Planning for nodes, places and people in Flanders and Brussels : developing an empirical railway station assessment model for strategic decision-making

Against the backdrop of current policy discussions in Flanders dealing with urban development schemes for strategic railway stations, this paper develops an empirical railway station assessment tool. We build on the node-place modeling literature, and more specifically on the tradition of empirical station assessment models that has emerged from it. First, we propose a number of methodological contributions in which we aim to improve the analytical strength of some standard node-place parameters, to expand the model with a user-based accessibility account and to broaden the appraisal of a stat... Mehr ...