Express Tramline Hasselt-Maastricht
15063 / 16024 / 18072 / 19045
From 2015 to 2019
TML conducted four studies between 2015 and 2019 on the tram connection between Hasselt and Maastricht, including analyses of passenger forecasts and financial impact of a shortened tram line. The studies helped review route options and update the fares and fare structure for the line.
There are advanced plans in Belgium and the Netherlands to realise a tram connection between Hasselt station and Maastricht station. In early 2015, a review revealed that the route between the city centre and Maastricht station did not fit within the established project framework. It was therefore decided to investigate the possibilities of giving the tram a terminus near the centre - and therefore not at Maastricht station. Several studies were then conducted within that framework.
Between 2015 and 2019, TML carried out four additional studies:
There are advanced plans in Belgium and the Netherlands to realise a tram connection between Hasselt station and Maastricht station. In early 2015, a review revealed that the route between the city centre and Maastricht station did not fit within the established project framework. It was therefore decided to investigate the possibilities of giving the tram a terminus near the centre - and therefore not at Maastricht station. Several studies were then conducted within that framework.
Between 2015 and 2019, TML carried out four additional studies:
- In 2015, TML was commissioned by De Lijn Limburg to critically analyse the various studies already carried out. In doing so, TML validated the estimation results of the shortening of the line indicating certainties and uncertainties in the estimation of the number of expected travellers.
- In 2016, the Dutch study firm Goudappel Coffeng and TML conducted a further study on the effects of a shortened tramline on behalf of the province of Limburg, the Flemish Government, and De Lijn.This joint analysis included the following elements:
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- An adjusted forecast of the transport value effect of a terminus near central Maastricht.
- The financial impact of shortening the tramline on De Lijn's operating income.
- The potential added value for De Lijn's operations of improved and cheaper pre- and post-tram passenger transport in Maastricht.
- In 2018, at the request of De Lijn Limburg, TML carried out an update of the tariffs and fare structure used, with more recent data of 2018 instead of 2013. In addition, we took a closer look at some previous assumptions and updated them where necessary. These include the factor used to convert the transport value and revenues per working day to a full year and the revenue estimate of express tram trips.
- In 2019, also at the request of De Lijn Limburg, we conducted a study on the effects of different route scenarios in Hasselt.
