policy measures and two scenarios including new policy measures are described and the results of the scenarios are presented. The paper concludes that a policy, based on reducing the growth of car traffic by raising car parking fees and extending the area with parking fees in combination with improving park and ride and public transport, is essential to keep the inner city accessible. In this situation, not all problems will be solved on the main car infrastructure to the centre. On some parts of these roads traffic demand management (TDM) measures or extending the road capacity by new infrastructure will be necessary. Types of measures and location will be studied in the near future. (A) For the covering abstract of the conference see ITRD E206647.
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