The spatial organisation of activities like housing, working, recreating and the use of the different provisions has a great influence on the demand of traffic and transport. Especially in the long term a policy aimed at the available space can have this influence on the realisation of the objectives of a traffic and transport policy. Locations near railway stations are main starting points for the existing policy, but good nearby building locations are at a premium to get connections with public transport and do not fit always to the daily activity patterns of the urban people, which are more and more distributed over several urban areas. In this report the national policy for traffic and transport after the year 2005 is calibrated again. Developed ideas and new judgments are tested on their usefullness by a quantitative analysis and an evaluation of the effects of some concepts of urbanisation for the different aims of accessibility, liveability and payability, in the central part of Holland, called the Randstad.
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