City-hubs for smarter cities. The case of Lille \u201cEuraFlandres\u201d interchange

Odile Heddebaut,Floridea Di Ciommo

doi:10.1007/s12544-017-0283-3

Abstract

City-hubs for smarter cities. The case of Lille \u201cEuraFlandres\u201d interchange

Highlights

The importance of the transport infrastructure role is often described in the attempt to describe the characteristics of a Bsmart city^
BEuraflandres^ has all the characteristics for becoming an urban Landmark for the city of Lille. We show how this interchange gets a higher role for being a node on the international railway network, and how their inside and outside spatial and functioning reorganisation contribute to ease the use of public transport for travellers by introducing intelligent transport systems (ITS), innovations in ticketing and providing new urban characteristics transforming transport infrastructures into new places to live
Linking the smart city and the development made with BEuraflandres^, we have seen that an opportunity exists to join together the two Lille railway stations and urban Public Transport interchanges in order to combine a great urban interchange

Summary

Introduction

The importance of the transport infrastructure role is often described in the attempt to describe the characteristics of a Bsmart city^. The paper focuses on the impact on social organisation and on conception of transport intermodal infrastructures such as city-hubs inducing new and smarter practices of transport infrastructure, and the urban dimension and their insertion through the actual city and, even more, by the creation of an entirely new neighbourhood and the preoccupation of a better quality of life. Within this context the paper focuses on the conception of intermodal transport infrastructures such as city-hubs and on their contribution to enhance urban mobility. This having an impact on smart cities environmental and quality of life aspects. In the conclusion (section 5) we present the main findings of our research work

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