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West Transdanubia’s sustainable mobility
management initiatives
Birmingham, 11th November 2011
West Transdanubian Region - Overview
 Location: Austria, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia
 3 counties, 28 cities, 626 settlements
 Area: 11 328 km2
 Population: 1 million
 GDP per capita:
9900 EUR (10.7% of Hungary’s GDP)
 Unemployment rate: 9.2%
 GDP distribution by sectors:
 Agriculture: 5.1%, Industry: 43.5%, Service: 51.3%
West Transdanubian Regional Development Agency
Our mission:
‘Implementing the comprehensive territorial development programme of the West-Transdanubian
Region through involving the most possible stakeholders in the joint planning and work.’
Size: almost 80 employees in 5 cities of the region
Activities:
 Regional coordination: management and administrative body of the WTRDC
 IB of Regional Operational Programme
 Strategic planning and project development
 Participation in international EU funded projects
 Establishing and fostering co-operations with
regional, national and international organisations
West Pannon Operational Programme 2007-2013
Overall objective:
To establish an economic and public service infrastructure in line with the regional
environment through environmentally consciously planned development in order
to promote growth and employment.
Priorities / (Interventions)
1. Regional economic development
2. Tourism development
3. Urban development
3.2 Improvement of the infrastructural criteria of local and regional
community transport
4. Environment and transport infrastructure development
4.5 Development of regional transport links
5. Infrastructural development of local and territorial public services
Areas and funds of the ROP regarding
transport development
WPOP: 525.9 million Euro
Priority 3 – Urban development and
Priority 4 – Environment and transport infrastructure
Transport development: 53.48 million EUR (10.17% of WPOP)
Objective
Fund (million Euro)
Development of community transport
13.36
Development of cycle paths
7.35
Development of municipal roads
4.71
Development of roads between
municipalities
28.06
Beneficiaries
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Municipalities and municipal associations
Transport companies providing public services:
Hungarian State Railway (MÁV), Volán bus companies, GYSEV railway company
Hungarian Public Road Company
National Infrastructure Developing Company
Some results so far…
Number of approved projects: 60
Number of projects implemented: 34
36 km long new cycle paths with signposting
88 km long road renewal
9 new road junctions
More than 350 new bus stations and bus terminals
Improved passenger information services
Application of info-communication tools
Increasing number of P+R and B+R services
Establishing the basis for transport alliances
Some sample projects
‘Complex development for the dynamic and
sustainable community transport in Sopron
and its agglomeration area’
 Establish modern bus infrastructure
‘Development of intermodal transport system
in the area of GYSEV Co. Railway line’
 Establish integrated train-bus services
‘Safe and sustainable cycling at the Neusiedler See
cultural landscape’
 Establish cycling facilities between 6 municipalities
Increase the number of PT users
Create a higher level service in
PT system
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E.g.: real time passenger
information on board, on
internet, on mobile, in stations,
for visually impaired, ticket
vending machines, green way
request, traffic data collection,
renovated stations
Thank you very much for your attention!
West Transdanubian Regional Development Agency
Zóra Halmos
project manager
[email protected]
www.westpa.hu