Collaboration with local authorities Flanders

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Collaboration with local authoritiesFlanders
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BELGIUM governmental levels
No roads Traffic rules
enforcement Vehicle characteristics
Fed. State (1)
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BELGIUM governmental levels
No roads Traffic rules
enforcement Vehicle characteristics
Fed. State (1)
Motorways Trunk roads Secondary roads (local
roads)
Regions (21/B)
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BELGIUM governmental levels
No roads Traffic rules
enforcement Vehicle characteristics
Fed. State (1)
Motorways Primary roads Secondary roads (local
roads)
Regions (21/B)
Provinces (5/Fl)
No (more) roads
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BELGIUM governmental levels
No roads Traffic rules
enforcement Vehicle characteristics
Fed. State (1)
Motorways Primary roads Secondary roads (local
roads)
Regions (21/B)
Provinces (5/Fl)
No (more) roads
Local Authorities (Municipalities 300/Fl)
Local roads
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Flemish Region

• ? 210 x 65 km, ? 6 milj. inhabitants
• Including Antwerp, area around Brussels, Ghent,
  Zeebrugge
• 865 km motorways
• ? 6000 km of trunk, secundary local roads

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Mobility Public Works policy domain
Minister for Mobility Kathleen Van Brempt
Minister for Public Works Kris Peeters
Policy Council
Strategic Advisery Council Mobility
Infrastructure Agency (Land) Roads and Traffic
Local Public Transp
Departement
Waterways
Traffic Centre
Policy divisions part of
implementation
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Infrastructure (Land)Roads Traffic Agency
Administrator General (ir. Chris Caestecker)
Executive Staff (ir Tim Lonneux)
Planning and Coordination
Traffic Engineering (ir Armand
Rouffaert)
Road Engineering
Road Traffic divisions (/ prov)
Electricity Mechanics
Central divisions
Territorial divisions
? 1600 persons
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Infrastructure Agency responible for

• Managing, maintaining and optimising the roads
  entrusted to it
• Organising smooth and safe traffic
• Providing information and ensuring communication
• Drawing up balanced and objective investment and
  maintenance programmes for the roads
  infrastrucure and the implementation thereof
• Helping to design policy.

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Collaboration with local authorities

• Key components
• Cooperation with metro areas
• Multi-modal component
• Common strategies with police forces
• Projects
• Urban VMS Ghent metro area
• Multi-modal strategy Antwerp metro area

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Urban VMS Ghent metro area

• Municipality, local and federal police, NRA
• Manage flows on circular arteries, towards
  downtown, specific locations
• Urban and motorway VMS
• Scenarios
• Urban routing scenarios
• Information on motorways prior to entering metro
  area
• PR strategies
• Dynamic adjustment of traffic lights to optimize
  flow rates on urban arteries (future)

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Multi-modal strategies

• General objective
• Guide travellers to their destination, using
  capacity on various networks and transport modes
• Expansion of public transport capacity
• Transfer points between various modes
• System integration
• motorway management
• public transport traveller information
• PR and parking guidance

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Stakeholders in IM

• Current growth path
• Rapid transit network extensions, motorway bus
  lanes, etc
• Transfer points - best practices
• PR facilities (Wolfstee)
• improve accessibility of specific locations by
  tram or subway (permanently of during events)
• real-time information on parking availability and
  travel time by tram on motorways