Basic Accessibility to Flemish Urban and Regional Transport
16019
From 2016 to 2017
The Flemish government is aiming for a public transport system that better meets the needs of travellers. TML and Deloitte analysed the current spending of resources, proposed an optimal core network for Flanders, and examined the costs and social impact of wider market forces for the additional network.
The Flemish government wants to make public transport more attuned to the wishes and needs of travellers themselves and to make transport attractive with comfortable vehicles, optimal frequencies, competitive speed, and simply integrated services and fares. In response to the Flemish resolution to introduce the principle of basic accessibility in Flemish urban and regional transport, the Department of Mobility and Public Works wanted to use this study to objectify the construction and financing of the core network and the broader market operation for the supplementary network.
TML, in collaboration with Deloitte, mapped the current spending of resources (as is situation, end 2015) on the different networks or systems (core network, additional network/functional rides, and customised transport) for all transport regions defined in the Flemish Parliament's concept note "With basic accessibility towards an efficient and attractive transport model in Flanders that optimally meets global and local transport demand".
We defined what an optimal core network for Flanders should look like in benchmark with two comparable foreign regions. We investigated at what cost this optimal core network could be made operational. The final part of the assignment consisted of mapping out the social advantages and disadvantages of a potentially broader market operation for the supplementary network. We also examined under which organisational form this would best be done and worked out cost-effective proposals considering - among other things - VAT rules. In our study, we calculated various scenarios. In the preferred scenario, we arrive at a cost price of 738 million euro for the core and additional network and 112 million euro for customised transport.
The Flemish government wants to make public transport more attuned to the wishes and needs of travellers themselves and to make transport attractive with comfortable vehicles, optimal frequencies, competitive speed, and simply integrated services and fares. In response to the Flemish resolution to introduce the principle of basic accessibility in Flemish urban and regional transport, the Department of Mobility and Public Works wanted to use this study to objectify the construction and financing of the core network and the broader market operation for the supplementary network.
TML, in collaboration with Deloitte, mapped the current spending of resources (as is situation, end 2015) on the different networks or systems (core network, additional network/functional rides, and customised transport) for all transport regions defined in the Flemish Parliament's concept note "With basic accessibility towards an efficient and attractive transport model in Flanders that optimally meets global and local transport demand".
We defined what an optimal core network for Flanders should look like in benchmark with two comparable foreign regions. We investigated at what cost this optimal core network could be made operational. The final part of the assignment consisted of mapping out the social advantages and disadvantages of a potentially broader market operation for the supplementary network. We also examined under which organisational form this would best be done and worked out cost-effective proposals considering - among other things - VAT rules. In our study, we calculated various scenarios. In the preferred scenario, we arrive at a cost price of 738 million euro for the core and additional network and 112 million euro for customised transport.
