Description succincte
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The research project identifies indirect effects of transport/mobility policy and infrastructures on spatial structures, the economic performance (competitiveness), and the society (social cohesion) in urban regions, assuming that the concept of accessibility and the role of governance/actors are central to the functioning of social and economic structures.
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Partenaires et organisations internationales
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AT, BE, CH, DE, DK, ES, FI, GR, IT, MT, Nl, NO, SI, SK, TR, UK
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Résumé des résultats (Abstract)
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Questions of mobility and transport have become increasingly important in debates over ur-ban competitiveness and cohesion. This project is a thorough evaluation of transport policy adoption and implementation in terms of governance arrangements and practices in the Zurich metropolitan area. The evaluation is meant to address the impact of transport policy in terms of both competitiveness and cohesion for the region, transport being a pilot area of public urban policy to be conceived and evaluated through a multi-level governance lens and, eventually, leading to a win-win situation. So far, overall benefits of transport have hardly been analysed in Swiss urban regions, although there is clearly a wide range of external so-cio-economic benefits (besides internal benefits for operators and users). From the mid-1990s onward, Swiss urban policy has shifted from relatively rigid procedural norms to new types of governance. It is assumed that transport policy has a pilot function within this con-text: success (or failure) of this new urban policy will be evaluated in social, economic, and political terms. The aim of this project was to show the actual impact (including economic, so-cial, and political effects) of the Zurich mobility and agglomeration strategy. The proposed methodology will offer answers to the following policy- and planning-related question: How can urban governance in transport policy and other policy fields best pursue economic competitiveness while reconciling it with the goal of social cohesion? (1) The benefits of mobility in general and transport infrastructure in particular represent an important issue in the political debate in many European countries. It is presented as an argument in a context of infrastructure extension, pricing of transport, environmental policy, and regional competitiveness. Within many research projects, however, it was stated that it is essential to distinguish between benefits from the infrastructure and benefits deriving from transport as such. (2) What is governance in this context? And why have these initiatives given birth to a series of cantonal and regional programmes and meas-ures to improve social and technical infrastructure in cities, and to increasingly involve them in the formulation of federal and cantonal policies that affect them? It is assumed that transport policy does have a pilot function: success (or failure) of this new urban policy will be evaluated in social, economic, and political terms.
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