08.45 - 09.00: Introduction, Frank van der Hoeven
09.00 - 09.30: Stedenbaan, Joost Molenaar
09.30 - 10.00: Souterrain, Floris Alkemade
10.00 - 10.30: Break and video
10.30 - 11.00: 'Free' Public Transport,
Michel van Hulten
11.00 - 11.30: Connecting ELAT, Berry de Jong
Frank van der Hoeven
Scientific co-ordinator Connected Cities
Joost Molenaar
Province South Holland
The Province South Holland, as an emerging metropolitan urban area, is planning to concentrate its urban development in the stations areas of a new high quality public transport network: Stedenbaan. Joost Molenaar reports on these efforts to integrate sustainable mobility and urban development.
Floris Alkemade
Director Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA)
Professor Urban Design at U Gent
Underground stations seemed often an unavoidable menace until the Office for Metropolitan Architecture designed the Souterrain, the tram tunnel serving The Hague's RandstadRail. Floris Alkemade shows us that an underground space is just a good or bad as its design.
Producer: tvlink
Country of origine : Belgique
Genre : reportage
Length : 8'41''
Year : 2002
Synopsis: European towns are really suffering from the overwhelming presence of the motorcar. The European Union encourages towns to develop a mobility policy that respects both health and the environment. Ferrara, in the north of Italy, is a good example.
Michel van Hulten
Self employed adviser, trainer and author
Public transport should serve us all as horizontal elevators in the city according to Michel van Hulten. Recent examples throughout Belgium show that society as a whole can benefit from 'free public transport, transport paid by a third party.
Berry de Jong
SRE, Eindhoven Regional Government Administrative structure
Borders have still an impact on the way people live and work, even in the case of the Belgium - Dutch border. Internationalisation forces the Eindhoven to look over these relics from the past to seek new connections within the Eindhoven, Leuven and Aachen triangle (ELAT). Right in the middle of this triangle lies Hasselt. What a perfect hub to connect Eindhoven to the major cities and stations in Belgium Hasselt is! But Berry the Jong shows that the question if passengers between Eindhoven and Hasselt should be served by a Regiotram or a Phileas is still open for debate.
