Planning for nodes, places and people in Flanders and Brussels: Developing an empirical railway station assessment model for strategic decision-making
Against the backdrop of current policy discussions in Flanders dealing with differentiated urban development schemes for strategic railway stations, this paper develops an empirical railway station assessment tool. We build on the node-place modeling literature, and more specifically on the traditio...
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| author | Freke Caset Filipe Marques Teixeira Ben Derudder Kobe Boussauw Frank Witlox |
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| description | Against the backdrop of current policy discussions in Flanders dealing with differentiated urban development schemes for strategic railway stations, this paper develops an empirical railway station assessment tool. We build on the node-place modeling literature, and more specifically on the tradition of quantitative station assessment models which has emerged from it. First, a series of methodological contributions are proposed in which we suggest strategies to improve the analytical strength of some standard node-place parameters, we broaden the model with temporal variability in accessibility, and we complement the model with a user-based accessibility account. Second, the conceptual model is applied to the case of Flanders and Brussels (the north of Belgium). Drawing on factor and cluster analysis, two intelligible station typologies are produced for both node-place and user-based data. Both typologies are interpreted and complemented with station-specific rose diagrams summarizing a station’s accessibility profile. These diagrams reveal insightful and detailed knowledge about station-specific accessibility characteristics, some of which are not captured by standard node-place analyses. Lastly, a more in-depth discussion focusing on five exemplary cases reveals what the results of these analyses may mean for planning practice. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-22f5a4bac645469482c250dfd74927cc2025-08-20T01:51:00ZengUniversity of Minnesota Libraries PublishingJournal of Transport and Land Use1938-78492019-11-0112110.5198/jtlu.2019.1483Planning for nodes, places and people in Flanders and Brussels: Developing an empirical railway station assessment model for strategic decision-makingFreke Caset0Filipe Marques Teixeira1Ben DerudderKobe BoussauwFrank WitloxGhent University Vrije Universiteit BrusselGhent UniversityAgainst the backdrop of current policy discussions in Flanders dealing with differentiated urban development schemes for strategic railway stations, this paper develops an empirical railway station assessment tool. We build on the node-place modeling literature, and more specifically on the tradition of quantitative station assessment models which has emerged from it. First, a series of methodological contributions are proposed in which we suggest strategies to improve the analytical strength of some standard node-place parameters, we broaden the model with temporal variability in accessibility, and we complement the model with a user-based accessibility account. Second, the conceptual model is applied to the case of Flanders and Brussels (the north of Belgium). Drawing on factor and cluster analysis, two intelligible station typologies are produced for both node-place and user-based data. Both typologies are interpreted and complemented with station-specific rose diagrams summarizing a station’s accessibility profile. These diagrams reveal insightful and detailed knowledge about station-specific accessibility characteristics, some of which are not captured by standard node-place analyses. Lastly, a more in-depth discussion focusing on five exemplary cases reveals what the results of these analyses may mean for planning practice.https://www.jtlu.org/index.php/jtlu/article/view/1483Accessibilityrailway stationsnode-place modelintegrated planningplanning support toolFlanders |
| spellingShingle | Freke Caset Filipe Marques Teixeira Ben Derudder Kobe Boussauw Frank Witlox Planning for nodes, places and people in Flanders and Brussels: Developing an empirical railway station assessment model for strategic decision-making Journal of Transport and Land Use Accessibility railway stations node-place model integrated planning planning support tool Flanders |
| title | Planning for nodes, places and people in Flanders and Brussels: Developing an empirical railway station assessment model for strategic decision-making |
| title_full | Planning for nodes, places and people in Flanders and Brussels: Developing an empirical railway station assessment model for strategic decision-making |
| title_fullStr | Planning for nodes, places and people in Flanders and Brussels: Developing an empirical railway station assessment model for strategic decision-making |
| title_full_unstemmed | Planning for nodes, places and people in Flanders and Brussels: Developing an empirical railway station assessment model for strategic decision-making |
| title_short | Planning for nodes, places and people in Flanders and Brussels: Developing an empirical railway station assessment model for strategic decision-making |
| title_sort | planning for nodes places and people in flanders and brussels developing an empirical railway station assessment model for strategic decision making |
| topic | Accessibility railway stations node-place model integrated planning planning support tool Flanders |
| url | https://www.jtlu.org/index.php/jtlu/article/view/1483 |
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