Strategies and Measures of Transport Policy: Case Study Vienna

STRATEGIES AND
MEASURES OF
TRANSPORT POLICY:
CASE STUDY VIENNA
Submitted By:
Aditya Karan
TP/561
INTRODUCTION
Vienna is the capital and the largest city of Austria.
Vienna is Austrias Primary City with a population of 1.8
million.
Vienna has an extensive transportation network with a unified
fare system that integrates municipal, regional and railway
systems under the umbrella of the Verkehrsverbund Ost-
Region (VOR).
Public
transport is provided by buses, trams and 5
underground metro lines (U-Bahn), most operated by the
Wiener Linien.
Thecity forms the hub of the Austrian railway system, with
services to all parts of the country and abroad. The railway
system connects Vienna with other European cities, like
Munich, Venice, Budapest, Prague, Bratislava and Zric
INTRODUCTION
The
transport master plan of Vienna defines the need of
mobility as intelligent mobility and promotes smart
moves and following strategies can be derived:
Traffic
reduction: Mobility- reducing urban development
helps in reducing the trips and their length by promoting local
shopping or allowing work and housing in close proximity
Traffic
redistribution: Main objective of the policy is to shift
attention from motorised individual traffic to public transport
Focus
is on reduction of modal share of private car traffic to
25% by 2020
Increasing of PT share to 40% by 2020
Keeping the share of trips undertaken on foot at the current
high level of 27 % until 2020.
Strategies:
Ensuring the quality of life:
The ambitious objective of rendering the effects of mobility, as
environmentally friendly as possible, is inspired by four very
solid reasons that impact the life quality of people in Vienna:
Better air Less noise

quality pollution
Quality
of Life
Public space High safety for

activities road users
Public Transport and NMT
In recent years, Vienna has already embarked on a promising
course due to the rising share of environmentally friendly
transport modes
There has been a decrease of modal share of passenger cars
reducing from 40% to 32% in 1993 to 2007 and at the same
time people use public transport and NMT for travelling.
Intransport plan 2003, the city of
Vienna pledged to increase the
density of its public transport
network.
By2010 U2 underground extension
had attained 75 km and 100 stations
By2019 u2 line will extend to north
and south meeting the extension of
U1 line .
At the same time, regional train
stations (Schnellbahn) are
continuously modernising, e.g.
Traisengasse or Praterstern. As a
result, the Schnellbahn has become
an attractive urban transport mode
and a comfortable alternative to the
car for commuters from Viennas
environs.
The time-tried tram trolleys which is one of the main transport modes
is being modernised and transformed into a trendy means of
transport.
Thecity of Vienna for promoting trams has introduced many lines as a
part of the last mile connectivity connecting to the underground
network
Asa part of NMT, bikes are welcome in the city of Vienna, in 10 years
from 1997 to 2007 the bikeway network increased from 652km to
1090km
The share of bikes has increased to 8% in 2015 from 5% in 2007
The average cyclists have increased to 9,156 in 2007 from 7,515 in
2002 on workdays and an increase of 1,800 cyclists on public holidays
in the same duration
Tosafeguard the interests of people here so that more inhabitants of
Vienna can travel safely by bike, the city has been continuously
upgrading its bikeways
Inaddition to building bikeways and bike routes, Vienna. is also
interested in providing an even greater number of bike parking racks.
Tosupport e.g. building owners and the business community in
offering more bike parking space, the installation of racks, bike boxes
or other bike parking facilities is subsidised with up to 350.
Inthe next few years, special attention is to be paid on shopping
traffic by bike
The city of Vienna is designed aiming at a walk friendly environment.
Strategieslike lowering of curbs so that the wheelchair users can
cross the streets easily.
Right of way has been redesigned so as to make the sidewalks at
least two meters wide.
Thetraffic lights are phased as pedestrian friendly, decreasing the
waiting time less than 40 seconds until the next green signal.
Addressingthe weaker road users, equitable road space, will be
coming to fore in the coming years.
Insteadof individual designation and bifurcation of lanes for cyclists,
car drivers, pedestrians and public transport, co-existence to be
focused upon.
Passenger Cars
Thepark-and-ride concept is implemented to reduce the avalanche of
cars entering the city centre, facilities are created where commuters
can switch to public transport to enter the city.
Incoming years, a co-operation with the Federal Province of Lower
Austria will lead to the construction of additional park-and-ride
facilities near regional train stations in municipalities adjoining
Vienna.
Around1,800 new parking slots in Viennese park-and-ride facilities
were planned for 2009.
Thecitys specific bottleneck was not congestion but the limited
parking space is being tackled by space management and urban
planning. The average parking duration has decreased markedly,
which above all eases business and shopping traffic.
In
conjunction with other measures, parking space management
moreover reduces passenger car traffic.
Environment and Traffic safety
Noiseabatement measures conducted in recent years have already
resulted in successful endeavours.
Whileapprox. 72 % of the Viennese citizens felt that traffic noise was a
disturbance in 1998, the said population decreased to slightly under 67
% in 2006.
Introducing
more clean and green modes will help in achieving the
ambitious objectives of Viennas climate protection programme.
Viennaslong-term goal is Vision Zero a vision that aims for an
ethical approach to traffic without fatal accidents
Over the past 25 years, the number of persons injured or killed in road
traffic has decreased remarkably.
Despite this, Vienna has reinforced its efforts to continuously improve
the situation: in the future, the technical surveillance of speed limits
and red light crossings is to be further stepped up and more studies are
to be done to improve the safety of weaker road users which include
pedestrians and cyclists.
Environment and Traffic safety
Development of CO2
Emissions
Reduction of fatalities
from 1993 to 2007
Introduction Of Smart mobility
ITSVienna region is a route planner which searches using
combination of different transport modes- public, car, bike or walk. It
is advantageous in comparison to the conventional planners as it
gives real time information to the users updated to show the current
traffic conditions, delays.
This
route planner indicates and combines different modes informing
about real time parking lot availabilities and park and ride facilities.
As of may 2009 it has been implemented in Vienna and lower Austria
Thereis an application and a website for searching fast and safe bike
routes , bike parking sites and city bike stations which has been
implemented since 2006
To
render car use in Vienna in a more environmentally friendly
manner, the city supports car sharing and pools e.g. the project
compano, a car ride exchange ties in smoothly with the transport
policy of the city.

Strategies and Measures of Transport Policy: Case Study Vienna

Uploaded by

Copyright:

Available Formats

Strategies and Measures of Transport Policy: Case Study Vienna

Uploaded by

Document Information

Original Description:

Original Title

Copyright

Available Formats

Share this document

Share or Embed Document

Sharing Options

Did you find this document useful?

Is this content inappropriate?

Copyright:

Available Formats

Strategies and Measures of Transport Policy: Case Study Vienna

Uploaded by

Copyright:

Available Formats

STRATEGIES AND

Better air Less noise

Public space High safety for

You might also like