Construction traffic and the accessibility of the ‘Zuidas’: solutions for accessibility problems in Amsterdam. The Amsterdam ‘Zuidas’ will, in the short term, have to contend with accessibility problems. This results from the large amount of construction traffic involved in developing the area. These amounts will increase if the existing infrastructure package of car, train and subway will be constructed completely underground. In an accessibility analysis bottlenecks in the road network have been located on the basis of earlier inventoried scenarios. Main routes in the underlying road network of the ‘Zuidas’ including the junctions on the motorway ‘A10-Zuid’ will be faced with serious congestion in the near future. Various solutions have been inventoried and broadly judged, whereupon the attractive possibilities have been joined in solution packages. Out of the four initiatives, among which also a zero-plus, an infrastructural and a technological-innovative variant, it eventually appears that the ‘Men and Mobility’ alternative is preferred. The intention of the M&M alternative is a modal shift from car to bicycle and to Public Transport by improving alternatives (for car use) and better exploiting and pricing of the remaining motor traffic. Implementation of this alternative can be carried out best by entrusting a steering committee with tasks such as: controlling the quality of the travel alternatives, formulating a transport policy with companies, placing policy initiatives on the agenda and framing and controlling the information supply. (Author/publisher)
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