Accessibility for commuter traffic, whose responsibility ? : Towards a ‘sharing problems and responsibility’ policy. In the former traffic and transportation policy in the Netherlands a policy called ‘ABC allocation policy’ applied. Business and industrial premises were, depending on their activities, allocated to a type of a location accompanied by strict parking norms. These measurements should regulate commuter traffic. However, this policy failed at some points. Reasons for this are: the lack of alternative travel modes for cars (no ‘pull’, just ‘push’ measurements), competition between local governments, too strict parking norms, and the lack of co-operation between private and public parties and amongst public parties. A lot of stakeholders are dealing with the accessibility issue in commuter traffic, as well in interests in a good accessibility as in causing a bad accessibility. Therefore, parties should acknowledge that commuter traffic accessibility is a shared problem of private enterprises, government and citizens. That’s why we suppose a ‘responsibility policy’. In ‘responsibility policy’ the strict parking norms are left and private parties are more or less responsible for the problems they cause. Public and private parties should co-operate and share responsibilities on a regional scale in the approach of (in-) accessibility. (Author/publisher)
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