INTRODUCING SPATIAL DISAGGREGATION AND ZONING IN THE AMSTERDAM MODEL. IN: REFORMING TRANSPORT PRICING IN THE EUROPEAN UNION: A MODELING APPROACH

Abstract

Transport is an inherently spatial phenomenon: if there were no space, there would be no demand for transport as most transport demand serves to satisfy spatial mismatches between the demand for and supply of goods. Transport policies therefore often have spatially differentiated impacts, both in terms of efficiency and in terms of equity. A closely related feature of transport is that it takes place in a network environment. The TRENEN model, so far, has been largely non-spatial in nature, and has been lacking a spatial transport network representation. This chapter reports on recent efforts to develop a spatial version of the TRENEN model for greater Amsterdam.