Mobility Management as service in urban areas. This paper deals with two ideas that can better the accessibility in a central urban area. The focus is not on measures where new infrastructure is created or on measures for better efficient utilization of the existing infrastructure, but on mobility management. Mobility management is not being treated as a push measure in order to annoy the driver or other citizens by raising parking fees or time period fees, etc. No, with mobility management the purpose is to let public transport companies, other businesses, municipalities and other providers of travel-, information-, luggage-, reservation- and other kind of mobility products and –services cooperate with each other in order to deliver the right size products for the individual visitors, workers and residents of the inner city. In that sense mobility management is nothing else then a way to let businesses and governments cooperate from an entrepreneurial point of view in order to work on accessibility products that a customer wants to use and buy. Perhaps this customer doesn’t want to pay for these products and services directly, but the costs can be included in tickets for theatre or museum, in drinks or in clothing for instance. Mobility management in that sense is meant to provide services to the customers of an inner city and is a challenge to create innovation and creativity or entrepreneurship. (Author/publisher)
Samenvatting