An Urbanism oriented towards rail in Germany and France: selected findings of the Bahn.Ville project

An Urbanism oriented towards rail in Germany and France: selected findings of the Bahn.Ville project

[SHS:ARCHI] Humanities and Social Sciences/Architecture, space management

transit-oriented development

regional planning instruments

local neighbourhood mobility

processes of implementation

Transit oriented development has become in the recent years a topic of high interest both for researchers and for practitioners. The French-German project Bahn.Ville 2 has the objective of testing the principles of an urbanism orientated towards rail by implementation on two regional railway lines (St. Etienne – Firminy, Lyon metropolitan region as well as Taunusbahn, Frankfurt/Rhein-Main region). This paper is presenting selected results on - innovations in regional planning instruments in France (Schéma de Cohérence Territorial) and Germany (Regionaler Flächennutzungsplan) and their respective for a better integration of land-use and transport, - specific observations on neighborhood mobility in the station surrounding and propositions for high quality walking environments as well as - the potential of an observation tool designed to support public intervention on land-use and transport around stations. The results constitute three original contributions of the Bahn.Ville 2 project in the sense of the support sustainable mobility by an urbanism orientated towards rail.

L'Hostis, Alain

Wulfhorst, Gebhard

Morkisz, Sabina

Pretsch, Hélène

Stransky, Vaclav

Leysens, Thomas

World Conference on Transport Research

2010

ENG

preprint

http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00458976

http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/45/89/76/PDF/Bahnville_WCTR_2010-02-07.pdf

Lisbon

Portugal