A new traffic model for the city of Leuven
TML supported the city of Leuven in drawing up the new mobility plan for Kessel-Lo, which was announced on April 20, 2022. TML provided Leuven with a detailed traffic model in which various measures were compared against each other. This helped on the one hand to limit possible unwanted side effects; and on the other hand to guarantee maximum effectiveness on the way to the intended goal: a liveable, safe, and smooth Kessel-Lo. More details about the mobility plan can be found at https://leuven.be/mobiliteit-kessel-lo.
The traffic model was developed by TML within the Horizon 2020 project MOMENTUM. The MOMENTUM project's core lies in the development of new techniques for data analysis, traffic models, and policy support tools that are able to estimate the impact of different transport modes on urban mobility. Tools that therefore help cities to develop policy measures to fully exploit the potential of mobility solutions, such as bike-sharing or car-sharing. The tools developed were tested by a number of case studies in four European cities that differ in size, morphology, environmental, socio-economic, cultural, and policy factors. Besides Leuven, it concerns Madrid, Regensburg, and Thessaloniki.
The traffic model uses a wide range of data sources: traffic indicators from the Flemish Traffic Center, Telraam data, OpenStreetMap, the General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) or public transport timetable with geographic information (as used by, for example, MIVB-STIB), information from the municipality and city monitor of the Flemish government, and the strategic traffic models. These data sources were combined for the traffic model. The result is an intricate network with information about traffic flows on all roads for the five most important modes (pedestrian, bicycle, car, freight traffic, and public transport) in which the underlying relationships can be visualised in a simple and accessible way. Understandable by a mobility officer, but also for other services and policy makers. The traffic model shows results in terms of origins and destinations, travel times, and choice of transport mode, among other things. All this has now formed the basis for the preparation of Kessel-Lo's new mobility plan.
The traffic model for Leuven and associated results from MOMENTUM were recently explained in a workshop, about which our colleagues from Telraam wrote a blog article.
Would you like to know more about MOMENTUM and the traffic model developed? Then contact our TML colleague Rodric Frederix.
The traffic model was developed by TML within the Horizon 2020 project MOMENTUM. The MOMENTUM project's core lies in the development of new techniques for data analysis, traffic models, and policy support tools that are able to estimate the impact of different transport modes on urban mobility. Tools that therefore help cities to develop policy measures to fully exploit the potential of mobility solutions, such as bike-sharing or car-sharing. The tools developed were tested by a number of case studies in four European cities that differ in size, morphology, environmental, socio-economic, cultural, and policy factors. Besides Leuven, it concerns Madrid, Regensburg, and Thessaloniki.
The traffic model uses a wide range of data sources: traffic indicators from the Flemish Traffic Center, Telraam data, OpenStreetMap, the General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) or public transport timetable with geographic information (as used by, for example, MIVB-STIB), information from the municipality and city monitor of the Flemish government, and the strategic traffic models. These data sources were combined for the traffic model. The result is an intricate network with information about traffic flows on all roads for the five most important modes (pedestrian, bicycle, car, freight traffic, and public transport) in which the underlying relationships can be visualised in a simple and accessible way. Understandable by a mobility officer, but also for other services and policy makers. The traffic model shows results in terms of origins and destinations, travel times, and choice of transport mode, among other things. All this has now formed the basis for the preparation of Kessel-Lo's new mobility plan.
The traffic model for Leuven and associated results from MOMENTUM were recently explained in a workshop, about which our colleagues from Telraam wrote a blog article.
Would you like to know more about MOMENTUM and the traffic model developed? Then contact our TML colleague Rodric Frederix.
