Kortrijk, Belgium
Developed by: MINT NV
Client: Various
Country: Flanders, Belgium
Agent: MINT
Project year: 2009
Many communities in Flanders are currently updating their ‘mobiliteitsplan’ (mobility plan, a policy document required by the Flemish government in which the community describes its vision and ambitions regarding mobility on its territory). MINT is assisting a number of communities in this process, including Kortrijk, Diest, Sint-Truiden, Hasselt and Genk. Each of these communities use OmniTRANS to support the development of their updated ‘mobiliteitsplan'. These are the first applications of OmniTRANS in Flanders. The model for the city of Kortrijk is discussed in more detail below.
The ‘Verkeerscentrum’, the department of the Flemish government responsible for transport modeling, shares its data (e.g. detailed socio-economic data and traffic counts) with communities if they adopt an approved modeling approach. The flexibility of OmniTRANS's scripting environment and the powerful building blocks available in OmniTRANS allowed an easy implementation of the Flemish modeling approach.
The model for Kortrijk is a multimodal model including car (both driver and passenger), public transport (bus and train), bicycle and pedestrians. With the model of Kortrijk, new road-infrastructure, new public-transport lines and the impact of new developments have been evaluated both for the current situation and for a future year. The evaluated road infrastructure projects vary from very small adjustments to junctions to evaluating modifications to the major ring-infrastructure around the city. The model is also used for the bicycle plan of the city. The model gives insights into the number of cyclists and it gives a quality-index for bicycle infrastructure on each road.
Special functionalities in the model include non-standard travel time functions and the extension of the OmniTRANS database to support additional properties like a cycle quality index. Also, public transport has been implemented in the models using a special HASTUS import script developed by MINT.
For more information, please contact Erik de Romph.
