Cases, Sustainable Mobility, Mobility, Strategic planning
Cases, Sustainable Mobility, Mobility, Strategic planning
RiConnect is an Action Planning Network of 8 metropolises which aim is to rethink, transform and integrate mobility infrastructures in order to reconnect people, neighbourhoods, cities and natural spaces. We will develop planning strategies, processes, instruments and partnerships to foster public transport and active mobility, reduce externalities and social segregation and unlock opportunities for urban regeneration.
Tags: Urban planning, action planning network, sustainable urban mobility plan, metropolitan scale
Project type Mobility and Transport
Partnership
Lead partner: Barcelona Metropolitan Area
Thessaloniki – Greece
Métropole du Grand Paris – France
Kraków Metropolis Association – Poland
Amsterdam Region – Netherlands
Gdansk-Gdynia-Sopot Metropolitan Area – Poland
Porto Metropolitan Area (AMP) – Portugal
Greater Manchester
Funding EU URBACT program
Start date 2019- 2022 (closed)
Website
AMB international-projects-Riconnect
The Barcelona Metropolitan Area (AMB) leads the RiConnect project, an URBACT programme Action Planning Network co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund.
The URBACT Action Planning Networks are aimed at helping Europe’s cities and metropolises to find solutions to their common urban challenges through the improvement of local policies and capacities to design integrated action plans for sustainable urban development.
RiConnect is a network of 8 metropolises led by the AMB with the purpose of rethinking, transforming and integrating mobility infrastructures to reconnect people, neighbourhoods, cities and natural areas. We will develop urban strategies and planning processes, instruments and partnerships to foster public transport and active mobility, reduce externalities and social segregation and unblock opportunities for urban regeneration. Our long-term vision is a more sustainable, equitable and attractive metropolis for all.
The Action Planning Network is being developed in two phases:
PHASE 1: 6 months. 2 September 2019 – 2 March 2020.
PHASE 2: 27 months (currently underway) May 2020 – August 2022.
As part of the project, the 8 metropolises have developed different action plans to transform specific challenging urban areas in their territories. The AMB case has focused on Vallès Avenue, a project that aims to redesign a 6.5-kilometre stretch of the N-150 trunk road between Montcada i Reixac, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Ripollet and Barberà del Vallès as a new civic, green and commercial corridor, with strong public transport links. The project has therefore undertaken an exhaustive participation process, in which citizens and institutions have co-created both the diagnosis of the site and the proposal of the actions to be carried out.
This process has enabled a rethinking of a better future for this section of the N-150 road, as well as the development of a test bed for future “metropolitan avenues” – a key concept in the future Metropolitan Urban Master Plan for Barcelona.
The URBACT methodology has established successful dynamics for citizens’ participation and institutional collaboration, which are all key to implementing the Metropolitan Urban Master Plan and achieving a more connected and liveable metropolis.
8 integrated action plans were generated: