Brussels : The Metropolitan area

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Brussels The Metropolitan area

• Brussels metropolitan area
• About 2.7 millions inhabitants
• About 1.2 million jobs
• Brussels-Capital Region
• About 1 million inhabitants
• Lost 120 000 inhabitants in 30 years
• About 650 000 jobs (number rather stable)

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Brussels The Metropolitan Area
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Brussels The RER Project

• High quality, rapid and frequent train services
  within a radius of 30 km around the centre of
  Brussels
• Also serving the Brussels-Capital Region
• Investment cost about 900 millions
• Risk re-launch of urban sprawl

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Brussels the RER project (8 new lines)
The 9 lines of the RER of Brussels
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Brussels Conclusions on theindividual measures
(1/4)

• Globally, the car use pricing policies are more
  efficient than the land use policies

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Brussels Conclusions on theindividual measures
(2/4)

• As regards the fuel consumption due to transport
  and the environmental indicators related to air
  quality, the policy ranking is as follows
• Increase of car use cost per km
• Cordon pricing
• Policies improving the PT speed, policy
  decreasing the maximum authorised speed by car,
  parking policy (increase in charge)
• Land use policies

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Brussels Conclusions on theindividual measures
(3/4)

• As regards the urban concentration, the land
  consumption, and related indicators
• Land use policies sometimes score better than the
  other policies
• but increase of car use cost per km is globally
  effective too.

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Brussels Conclusions on theindividual measures
(4/4)

• Furthermore city-specific land use policies were
  tested in Propolis and in other studies
• Fiscal policies targeted to households
• fiscal incentive in urban areas (reduction in
  annual tax) annual tax in suburban/rural areas
• Fiscal policies targeted to companies
• inspired from the ABC theory
• tax on companies locating in non-A zones
• Simulation results
• These policies are effective for reducing sprawl
  of population and employment

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Brussels Conclusions on thepolicy packages
(1/2)

• Combination of
• car pricing (car use cost 50 )
• increase in PT speed ( 5 )
• decrease in PT fare (- 20 )
• land use policy (concentration of residential and
  tertiary growth in urban areas with high quality
  PT facilities)
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• 16.0 reduction in CO2 emissions
• 1.3 increase of population in the
  Brussels-Capital Region
• 2.0 increase of employment in the
  Brussels-Capital Region

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Brussels Conclusions on thepolicy packages
(2/2)

• Further improvement could be achieved by
  combining
• Car pricing (increase in car use cost per km)
• PT policy (speed/fare)
• Territorial fiscal measures targeted to
  households
• Territorial fiscal measures targeted to companies