TRANSFORMES is a research project funded by the European Commission as a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship. It is conducted at INSA de Strasbourg (university) and at ADEUS (regional planning agency) until the end of 2005 and accompanied by an advisory board of local and European experts. There is a project website on www.insastrasbourg. fr/transformes. The project is based on existing studies like a project on the interaction between transport nodes and urban sites, a thesis work on station development and the French- German project Bahn.Ville (www.bahn-ville.net). The objectives of the project are to develop a regional strategy of integrated land-use and transport development for the Strasbourg region and to assess actual planning processes and local projects. A reference model has been deducted from scientific knowledge and by best-practice analysis of other European regions like Zuid-Holland, Freiburg, Basel, Montpellier, Barcelona or Chicago. Its elements can be regarded as a general orientation and evaluation grid. Important aspects are the integration issues between different disciplines, spatial levels, organisational structures and an adapted methodological framework. In the Strasbourg region, main challenges concerning the integration of land-use and transport are to increase performance of the regional public transport network as well as to improve the hierarchy, diversity and multi-polarity of urban structures. On the process level it seems to be necessary to enlarge the spatial vision from a local point of view to the European region. A strategic planning document is worked out exemplarily for the urban region of Strasbourg focussing on urban development at inter-modal transport nodes. Concepts and measures are defined on a framework scale for prospective development. Territorial interactions are summed up in a network analysis including both a typology of transport nodes and a specification of urban dynamics. Orientations are established regarding structure and processes issues at the levels of the central agglomeration (Strasbourg-Kehl), of the urban region with (secondary) poles (about 1 Mio. inhabitants in a 30 km radius) and of the metropolitan network (Upper Rhine Valley from Mannheim/Karlsruhe to Basel). The regional strategy is the basis for implementing and testing measures and strategies in local planning processes. Urban and transport planning projects worked out at ADEUS give the opportunity to join, contribute to and observe a choice of these processes. Specific sites/projects represent demonstrators for local evaluation of the regional strategy. Effects of urban and transport project planning on regional sustainability will be estimated. Specific projects for assessing planning principles by experimental implementation are: the East-West development axis crossing the border from Strasbourg to Kehl; the urban requalification of the central part of the motorway A 35;the interconnection of high-speed railways and the articulation between the stations of Strasbourg and Offenburg; the transit-oriented development of urban centres on the regional railway axis. For the covering abstract please see ITRD E135207.
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