1 / 21

Enhancing Inner Areas Development: Territorial Evidence for Policy Making

Explore the challenges and potentials of inner areas in Europe from an accessibility perspective. Learn how to address disparities and utilize endogenous resources for economic growth towards 2020.

colleenj
Download Presentation

Enhancing Inner Areas Development: Territorial Evidence for Policy Making

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Inspire policy making by territorial evidence ESPON Seminar “Territories Acting for Economic Growth: Using territorial evidence to meet challenges towards 2020” Inner areas in Europe from an accessibility point of view Klaus Spiekermann

  2. TRansportACCessibility at Regional/Local Scale and Patterns in Europe Project partner Spiekermann & Wegener, Urban and Regional Research (S&W), Dortmund, Germany (Lead Partner) Charles University in Prague, Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Prague, Czech Republic RRG SpatialPlanningand Geoinformation, Oldenburg, Germany Mcrit, Barcelona, Spain University of Oulu, Department ofGeography, Oulu, Finland TRT Trasporti e Territorio, Milan, Italy S. Leszczycki Institute ofGeographyand Spatial Organisation - Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland ESPON TRACC

  3. Inner areas are being addressed by policy makers as areas with low access to basic services of general interest. These are often rural and remote areasthat need to develop on endogenous potentials such as nature and culture assets. -> “Inner peripheries” Inner areas

  4. Main 'product' of a transport system Determines the locational advantage of an area relative to all areas Indicators of accessibility measure the benefits households and firms in an area enjoy from the existence and use of the transport infrastructure relevant for their area. Two components of accessibility: • Opportunities of interest • Effort to reach opportunities Accessibility

  5. Regions inbetween (larger) agglomerations Low accessibility regarding opportunities of interest Three dimensions of “innerness”: Global European regional Inner peripheries

  6. Travel time to New York Intermodal Minutes

  7. European accessibility potential travel, rail ESPON = 100

  8. European potential accessibitlity, by rail, to GDP, freight, unitised (ESPON space = 100)

  9. Availability of urban functions (60 min. by road)

  10. TRACC Regional case studies

  11. access to regional centres availability of jobs accessibility potential to population access to hospitals availability of higher secondary schools accessibility potential to medical doctors TRACC regional case studies: indicators

  12. Poland Travel time to next regional centre

  13. Czech Republic Travel time to next regional centre

  14. Finland Jobs available by car within 60 minutes travel time

  15. Northern Italy Jobs available by car within 60 minutes travel time (in thousand jobs)

  16. Baltic States Travel time to next hospital by car (minutes)

  17. Western Mediterranean Travel time to next hospital by car (minutes)

  18. Bavaria Upper secondary schools (gymnasium) within 30 minutes car travel time

  19. Bavaria Upper secondary schools (gymnasium) within 30 minutes public transport travel time

  20. 1. How could Europe address inner areas or peripheries in policy terms? 2. Is their development more a national or regional responsibility than a European? 3. Would European policy for inner areas be a way forward and, if so, which EU policies are relevant? Concluding questions

  21. Further Information • www.espon.eu • -> TRACC project • Dr.-Ing. Klaus Spiekermann Spiekermann & Wegener, Urban and Regional Research (S&W) Dortmund, Germany ks@spiekermann-wegener.de • www.spiekermann-wegener.de

More Related